Blackmagic Design
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| Proprietary limited | |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder | Grant Petty |
| Headquarters | 11 Gateway Court, Port Melbourne VIC 3207, Australia |
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Number of locations
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8 offices (2016) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Grant Petty CEO |
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| Website | blackmagicdesign |
Blackmagic Design (stylized as Blackmagicdesign and often simply Blackmagic) is an Australian digital cinema company and manufacturer founded in 1984 by Grant Petty, based in Port Melbourne, Australia. It designs and manufactures digital movie cameras and develops video editing software for compositing and other effects.
It has offices in Europe, Asia and the United States.
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. 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. On February 18, the successor to the DeckLink, DeckLink 2, was released.Microsoft Windows support was added on March. In April, two variants of the DeckLink, the SP and Pro, were announced. Full support for Adobe Premiere Pro and Microsoft DirectShow was released in March 2, 2004 and the Extreme model was announced on March 19. The DeckLink HD Plus,Workgroup Videohub and DeckLink Multibridge were jointly announced on September.
In April 2005, the company announced the Multibridge family of PCIe bi-directional converters and the FrameLink family of DPX-based software. The PCIe variant of the DeckLink Extreme was then announced in September. In January 2006, a software update gave full compatibility with the Adobe Creative Suite, then Adobe Production Studio. In April, the Multibridge Pro and DeckLink HD Extreme were announced, as well as production software for television entitled Blackmagic On-Air.
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