{"id":469,"date":"2014-04-10T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-08-31T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:23:39","slug":"nab-2014-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2014\/04\/10\/nab-2014-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB 2014 Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackmagic Design<\/a> had a variety of new products on display at NAB.\u00c2\u00a0 The single most interesting one from my perspective is their new film scanner from recently acquired Cintel<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything I hear is always “film is dead.”\u00c2\u00a0 If that is true, why would anyone be interested in buying a film scanner?\u00c2\u00a0 And while we can now scan our own film for $30K, how are we going to get it developed.\u00c2\u00a0 The previous process that I am accustomed to, is to send your exposed negative to the lab, and they send you back an HDCam-SR <\/a>tape, or a stack of DPX<\/a> files.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, getting the negative back to scan on your own doesn’t seem very appealing.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine that it is aimed at customers who have a lot of existing film on hand, which was processed in the past, that they now want to digitize.\u00c2\u00a0 But is there really that big of a market for that?\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to see.
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\nBlackmagic Design also announced two new camera designs.\u00c2\u00a0 The Studio Camera <\/a>looks a little unconventional to say the least, with it’s 10″ display, topping their previous entry into that awkward category.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems like it will pair well with their line of ATEM video switchers<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And the feature set they were able to integrate into a single fiber line is quite impressive, including talkback, tally, program feed, and full remote CCU control.\u00c2\u00a0 The Micro Four Thirds<\/a> lens mount seems a bit strange to me, but if it can be adapted as easily as they claim, then it should be accepted.\u00c2\u00a0 While I understand why they have both HD and UHD models, it seems like the $1K of added cost for the UHD model would make the HD model obsolete from release date.\u00c2\u00a0 And I don’t know where this huge push to 60p came from, but it is all I was getting asked about at the show.\u00c2\u00a0 Why wasn’t this such a big deal in 1080p?\u00c2\u00a0 But I can see how that feature would be beneficial when these cameras are used in sports telecasts.\u00c2\u00a0 But none of the existing switchers will support the 4Kp60 mode yet, so I imagine I know what they will announce at IBC.<\/p>\n

Their second new camera is the URSA<\/a>, with a slightly more traditional form factor.\u00c2\u00a0 The URSA is more like a 4K recorder with a replaceable sensor.\u00c2\u00a0 This is made apparent by the option to buy the HDMI model, which has no sensor, but is designed to be connected to a DSLR.\u00c2\u00a0 The sensor options are Super35 sized EF<\/a> or PL<\/a> mounts, or a smaller sensor for broadcast B4 lenses.\u00c2\u00a0 The sensors on all of their “4K Cameras” are limited to 3840×2160, and are therefore actually UltraHD<\/a> instead of true 4K, which is a bit disappointing, and somewhat limiting for eventual 4K DCP <\/a>deliver.\u00c2\u00a0 Regardless of the sensor options, the recorder has three touch-screens, a large 10″ fold out monitor, and 5″ control displays on either side of the body.\u00c2\u00a0 It records ProRes or CinemaDNG<\/a> to dual CFast2.0<\/a> card slots.\u00c2\u00a0 CFast cards are still hard to find, and surprisingly expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 It has the expected SDI, TC, and audio I\/O, plus Ref and LANC.\u00c2\u00a0 The 12Gb SDI doesn’t go anywhere yet, but I assume they have products that will ingest that in the pipeline.\u00c2\u00a0 While most other companies are still on 3G-SDI, is 24Gb on their roadmap for next year?<\/p>\n

Red Camera announced a 4K SDI <\/a>output option for their cameras, which seems years overdue.\u00c2\u00a0 Panasonic was showing the Varicam 35<\/a>, which is a large single sensor imager, and of course supports 4K.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t see much new at Sony, at least on the high end.\u00c2\u00a0 They have so many options on the low end, with XDCAM, EX, NX and a few others that I can’t keep track of what is actually new.\u00c2\u00a0 Canon didn’t have any new cameras, but had a new 30-300mm <\/a>Cinema lens that generated some attention.<\/p>\n

HP released their refresh of the Dreamcolor line.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a new 24″ model is under $600<\/a>, but doesn’t include the full feature set.\u00c2\u00a0 The new 27″ model is under $1500 <\/a>for the now popular 2560×1440 resolution.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that the Dreamcolor Engine 2 is not limited to Progressive<\/a> RGB<\/a> inputs, but should work with any source, which was a huge limitation in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still looking for a smaller 17″ model, with a 12v power input, to be used on set, or with a laptop.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I am quite happy that my tenth NAB show is behind me.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing at the show really blew me away, but it will be interesting to see what happens with this 4K transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackmagic Design had a variety of new products on display at NAB.\u00c2\u00a0 The single most interesting one from my perspective is their new film scanner from recently acquired Cintel.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything I hear is always “film is dead.”\u00c2\u00a0 If that is true, why would anyone be interested in buying a film scanner?\u00c2\u00a0 And while we can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[16,49,12,44,24,47,41,50,31,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}