fbpx

DIY Photography

Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time

Search

Submit A Story

DaVinci Resolve 18.1 finally brings vertical and square video support for TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms

by Leave a Comment

Blackmagic Design has announced the new DaVinci Resolve 18.1 update which finally brings native vertical video editing features to the software. It also adds the Neural Engine-enabled AI dialogue leveller and AI voice isolation tools to the cut, edit and Fairlight pages to help make your voice stand out more easily from the background noise. Fairlight grid support has also been added to help you more easily edit to the beat.

DaVinci Resolve 18.1 also comes with improved support for the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro ISO. It’s now easier to import projects created using the ATEM Mini ISO and edit them in DaVinci Resolve and audio is attached to the video clips properly.

[Read More…]

Blackmagic significantly drops the price of its Atem Mini, Mini Pro and Mini Pro ISO live stream switchers

Blackmagic has just made a pretty significant price drop across most of its popular Blackmagic Atem Mini product line video switchers. The 8-input Atem Mini Extreme series remain at their original prices, but the 4-input Atem Mini, Atem Mini Pro and Atem Mini Pro ISO, however, have had very large chunks knocked off each of their prices.

The base model Atem Mini has dropped from $295 to $195, the Atem Mini Pro sees a $200 drop going from $495 to $295 and the Atem Mini Pro ISO, which will allows you to record all four video signals, as well as the final mix, has seen the largest drop, going from $795 down to $495.

[Read More…]

Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 18 comes out of beta and has now officially launched

by Leave a Comment

Blackmagic Design launched the beta of DaVinci Resolve in April with a whole host of new and cool features. Now, the company has announced that it’s no longer in beta and has hit that finally stable version that makes it the latest official release. Amongst the standout features are full integration with the new Blackmagic Cloud, an improved proxy generator and built-in gyro stabilisation for footage shot with Pocket Cinema Cameras.

Besides these, there are a lot of great new additions, some modifications and the usual array of fixes – and you can see the complete list below – but every section of the application from media and editing, through colour, FX, Fairlight and Fusion to delivery sees an update with new tools to help speed up your workflow and increase your capabilities.

[Read More…]

Blackmagic Design adds native cloud collaboration and a ton of new features to DaVinci Resolve 18

by Leave a Comment

Blackmagic Design had one of their live presentation events yesterday. And as usually happens during such events from Blackmagic, the announcements were pretty interesting. Dubbed the “DaVinci Resolve Cloud Update”, Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty talks about a lot more than just DaVinci Resolve, including a few new hardware products. But the main event is the announcement of DaVinci Resolve 18 Public Beta and its new cloud collaboration features.

Along with Blackmagic Cloud support, DaVinci Resolve 18 sees new features for the Color, Edit, Fusion and Fairlight tabs, to add some crazy new AI features, tracking for deforming surfaces, new video effects, automatic proxy generation, major Fusion performance improvements and better audio processing. The DaVinci Resolve 18 public beta is available to download in both free and paid Studio flavours.

[Read More…]

Holiday Gift Guide – Best Photography and Filmmaking Accessories of 2021

by Leave a Comment

The season of giving is upon us – which becomes immediately obvious whenever you walk into a store and you’re overwhelmed by Whamageddon. If you want to avoid the Christmas music and prefer to do your shopping online, then have no fear, DIYP’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guides are here to rescue you with some of our favourite new releases of the year, as well as a few old favourites that always seem to find a place in our gear bags.

In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at some of our favourite new accessories and gadgets of 2021 that help us with our photography and filmmaking, as well as a few classics that continue to prove their worth every day. Be sure to check out our previous guide going over the best of this year’s new Cameras, lenses, lighting gear and tripods, sliders & gimbals.

[Read More…]

There is now a pocket-sized controller for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

by 1 Comment

The original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was named such because it could relatively easily fit in your pocket. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (we’ll just call it the Pocket 4K from here) might be a continuation of that series, but it certainly doesn’t fit into most pockets.

There is some hope, though. No, the camera hasn’t shrunk and pockets haven’t gotten bigger, but there is now a pocket-sized controller for it. A new app from SayEffect offers complete remote control of the Pocket 4K from your Android device. And it does it by offering touchscreen menus that are almost identical to the camera itself.

[Read More…]

Recent Posts