Four Products in One — Your New Digital Assistant
The Blackmagic Design Video Assist is an affordable 4-in-1 monitoring solution that will transform your shooting style and workflow with professional tools! Simply put, the Video Assist is a mountable 5-inch LCD touchscreen that adds comfort and control to your rig. With a larger display than the average camera monitor or viewfinder, Video Assist reduces eye strain from viewfinders, letting you stay attuned to the set environment. Video Assist makes it incredibly easy to frame shots and accurately focus with a number of focus, monitoring, audio recording, and color-correction tools. Plus, Video Assist gives you touchscreen controls over focus zoom, focus peaking, histogram, and frame guides, as well as fully customizable numerous heads-up display options for tracking focus peaking, zebra, LUTs, and more. If you’re looking for a streamlined workflow, or simply want to breathe new life into an old camera, then the Video Assist 5" 3G from Sweetwater will punch up your rig in no time!
Up to 16 channels of audio
Video Assist is a comprehensive AV tool, which means pro audio was hardly an afterthought! The Video Assist 5” 3G features a professional audio recorder that’s more robust than the average camera capabilities. When working in SDI formats, you can record two, four, eight, or 16 channels of audio, and the device features one SD card slot for recording.
Broadcast-compliant scopes
With four built-in scope options, the Video Assist is a great way to make sure your footage adheres to current broadcast standards. The unit's display offers waveform, vectorscope, RGB, and histogram scope options, all of which can be overlaid on live or recorded video. Paired with the Video Assist’s high-visibility screen, these scopes are a great way to take more control over your footage without the discomfort that comes with constantly referencing detailed specs on a small camera screen. Scopes can be overlaid on an entire live picture or be viewed as a peripheral overlay situated at the top right.
3D LUTs monitor and color correction
With Video Assist, accurate monitoring is easier than ever. Video Assist works with industry standard 17- and 33-point 3D LUT files, and it has multiple built-in 3D LUTs of its own. Built-in 3D LUTs can help you touch up the color display on flat, washed out, or otherwise dull monitors, providing a better idea of how your shots will look after editing is complete. These LUTs can be used as temporary monitor fixes or burned into files when shooting in Blackmagic RAW. What’s more, 3D LUT settings can be saved and applied rapidly, which makes Video Assist an ideal tool for long-term monitor correction.
Blackmagic Design Video Assist 5" 3G Features:
- 4 products in 1 — a portable monitor, recorder, scope, and viewfinder solution
- 5-inch touchscreen lets you monitor and control shoots without any viewfinder eye strain
- HDMI and SDI inputs for compatibility with pro broadcast gear and consumer cameras such as handheld mirrorless and DSLRs
- Supports formats up to 1080p60
- Recently updated L-Series batteries for longer life
- Helpful control over focus zoom, focus peaking, zebras, histogram, false color, scopes, frame markers, frame guides, and more
- Customizable heads-up display overlays for monitoring focus peaking, zebra, false color, frame guides, 3D LUTs, and more
- 4 scope options: waveform, vectorscope, RGB, and histogram
- One SD card slot for recording (format options include Apple ProRes, Avid DNx, and Blackmagic RAW on supported cameras)
- Advanced digital slate and metadata options including automatic take tallies and manual metadata entry
- 3D LUTs for monitor color correction with preset saves (and burned-in correction for Blackmagic RAW files)
- Includes power supply and travel-friendly multi-national wall adapters
- Compatible with major editing software including DaVinci, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro X
- Support for 11 languages — English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish — great for international shoots!
