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From incredibly versatile, powerful cameras, to mounts and accessories for nearly any activity, to the GoPro App and software - GoPro makes it easier than ever to capture and share your world like never before. With stunning image quality and powerful new features, HERO4 cameras take Emmy Award-winning GoPro performance to a whole new level. Choose from HERO4 Black, with incredible high-resolution 4K30 and 2.7K50 video and high frame rate 1080p120 video, or HERO4 Silver, which pairs pro-quality video and photo capture with the convenience of a built-in touch display. The entry-level GoPro HERO makes it simple to capture and share your life. Built directly into a rugged, waterproof housing, and featuring high-quality 1080p30 and 720p60 video, HERO delivers the same immersive footage that's made GoPro one of the best-selling cameras in the world. All in a simplified experience that's easy for everyone.

Panasonic has announced a free firmware upgrade for its popular AJ-PX270 P2 HD handheld that incorporates a new codec (AVC-Intra Class200), full HD streaming and automatic contents transfer, and new recording formats, all enhancing production and remote newsgathering. The addition of the high-quality AVC-Intra Class200 codec (10-bit, 4:2:2, bitrate approx 200Mbps) enables visually lossless recording at twice the bit rate of AVC-Intra Class100, delivering studio master quality for recording network-level programming and archiving. AVC-Intra Class200 is ideal for field capture of content for film-outs; the higher recording quality greatly enhances color correction processes, as well as green screen and compositing applications. With the additional AVC-Intra Class200 recording, the PX270 delivers the highest quality recording available in a handheld professional camcorder. Network functionality is also bolstered with newly-added streaming facilitating full HD output (wired, optional wireless, and optional 4G/LTE network) during recording. The implication for news gathering is that a breaking news event can be streamed to a broadcast station while acquisition is in progress in the field. In addition, Panasonic has added the "Rec during Uploading" function to the PX270 to allow automatic transfer of recorded contents to an FTP server, which means that recording is possible even while video content are being uploaded. The firmware also supports a new iPad-based P2 Remote Operation Panel application, which enables wireless control of the PX270 camera settings (picture quality, zoom, focus and rec/stop operation, for example) using an iPad. The App will be available free of charge at the Apple App Store. The firmware upgrade supplements the PX270's already extensive recording formats with the addition of 1080/30p, 25p, 24p and native 1080 24PsF HD-SDI output, expanding production uses such as external recording and monitoring, as well as 720/30p, 25p, 24p, improving web production efficiencies. The upgrade also activates proxy editing on a web browser.

Panasonic released a new firmware update for the LUMIX G Interchangable Lens Camera, DMC-GH4. The firmware Ver.2.1 enhances the performance and controllability with upgraded functions of HDMI output, which will be highly valued in professional video production. With this firmware, time code and recording control signal can be embedded to the HDMI output signal, when connected with the products of ATOMOS Global Pty. Ltd. or the products complying with the extended specifications of ATOMOS. Now both FHD at 30p/25p native or at 60p/50p is selectable to output via HDMI while recording video in FHD at 30p/25p. The Interface Unit DMW-YAGH has also been updated with the new firmware 1.1 to support these functional upgrades of GH4. Plus, 60i/50i (30PsF/25PsF) or 60p/50p is selectable for the output via SDI.

Blackmagic Design has just released Blackmagic Camera Utility 2.0, available for download from their support page (for Mac OS X and Windows). Blackmagic Camera Utility 2.0 provides the following updates:

Blackmagic URSA

- Adds support for Apple ProRes 444 recording in 4K and HD.

Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K

- Performance improvements for optical fiber output.

Blackmagic Studio Camera

- Improves options for overlays settings.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

- Improves recording in ProRes LT and Proxy.

Blackmagic Cinema Camera

- Performance enhancements and improvements.

LightWave 3D Group, a division of NewTek Inc., updated its flagship 3D modeling , animation, and rendering software LightWave 2015. Version 2015.1 is a free update and includes many fixes to VPR, FiberFX, Surface Editor and other aspects of the program. 2015.1 will install into its own directory, and uses the same license as the 2015; drag-and-drop the license into the interface of 2015.1 when first launching 2015.1.

LightWave 2015.1 Fixes:

Layout:

- Layout crashes loading a 'cyHair' format wig

- FBX importing "Target Cameras" have incorrect rotation values.

Hub

- Hub crash if custom background GUI image used.

Modeler

- Cut Tool crash in Modeler using Edges.

FiberFX

- FiberFX no longer works with bullet guides.

- FiberFX Strand Tool workflow issue making "Fixed Tips" during styling.

- FiberFX crashing when using Bullet.

- FiberFX related crash when clearing an object with FiberFX applied, and then creating a new object.

- FiberFX crash due to mixed meshes.

- FiberFX motion vector data is broken.

- Clicking "Edit" in FiberFX crashes - MAC ONLY.

- Changing FiberFX shadow-type while VPR on crashes.

- "Polygonize Mixed" command in FiberFX doesn't work.

Renderer / VPR

- Option of 'Render Outside Camera' not working for VPR.

- VPR not showing proper shadow density when using transparency.

- VPR does not update in real-time when changing basic color attributes.

- VPR crash when 'Shift-clicking' to get surface with 2 point polygons.

- Fixed a bug in morph surfaces in VPR that could cause a crash due to uninitialized pointers.

- crash if executing shader Lscript UI while VPR evaluates same shader.

- Unseen by Camera items render when PRMBlur is on.

- Motion Blur rendering hidden objects.

- Motion vectors not working for MDD's.

- 2015 does not save proper motion vector data to EXR file format.

- Edge Thickness changes when Stereo is on.

- LW2015 GI render crash with 2 or more bounces.

Buller

- Crash when trying to make fractured geometry a "Parts Body" in Bullet.

Surface Editor

- Node Editor Node thumbnails and Image node thumbnail broken

- Nodal export/import dialogs have a localized file type field

SDK / Scripting

- Bilinear re-sample buffer size issue in SDK.

- ClipMap surface not accessible with Lscript

- "GlobalStore" function is broken on Mac OS systems (Layout)

Miscellaneous

- Save Dialog does not set mesh flags to 'Saved'

- Restore build number to the 2015 About box

- Docs don't launch with F1

- Crash using the nVidia "3D Pro Plug-in"