Rockets Ltd., a live production company based in Osaka, has built the "Rocket Studio," a live streaming and production studio in Tokyo. The studio allows high quality virtual production and uses numerous Blackmagic Design products, including ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher, URSA Broadcast G2 camera and Ultimatte 12 real...
Initial Look: RØDECaster Duo Audio Mixing Console
RØDE, like its counterpart in the broadcast camera and switching gear etc field, Blackmagic Design, is an Australian phenomenon; a small business that has grown into a global audio superstar but remains truly Australian based. It’s been clever too and broadened its scope beyond microphones into the podcasting market where...
Review: Sennheiser MKE 400 Shotgun Mic
Vlogging is all the rage these days and manufacturers are bringing out cameras especially designed for this purpose, such as the Sony ZV-1 I currently have for review. Others such as Canon also actively tout certain models as “ideal” for that purpose. But vlogging (and video in general) is more...
Case Study: Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (An Australian film no less!)
The new horror film “Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism” was completed using DaVinci Resolve Studio for colour correction, editing, visual effects (VFX) work and audio editing. This included extensive use of the DaVinci Neural Engine’s AI features, Fairlight Desktop Audio Editor console, DaVinci Resolve Mini Panels and DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor...
DaVinci Resolve / Fusion Studio 18.5 Final Releases Now Available
Massive update with over 100 new features including text based editing, AI dialogue transcription, new cut page editing toolset and new Fairlight mix automation. DaVinci Resolve 18.5 is a massive update with new AI tools and over 100 new features which include major additions to the cut page editing toolset,...
Marinette Pichon, a pioneer of French women’s soccer and one of the game’s biggest stars.
If you are following the FIFA Women's World Cup that is about to happen in Australia, this will be of major interest. Filmed in early 2022, the film tells the story of Marinette Pichon, a pioneer of French women's soccer and one of the game's biggest stars. Director of Photography...
Sci Fi Short Outpost Shot with URSA Mini Pro 12K
The science fiction short film “Outpost,” which premiered at the 2023 Dances With Films festival, was shot on the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K digital film camera, with post production completed in DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, grading, visual effects (VFX) and audio post production software. In a futuristic wasteland, “Outpost”...
Review: Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme ISO
Over the past couple of years or so, I have waxed lyrical about the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro many, many times. I have even written tutorials for it (see https://cre-8.com.au/atemminipro/). I’ve also explained that when I wrote and directed the original Microsoft video training programs for Office and Windows,...
Workflow: The Social First News Service Daily Aus
The Daily Aus, one of Australia’s leading social first news services, is completing daily news stories for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and various podcast channels using Blackmagic Design cameras, switchers and DaVinci Resolve. The Daily Aus is one of the world’s first news services producing stories only for social media...
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 3
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 3! Adds additional improvements to the DaVinci public beta including padding for subtitles, Fusion multimerge tools, expanded language detection, Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.1 and transcription now works in 14 languages. This software adds additional improvements to the DaVinci public beta such as improvements to text based...