Blackmagic Design Launches Ursa Cine Immersive, Updates Blackmagic Cloud

Blackmagic Design has announced preorder availability for the Blackmagic Ursa Cine Immersive camera and several enhancements to Blackmagic Cloud.

Designed to capture Apple Immersive Video for Apple Vision Pro, the Ursa Cine Immersive camera will begin shipping in early 2025. At that time, DaVinci Resolve Studio will be updated to support editing Apple Immersive Video, a 180-degree media format that leverages ultra-high-resolution immersive video and Spatial Audio. The new version of Resolve Studio will include an immersive video viewer that will enable editors to pan, tilt, and roll clips for viewing on 2D monitors or on Apple Vision Pro. Transitions rendered by Apple Vision Pro will also be able to be bypassed using FCP XML metadata, giving editors clean master files. Export presets will enable quick output into a package which can be viewed directly on Apple Vision Pro.

The Ursa Cine Immersive features a custom fixed-lens system pre-installed on the camera body. The sensor delivers 8,160x7,200 resolution per eye with pixel-level synchronization and 16 stops of dynamic range. All Blackmagic Ursa Cine cameras are built with a magnesium-alloy chassis and lightweight carbon-fiber polycarbonate composite skin. They include 12G‑SDI out, 10G Ethernet, USB-C and XLR audio. The fold-out monitor has a 5" HDR touchscreen on one side and an external color status LCD on the other. The right side of the camera features a dedicated assist station with a second 5" HDR touchscreen that allows crew to work around the camera without needing external monitors. An eight-pin Lemo power connector at the back of the camera works with 24- and 12-volt power supplies.

Ursa Cine Immersive comes with a 250-watt power supply and B-mount battery plate, as well as a top handle and antennas for high-speed Wi-Fi. 8TB of network storage is built in, which records directly to the included Blackmagic Media Module and can be synced to Blackmagic Cloud and DaVinci Resolve media bins in real time. Users can capture over two hours of Blackmagic Raw in 8K stereoscopic 3D Immersive. The new Immersive file format includes support for Blackmagic global media sync. Blackmagic Raw files store camera metadata, lens data, white balance, digital-slate information and custom LUTs.

The Blackmagic Ursa Cine Immersive lists for $29,995.

New features for Blackmagic Cloud include a new icon view with thumbnails that can be scrubbed to preview footage, a new inspector panel for easily viewing clip metadata, and the ability to share a presentation with a client who is not a member of Blackmagic Cloud via a URL. The Blackmagic Cloud login window has also been localized into German, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and Ukrainian. All current Blackmagic Cloud customers will see these new features immediately.

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