Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design was incorporated in 2001 and has its principal place of business in Melbourne, Australia.⁠[1]

ABC identifies Grant Petty, Douglas Clarke and Peter Barber as co-founders.⁠[2]

The company launched the DeckLink capture card, making 10-bit uncompressed video workflows more affordable on Macintosh OS X. Its founders had backgrounds in post-production, editing and engineering, and emphasized wider access to professional imaging tools.⁠[3]

Blackmagic announced the acquisition of all DaVinci Systems assets, taking over Resolve color grading and Revival film restoration and expanding their engineering teams.⁠[4]

The company acquired all EchoLab assets, bringing ATEM production switchers into its portfolio and expanding engineering staff. ATEM combined video switching, effects and multiview monitoring for multicamera live production.⁠[5]

Video-processing company Teranex Systems became a wholly owned subsidiary. Its technology supported format and frame-rate conversion, deinterlacing and noise reduction for broadcast and post-production, extending Blackmagic’s processing portfolio.⁠[6]

At NAB, the company announced the Blackmagic Cinema Camera with a 2.5K sensor, a stated 13 stops of dynamic range, SSD recording and DaVinci Resolve software. The announced price was US$2,995, with availability planned for July.⁠[7]

Following Cintel International’s liquidation, Blackmagic acquired intellectual property, branding and development rights for its film-scanning products. Independent Cine Solutions companies handled service and repairs for existing equipment.⁠[8]

Fusion developer eyeon Software became a wholly owned subsidiary. Blackmagic said development would continue, combining compositing, 3D and motion-graphics tools with Resolve’s editing and grading workflows.⁠[9]

Blackmagic announced the acquisitions of Fairlight and Ultimatte on the same day. Fairlight brought professional audio hardware and software for broadcasting, post-production and immersive mixing; Ultimatte specialized in real-time blue- and green-screen keying and compositing.⁠[10][11]

The Resolve 18 public beta added Blackmagic Cloud collaboration, allowing users in different locations to work on the same project. Proxy workflows helped teams share and edit media across varying network conditions.⁠[12]

The company released Blackmagic Camera for Android free of charge, initially supporting Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones. It offered frame-rate, shutter-angle, white-balance and ISO controls, with collaboration through Blackmagic Cloud.⁠[13]

Blackmagic announced the Fairlight Live software mixer and made a free public beta available. Designed for live audio production, it supported spatial audio, SMPTE 2110 broadcasting workflows and audio exchange with ATEM switchers.⁠[14]

Citing claim documents, ABC reported Peter Barber’s allegations that his share sale was obstructed and Five V Capital withdrew after being told Petty would not consider a transaction. These remained allegations, not findings in a substantive judgment.⁠[2]

Resolve 21.1 added connections to AI assistants including Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Codex for project analysis, organization, settings adjustments and batch rendering.⁠[15]

The Federal Court conditionally dismissed the defendants’ security-for-costs application in Barber’s shareholder suit. This procedural decision did not finally determine the oppression allegations.⁠[1]

Blackmagic’s products include professional cameras, capture and playback systems, ATEM live switchers, converters and routers, Cintel film scanners, network storage, and DaVinci Resolve and Fairlight Live software. Its sales and support network spans the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.⁠[16]

Blackmagic Design: Official website: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

X: https://x.com/Blackmagic_News (opens in a new window).⁠[17]

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