Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR Monitor

Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G SDI/HDMI HDR Recording Monitor

The new Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR adds professional monitoring and recording to any SDI or HDMI camera in all HD, Ultra HD, 2K, and 4K DCI formats. The whole new design includes innovations such as brighter screens for HDR work, a tally indicator, 4 built-in scopes, enhanced focus assist features, 3D LUTs, and native Blackmagic RAW recording from supported cameras. With 12G-SDI and HDMI 2.0 on both 5″ and 7″ models, you get support for recording from virtually any device in all formats up to 2160p60.

The brighter touch screen ensures a perfect view of your recording for HDR digital film and when shooting outdoors in sunlight. The new design also features upgraded batteries and supports two standard Sony L Series batteries. This means Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G is incredibly versatile and is the perfect solution for the next generation of digital cinema shoots, live production mastering and, broadcast testing and measurement.

Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR Perfect for Digital Cinema, Live Recording and Monitoring

With its amazing versatility, Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR is also great for recording from cameras, or even as a clip player. As the files are compatible with the HyperDeck disk recorders, you can even use Video Assist as a broadcast field recorder, or an ultra-portable broadcast scope. Video Assist is a fantastic broadcast solution because you get both HDMI and 12G-SDI inputs plus it has built-in scopes and 3D LUTs. The scopes also help you QA masters to ensure compliance with broadcast standards before streaming and broadcasting.

Modern Design with 12G SDI and Bright HDR Screens

There are two models of Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G, with each model including an innovative touchscreen user interface with deck controls as well as a large screen to view your recording. The Blackmagic Video Assist 7″ 12G model also includes 2 media slots, while both the 5″ and 7″ models include 12G SDI for high frame rate Ultra HD, analog inputs for audio, USB?C external disk recording, plus a front panel speaker and side-mounted headphone jack. You also get 2 rear battery slots for mounting Sony L Series batteries, so you have enough power for the brighter HDR screens and higher-speed Ultra HD electronics. Plus with 2 battery slots, you can change batteries without interrupting recording. A 12v universal power supply is included for studio or on-location use.

Transform Camera Usability with Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR

Traditional cameras are designed for shoulder-mounted operation, so are a compromise. Hours spent leaning into a viewfinder for long tripod-mounted shoots can be tough. Video Assist will transform your shooting style with an on-board rigged screen. It’s much more comfortable using a screen rigged to a position best suited for a shooting setup. Plus you get better situational awareness for the operator, assistant, or director. With both 5″ and 7″ models, you choose the size of a rigged monitor that suits you best. Plus you’re also adding fantastic features such as focus zoom, focus peaking, zebras, histogram, false color, scopes, frame markers, frame guides, touchscreen, and more.

Customize your Touchscreen Tools and Features

With large and bright 5″ and 7″ touchscreens, Video Assist makes it incredibly easy to frame shots and accurately focus. The touchscreen displays critical information while you’re shooting including the timecode, transport control, audio meters, and a histogram for exposure. You can also customize the LCD to add or remove overlays such as current filename, focus peaking, zebra, false color, frame guides, 3D LUTs, and more. 3D LUT support allows monitoring shots with the desired color and look, plus you can even “bake in” the LUT if you want to record it into the file. If you’re using Blackmagic RAW, the 3D LUT is only added to the metadata so it can be disabled in post-production.

Dual Media Recorders for Uninterrupted Recording

Video Assist uses commonly available SD card media, so you can record to flash memory cards that are easy to obtain. The files are small enough to allow long recordings on standard SD cards or the faster UHS-II cards.

Upgrade to Better Recording for Digital Cameras

Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR is an ideal upgrade for cameras, as its bright display is bigger than the tiny displays found on consumer cameras, you’re also adding professional focus assist features and better quality file formats. Video Assist is also a great solution for professional cameras because you can use it to upgrade older broadcast cameras to modern file formats used on the latest editing software. You get support for all editing software as you can record in Apple ProRes and Avid DNx. You can even use Blackmagic RAW on supported cameras. With both HDMI and SDI inputs, you can connect it to any consumer camera, broadcast camera, or even DSLR camera.

