Filmmaking for the Vision Pro Era: Apple and Blackmagic’s Immersive Video Workflow

 





Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive: Inside the Complete …

Here’s a streamlined summary of the core product feature described in the article:


🎬 What It Is

  • Apple + Blackmagic’s unified immersive workflow for Vision Pro content creation. This covers capture, editing, packaging, and playback. (cined.com)





📷 Capture: URSA Cine Immersive Camera

  • Dual 8K (12K sensors) capture units recording at 90 fps per eye, resulting in over 10.5 billion pixels per second—roughly 30× the data rate of standard 4K/24fps stereoscopic video. (cined.com)

  • Records in lens-space fisheye format—maintaining native fish-eye images for each eye, avoiding multiple reprojections. This preserves detail where the viewer is most likely to look. (cined.com)




🎞 Post-Production: DaVinci Resolve with Apple ProIM

  • A new “Apple ProIM” workflow handles stereoscopic editing and color grading within DaVinci Resolve.

  • Embedded camera calibration metadata (lens/sensor alignment) travels seamlessly from capture to final Vision Pro playback. This removes traditional sync and reprojection issues. (cined.com)



🍎 Packaging & Playback

  • Blackmagic RAW files contain metadata; during export, Resolve outputs an “Apple Immersive Video” file that preserves it.

  • On the Vision Pro, the footage is dynamically re‑projected just once—directly in lens space—ensuring maximum quality. (cined.com)


🤝 Ecosystem & Tools

  • The Apple Immersive Video Utility helps import, organize, package, and preview final content on Mac. (cined.com)

  • Blackmagic’s immersive camera (around $29,995) and Resolve support mark the first practical path for third-party Vision Pro immersive content. (theverge.com)






✨ Why It Matters

  • Delivers a true end-to-end pipeline for spatial storytelling: from capture to immersive playback.

  • Lens-space capture + single reprojection approach preserves peak image fidelity—no intermediate conversions or quality loss.

  • Simplifies what was once a fragmented, artifact-prone stereoscopic workflow.


✅ Bottom Line

Apple and Blackmagic have created a high-performance, streamlined pipeline tailored for immersive video on Vision Pro. It offers creators the tools needed to capture enormous amounts of spatial data, carry lens metadata through post-production, and deliver pristine 3D video experiences—potentially catalyzing a new era of spatial storytelling.


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