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Atomos Announces New Ninja Series
The industry-leading ProRes monitor-recorder just goes from strength to strength
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Atomos has announced the latest generation of its hugely successful Ninja line
of camera-mounted monitor-recorders:
Ninja and
Ninja Ultra. The original Ninja rocked the world when it was introduced in
2010, combining an HD disk recorder with a touchscreen monitor you could hold in
your hand. It captured pristine, uncompressed video direct from the first
generation of DSLRs straight onto a removable SSD.
The latest Ninja base model handles video sources up to nine times that
resolution, has a 5-inch HDR screen, records ProRes RAW, and connects to almost
every camera in the world. Little wonder “Atomos” is now in the vocabulary of
almost every filmmaker.
A key component of both new Ninja models is the completely overhauled operating
system, AtomOS 11. Cleaner, fresher and faster, thanks to hardware performance
optimized for AtomOS 11, it delivers a host of new features too, including EL
Zone exposure referenced colorized image, ARRI False Color, and new scheduled
playback & recording tools.
Both models sport a distinctive ‘camo’ color polycarbonate body and now include
more codecs as standard: 6K ProRes RAW, ProRes, DNxHD as well as H.265, which
was previously available as a paid option.
While the
Ninja is targeted primarily at owners of DSLR and mirrorless cameras, Ninja
Ultra is built to get the most out of camera to cloud techology and leans into
cinematic workflows too. It can record full-quality files to ProRes RAW up to 4K
60p while at the same time recording HD 60p to H.265, and supports automatic
matching filenames, timecode and record trigger from many different models of
ARRI, Canon, Sony and RED cameras.
Ninja Ultra’s new 4K camera to cloud mode lets you record and upload much higher
quality bitrate H.265 video with higher framerates. H.265 files are half the
size of H.264 media. They’re small enough for camera to cloud workflows but more
than good enough for immediate use on social media, sports reporting or news
gathering.
Adding an Atomos Connect expansion module to either a
Ninja or a
Ninja Ultra enables Atomos RemoteView - a brand new technology that lets you
share live views from your Atomos screen with other Atomos monitors, as well as
with iPads, Macs and Apple TVs wirelessly. You can monitor what’s happening
on-set and look through any connected camera taking the shot, from anywhere in
the world. RemoteView is a total game-changer for remote production, offering
many new features never seen before.
For
Ninja Ultra only, the Atomos Connect module provides a lower latency, higher
throughput and more stable connection with Wi-Fi 6E. Once again, Atomos is
leading the way by incorporating this cutting-edge Wi-Fi standard into its
cloud-enabled products.
Both Ninjas are backwards-compatible with their predecessors,
Ninja V and
Ninja V+, so all Atomos and third-party accessories can be used with the new
products.
“While we continue to innovate, we continue to listen to our customers too,”
said Trevor Elbourne, CEO of Atomos. “Ninja remains the go-to ProRes
monitor-recorder for individual content creators and freelancers, but with even
more functionality. If cloud connectivity is not your priority right now, that’s
no problem at all - you can just add that option further down the road as your
business dictates.” “Ninja Ultra, on the other hand, has been tuned for
cinematic workflows as well as the cloud, although we strongly recommend that
it’s paired with the Atomos Connect module to maximize its potential for studios
and broadcast facilities. The addition of dual recording in 4Kp60 ProRes RAW and
H.265 has been the most requested feature since we introduced cloud-enabled
products last year.”
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