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Blackmagic Design announced that several Blackmagic Design products, including digital film cameras, Fusion Studio visual effects and motion graphics software and DaVinci Resolve Studio color corrector and editor, are being used for production and post production work on some of the most anticipated shows in this year’s fall television lineup.

More than 46 of 2016’s fall television shows use Blackmagic Design’s cameras, Fusion Studio and DaVinci Resolve Studio. Top directors of photography, VFX artists, colorists and post production facilities rely on Blackmagic Design to deliver shows for the top primetime and cable networks, including returning hit shows like Modern Family, 2 Broke Girls, Jane the Virgin and Blindspot.

The following list is a sample of some of the shows being completed on Blackmagic Design products, and there are many more.

Fall TV Shows Using Blackmagic Design:

• DP Allan Westbrook uses a Video Assist 4K and Micro Cinema Camera to shoot in tight quarters and small spaces on ABC’s Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.;
• DP David Tuttman uses the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera on NBC’s Blindspot;
• DP Glen Keenan used a Pocket Cinema Camera, Production Camera 4K, ATEM Switcher and DaVinci Resolve Studio on Fox’s A.P.B. pilot episode;
• On CBS’ Blue Bloods, the show’s DPs use Blackmagic Production Camera 4Ks and URSA cameras;

For Visual Effects:

• Inhance Digital VFX Supervisor Eddie Robison and his team use Fusion Studio for VFX work on The CW’s Jane the Virgin, EPIX’s Graves and Fox’s Empire;
• Muse VFX Founders and VFX Supervisors John Gross and Fred Pienkos and their team use Fusion Studio to composite El Rey Network’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, MTV’s Teen Wolf and Mary + Jane, and CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans and Elementary;
• Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging Colorist Scott Gregory uses DaVinci Resolve Studio for VFX work, including comps, beauty work and sky replacements on CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and MTV’s Sweet/Vicious;

For Color Grading:

• Chainsaw Supervising Senior Colorist Todd Bochner uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade The CW’s Jane the Virgin and No Tomorrow and HBO’s The Leftovers;
• Chainsaw Colorist Joe Finley uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade HBO’s Insecure;
• ColorTime Senior Colorist Russell Lynch uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade ABC’s Modern Family and CBS’ Life in Pieces;
• Deluxe’s Encore, Company 3 and Level 3 teams are currently coloring and mastering a number of fall shows, many in HDR, including those below, and others not listed:
• – Company 3 Senior Colorist Cody Baker uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade USA’s Shooter;
• – Company 3 Senior Colorist Siggy Ferstl uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Hulu’s Shut Eye;
• – Company 3 Senior Colorist Shane Harris uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade HBO’s Westworld and IFC’s Documentary Now!;
• – Encore Senior Colorist Tony D’Amore uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade CBS’ Elementary and Starz’ Power (project shared with Deluxe’s Company 3 colorist Sofie Friis Borup);
• – Encore Senior Colorist Kevin Kirwan uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade FX’s American Horror Story: Roanoke and Fox’s Scream Queens;
• – Level 3 Senior Colorist Randy Beveridge uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Netflix’s The Ranch and Fox’s Lucifer;
• – Level 3 Senior Colorist Ken Van Deest uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade The CW’s The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow;
• – Level 3 Senior Colorist Mark Wilkins uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Fox’s The Exorcist;
• DigitalFilm Tree Colorist Patrick Woodard uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade ABC’s Mistresses and American Housewife, and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles;
• Light Iron LA Supervising Colorist Jeremy Sawyer uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade FX’s Better Things and AMC’s The Walking Dead;
• Light Iron LA Colorist Nick Lareau uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Investigation Discovery’s True Nightmares;
• Modern VideoFilm Colorist Aidan Stanford uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat;
• NXNW Colorist Sam Read uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Syfy’s Z Nation;
• Picture Shop Senior Colorist George Delaney uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans;
• Picture Shop Senior Colorist Chris Boyer uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade NBC’s Blindspot;
• Picture Shop Colorist George Manno uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Fox’s Lethal Weapon, ABC’s Once Upon a Time and The CW’s Arrow;
• The Foundation Owner and Colorist Gareth Cook uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade ABC’s The Real O'Neals;
• The Loft Owner and Colorist Dan Judy uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade The CW’s Frequency and Fox’s The Last Man on Earth;
• Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging Colorist Scott Gregory uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and MTV’s Sweet/Vicious; and
• Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging Senior Supervising Television Colorist Scott Klein uses DaVinci Resolve Studio to grade Fox’s Empire and AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire.

