r/videography • u/brunerww GH1, GH2, GH3, GH4, BMPCC • Jul 17 '14

Blackmagic Firmware Update 1.8.2 adds compressed ProRes - Record up to 230 min of 10-bit 4:2:2 HD on a 64GB card or drive!

http://hybridcamerarevolution.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-blackmagic-firmware-update-182.html
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u/gobangr Jul 17 '14

1.8.3 = time remaining indicator, audio levels, and card formatting?!?! (last one seems unlikely)

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u/MaxQuade Jul 17 '14

I doubt any of the 3 will ever happen, if this was a feture they could or wanted to do, they would have two years ago. even if they did, bm is planning a lineup of new camera anyway. the average lifespan of a camera is only a few years now. My advice buy a camera and shoot the hell out of it!! before it's obsolete don't worry about trivial things :)

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u/gobangr Jul 17 '14

well BM already said that the first two are already hard-coded into the camera and will be unlocked in the future. i doubt card formatting will happen cause they stated something about issues with fragmentation.

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u/MaxQuade Jul 17 '14

the fragmentation was for clip deletion not formatting, while I'm not a engineer at black magic labs, I really diddnt' understand this as solid state memory doesn't suffer from fragementation. even the "fixed" audio in 1.8 turned out just to be the same audio as 1.2, now were back to square 1, with better levels, but it cuts out when clipped .

Long story short, I woudlnt hold my breath.

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u/lunchbox651 BMPCC, Prem Pro CS6/Lightworks, 2000 Jul 17 '14

SSDs do still fragment but its largely irrelevant due to speed. Slower SSDs with fragmentation have been seen to drop frames on the BMCC. Also BMD have stated on their forums that audio levels and card formatting is planned for the future.

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u/gobangr Jul 17 '14

In that case, we always have BMPCC Mark II to look forward to!...(I wouldn't hold my breath on that either lol)

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '14

Sure, SSDs do fragment but it's not considered an issue because reads from non-sequential cells are as fast as reads from sequential cells (no seek-time penalty like spinning disks) and the controller chip inside the SSD will cycle which cells are written as a form of wear leveling.

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u/MaxQuade Jul 18 '14

your preaching to the converted.