Blackmagic Design
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| Industry | Electronics |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder(s) | Grant Petty |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Grant Petty (CEO) |
| Website | www.blackmagicdesign.com |
Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd is an Australian company which manufactures electronic equipment for broadcast and video production.
Founded by CEO Grant Petty, the company manufactures equipment used for video acquisition, editing and conversion, and has offices in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2009, it acquired Da Vinci Systems, a company which had won Emmy Awards for its film colouring and restoration equipment.[1] In 2010, Blackmagic Design acquired Echolab, a manufacturer of vision mixers.[2] In 2011, Blackmagic Design acquired Teranex, a manufacturer of video processing products.[3] In 2012, Blackmagic Design acquired Cintel, a manufacturer of professional post-production equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats.[4]
[edit] Blackmagic Cinema Camera
At the 2012 NAB Show, the company announced the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, featuring interchangeable EF mount lenses.[5] The 2.5K sensor allows enough oversampling for clean 1080p or 2K output and is announced to have a dynamic range of 13 stops. The camera records to conventional PC 2.5" SSD drives, in either uncompressed RAW DNG or Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD lossy formats. Apart from a few buttons the camera is accessed via its touchscreen display. Blackmagic originally announced that the camera would be available in July 2012, but as of December 2012 it is yet to be delivered in significant numbers.[6]
Another version of the camera with a Micro Four Thirds system lens mount was subsequently announced, but has yet to be released.
[edit] References
- ^ "Blackmagic Design Acquires da Vinci". TV Technology. 8 September 2009. http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/blackmagic-design-acquires-da-vinci/203340. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Blackmagic Design buys what’s left of Echolab switcher line". Broadcast Engineering. 13 August 2010. http://broadcastengineering.com/news/Blackmagic-Design-buys-Echolab-switcher-line/. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Blackmagic Design acquires Teranex signal-processing technology". Broadcast Engineering. 7 December 2011. http://broadcastengineering.com/news/Blackmagic-Design-acquires-Teranex-12072011/. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Blackmagic Acquires Assets of Film Scanner Maker Cintel". The Hollywood Reporter. 24 July 2012. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/blackmagic-acquires-film-scanner-cintel-353607. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Blackmagic Cinema Camera aims to make pro video more affordable". CNET. 17 April, 2012. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57415376-1/blackmagic-cinema-camera-aims-to-make-pro-video-more-affordable/. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/11/is-the-blackmagic-cinema-camera-finally-ready-for-the-spotlight/
