Blackmagic ultrastudio mini recorder capture device

In the cameraвЂ™s playing the footage back, to be viewed, for example, on its own LCD screen, the footage gets uncompressed - the 1s and 0s that got packed together in the compression get let out of their cage so that they can form images, with only some 1s and 0s having been permanently lost when the compression happened, but with the loss of those 1s and 0s being hardly noticeable since compression algorithms are so exotic that they achieve a вЂњlosslessвЂќ compression. In the second option, the footage got compressed upon the cameraвЂ™s recording it, since a memory card has nowhere near the storage space necessary to store without compressing. A capture and playback device does such in two ways: one - by capturing a live feed from a camera, as the camera is doing the filming, in which case footage is captured directly from the cameraвЂ™s sensor, bypassing any compression of the footage and transferring pure, uncompressed footage or two - by capturing from a cameraвЂ™s playing back of the footage it already recorded (stored).

The point of capturing, as opposed to just unloading the cameraвЂ™s memory card into a computer, is to transfer the highest quality footage possible. Where a capture and playback device, such as the UltraStudio 3D or the Intensity Extreme, captures video from a camera, transfers it to a computer, and additionally lets you output the video to a display other than that of your computerвЂ™s, UltraStudio Mini Recorder only performs the first of these functions. It is the вЂњcaptureвЂќ aspect of any Blackmagic capture and playback device (and of any capture and playback device in general).

The Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Recorder Capture Device is a very interesting and a highly useful device that Blackmagic has put out there.

Blackmagic ultrastudio mini recorder capture device