Large HDR Monitor with Easy Touch Controls

The innovative touchscreen LCD user interface provides incredible control. On-screen, there are dedicated buttons for play, stop, and record, plus a mini timeline for scrolling through your recordings. You can even image swipe to jog. The LCD includes a heads-up display of timecode, video standard, media status as well as audio meters. Scopes can be enabled via the touchscreen as well as focus and exposure assist. There’s also an extensive range of settings all controlled from the large LCD. Plus you can load and save 3D LUTs.

Advanced HDR Models Include 12G?SDI and HDMI 2.0

Video Assist features a wide range of video and audio connections such as multi-rate SDI for SD, HD on all models, and Ultra HD on the 12G-SDI models. HDMI is included for HDMI cameras and monitoring to consumer televisions and video projectors. The 7″ model features Mini XLR inputs which are provided for audio input from microphones and external audio mixers. The USB-C connection lets you plug in external flash disks or SSDs for recording, which means you can get extremely long record durations because flash disks are often much larger than the physically smaller SD Cards. Video Assist even includes a 12V DC power connection and the 12G models include a locking power connector.

Post Production Friendly File Formats

Video Assist records using standard open file formats so you don?t have to waste time transcoding media. Files are compatible with all post-production software so you can work with the software of your choice, including DaVinci Resolve Studio. Recording works in industry-standard 10-bit ProRes or DNx files in all formats and from all HDMI or SDI cameras, as well as 12-bit Blackmagic RAW on the 12G-SDI HDR models when connected to supported cameras. Blackmagic RAW is the fastest-growing RAW format and developers can download and use the free Blackmagic RAW SDK to add support to their applications. Best of all media files work on all operating systems.

Video Assist 12G HDR Models Include Blackmagic RAW Recording

Blackmagic RAW is a revolutionary format designed to capture the quality of sensor data from cameras. Video Assist supports Blackmagic RAW recording from Leica, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Nikon, Canon, and Sigma cameras. Popular camera formats such as H.264 are highly compressed resulting in noise and processing artifacts. Blackmagic RAW eliminates these problems so you get incredible detail and color throughout the production pipeline from camera to edit, color, and mastering. It also saves camera settings in metadata so you can set ISO, white balance, and exposure, then override them later while editing. Only Blackmagic RAW gives you the highest quality, smallest files, and fastest performance.

Record Direct to External USB?C Media Disks

The Blackmagic Video Assist 12G models even include a USB-C expansion port so you can plug in an external flash disk for recording. USB?C flash disks have massive capacity as they don’t suffer from any size constraint. Plus, it’s possible to record to the same disk you are using or editing, so you don’t need to waste time copying files before starting post-production. Flash disks are so fast, they can record high data rate formats such as high frame rate Ultra HD. Imagine adding a Blackmagic MultiDock 10G for easy SSD compatibility so you can record across multiple disks as each disk fills. You even get on-screen menus for managing external disks using the touch screen.

Outputs to USB Webcam for Live Streaming

Now you can live stream using both Blackmagic Video Assist 3G and 12G HDR models with new webcam support added to the USB connection. That means you can plug into a computer and get live video into any video software. The software is tricked into thinking video assist is a common webcam. Plus you get full HD resolution 1080p quality. Choose any software you like, such as Open Broadcaster for live broadcast streaming, or you can Skype call your client with live video of your shoot. Blackmagic Video Assist works with all major software and platforms such as Open Broadcaster, XSplit Broadcaster, YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Skype, Zoom, Twitch, Periscope, Livestream, Wirecast, and more.

Built In Scopes Ensure Compliance to Standards

Blackmagic Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR features scopes for accurate exposure on cameras and compliance with broadcast standards. That means it?s also a great portable waveform monitoring solution. The waveform display provides a traditional luminance (brightness) level view of the video inputs or the playback signal. The vectorscope allows you to see the intensity of color at 100% SDI reference levels. You also get an RGB parade display which is ideal for color correction. The histogram shows the distribution of white to black detail in your images and highlights or shadows clipping. The built-in scopes can even be overlaid on live video or as a small picture-in-picture view at the top right of the scope.

