Blackmagic Design has announced an end-to-end workflow for producing cinematic Apple Immersive Video for the Apple Vision Pro.
It features a new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera and updates to DaVinci Resolve that will give professional filmmakers the ability to edit Apple Immersive Video for the first time. Apple Immersive Video is a brand-new storytelling format that leverages 8K, 3D video with a 180-degree field of view, and Spatial Audio to transport viewers to the center of the action.
“Built on the new URSA Cine platform, URSA Cine Immersive features a fixed, custom, stereoscopic 3D lens system with dual 8K image sensors that can capture 16 stops of dynamic range,” says Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty. “With this innovative system, filmmakers can record remarkable moments like action-packed scenes, unique perspectives, stunning landscapes, intimate performances, and more, all with incredible fidelity, offering viewers an unparalleled sense of realism and immersion.”
Here are some of the features of the workflow:
- Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive features a fixed, custom lens system pre-installed on the body, which is designed specifically for Apple Immersive Video. The sensor delivers 8160 x 7200 resolution per eye with pixel level synchronization and an incredible 16 stops of dynamic range, so cinematographers can shoot 90fps stereoscopic 3D immersive cinema content to a single file. The custom lens system is designed specifically for URSA Cine’s large format image sensor with extremely accurate positional data that’s read and stored at time of manufacturing. This immersive lens data — which is mapped, calibrated and stored per eye — then travels through post production in the Blackmagic RAW file itself.
- Blackmagic customers will be able to edit Apple Immersive Video shot on the URSA Cine Immersive camera with DaVinci Resolve. A new immersive video viewer will let editors pan, tilt and roll clips for viewing on 2D monitors or on Apple Vision Pro for an even more immersive editing experience. Transitions rendered by Apple Vision Pro will also be able to be bypassed using FCP XML metadata, giving editors clean master files. Export presets will enable quick output into a package which can be viewed directly on Apple Vision Pro.
Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive and the new version of DaVinci Resolve that supports Apple Immersive Video for Apple Vision Pro will be released later this year.