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Product photos of all Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/images.

About Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company’s Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017

This release contains all of the features revealed at IBC 2016, including powerful new hosted collaboration technology with Team Projects, improved support for the creation and editing of open and closed captions, enhanced color workflows with improved color pickers in the Lumetri Color Panel and support for HDR10, significant improvements to VR workflows including auto-detection, Destination Publishing to Behance, refined Live Text Templates, new visual keyboard shortcut mapping, clip stitching in Adobe Media Encoder, and more. Other notable new features:

• DNxHD export into a QuickTime .mov wrapper on Windows without Apple QuickTime
• New audio effects: Adaptive Noise Reduction, Dynamics Processing, Parametric Equalizer, Automatic Click Remover, and Studio Reverb
• Multiple user interface enhancements
• Improvements to XAVC 60p playback performance
• Support for RED Helium
• Improvements to Apple Metal, including support for Lumetri
• Ability to create sequence presets from an already created sequence
• GPU accelerated Offset and Lens Distortion effects
• Option to export MXF file with 12 audio channels
• Multi-cam settings are respected in FCP XML import

Adobe After Effects CC 2017
This release is all about collaboration and streamlined workflows, helping you work faster alone or with a team. Keep everyone in sync with Team Projects, work with extruded 3D text and shapes right in the timeline, and render faster with more GPU-accelerated effects. Live Text Templates have a new workflow, enabling smoother sharing between After Effects CC and Premiere Pro CC. Notable new features:

• Team Projects (Beta): A new hosted collaboration service for Creative Cloud for teams
• New Maxon CINEMA 4D composition renderer
• Additional GPU-accelerated effects, including Glow, Hue/Saturation, and others.
• Playback performance improvements
  
• Improved Live Text Templates workflow: You can now share live text template compositions between After Effects CC 2017 and Premiere Pro CC 2017 as a single, packaged file that contains all of the assets required for that composition.
• Sync fonts with TypeKit
  
• Character Animator Scenes via Dynamic Link
  
• Draggable Marker Duration: Interactively set the duration of composition and layer markers by Alt-clicking them.
• Freeze On Last Frame: This new command automates enabling time remapping to freeze a layer until the end of a composition.
• Alpha-only Rendering from Adobe Media Encoder
  
• User Interface Enhancements
  
• Additional native format support: Avid DNxHD and DNxHR QuickTime files can be exported without needing to install the Avid codecs package. RED camera RAW file decoding now supports RED Helium sensor footage. RED footage can now also be processed using the GPU.
• Maxon CINEWARE 3.1 includes bug fixes and improved OpenGL rendering.
• Extended scripting support
• Support for Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra.
• New 4K and 8K composition presets

Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
This release of Photoshop delivers new content -- with seven free Kyle Webster brushes hand-tuned for Photoshop, almost 100 new templates to help you get started on any type of Photoshop project (located in the new File>New dialog) and online at Adobe Stock, and two new SVG fonts (pre-loaded in the Type tool font menu). Other notable features:

