In the run-up to NAB 2026, Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty delivered a jam packed online presentation running over two hours in which he gave new product updates and laid out their future technology roadmap. The many products that he covered ranged from DaVinci Resolve 21, new Fairlight Audio features, and lots of SMPTE 2110 video enabling hardware including switchers, recorders, encoders, storage, and standards converters. The Camera technology that he discussed mostly included updates that will help facilitate the use of Blackmagic cameras for a wide range of live production scenarios. These include using the URSA Cine 12K LF for highspeed and offering a live solution with the URSA Cine Immersive 100G, which is quite a feat when dealing with images running 8K x 8K per eye.

Here are some highlights:

DaVinci Resolve 21 (DaVinci Resolve 21 public beta is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design website)
– Adding a new Photo page, which enables colorists and photographers to use Resolve’s advanced color tools for still photos.
– New AI tools such as IntelliSearch for fast content searching, CineFocus for focal point adjustment, tools for facial refinement, and lots more.

Fairlight Live (Fairlight Live public beta is available immediately from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge)
– A new software-based live audio mixer with spatial audio mixing and SMPTE-2110 broadcast workflows.

Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive 100G
– The world’s first immersive cinema camera designed for live production with Apple Immersive Video. Featuring dual 8Kx8K RGBW sensors with 16 stops of dynamic range, URSA Cine Immersive 100G uses 100G Ethernet to deliver the bandwidth needed to output live immersive video for the first time.

Blackmagic Media Dock Ultra
– A new high performance dock for Blackmagic Media Modules with two fully independent 100G Ethernet ports. It also features SDI and HDMI status monitoring and Blackmagic Cloud sync that lets customers use Blackmagic Media Modules as extremely high performance removable storage.

Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF 100G
– A new model in the URSA Cine family with 100G Ethernet for high frame rate SMPTE-2110 live production output up to 440fps.

Blackmagic Cloud Store Ultra
– Extremely high performance flash storage with up to 48TB capacity and two independent 100G Ethernet connections that allow recording and editing simultaneously without either workflow interfering with the other. Available in 24TB and 48TB models, it also features RAID 5 support, dual redundant power supplies and Blackmagic Cloud sync.

Additionally announced: Blackmagic SDI Expander 8x12G, Blackmagic StudioBridge 10G PWR, Blackmagic UpDownCross 100G, and Blackmagic Ethernet Switch 820.

For lots more details and to view the presentation visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com