Pro video blog…Produced by Philip Johnston DoP/Editor

For the lucky ones who have bought into Blackmagic’s 7″ Video Assist 4K we now have scopes. Blackmagic Video Assist features high speed SD card recorders for HD or Ultra HD recording in incredible 10-bit 4:2:2 quality ProRes, DNxHD and DNxHR files in Quicktime and MXF formats. Blackmagic Video Assist works with any camera that needs better quality monitoring and professional format file recording!

The 7” Blackmagic Video Assist 4K with HD and Ultra HD recording, low noise balanced analog mini XLR mic inputs, a built in speaker and more, featuring 3D LUTs, false color, focus peaking and 6G-SDI and HDMI connections so you can add professional monitoring and recording to any camera!

When you update your Video Assist 4K to FW version 2.5 all you need to do is touch the Histogram and that will enable the new Scope features as shown above.

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Having been working in the video business since 1988 I have amassed a great amount of knowledge of both the kit and production values over the last 30 years.

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