Blackmagic Design has introduced that it’s including help for ProRes RAW throughout its digicam, monitor and software program vary. The DaVinci Resolve enhancing software program and Pocket Cinema Digital camera 4K have been the primary merchandise to get the replace, with extra to comply with quickly.
DaVinci Resolve
You should obtain and set up DaVinci Resolve 20.2 to get help for Apple ProRes RAW. It’s obtainable with each the paid-for Studio model and the free model of the software program as nicely. DaVinci Resolve additionally now helps ARRICORE clips.
Additionally, help for encoding Samsung APV clips and decoding Sony ARW pictures has been added.
Pocket Cinema Digital camera 4K
So as to add ProRes RAW recording to your Pocket Cinema Digital camera 4K, you will want to obtain and set up the Blackmagic Digital camera 9.8 Public Beta firmware replace. The digicam menu will then present the choices to pick both ProRes RAW or ProRes RAW HQ as a codec. Taking pictures at 30 frames per second (fps) and in UHD 4K (3,840 x 2,160), the information charges are 173.6 MB/s for ProRes RAW HQ and 115.2 MB/s for ProRes RAW. For comparability, Blackmagic RAW 3:1 has an information price of 127 MB/s.
Future updates
Blackmagic Design additionally defined that extra merchandise will get ProRes RAW quickly. The corporate is bringing the codec to its Video Help monitor recorder. Nonetheless, you will want to have the flagship 12G mannequin, because the earlier fashions don’t have the mandatory processing energy, apparently.
As well as, the Blackmagic Digital camera can even be capable of shoot in ProRes RAW sooner or later. That is prone to be an iOS function solely, nonetheless, so Android customers might miss out.
“With the addition of ProRes RAW codecs throughout our seize, playback {and professional} enhancing software program merchandise, we’re persevering with our dedication to software program updates for current merchandise,” mentioned Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Digital camera 4K prospects have all the time been capable of file in compressed ProRes 422 codecs, however now they are going to be capable of file ProRes RAW and natively playback the information in DaVinci Resolve. We are extraordinarily excited to be delivering one more free replace for our prospects.”
What we predict
Assist for Apple ProRes RAW has been some of the requested options for Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve enhancing software program for a few years. Now finally the corporate has delivered that, but additionally a lot extra. It’s nice to see Blackmagic Design rewarding Pocket 4K customers with ProRes RAW, because it’s one of many firm’s older cameras. Nonetheless, ProRes RAW can be rolling out to different cameras sooner or later, too. The addition of ProRes RAW to the Video Help is nice information as nicely, even when it’s only for the 12G mannequin. iPhone customers can even welcome the codec as an possibility with the Blackmagic Digital camera app. Better of all, these are all free updates. Blackmagic Design continues to offer worth to its current prospects that no different producer can match.
Availability
Davinci Resolve 20.2, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2 and the Blackmagic Digital camera 9.8 Public Beta can be found to obtain at no cost from the Blackmagic Design web site now. The updates for the Video Help 12G and Blackmagic Digital camera app must be obtainable quickly, although no launch dates have been launched but.