Video Assist 5″ 12G HDR Models Include Bright Gamut Screens

On the Video Assist 12G models you’ll be ready for the latest HDR workflows as they support the latest HDR standards and include an extremely bright screen with a wide color gamut. Plus the high brightness screen makes shooting outdoors in sunlight easy. The built-in scopes even support HDR when required. Files are tagged with the correct HDR information which means SDI and HDMI inputs will also automatically detect HDR video standards. Static metadata PQ and HLG formats are handled according to the ST2084 standard. The bright LCD has a wider color gamut so it can handle both Rec. 2020 and Rec. 709 colorspaces. The Video Assist LCD color gamut can even handle 100% of the DCI?P3 format.

Load Custom 3D LUTs to Recreate Film Looks

Some cameras can output logarithmic colorspace to preserve the dynamic range, which is great for later post-production, however, when these files are viewed on a monitor they can look flat and washed out. 3D LUTs solve this problem because they allow you to apply a “look” to the monitor so you get an idea of how the finished images will look when editing. LUTs can be applied temporarily for monitoring only, or they can be burned into files for use in editing when capturing Blackmagic RAW. Video Assist works with industry-standard 17 and 33-point 3D LUT files, or you can work with built-in LUTs such as Extended Video, Film to Video, and more.

Direct Metadata Entry for Faster Editing

The advanced digital slate and metadata features make it extremely fast to add metadata to any shot. Simply swipe left or right from the edge of the screen to bring up the digital slate. You can even select for take numbers to be automatically incremented when you start and stop recording, so you don’t have to enter them manually for each shot. You can also set reel numbers to increment each time you format a card. All metadata is saved with the files and available in post-production with software such as DaVinci Resolve.

Latest Multi Rate 12G SDI for SD, HD, and Ultra HD

You get full support for the most popular video standards. The SDI and HDMI connections are multi-rate, so all models handle SD and HD television standards plus the 12G models add extra support for Ultra HD standards. Standard definition formats include NTSC and PAL. 720p HD standards include 720p50 and 59.94p. 1080i HD interlaced formats include 1080i50 and 59.94. 1080p HD formats include 1080p23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94 and 60p. Plus you can even work in 1080 PsF formats. On the Blackmagic Video Assist 12G models you also get support for Ultra HD formats up to 2160p59.94. On these 12G models, you can even record 2K and 4K DCI rates up to 25p for digital film work.

Professional Multi-Channel SDI and Analog Audio

Blackmagic Video Assist includes a built-in professional audio recorder that’s much better quality than the audio found in most cameras, eliminating the need to carry around extra audio equipment. When working in SDI formats, you can record 2, 4, 8, or 16 channels of audio. For connecting microphones the 7″ models have 2 XLR analog audio inputs with phantom power and high definition audio sample rates of 192 kHz at 16 and 24 bit per sample. The audio meters can even be changed between VU or PPM ballistics. Blackmagic Video Assist 12G features the latest audio technology to ensure low noise floor and very low distortion so you can use it for digital cinema and broadcast work.

Localized for 11 Popular Languages

Multiple languages are fully supported so you don’t need to learn another language to use it. Support is included for English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish. At first start, Video Assist will display a menu for selecting a language, plus you can switch languages in the menus. When a language is selected, the on-screen text overlays will change to the selected language, as well as overlays on the video outputs when enabled. All this means Video Assist is perfect for doing international location work with different crews because you can just go into the menu and change the language any time you need.

Works with the World’s Most Popular Video Software

The files from Blackmagic Video Assist are common and are compatible with all operating systems or in most video software. Media can be formatted using ExFAT or HFS+ so you can easily access the media on computers and access the files like regular disks. DaVinci Resolve is perfect for using with Video Assist as it features editing, color correction, audio post-production, and visual effects all in one software application. Plus you can download DaVinci Resolve free of charge for Mac, Windows, and Linux. You can also use recorded files in other popular software such as Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. With Video Assist, your media is common so your files will remain readable in the future.

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