Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design announced the release of Camera 1.9.9, a major update with innovative features for the company's URSA digital cinematic camera. The new menu that allows you to select different frame rates with a higher speed option for URSA models stands out. That is, the filming cadence is increased to 80 frames per second, which in turn improves the capture of images in slow motion and the fluidity in the shots.
The frame rate setting on the URSA camera was modified, so that the setting selected for recording is not limited by the playback speed. As a result, users can choose the frame rate at which a project will be performed, for example 24 f/s for the shooting of a feature film, and then independently set the frame rate for recording with options from 5 to 80 f/s.
When shooting at high frequencies this update offers a new 12-bit CinemaDNG RAW format compressed in a 3:1 ratio. It allows you to record RAW files that occupy a third of the space required by files of the same type without compression, thus providing double storage capacity on a CFast card of equal size.
Also, this update formats CFast cards directly from the camera during recording, so that it is not necessary to use computer equipment for this purpose.
