**The Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K: A Game-Changer in Professional Video Production**

As a professional video producer, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the best cameras on the market. But none have impressed me as much as the Blackmagic Design Ursa Mini 4K. In this article, we will dive into the features and capabilities of this camera and explore how it can help take your productions to the next level.

**Switching to Cinestyle: Simulating Higher Dynamic Range**

One of the first things I wanted to try with my 70-mark II was to switch to the Cinestyle picture style. This style simulates higher dynamic range, but does so through software rather than hardware. The result is a truly stunning image that rivals some of the best cameras on the market. Even in dark environments like this interior scene, the Blackmagic footage managed to bring details back from those darker areas, resulting in a beautiful, high-quality image.

**Comparing Blackmagic and Cinestyle Footage**

To demonstrate just how good the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K is, I wanted to compare its footage to some Canon equipment. I shot a green-screen scene using a Canon DSLR, but unfortunately, the lighting was not ideal, resulting in a less-than-stellar keying effect. In contrast, when I switched to the Blackmagic footage and applied the Cinestyle style, the result was nothing short of amazing. The black magic footage was much smoother, flatter, and more consistent than the Canon footage, even without any adjustments.

**Chromakeying: Where the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K Truly Shines**

One of the features that sets the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K apart from other cameras is its chroma keying capabilities. I wanted to test this out by filming a green-screen scene using a Canon DSLR, which unfortunately did not turn out well due to the dynamic range limitations and loss of color data around the edges of subjects. In contrast, when I applied the keyer to the Blackmagic footage, even without making any adjustments, the result was 10 times cleaner than the Canon footage. This is largely due to the camera's ability to capture more color data, which makes chroma keying around small details like hair a breeze.

**Low-Light Scenarios: The Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K Delivers**

Another area where the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K truly shines is in low-light scenarios. I shot some scenes using only one LED panel and was amazed by how minimal the noise was, even at ISO 800. While DaVinci Resolve has noise reduction tools, I still recommend staying away from this ISO range if possible. By shooting at the optimal ISO of 400 or 200, you can achieve richer colors and less overexposure, resulting in a truly professional-grade image.

**Global Shutter: A Game-Changer for Smooth Motion**

One of the features that sets the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K apart from other cameras is its global shutter. This feature eliminates the rolling shutter effect that can cause jello-like motion with quick pans or fast movement. I tested this out by filming a scene using a Canon DSLR, which resulted in a noticeable jello effect. In contrast, when I shot the same scene using the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K, the result was smooth and seamless, even with flashes.

**Conclusion: The Best Camera for Professional Video Production**

Overall, I am blown away by the Blackmagic Design Ursa Mini 4K. Its global shutter feature is a game-changer for smooth motion, while its chroma keying capabilities are unmatched. Add to this its internal raw reporting, built-in XLRs, and beautiful build quality, and you have a camera that is truly setting the stage for great future productions.