• New font capabilities and interoperability with Adobe XD: Copy SVG elements to your clipboard to easily paste Photoshop design assets into Adobe XD
• Enhancements to Select and Mask Workspace, Face Aware Liquify, and Match Font
• In-App Search: Quickly search Photoshop tools, panels, menus, Adobe Stock assets, help content and tutorials from within Photoshop using a new search panel (Ctrl+F)
• Adobe Stock marketplace now includes templates and 3D objects
• Support for SVG color fonts

The new Chrosziel MagNum Mini one channel receiver is compatible with all hand units of the popular MagNum Lens Control System, and thanks to its small weight and compact dimensions is perfectly suitable for drones, camera stabilizers, and Steadicams. It allows for lens control up to a 150m distance with performance comparable to the standard-size unit. Together with the new Chrosziel CDM-100 digital motor, it enables to create very compact and silent remote-controlled camera rigs!

Press Release

Blackmagic Design announced that Director, Producer and Academy-Award Winning Writer John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”) is using the URSA Mini 4K digital film camera on several television and film projects, including the TV mini-series “Guerrilla” currently filming in London, among others.

Ridley often has a spontaneous shooting style for which the URSA Mini 4K comes in handy. “My experience thus far with the URSA Mini 4K has been exceptional,” he said. “It is an amazingly versatile piece of equipment that allows me to not only use it in every phase of production, but to do so in a variety of ways.”

Using the URSA Mini 4K for previsualization (previz), Ridley notes that the camera’s efficient user interface allows him to “run and gun” with his thoughts focused on the scenes that he is building, rather than the complexities of filming. “I’m a freak for shooting before shooting, but I have found historically there were few, if any, offerings that had the durability of professional equipment, but that were also intuitive enough creatively so as not to collide with spontaneity,” he explained. “Importantly, I didn’t want a piece of kit I had to lug around in hopes I might need it. With an emphasis on the ‘Mini,’ the URSA Mini’s form factor allows it to be ever present. Even the tools that facilitate the greatest creativity can’t be of use when they are not at hand.”

In his role as Director on various film and television projects, Ridley is known to grab a camera himself to capture additional footage. “The URSA Mini 4K’s ability to grab and go has also allowed me to use it as a fill-in B camera that I’ve self-operated during production,” he said. “With the camera in hand, I’ve been able to record additional footage on the move without impacting our principle photography.”

He added, “On days when a true second unit proves to be as financially prohibitive as the workload is demanding, the option of using the URSA Mini 4K has proved to be invaluable. Though camera operating isn’t my primary skill set, with the URSA Mini 4K, I’ve gotten the shots I’ve needed and done so with broadcast-quality that has cut seamlessly into our project.”

As a self-taught camera operator, Ridley appreciates the URSA Mini’s ease of use, but is quick to note that the camera suffers no loss in ability when he has handed it off to well-seasoned camera technicians. “The camera is remarkably adept and ‘tweakable,’ allowing it to capture the best images in a variety of lighting conditions, from harsh to lowlight,” he said. “In post, as well, the workflow is as basic or demanding as the user wishes it to be. I have turned shot footage around in minutes to use in previz, and I have also put it through a post gauntlet that has had to pass international QC. In all instances, I have not been disappointed.”

Ridley concluded, “The URSA Mini 4K is a serious cinema camera with serious capabilities, and in less than a year, it has become an integral part of my creative process. I look forward to further exploring the camera and testing its seemingly endless potential.”



Press Photography
Product photos of all Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/images.

About Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company’s Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.

Steinberg released WaveLab 9.0.30 and Nuendo 7.1.20 updates enabling WaveLab Exchange under Nuendo! The update for WaveLab also contains fixes for numerous issues as well as improvements to the user interface, incl. the ability to close all open files or refreshing the File Browser windows with an F5 key command. Download the new version (WaveLab Pro, Elements or LE) here. Steinberg also announced Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra compatibility for its line of audio interfaces: with the exception of CMC Series and Nuendo SyncStation, which are still being tested, all products are compatible with the latest Mac OS X. Read the full list here.