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Blackmagic Design's Video Assist is now shipping! It adds high resolution professional monitoring and recording to SDI or HDMI cameras. With a bright 5” high resolution 1920 x 1080 monitor, Blackmagic Video Assist can be added to any camera to ensure perfect focus and framing. The built-in recorder uses high speed SD cards to record professional ProRes and DNxHD files with incredible quality, 10-bit color depth, and 4:2:2 sampling! Video Assist also includes a 6G-SDI connection for Ultra HD monitoring, and LP-E6 battery slots for field operation.

Alphatron Broadcast introduced their new ultra-thin on-camera monitor line, AVtec. The AVtec XHD070 and XHD070Pro are professional, very lightweight monitors with a 7" IPS LCD high quality display. These field-monitors enable you to focus clearly on your shots and eliminate the guesswork from framing. It blows up your tiny built-in camera screen to a much larger display that enables easier viewing and won't strain your eyes. With brightness levels of 400 cd/m2, a 800:1 contrast ratio and 178° vertical and horizontal viewing angles, it’s a great tool for photographers and video shooters alike.

RED Digital Cinema unveiled the latest addition to its line of professional cameras, RED RAVEN. Weighing in at only 3.5 pounds, RED RAVEN is RED’s lightest and most compact camera, making it the ultimate choice for a range of applications including documentaries, online content creation, indie filmmaking, and use with drones or gimbals. With pricing that starts at $5,950 for the camera BRAIN only, and complete packages under $10,000, RED RAVEN reflects RED's ongoing commitment to the belief that cinema-quality creative tools should not be in the hands of a few -- they should be available to all professional shooters.

RED RAVEN is equipped with a 4.5K RED DRAGON sensor, and is capable of recording REDCODE RAW (R3D) in 4.5K (4608 × 2160) at up to 120 fps and in 2K (2048 × 1080) at up to 240 fps. RED RAVEN also offers incredible dynamic range, RED's renowned color science, and is capable of recording REDCODE RAW and Apple ProRes simultaneously -- ensuring shooters get the best image quality possible in any format.

"RED RAVEN is a new category in our line up,” says Jarred Land, President of Red Digital Cinema. “It's a younger, hungrier, more 'spirited' member of the RED family with a bit of a chip on its shoulder, ready to take on the entire sub-$10k market with images that users will be incredibly proud of."

RED RAVEN will begin shipping in February 2016, and deposits will be accepted beginning today. Customers will be given a choice of purchasing the BRAIN only and building a kit that best fits their needs, or choosing a complete package. The RED RAVEN Base I/O Package offers everything content creators need to take their productions to the next level of image quality and professionalism, while the RED RAVEN JETPACK Package is specifically designed for use with handheld gimbals, drones, jibs and cranes.

RED RAVEN BRAIN ONLY - $5,950 ($500 deposit) – ships February 2016

RED RAVEN JETPACK PACKAGE - $9,750 ($1,000 deposit) – ships February 2016

Includes a RED RAVEN BRAIN, JETPACK, Battery Belt Clip, RED MINI-MAG 120GB, 4.7” LCD, AC Power Adaptor, and DSMC 2 Outrigger Handle.

RED RAVEN I/O PACKAGE - $9,950 ($1,000 deposit) – ships March 2016

Includes a RED RAVEN BRAIN, Base I/O V-Lock Expander, RED MINI-MAG 120GB, 4.7” LCD, AC Power Adaptor, and DSMC 2 Outrigger Handle.

Throughout the life of EDIUS 8.x there will continuous improvements, all provided at no extra cost to users. New features planned for future releases include:

• Motion tracking
• High quality slow-motion (optical flow)
• Closed captioning support (view/editing)
• New color grading mode
• RAW support
• LOG/LUT support
• Scalable 125%/150%/200% display delivers a more consistent experience across devices, including HiDPI Windows 8.1/10 displays
• Background rendering
• Frame rate converter
• Loudness auto adjust
  
  

Press Release

Blackmagic Design announced that its Cintel film scanner and URSA digital film camera have been recognized by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) in their annual International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).

IDSA is one of the oldest and largest membership organizations for industrial design professionals. It annually holds IDEA, a prestigious competition that recognizes design excellence and innovation. This year’s competition evaluated more than 1,700 projects from around the globe and selected Blackmagic Design products for top awards.

The Blackmagic Cintel film scanner was honored with IDEA 2015 Chair and Gold awards. The Cintel film scanner features high end digital servos and high intensity diffuse light source and imaging systems, giving a real time scanner that scans 35mm and 16mm film up to 30fps in Ultra HD resolution. Customers are now able to use film for post production or unlock millions of hours of film based content for scanning to Ultra HD masters.

In addition, Blackmagic URSA was awarded Gold in IDEA’s Entertainment Category. Designed for large film crews as well as single person use, URSA is a digital film camera that features a 4.6K Super 35 sensor that captures 15 stops of dynamic range, 12G-SDI internal dual RAW and ProRes records, a global shutter, fold out 10” monitor and more.

The awards were presented during the 35th annual IDEA ceremony in Seattle, WA. It was held in conjunction with the IDSA International Conference 2015, that celebrated IDSA’s 50th anniversary.

Press Photography

Product photos of URSA and Cintel and all other 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.

About the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

Founded in 1965, the nonprofit Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is one of the oldest and largest membership organizations for industrial design professionals. IDSA sponsors the annual International Design Excellence Awards® (IDEA), the world’s most prestigious industrial design honor, and its events, including an annual International Design Conference and five district conferences, bring together the brightest minds in the profession. INNOVATION, IDSA’s flagship publication, is a highly regarded magazine within the profession. IDSA has thousands of members around the world. To learn more about IDSA, visit www.idsa.org, and connect via Twitter, and Facebook.