.At the recent IBC 2024 trade show in Amsterdam, Blackmagic Design's huge announcement was the brand new external screen for its own PYXIS movie house electronic camera. Nevertheless, some visitors to the series were surprised to likewise observe a Sony FX9 on the Blackmagic stand. This was Blackmagic quietly uncovering that it is collaborating with Sony to deliver BRAW capturing to some Cinema Line cameras.What is BRAW?BRAW is short for Blackmagic RAW. It's a proprietary video data layout created through Blackmagic Layout. At a technological level, some individuals have actually questioned whether BRAW is actually a real RAW layout. This is considering that the video is actually partly demosaiced in-camera prior to recording. Nevertheless, you may readjust ISO, white harmony as well as more in post-production, just as with a RAW data. The BRAW files are likewise videotaped as 12-bit record layout which means they deliver a wider powerful range. On top of that, BRAW data are much smaller than some other RAW styles, so they use a lot less room on your rides as well as are actually less complicated to play back in post-production. What has been actually announced?At IBC 2024, Blackmagic Design displayed a Sony Movie house Line FX9 electronic camera hooked up to a Blackmagic Online Video Help. In an interview along with ProAV TELEVISION, Blackmagic's EMEA Technical Sales Director, Craig Heffernan, detailed what the company is actually dealing with. Heffernan mentioned, "Our team had a little technical demo where our experts possessed an Online video Help item attached to a Sony FX9 and presenting folks to the work our company are actually doing. To ensure is providing Blackmagic RAW audio for the FX6 and the FX9 video cameras and after that opening that technology for that video camera platform." Online video AssistBlackmagic's Video Aid is actually a transportable screen and also recorder answer, identical to the Atomos Ninja variety. The Video Support features either a five-inch or seven-inch display screen. You may likewise opt for in between 3G styles that support video recording approximately 1080p60 as well as the 12G HDR versions that tape video recording approximately 2160p60. To capture in BRAW you will certainly require to make use of one of the 12G Video Clip Assists. They support taping in ProRes, DNxHR or BRAW formats to internal SDXC cards or an exterior USB SSD challenging drive.How it worksHeffernan detailed that the Sony cams outcome the 4K RAW signal directly to the Video Aid over SDI. He claimed, "Blackmagic RAW is developed to profile to the sensor, so several of the job we must do is within our components encoder that rests inside the Online video Assist. So our experts know the nature of the Sony sensing unit and afterwards we pack that into the Blackmagic RAW bundle. Anybody that is actually used Blackmagic RAW understands you acquire a sidecar of metadata which says to Resolve the electronic camera principal characteristics." What next?Although Blackmagic is originally paying attention to creating BRAW for the FX6 and also FX9, that is actually only the starting point. Heffernan claimed, "My understanding is our company are actually working to support FX6 as well as FX9 initially, our company'll after that check out at FX3 so that we may cover the total stable of those professional cine designs. There's no development currently for the Alpha network and also the mirrorless hybrid bodies. From Sony's perspective that's a various division, that's a various engineering team. Hopefully, if this is popular, and we view a considerable amount of uptake along with Sony users yearning for access to Blackmagic RAW, that is actually a conversation our team might possess." What our experts thinkBRAW recording is actually sustained through electronic cameras from Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Leica, Nikon, Sigma as well as Z Web Cam. The BRAW layout is actually great for keeping the full compelling variety of your video camera and also provides you a lot more flexibility in post-production. So it's an invited development to view the technology sustaining Sony video cameras also. On top of that, Blackmagic has actually helped make the BRAW documents format available, cross-platform as well as free of cost. The codec is supported via the complimentary SDK on Macintosh OS, Windows and also Linux bodies without covert licenses or on-going costs. BRAW recording on the Sony FX6 as well as FX9 ensures to be a well-known enhancement. Owners of the FX3 and also Alpha cameras will wish that they acquire accessibility to BRAW quickly too.Pricing and also availabilityBlackmagic Design just showed the BRAW recording along with the Sony FX6 and also FX9 as a technological trial at IBC 2024. Nonetheless, Heffernan claimed that the provider wished that the modern technology will be discharged as a free of charge update for the Online video Help in Q4 of the year.