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Blackmagic’s new hardware and cloud services bring easy virtual post-production in DaVinci
WORDS ADAM DUCKWORTH
T he best engineers don’t just everything easy for the typical buyer. That’s what Blackmagic Design has done with its new products, allowing easier and cheaper editing via the cloud. Something that a typical filmmaker or small production company can quickly get to grips with, rather than having to employ IT tech-heads to get things working and keep them running. Blackmagic’s new system allows multiple editors to work on the same project at the same time – anywhere on the planet. It’s based around a major build hardware and software to solve a problem effectively, but simplify complex systems to make update for DaVinci Resolve 18 and a range of network storage solutions.
This is quite a departure for Blackmagic, marking as it does the Australian firm’s clever move into storage hardware. These fresh innovations aren’t just hard drives that plug into a workstation via USB, but cloud-connected devices. In the case of the entry-level Cloud Pod, it doesn’t actually come with any storage at all. Instead, plug in a hard drive you already own, and the device will turn into a network-attached storage drive. The £366/$395 Cloud Pod lets you use any USB-C disk as network storage. This particular unit includes high-speed 10G Ethernet and Dropbox sync, plus HDMI monitoring output for a real-time view of its status. We plugged the Cloud Pod into our Mac Studio with Ethernet, to make it part of
MEGASTORE Blackmagic Cloud Store devices can hold up to a staggering 320TB of footage – perfect for super-large projects that have a hefty budget
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