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Blackmagic Design has released Blackmagic Camera Utility 1.9.11, available for download from their support page. Blackmagic Camera Utility 1.9.11 provides the following updates for both Blackmagic Studio Camera HD and Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K:

* New Details option in camera

* New support for independent control of front and rear tally brightness

* Added "Ch 2 used Ch 1 Input" option in Audio settings

* Added camera settings information in display overlay

Blackmagic Design has also released ATEM 6.2 software update, which adds zoom control for Blackmagic Studio Cameras with compatible lenses. To download these updates, please visit blackmagicdesign.com/support.

Press Release

Major new software for Teranex standards converters including centralized control of all Teranex features, plus new 12G-SDI to Quad 3G-SDI conversions up to 2160p60 on Teranex Express!

Blackmagic Design announced a major update for its Teranex 2D, 3D and Express converters. The Teranex 3.1 update adds a new software application that lets customers remotely set up and change settings on their Teranex converters from a central location, as well as adding a new 12G-SDI to quad HD-SDI conversions to Teranex Express.

Teranex 3.1 update is available for download free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website.

Teranex 3.1 update includes a new centralized control software application called Teranex Setup. Available for both Mac OS X and Windows computers, Teranex Setup lets customers remotely setup and control their Teranex 2D, 3D and Express converters. The software will automatically find Teranex converters on the network and and then take control of all features in the device. Teranex Setup features an intuitive and elegantly designed user interface that makes it easy for customers to access all of the most popular features like source and output selection, proc amp, color correction, aspect ratio, audio mapping and more. Settings made on the computer are changed instantly on Teranex, giving customers the ability to make on the fly adjustments to their live video feeds.

Teranex Setup is ideal for both small post houses and large broadcast customers. Smaller facilities can use it to share a converter with multiple users, while bigger customers can use it to manage and centralize the control of multiple converters on a large network. The new Teranex Setup software is easy to use and supports the latest technologies such as high resolution “Retina” displays found on today’s computers.

Teranex 3.1 update also gives Teranex Express customers an amazing new conversion features for managing high frame rate 12G-SDI connections as now Teranex Express can convert a 12G-SDI Ultra HD video feed into Quad Link 3G-SDI video. This Quad Link 3G-SDI is used on any Ultra HD monitor where the Ultra HD image is made of 4 x 1080HD SDI resolution video “tiles” that are recombined in the monitor as an Ultra HD image. Each of the Quad Link 3G-SDI feeds could also be sent to an independent monitor when creating video wall Ultra HD displays from four 1080HD resolution monitors.

The update supports Ultra HD frame rates ranging from 23.98fps to 60fps. That means Teranex Express can now be used for outputting Ultra HD to a wider range of display devices, including video walls, large LED screens and older 3G-SDI equipment. Because this update adds 30 and 60fps Ultra HD support to Teranex Express, customers now have a choice of up to 227 different types of conversions.

“Broadcasters ask for Teranex quality by name because they know it’s the best way to convert between different video formats and standards,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “The new Teranex Setup software makes it easy to control Teranex converters from anywhere in a facility or studio, and the new Teranex Express quad mode will help customers integrate the latest 12G-SDI Ultra HD 2160p60 video devices into existing HD broadcast equipment!”

Availability and Price

Teranex 3.1 update is available now for download from the Blackmagic Design web site free of charge for all Teranex 2D, 3D and Teranex Express customers.

Press Photography

Product photos of the Teranex 2D, 3D and Teranex Express, and all other Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagicdesign.com.

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.

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Press Release

Blackmagic Design announced that the Centre National du Cine?ma et de l’image anime?e (CNC), France’s national government body for the film and broadcast industries, has restored and replicated the original tints of the 1924 silent production of Les Mise?rables, directed by cinema pioneer Henri Fescourt, in 4K with DaVinci Resolve.

CNC’s film archive laboratory will use a DaVinci Resolve Linux 4GPU system, which was installed and designed by French integrator Magic Hour to handle conforming and grading for an extensive archive of French cinema. The post production workflow features Blackmagic Design DeckLink 4K and UltraStudio 4K devices for capture and playback, as well as an Easy DCP plug in to enable the lab to produce fully finished digital cinema productions.

For the Les Mise?rables project, a five person team at the CNC laboratory produced a 4K digital scan from the 17 rolls of original nitrate negatives, edited to the film’s original length and used DaVinci Resolve to conform the restored digital version. Within its archive, the CNC also had access to a shorter version of the film with tinted prints, which enabled the team to produce two grades of the original film in parallel; one in black and white and one which simulated the original tinted colors, which will be screened in Toulouse in December.

Nicolas Ricordel is in charge of the digital department and explains the project. “The black and white grade was very much a way of preserving the original, so we kept it as close to the black and white nitrate negatives as possible, only reworking contrast and making slight lift, gamma or gain level adjustments. Once this was completed, we could create nodes, and using the tinted scenes from the short version as our reference, to produce a color DCP conformed to the original prints. The system’s ability to handle greyscale DPX files has also been important, particularly given the length of the film and the storage required.”

"DaVinci Resolve will allow the CNC to maximize its vast archives of French cinema, which as we can see from its first project, date right back to the beginnings of the industry,” explains Jeff Ferriol, Magic Hour. “We developed a system that is powerful enough to handle major archive restoration projects, but also provide the professional color grading features that are used on many of today’s major Hollywood feature films.”

“The CNC’s mission is to promote French film and television to as wide an audience as possible, so in the digital age, it is important for us to have a comprehensive digital archive that brings new life to France’s cinematographic history,” said Daniel Borenstein, laboratory head, CNC.

Press Photography

Product photos of DaVinci Resolve 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 EmmyTM 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.