**Additional Resources**

For those who want to learn more about the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4K, I recommend checking out the additional resources listed in the description. These include image quality comparisons and much higher-quality footage than what can be shown on YouTube due to compression.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engreetings Internet ken from the computer clan here and today I'm gonna talk about why I ditched Canada I know after years of using them for video I finally ditched them but why well first I just want to say I do not hate Canon of course I mean I still like the brand and heck my current DSLR my 70 mark - I still use it for photography I just don't use it for video anymore yes it's a slightly older model and it's lacking some basic features that I need but it also seems like even newer dslr's from Canon seem to lack features that I would like I know there's other brands of dslr's out there like the gh 5 that looks pretty good but I kind of just wanted to ditch the DSLR form factor as a whole and I'm replacing that new void with a Blackmagic Ursa mini let's take a look at the black magic and the 5d Mark 3 pitted against each other we'll start off with this 70 millimetres shot using the Canon EOS 5d Mark 3 notice the quality of the picture isn't that bad but there actually is a lot of detail being lost and this will become more evident once we compare it to the Blackmagic footage right now notice how there's a lot more latitude with our exposure the blacks aren't too black and the whites aren't too white there's no overexposure or underexposure occurring and overall the picture is a lot sharper another thing you might notice is that the Blackmagic footage looks more crapped this is due to the super 35 sensor while it's still great it won't capture as wide of a shot as a full-frame sensor like I'm the 5d now let's take a look at the same Blackmagic footage again but this time color graded note that we're able to have a lot of fun with the color and push and pull highlights and shadows and other aspects without being destructive the detail isn't lost but speaking of detail I think one of my favorite features or aspects is how much detail the sensor can pick up when it comes to sharpness overall the picture is a lot sharper and there's a lot less fringing going around small details if we blow up the image you'll notice there's a lot more fringing in the DSLR captured frames as opposed to the Blackmagic frames let's take a look at another example note that when we're filming the sky in the trees there's a lot of crushed blacks and we're losing a lot of detail and when we compensate by trying to adjust the exposure the overall image now looks too hot we are over exposing but as we switch to the Blackmagic footage will notice again those 12 stops of dynamic range really kick in there's no clipping there's no crushed blacks under exposure over exposure the image is perfectly exposed and the details are nice and sharp and work gets more fun as with the color grading again with those 12 stops of dynamic range we have a lot of flexibility in post plus we're shooting with 10-bit color and Perez 4 to 2 so there's lots of color data there for us to mess with without being destructive let's take a look at the fringing again notice the fringing on the DSLR footage we're getting a lot of black splotchiness and we're losing a lot of fine details this results in the image being rather soft with the black magic however we have those details preserved and that helps with the sharpness of the picture leading to a great high quality image just for fun I wanted to take my 70 mark 2 and switch to the cinestyle picture style which kind of simulates higher dynamic range but it does this through software so with that look applied I just wanted to compare that to the Blackmagic and I think the difference is quite clear here's some more comparisons of how we can have fun and be creative with the color grading of Blackmagic footage even in different types of lighting environments note that even in dark environments like this interior were able to bring details back from those darker areas and personally I thought a great way to detail the sharpness that this camera can pick up is by filming animals note that the fur detail is really fine really crisp and all of that beautiful sharpness is preserved to really give you a sense of the texture alright now let's talk about something where the Blackmagic really shines chromakeying so here are some Canon footage of a green-screen it wasn't a properly lit green-screen it was actually a white psych wall that was lit with green lighting so it wasn't the most controlled experiment but it still will get her point across and when we switch to the Blackmagic footage we'll notice the green actually is much more smooth flat and consistent thanks to the dynamic range let's throw the keyer with the default settings onto the Canon footage you'll notice we get a lot of crap left over and one reason is because of the dynamic range not being as high but the other big reason is because we're losing a lot of color data since the cannon shoots in four to zero we lose a lot of detail around the edges of subjects which makes it harder to remove the green color that's why we get that gray fringing around the edge of the subject but when we throw the keyer onto the Blackmagic footage even without making a single refinement the key is already 10 times cleaner because we have that extra color data to work with plus compression means that the effect has more to work with and it can you raise the green better now to anyone who has ever chroma keyed they know that chroma keying around hair can be a pain but again since we're shooting pro res 444 there is no chroma subsampling and pixels being blended together this makes chroma keying around small details like hair a lot easier let's take a look at some more low-light scenarios for these scenes were only lighting them with a single generate a lady panel note that the noise is very minimal yet the sharpness of the details still remains present and the overall quality is very crisp the native ISO of the Blackmagic Ursa mini 4k is 400 if you start cranking up to 800 you're gonna start noticing some more visual noise as seen here even though DaVinci Resolve has noise removal tools I still recommend trying to stay away from ISO 800 if possible and as you can see when we start grading a bit the noise is even more visible but again if we have a properly lit scene and you could shoot at the optimum of 400 or maybe even 200 if you want richer colors and less overexposure you'll be good to go but I typically stay away from 800 the last big topic I want to cover is the global shutter so if we take a look at this footage shot on a Canon DSLR you'll notice that with the quick motion we're getting a bit of a jello effect this is because these cameras use a rolling shutter and there's other higher end cameras that are even more expensive that still use a rolling shutter however with the Blackmagic Ursa mini it uses a global shutter so with flashes there's no tearing and with fast movement there's no jello effect it's all perfectly smooth when it comes to features of the Ursa mini I'm blown away every time I do wish the screen rotated 180 degrees but there's other features that make up for it like internal raw reporting that's a huge plus the built-in XLR a nice user interface with other great features like zebras and focus assist and the build quality is just beautiful overall this is the best camera I've ever had in my hands so that's what I have to show with the Blackmagic in the 5d Mark 3 feel free to leave any comments or questions or even suggestions down below and again check the description for more I have some additional resources there that will let you look at the image quality comparisons and much higher quality than over a compressed YouTube video I really