It’s nice having all of the key controls ready when you need them instead of digging into a menu to find them. This is no different than the URSA Mini Pro G2 that came before it. From audio control to ISO, Shutter speed and white balance. The camera has all of the controls you want right at your fingertips. It’s not too awkward when adorned with the optional shoulder kit and EVF, but it gets the job done. That is nothing compared to the original URSA at a whopping 16lbs, but it’s heavier than most. It is, however, slightly heavier at 5.62lbs. The body of the URSA Mini Pro 12K is no larger in dimensions than the URSA Mini Pro 4.6k G2 or the one before that. Blackmagic has a list of supported media for the camera. Because media proves costly when shooting at high data rates - like what’s possible with the URSA Mini Pro 12K - make sure you have the right media.

Additionally, not all media captures high bit-rate and or framerate. This - by the way - is the most cost-effective and best-performing option at $400. The Mini Recorder lets you use 2.5″ SSD cards. Also, the Mini Recorder connects via USB. When it comes to SSD, it works with an external USB drive or the Blackmagic URSA Mini Recorder. The camera also shoots to SD, CFast 2.0 or to SSD. This would also give a working proxy for those that need to edit dailies without adding the time to grade. As nice as it is to have all the data when you have the time to grade the footage, it’s not always needed.

We wanted to see a lower bit-depth option in the form of ProRes or H.264. With the release of Davinci Resolve 17 and Blackmagic RAW viewer, we opened and manipulated the footage in Premiere as well. However, because of this, the files are 12K in 12-bit RAW. Blackmagic RAWĪ drawback to the innovation from this camera is it only captures in Blackmagic BRAW for all resolutions and framerates. That’s enough to give you a medium-wide shot, medium shot and close up all in one. 12K is 4 times larger than 4K, which means you can do a 4x punch-in when finishing in 4K. When you downscale the image, it looks even sharper, any noise minimizes. Even if you don’t need all of the resolutions, it functions in many different ways. Without a crop to the super 35 sensor, it captures up to 120fps in 8K and 60fps in 12K. It shoots up to 240 frames per second (fps) in 4K, but has an additional crop to super 16. The URSA Mini Pro 12K features internal captured 12-bit RAW with a bit rate up to 578 MB/s.

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