Blackmagic Design’s Apple Immersive Video digicam is now accessible to preorder, and DaVinci Resolve Studio will help modifying it early subsequent yr.
What Is Apple Immersive Video?
The Apple Immersive Video format is 180-degree 90 FPS video with 8K decision, stereoscopic 3D, excessive dynamic vary (HDR), and spatial audio. It is served within the Apple TV app with a lot larger bitrate than many different immersive video platforms.
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The digicam, referred to as Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive, was first introduced at Apple’s WWDC 2024 occasion earlier this yr. It would permit impartial productions to shoot Apple Immersive Video content material, whereas till now all Apple Immersive Video content material was shot by way of customized cameras on contract from Apple.
Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive shoots in 8160×7200 (58.7 megapixels) decision per lens at 90 FPS to a single file, which means over 5 billion pixels are captured every second. It has 16 stops of dynamic vary, on par with the very best finish digital cameras used to shoot blockbuster motion pictures, which means it could possibly seize particulars in very vibrant and really darkish areas of a scene concurrently.
The digicam comes with 8TB of excessive efficiency storage built-in, which equates to over two hours of RAW footage at stereoscopic 8K 90FPS, and helps “excessive pace” Wi-Fi with twin antennas or 10 gigabit ethernet for community storage, together with Blackmagic Cloud storage.
Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive information to a brand new Blackmagic RAW Immersive file format, which Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve Studio video modifying software program will add help for a while in Q1 2025. This may embody “monitoring on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional from the DaVinci Resolve Studio timeline”, and will probably be in a position to render native Apple Immersive Video recordsdata.
With the brand new digicam and DaVinci Resolve replace, Blackmagic says it now presents “a real end-to-end workflow for Apple Immersive Video”. At $29,995 the digicam is out of attain for the overwhelming majority of particular person creators, however comparatively reasonably priced for skilled manufacturing studios trying to begin taking pictures top quality immersive video in 2025.
