HISTORY OF BLACK MAGIC CAMERAS

The company was founded in 1984 by Grant Petty. On November 2002, the company introduced DeckLink, a QuickTime-based PCI capture card that was the first to offer uncompressed 10 bit video.[2] Version 2.4 for the device was available in February 4, 2003, and added full compatibility for 8 and 10 bit uncompressed Digital Voodoo format and color correction.[3] On February 18, the successor to the DeckLink, DeckLink 2, was released.[4] Microsoft Windows support was added on March.[5] In April, two variants of the DeckLink, the SP and Pro, were announced.[6][7] Full support for Adobe Premiere Pro and Microsoft DirectShow was released in March 2, 2004 and the Extreme model was announced on March 19.[8] The DeckLink HD Plus,Workgroup Videohub and DeckLink Multibridge were jointly announced on September.[9][10][11] In April 2005, the company announced the Multibridge family of PCIe bi-directional converters and the FrameLink family of DPX-based software.[12][13] The PCIe variant of the DeckLink Extreme was then announced in September.[14] In January 2006, a software update gave full compatibility with the Adobe Creative Suite, then Adobe Production Studio.[15] In April, the Multibridge Pro and DeckLink HD Extreme were announced,[16][17] as well as production software for television entitled Blackmagic On-Air.[18] In 2009, the company acquired the assets of Da Vinci Systems, a former company that had won Emmy Awards for film colouring and restoration equipment. In July 2010, the company acquired Echolab, a manufacturer of vision mixers. In 2011, the company acquired Teranex, a developer of video processing products. At the NAB Show in April 2012, Blackmagic announced the Cinema Camera, featuring interchangeable EF mount lenses. Due to popular demand, they also announced at IBC, in September, a passive Micro Four Thirds mount to the Cinema Cameras. At IBC 2014 Blackmagic Design announced a production friendly PL-Mount version of the Camera. In July, Blackmagic acquired Cintel, a manufacturer of professional post-production equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats. Again at NAB in April 2013, the Production Camera 4K, the first of their cameras to support 4K, was announced. Alongside the Production Camera 4K, the company also announced the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a highly compact camera which records to SD cards in digital Super-16 1080p RAW or ProRes, has 13 stops of dynamic range, and is compatible with active MFT mount lenses. At NAB in April 2014, the company announced the URSA camera. In February 2014, the company announced and released the Intensity Pro 4K PCIe card.[19] On April 2015, the company announced the Micro Cinema Camera, a miniature version of the Cinema Camera which allows it to be mountable on drones, releasing the product in July,[20] and the URSA Mini.[21] In September, the company announced the acquisition of eyeon Software, the original authors of Blackmagic Fusion, previously eyeon Fusion. On September 2016, Fairlight announced that Blackmagic had acquired them.[22] On November, the company was reported to open a production facility at Batam in December.