.At the recent IBC 2024 trade conference in Amsterdam, Blackmagic Style's significant statement was actually the brand new exterior monitor for its own PYXIS movie theater video camera. Having said that, some guests to the show were amazed to also view a Sony FX9 on the Blackmagic stand. This was actually Blackmagic gently exposing that it is dealing with Sony to deliver BRAW tape-recording to some Movie house Line cameras.What is BRAW?BRAW is short for Blackmagic RAW. It's an exclusive video recording documents format created through Blackmagic Design. At a technical level, some folks have discussed whether BRAW is an accurate RAW layout. This is actually given that the online video is to some extent demosaiced in-camera prior to recording. Having said that, you may readjust ISO, white harmony and additional in post-production, equally as along with a RAW documents. The BRAW documents are likewise taped as 12-bit record format which means they provide a greater compelling selection. Furthermore, BRAW documents are much smaller than some other RAW formats, so they utilize less area on your rides and are simpler to play back in post-production. What has actually been actually announced?At IBC 2024, Blackmagic Design displayed a Sony Movie house Line FX9 video camera attached to a Blackmagic Video Help. In a meeting with ProAV TV, Blackmagic's EMEA Technical Sales Director, Craig Heffernan, described what the firm is actually dealing with. Heffernan pointed out, "We possessed a little specialized demonstration where our experts possessed an Online video Assist item connected to a Sony FX9 as well as offering folks to the work we are actually carrying out. In order that is actually providing Blackmagic RAW audio for the FX6 and the FX9 video cameras and then uncovering that modern technology for that camera platform." Online video AssistBlackmagic's Video recording Support is actually a portable display as well as recorder solution, identical to the Atomos Ninja selection. The Video Support comes with either a five-inch or seven-inch screen. You may likewise opt for between 3G models that assist video clip approximately 1080p60 and also the 12G HDR versions that tape video clip as much as 2160p60. To capture in BRAW you will certainly need to utilize among the 12G Video Assists. They assist documenting in ProRes, DNxHR or BRAW styles to internal SDXC memory cards or an exterior USB SSD tough drive.How it worksHeffernan described that the Sony video cameras output the 4K RAW sign straight to the Online video Help over SDI. He claimed, "Blackmagic RAW is actually built to profile to the sensing unit, so some of the work our company must carry out is actually within our hardware encoder that rests inside the Video Assist. So our team understand the nature of the Sony sensing unit and then our company bundle that in to the Blackmagic RAW plan. Anybody that's made use of Blackmagic RAW understands you receive a sidecar of metadata which informs Resolve the cam principal characteristics." What next?Although Blackmagic is originally concentrating on developing BRAW for the FX6 as well as FX9, that is actually merely the starting point. Heffernan said, "My understanding is our team're working to sustain FX6 as well as FX9 first, our company'll at that point check out at FX3 in order that our experts may deal with the complete stable of those professional cine models. There is actually no advancement presently for the Alpha channel and also the mirrorless combination units. From Sony's perspective that's a various department, that's a various engineering crew. Perhaps, if this is well-known, and our experts view a considerable amount of uptake along with Sony users yearning for accessibility to Blackmagic RAW, that's a conversation we can have." What our team thinkBRAW recording is actually presently assisted through video cameras from Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Leica, Nikon, Sigma and Z Web Cam. The BRAW style is excellent for preserving the full powerful range of your cam as well as gives you far more flexibility in post-production. So it's an invited development to observe the modern technology sustaining Sony electronic cameras as well. Moreover, Blackmagic has created the BRAW file layout available, cross-platform and also free. The codec is actually assisted by means of the totally free SDK on Mac computer OS, Microsoft window and Linux units without covert licenses or even ongoing fees. BRAW audio on the Sony FX6 and FX9 makes sure to be a preferred add-on. Owners of the FX3 and also Alpha electronic cameras will certainly hope that they acquire accessibility to BRAW very soon too.Pricing and also availabilityBlackmagic Style merely showed the BRAW audio along with the Sony FX6 as well as FX9 as a technical demo at IBC 2024. Nevertheless, Heffernan pointed out that the business really hoped that the modern technology would certainly be actually discharged as a free improve for the Video recording Help in Q4 of the year.