NAB has historically been the place for Blackmagic Design to announce their new products and 2018 was no different. Arguably the biggest news from the Australian giant was the news of a new Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. The original Pocket Camera revolutionised low-cost digital film making and Blackmagic Design hope to take that ethos into the 4K world.
The all new Pocket Cinema Camera 4K features an all new handheld design, 4/3 size sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and dual native ISO up to 25,600 – meaning you get stunning HDR images and incredible low light performance. The 5″ touchscreen display makes it easy to frame shots, focus and change settings. The camera records onto standard SD/UHS-II or CFast 2.0 cards in RAW and ProRes at up to 120 fps. As with the original, the new 4K Pocket Camera has a MFT lens mount as well as built in microphones, mini XLR input, full sized HDMI, 3D LUT support, Bluetooth & USB-C expansion port! The Pocket Cinema Camera 4K is ideal for independent films and documentaries, VLOGs, weddings, web videos, sports and more!
We’re taking pre-orders for the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K now – with stock due to arrive in September
Blackmagic also announced a 4K edition to their ATEM Television Studio Pro. This 4K model includes all the benefits of the HD models and now adds Ultra HD capability with more SDI inputs. The ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K can handle all popular HD and Ultra HD formats up to 2160p60 and each input has a re-sync feature as well as a low-latency standards converter meaning the input is automatically adapted to the switcher’s format. Upgrades to the Fairlight audio mixer come in the form of dynamics, 6-band parametric EQm dual mono channel split and stereo simulator. It also includes BMD’s ATEM Advanced Chroma Keyer – enabling clean green screen keying and multi-layer compositing with a bunch of key controls.
The ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K is available to order now
The Blackmagic Design Micro Converters are one of our best selling products here at ESV – their low cost, ease of use and reliablility as well as the wide range of video applications make them a great all round product. BMD have just made them better! Introducting the new BiDirectional Micro Converter HDMI/SDI. This tiny converter takes the features found in the single-way unit and adds bidirectional conversion – essentially giving you two converters in one! Simultaneously convert SDI to HDMI and HDMI to SDI in any SD or HD format at the same time with full sized HDMI and 3G-SDI connections. Broadcast quality converters that fit in your pocket. As with the regular micro converters, the BiDirectional converter is available with or without a power-supply depending on whether you wish to power it from the mains or micro USB.
In addition we also have a new UpDownCross HD mini converter – this is a full standards converter that lets you convert any SD or HD video format to any other SD or HD video format.
Next up is Mini Converter Optical Fibre 12G – as the name suggests this adds 12G support to the SDI to Optical Fibre converter in both directions.
Lastly BMD have released a new multiviewer in the form of a mini converter. The MultiView 4 HD is a low cost, four-input SDI multiview with HDMI and SDI output.
