.At the current IBC 2024 trade show in Amsterdam, Blackmagic Design's big announcement was the brand-new exterior display for its PYXIS cinema cam. Nonetheless, some site visitors to the series were actually amazed to additionally find a Sony FX9 on the Blackmagic stand. This was actually Blackmagic gently showing that it is collaborating with Sony to bring BRAW taping to some Movie house Line cameras.What is actually BRAW?BRAW needs for Blackmagic RAW. It is actually a proprietary video file format established by Blackmagic Design. At a technological amount, some folks have questioned whether BRAW is actually an accurate RAW style. This is due to the fact that the online video is partly demosaiced in-camera just before tape-recording. Having said that, you can easily adjust ISO, white colored harmony as well as additional in post-production, equally with a RAW documents. The BRAW documents are additionally tape-recorded as 12-bit log layout which implies they provide a greater dynamic assortment. Additionally, BRAW data are actually much smaller than some other RAW layouts, so they utilize a lot less room on your rides as well as are much easier to repeat in post-production. What has been actually announced?At IBC 2024, Blackmagic Concept demonstrated a Sony Movie theater Line FX9 electronic camera linked to a Blackmagic Video Support. In an interview along with ProAV TELEVISION, Blackmagic's EMEA Technical Purchases Director, Craig Heffernan, discussed what the company is actually servicing. Heffernan said, "Our team had a small specialized demo where our team possessed a Video clip Assist item affixed to a Sony FX9 and also introducing people to the job we're doing. So that is actually supplying Blackmagic RAW audio for the FX6 and also the FX9 cams and after that unlocking that innovation for that cam platform." Video clip AssistBlackmagic's Video Help is a portable monitor and also recorder solution, identical to the Atomos Ninja variation. The Online video Assist comes with either a five-inch or seven-inch screen. You may also select between 3G designs that assist online video around 1080p60 as well as the 12G HDR versions that tape-record video clip up to 2160p60. To tape-record in BRAW you will certainly need to have to utilize one of the 12G Online Video Assists. They sustain tape-recording in ProRes, DNxHR or BRAW layouts to inner SDXC memory cards or even an exterior USB SSD challenging drive.How it worksHeffernan described that the Sony electronic cameras output the 4K RAW signal directly to the Video Support over SDI. He pointed out, "Blackmagic RAW is actually created to profile to the sensing unit, so some of the work we need to perform is actually within our equipment encoder that sits inside the Video clip Assist. So our experts understand the attributes of the Sony sensing unit and after that our experts bundle that into the Blackmagic RAW bundle. Anybody that's made use of Blackmagic RAW recognizes you get a sidecar of metadata which informs Resolve the electronic camera leader attributes." What next?Although Blackmagic is initially paying attention to establishing BRAW for the FX6 and FX9, that is actually only the starting point. Heffernan claimed, "My understanding is we are actually operating to support FX6 and FX9 initially, our team'll after that have a look at FX3 to ensure our experts can cover the complete range of those pro cine designs. There's no development presently for the Alpha stations and the mirrorless hybrid bodies. Coming from Sony's point of view that is actually a various department, that's a different engineering group. Ideally, if this is actually popular, and our experts view a considerable amount of uptake with Sony individuals really wanting accessibility to Blackmagic RAW, that's a talk our experts might have." What our company thinkBRAW audio is currently supported by cams from Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Leica, Nikon, Sigma and Z Webcam. The BRAW layout is terrific for keeping the total vibrant range of your cam as well as provides you far more versatility in post-production. So it's an invited development to find the technology sustaining Sony video cameras at the same time. Additionally, Blackmagic has made the BRAW file style open, cross-platform and also cost-free. The codec is assisted by means of the cost-free SDK on Mac computer OS, Windows and Linux units with no covert licenses or recurring fees. BRAW audio on the Sony FX6 as well as FX9 makes sure to become a well-known addition. Owners of the FX3 and also Alpha cameras will wish that they get accessibility to BRAW quickly too.Pricing and also availabilityBlackmagic Design just showed the BRAW recording with the Sony FX6 and FX9 as a technological trial at IBC 2024. Having said that, Heffernan claimed that the company wished that the innovation will be discharged as a free of charge improve for the Video Assist in Q4 of this particular year.