How To Update Your Black Magic Cinema Camera 2.5k Raw

Blackmagic Movie theater Camera Gets ii.5K Lossless Compressed Raw With Firmware Update two.i

Blackmagic Design has just released firmware update two.one before today. The renegade Aussie company continues its commitment to amend the functionality of their 1st generation cameras also as their latest cameras similar the 4K URSA and Studio Cameras. The latest firmware update 2.1 mainly impacts the BMCC and Pocket Cinema cameras by calculation the long-awaited lossless compress Raw recording on the oldest camera in the lineup – the 2.5K BMCC and some other cool bits.

At present the original Blackmagic photographic camera joins the BMPC 4K and the Pocket Movie theater Camera with mathematically lossless Compress Raw, which was added to the other same cameras in before firmware update releases. With the new compressed Raw a single CinemaDNG frame will be about 3MB in size, equally opposed to the original uncompress CinemaDNG raw frame of around 5MB, resulting in substantial disk space savings.

Additional features in the latest firmware include frame guides, Japanese and Chinese linguistic communication support, and peaking is remembered after shutdown and power dorsum on. Encounter more details of improvements below:

New Features in Firmware 2.1

Blackmagic Pocket Picture palace Photographic camera

New Blackmagic Photographic camera Setup software
Adds back up for more frame guide options
Adds Japanese and Chinese linguistic communication carte support
Holding down MENU will bypass Dashboard and become straight into settings
Peaking state is remembered after power cycle

Blackmagic Cinema Photographic camera

New Blackmagic Camera Setup software
Adds lossless compressed RAW support
Adds support for more frame guide options
Holding down MENU will bypass the Dashboard
Peaking state is remembered after power cycle

Blackmagic URSA

New Blackmagic Camera Setup software
Improved media formatting performance

Blackmagic Production Photographic camera 4K

No changes

Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K

No changes

Blackmagic Studio Photographic camera

No changes

Minimum organisation requirements for Mac OS X

Mac Bone X x.x Yosemite
Mac Os Ten 10.9 Mavericks or later
A suitable USB ii.0 port
Thunderbolt port for UltraScope and Media Express when using Blackmagic Picture palace Photographic camera or Blackmagic Production Camera 4K

Minimum system requirements for Windows

Microsoft Windows eight 64-flake
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit
A suitable USB ii.0 port
A suitable Thunderbolt port when using Blackmagic Cinema Camera or Blackmagic Production Camera 4K

Installing Blackmagic Photographic camera Setup

Before installing the software, we recommend that you run "Uninstall Photographic camera Utility" first.

After loading the software on the Blackmagic Movie house Photographic camera EF or MFT, you may notice a slight flickering on the built-in LCD screen. This is normal and expected behaviour. The flickering will go away afterward a few minutes of operation.

The Blackmagic Camera Installer package installs:

Blackmagic Photographic camera Setup
Blackmagic Media Express
Blackmagic UltraScope
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Blackmagic Multibridge Utility

The firmware comes with a new installer for the commencement fourth dimension and tin can exist downloaded from Blackmagic Blueprint hither.