By
Blackmagic Industrial Design Team
Blackmagic Design
Description
UltraStudio Pro is the world's first television broadcast editing solution to use SuperSpeed USB 3.0 for connecting to Video editing workstations. This broadcast quality, video and audio capture and playback system is used in a range of video editing environments including post production facilities, outside broadcast trucks, broadcast studios and Hollywood film houses. UltraStudio Pro includes 24 independent connections for working simultaneously with a range of Video products including broadcast cameras, color grading monitors, tape decks and video routing systems. The front facia is a dedicated precision VU audio metering display, as required in mission critical broadcast environments.
Key Features
and/or Benefits
To date, products developed for the professional video industry have been cumbersome grey metal boxes confined to 19' rack architecture. UltraStudio Pro is a completely new configuration which allows the product to sit on the user's desktop. To facilitate this new format UltraStudio Pro brings a number of key innovation's to the professional Video Industry.
UltraStudio Pro's components are assembled around a thin, 100% recyclable, Aluminium bracket which also forms the stand and base of the product. The geometry of the bracket provides significant strength and stability to support a large number of heavy cables whilst keeping weight and material usage to a minimum.
It's unique vertical format hides unsightly cables and provides a large fascia to display precision audio level meters for accurate audio level calibration. A custom designed light diffuser sits behind the fascia to provide smooth and even distribution of light.
Years of R&D; and tight collaboration between Blackmagic's in house Electronic, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design team's has delivered one of the word smallest and thinnest uncompressed video editing devices. To reduce it's footprint a
Previously the only way to achieve full resolution, uncompressed video editing on a personal computer was by plugging peripheral's directly into the motherboard via the PCI express slot. To get around this, UltraStudio Pro utilises Superspeed USB 3.0, which runs at 10x the speed of USB 2.0 and allows for real time editing of full resolution, uncompressed video, on any compatible computer or even a laptop.
UltraStudio Pro represents a significant innovation within the professional video industry and has been recognised with a number of international industry awards including a 'Broadcast Engineering Award', 'TVB Europe Editors Choice Award' and a 'TV Technology Award'.
