Blackmagic reveals the new DaVinci Resolve 8
New features in Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 8 include multi-layer timeline support with XML editing, import and export to Apple Final Cut Pro and OpenCL processing. It has also announced the UltraStudio 3D, a compact and portable capture and playback device based on the new Thunderbolt technology developed by Intel.
The new features of DaVinci Resolve 8 Blackmagic (Booth SL220) include multi-layer timeline support with XML editing, import and export to Apple Final Cut Pro.
The new DaVinci Resolve 8 now also includes OpenCL processing to allow use on Apple iMac and MacBook Pro computers. Its new advanced processing tools have been designed for real-time noise reduction, gradual curvature, advanced multi-point stabilization, as well as automatic alignment of stereoscopic 3D images. DaVinci Resolve 8 also supports the Avid Artist Color control panel, and also offers export to ALE for relinking DNxHD files in Avid editors.
Users will fall in love with the new XML import and export interface combined with DaVinci Resolve 8's new multi-layer timeline, as it allows complex sequences from Final Cut Pro to be imported, color graded, and then exported directly into Final Cut Pro again, with all the new gradients and layer structure intact. If the edit is changed in Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve 8 will automatically relink all clips so that the gradients are maintained. Editing can also be achieved within DaVinci Resolve 8, where clips are adjusted and repositioned.
Advanced OpenCL image processing has been incorporated into DaVinci Resolve 8, allowing a wider range of GPUs to be used for real-time processing at HD resolutions up to 1080. OpenCL-based processing, although not as powerful as the CUDA processing also used in DaVinci Resolve, allows it to be extended to a much wider range of computers so they can perform color gradients. Now, the Apple iMac and MacBook Pro series of computers can be used for real-time color gradients, allowing users to use the hardware they already own.
UltraStudio
Blackmagic Design has announced in Las Vegas the UltraStudio 3D, a compact and portable capture and playback device based on the new Thunderbolt technology developed by Intel and brought to the market in collaboration with Apple.
UltraStudio3D provides support for dual high-definition 3D streams, 12-bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI and analog component and HDMI 1.4A video connections, as well as full SD, HD and 2K support.
New Thunderbolt technology enables the UltraStudio 3D to offer Dual Link 3 Gb/s, SDI, HDMI 1.4A and analog component/s-video/composite video, as well as balanced analog and AES/EBU digital audio capture and playback.
UltraStudio 3D is perfect for 3D process flows as it features both interlaced/side-by-side and dual flow capture and playback. 3D interlacing allows the left and right eye to be interlaced as fields in a single video connection and file, so users can edit using only editing software.
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