for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the
obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more the black magic cinema
camera our new camera by the way very excited has been on the market long
enough now that I'm not going to spend a bunch of time talking about the specs other than a few key ones here it has a
2 1/2k sensor intended to be downscaled
to deliver sharper than normal 1080P or 2K it's got 13 stops of dynamic range
which basically amounts to less detail lost in the highlights and low lights
and it can shoot in uncompressed cinema dng raw Avid dnxhd and apple proor
versus AVCHD which is what we're stuck with on our fs700 unless we use an
external recorder it includes a key for Da Vinci resolve which is otherwise a
$1,000 piece of software which is pretty darn cool and it comes in a very pretty
box which won't matter one fish is nipple to most people but I like boxes
so there you go they're great at box design now they're great at other things
too black Magic's design philosophy is a little bit different from other
companies they emphasize building what we can versus what the market will be
willing to buy for a given price and they emphasize Open Standards rather
than closed proprietary bille ones in
fact one of the most notable things about this camera for me is a great
example of that and that's the use of 2 and 1/2 in PC ssds for recording
standard computer ssds are probably one of the only relatively inexpensive
mediums that is capable of delivering
strong enough performance to handle the massive 150 megabytes per second data
rate required by 12bit raw 2 and 1/2k
recording while other recording Solutions sometimes do use 2 and 1/2 in
ssds convergent design is one of them most other companies choose to use
firmware to lock down recording media to
proprietary drives which deliver consistent performance sure but are much
more expensive Blackmagic takes an open approach and allows you to use whatever
SSD you want which when you consider that a 256 gig Drive holds only about 30
minutes of raw footage is pretty nice but this open approach has some
drawbacks for them and allowing a customer to put drives with inadequate
performance in the camera will lead to dropped frames in the footage and a bad
customer experience for which black magic could easily be blamed which leads
us nicely into the second part of this video which is both I guess a a feature
for Kingston's hyperx 3 KSD and a bit of a public service announcement now
Kingston was kind enough to send us over three 480 gig drives for our recording
needs this will let us shoot about 3
hours of uncompressed raw footage without offloading to a PC which is
great and in exchange all they wanted was for us to talk about why their SSD
is great for you use with this camera which is easy because it's right on
black Magic's validated Drive list so there you go yay moving on no seriously
I should probably give some background as to why it's on there hyperx 3K drives
deliver great performance in this use case because they use realtime data
compression to take the large files that you produce while filming and turn them
into something smaller on the Fly before committing them to the flash chips on
the SSD this is actually similar to how other video compression standards like
h264 work except for one major difference when you read the data back
off of a hyperx 3K drive it decompresses it on the Fly again delivering the full
quality file to you without you ever noticing that it was stored in a
compressed form this technology is perfect here because uncompressed raw
footage is right in the Wheelhouse of sandforce controller based SSD drives
allowing them to perform pretty near optimally and of course they're just
standard pcssd so the same Tech works in your computer as well on the back we
find a 5 in 800x480 capacitive touchcreen that can
be used for uh camera settings playback
and review uh metadata entry and its
large size is actually another example of black Magic's because we can attitude
truthfully a 5-in display doesn't cost much more than a 3-in display so they
put it on way to be with that said the BMCC isn't perfect the onscreen controls
are not as granular or as fast to adjust
as our main camera the Sony fs700 with its deeper settings and reprogrammable
hardware buttons but considering that I could buy three black Magics and a lens
for each for the price of a single fs700 and a lens and it delivers better image
quality out of the box it's pretty darn compelling although the fs does have
slow-mo built in ND filters and with the firmware upgrad in a third party
recorder ahead and image quality and can
record in 4k so just something to bear in mind uh last things to show on the
camera are of course mounts on the top for any accessories you might have
straps on the right hand side a yeah
that SSD slot where you go ahead and pop a 2 and A2 in SSD in there for your
recording needs on the bottom we've got ventilation yes it is actively cooled
there's actually a fan inside this bad boy and then last but not least is the
record button up there on the front that I never actually me mentioned now to
close out this video where undoubtedly there are many folks who didn't make it
this far in and left comments underneath wondering why we could possibly need
this camera for unboxings I'll leave some footage here from some of the
projects that we've done that aren't unboxings where it would have been nice
to have a b camera or a little bit more control and post production than the
stock abchd recording of the fs700
allows so we do do other things than unboxings and we will put this camera to
good use and I think that's pretty much it guys we're really excited about
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