like this black magic and I think it's really setting the stage for great future productions from the computer clan thanks for watching guys and I'll see you in the not-too-distant futuregreetings Internet ken from the computer clan here and today I'm gonna talk about why I ditched Canada I know after years of using them for video I finally ditched them but why well first I just want to say I do not hate Canon of course I mean I still like the brand and heck my current DSLR my 70 mark - I still use it for photography I just don't use it for video anymore yes it's a slightly older model and it's lacking some basic features that I need but it also seems like even newer dslr's from Canon seem to lack features that I would like I know there's other brands of dslr's out there like the gh 5 that looks pretty good but I kind of just wanted to ditch the DSLR form factor as a whole and I'm replacing that new void with a Blackmagic Ursa mini let's take a look at the black magic and the 5d Mark 3 pitted against each other we'll start off with this 70 millimetres shot using the Canon EOS 5d Mark 3 notice the quality of the picture isn't that bad but there actually is a lot of detail being lost and this will become more evident once we compare it to the Blackmagic footage right now notice how there's a lot more latitude with our exposure the blacks aren't too black and the whites aren't too white there's no overexposure or underexposure occurring and overall the picture is a lot sharper another thing you might notice is that the Blackmagic footage looks more crapped this is due to the super 35 sensor while it's still great it won't capture as wide of a shot as a full-frame sensor like I'm the 5d now let's take a look at the same Blackmagic footage again but this time color graded note that we're able to have a lot of fun with the color and push and pull highlights and shadows and other aspects without being destructive the detail isn't lost but speaking of detail I think one of my favorite features or aspects is how much detail the sensor can pick up when it comes to sharpness overall the picture is a lot sharper and there's a lot less fringing going around small details if we blow up the image you'll notice there's a lot more fringing in the DSLR captured frames as opposed to the Blackmagic frames let's take a look at another example note that when we're filming the sky in the trees there's a lot of crushed blacks and we're losing a lot of detail and when we compensate by trying to adjust the exposure the overall image now looks too hot we are over exposing but as we switch to the Blackmagic footage will notice again those 12 stops of dynamic range really kick in there's no clipping there's no crushed blacks under exposure over exposure the image is perfectly exposed and the details are nice and sharp and work gets more fun as with the color grading again with those 12 stops of dynamic range we have a lot of flexibility in post plus we're shooting with 10-bit color and Perez 4 to 2 so there's lots of color data there for us to mess with without being destructive let's take a look at the fringing again notice the fringing on the DSLR footage we're getting a lot of black splotchiness and we're losing a lot of fine details this results in the image being rather soft with the black magic however we have those details preserved and that helps with the sharpness of the picture leading to a great high quality image just for fun I wanted to take my 70 mark 2 and switch to the cinestyle picture style which kind of simulates higher dynamic range but it does this through software so with that look applied I just wanted to compare that to the Blackmagic and I think the difference is quite clear here's some more comparisons of how we can have fun and be creative with the color grading of Blackmagic footage even in different types of lighting environments note that even in dark environments like this interior were able to bring details back from those darker areas and personally I thought a great way to detail the sharpness that this camera can pick up is by filming animals note that the fur detail is really fine really crisp and all of that beautiful sharpness is preserved to really give you a sense of the texture alright now let's talk about something where the Blackmagic really shines chromakeying so here are some Canon footage of a green-screen it wasn't a properly lit green-screen it was actually a white psych wall that was lit with green lighting so it wasn't the most controlled experiment but it still will get her point across and when we switch to the Blackmagic footage we'll notice the green actually is much more smooth flat and consistent thanks to the dynamic range let's throw the keyer with the default settings onto the Canon footage you'll notice we get a lot of crap left over and one reason is because of the dynamic range not being as high but the other big reason is because we're losing a lot of color data since the cannon shoots in four to zero we lose a lot of detail around the edges of subjects which makes it harder to remove the green color that's why we get that gray fringing around the edge of the subject but when we throw the keyer onto the Blackmagic footage even without making a single refinement the key is already 10 times cleaner because we have that extra color data to work with plus compression means that the effect has more to work with and it can you raise the green better now to anyone who has ever chroma keyed they know that chroma keying around hair can be a pain but again since we're shooting pro res 444 there is no chroma subsampling and pixels being blended together this makes chroma keying around small details like hair a lot easier let's take a look at some more low-light scenarios for these scenes were only lighting them with a single generate a lady panel note that the noise is very minimal yet the sharpness of the details still remains present and the overall quality is very crisp the native ISO of the Blackmagic Ursa mini 4k is 400 if you start cranking up to 800 you're gonna start noticing some more visual noise as seen here even though DaVinci Resolve has noise removal tools I still recommend trying to stay away from ISO 800 if possible and as you can see when we start grading a bit the noise is even more visible but again if we have a properly lit scene and you could shoot at the optimum of 400 or maybe even 200 if you want richer colors and less overexposure you'll be good to go but I typically stay away from 800 the last big topic I want to cover is the global shutter so if we take a look at this footage shot on a Canon DSLR you'll notice that with the quick motion we're getting a bit of a jello effect this is because these cameras use a rolling shutter and there's other higher end cameras that are even more expensive that still use a rolling shutter however with the Blackmagic Ursa mini it uses a global shutter so with flashes there's no tearing and with fast movement there's no jello effect it's all perfectly smooth when it comes to features of the Ursa mini I'm blown away every time I do wish the screen rotated 180 degrees but there's other features that make up for it like internal raw reporting that's a huge plus the built-in XLR a nice user interface with other great features like zebras and focus assist and the build quality is just beautiful overall this is the best camera I've ever had in my hands so that's what I have to show with the Blackmagic in the 5d Mark 3 feel free to leave any comments or questions or even suggestions down below and again check the description for more I have some additional resources there that will let you look at the image quality comparisons and much higher quality than over a compressed YouTube video I really like this black magic and I think it's really setting the stage for great future productions from the computer clan thanks for watching guys and I'll see you in the not-too-distant future\n"