.At the latest IBC 2024 exhibition in Amsterdam, Blackmagic Design's big announcement was actually the new outside display for its PYXIS movie theater camera. Having said that, some website visitors to the show were startled to also observe a Sony FX9 on the Blackmagic position. This was actually Blackmagic gently disclosing that it is collaborating with Sony to deliver BRAW recording to some Movie house Line cameras.What is BRAW?BRAW needs for Blackmagic RAW. It is actually a proprietary video clip documents format built by Blackmagic Design. At a specialized amount, some folks have actually questioned whether BRAW is actually a true RAW format. This is considering that the video recording is mostly demosaiced in-camera before tape-recording. However, you can change ISO, white colored equilibrium and more in post-production, equally with a RAW file. The BRAW reports are actually also taped as 12-bit record style which suggests they supply a broader dynamic variety. Moreover, BRAW documents are actually much smaller than some other RAW formats, so they use less room on your travels and also are simpler to play back in post-production. What has been announced?At IBC 2024, Blackmagic Concept showed a Sony Movie theater Line FX9 camera linked to a Blackmagic Video Clip Support. In a job interview along with ProAV TV, Blackmagic's EMEA Technical Purchases Supervisor, Craig Heffernan, described what the business is actually focusing on. Heffernan mentioned, "Our company had a tiny specialized demo where our company possessed a Video Assist item affixed to a Sony FX9 and also presenting people to the work our company are actually doing. In order that is actually delivering Blackmagic RAW recording for the FX6 and also the FX9 video cameras and after that unlocking that innovation for that camera system." Video AssistBlackmagic's Video clip Aid is a mobile display as well as recorder service, similar to the Atomos Ninja selection. The Video clip Help possesses either a five-inch or even seven-inch display. You may likewise opt for between 3G models that assist video clip around 1080p60 and also the 12G HDR models that videotape video clip up to 2160p60. To document in BRAW you are going to require to use one of the 12G Online Video Assists. They assist tape-recording in ProRes, DNxHR or even BRAW styles to inner SDXC memory cards or even an outside USB SSD difficult drive.How it worksHeffernan revealed that the Sony cameras result the 4K RAW sign directly to the Video clip Help over SDI. He mentioned, "Blackmagic RAW is developed to profile to the sensing unit, so a number of the work we need to carry out is actually within our hardware encoder that sits inside the Video Support. So we know the attribute of the Sony sensing unit and afterwards our experts pack that in to the Blackmagic RAW deal. Any person that's used Blackmagic RAW understands you acquire a sidecar of metadata which informs Address the cam principal attributes." What next?Although Blackmagic is in the beginning focusing on creating BRAW for the FX6 as well as FX9, that is actually just the starting point. Heffernan said, "My understanding is our team are actually functioning to support FX6 and FX9 first, our experts'll at that point look at FX3 in order that our company can easily cover the complete range of those pro cine styles. There's no advancement currently for the Alpha stations as well as the mirrorless crossbreed devices. From Sony's viewpoint that is actually a various division, that's a various engineering staff. Ideally, if this is well-known, and also we find a lot of uptake along with Sony users wanting accessibility to Blackmagic RAW, that is actually a talk our experts could possess." What we thinkBRAW recording is actually currently supported through video cameras coming from Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Leica, Nikon, Sigma as well as Z Webcam. The BRAW style is wonderful for maintaining the full vibrant variety of your cam and also gives you much more adaptability in post-production. So it's an invited development to view the innovation sustaining Sony cams too. Additionally, Blackmagic has actually created the BRAW documents layout open, cross-platform and also cost-free. The codec is actually supported by means of the cost-free SDK on Mac OS, Windows as well as Linux units with no covert licenses or ongoing expenses. BRAW recording on the Sony FX6 and also FX9 makes sure to become a well-known addition. Owners of the FX3 as well as Alpha cameras will definitely hope that they obtain accessibility to BRAW quickly too.Pricing as well as availabilityBlackmagic Design simply presented the BRAW recording with the Sony FX6 as well as FX9 as a technological demo at IBC 2024. Nevertheless, Heffernan claimed that the firm wished that the technology would certainly be actually discharged as a totally free update for the Video Support in Q4 of this particular year.