Blackmagic makes yet another nice acquisition

[Rob Mackintosh]

[David Roth Weiss] “I’m guessing that great up/down and standards conversions may be in the future of Blackmagic I/O devices and cards.”

I agree with that. I also wonder how long it will be before we see a DaVinci hardware accelerator.

Or does the pace of GPU development make that unnecessary?

Could they create a system to rival Quantel?

I guess they already have one with the Linux version of Resolve ( and it’s support for 16 GPUs).

[Walter Soyka]

Wow.

Don’t forget the EchoLab acquisition, either. They’ve acquired quite a lot of impressive technology and engineering talent in the last couple years.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Jason Jenkins]

[Walter Soyka] “They’ve acquired quite a lot of impressive technology and engineering talent in the last couple years.”

How is their tech support talent these days?

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Herb Sevush]

[Jason Jenkins] “How is their tech support talent these days?”

At their prices they don’t believe in tech support. Fortunately I’ve never had a single hardware malfunction with any of their cards and converters and this is going back at least 7 years. If you like tech support, you buy AJA.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Robert Brown]

BMD is slowly and surely becoming a behemoth. It’s good to see some video companies growing now when so many of the older ones are dead and dying.

Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro

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[Chris Harlan]

[Herb Sevush] “Fortunately I’ve never had a single hardware malfunction with any of their cards and converters and this is going back at least 7 years.”

I heartily second this. I’ve been using their cards for a similar amount of time, and have always been happy.

[Craig Seeman]

I wonder when they buy Avid?

[Herb Sevush]

[Craig Seeman] “I wonder when they buy Avid?”

After the chapter 11 reorganization.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Christian Schumacher]

If they do buy Avid, wouldn’t they kill support for AJA, MOTU, MATROX, BLUEFISH?

That would suck big time…

[Herb Sevush]

Relax, where just being hypothetical.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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