Following scorching on the heels of the brand new Ninja fashions introduced final month, Atomos introduces the brand new Shogun collection, with AtomOS 11, that delivers a number of recent options.
The unique Shogun revolutionized the movie business and the tools of filmmakers all over the world, giving them unprecedented recording capabilities for his or her cameras and a lift within the high quality of their inventive work. Now Atomos introduces a brand new era of Shogun displays, the brand new Shogun and Shogun Ultra. Both gadgets incorporate a very new working system – AtomOS 11 – that delivers a number of recent options, together with EL Zone publicity referenced colorized picture, ARRI False Color, and new scheduled playback and recording instruments.
Both displays have been on show at IBC2023, Amsterdam, on the Atomos sales space (11.D25). The new Shoguns embrace extra codecs as normal: 6K Apple ProRes RAW (8K with Shogun Ultra), Apple ProRes, DNxHD in addition to H.265, which was beforehand accessible solely as a paid choice. Atomos says that “for better consistency, Shogun and Shogun Ultra have the same differentiating features as the new Ninja and Ninja Ultra.”
4K digital camera to cloud mode
The key variations between the brand new Shogun and Ninja strains are the previous’s brighter, 2000nit 7-inch display, plus its totally built-in connectivity. Because Shogun has each 12G-SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs, it may be used for cross-conversion, not like a Ninja fitted with Atomos Connect. Shogun has extra energy choices too, with NP battery slot and an built-in 2.1mm locking jack DC enter socket. Shogun Ultra is good to be used with cinematic cameras and might document full-quality information to Apple ProRes RAW as much as 4K 60p whereas on the identical time recording HD 60p to H.265, and supporting computerized matching filenames, timecode and document set off from many common fashions of ARRI, Canon, RED and Sony cameras.
Both Shogun and Shogun Ultra fashions have the brand new 4K digital camera to cloud mode that allows you to document and add a lot larger high quality bitrate H.265 video with larger framerates and customised parameters. The information are light-weight sufficient for digital camera to cloud workflows, however greater than ok high quality for fast use on social media, sports activities reporting or information gathering.
Both Shogun items can benefit from Atomos RemoteView – a model new expertise the place you possibly can share stay views out of your Atomos display with different Atomos displays, in addition to with iPads, Macs and Apple TVs wirelessly. You can monitor what’s occurring on-set and look via any related digital camera taking the shot, from wherever on the planet. RemoteView is a significant new characteristic for manufacturing groups, with options by no means seen earlier than at this value level.
Shogun displays have Wi-Fi 6E
Shogun Ultra options decrease latency cloud connectivity and better throughput, due to Wi-Fi 6E integration. Once once more, Atomos is main the way in which by incorporating this cutting-edge Wi-Fi normal into its cloud-enabled merchandise.
“With both our Ninja and Shogun lines we are bringing new functionality to market, and at the same time making our different product offerings easier to understand,” stated Trevor Elbourne, CEO of Atomos. “Ninja and Shogun offer matched performance, but the main differentiation is in screen size and brightness – 5-inch, 1000 nit versus 7-inch, 2000 nit – and cloud connectivity – modular or integrated.”
“We want to offer our customers a clearer choice of price point versus performance, exactly as we do with new Ninja and Ninja Ultra,” added Elbourne.
AtomOS 11 can even be made accessible without cost to present Shogun Connect customers by way of a firmware replace. Going ahead, Shogun Connect will probably be outmoded by Shogun Ultra.
Both Shogun and Shogun Ultra will probably be transport from early October 2023, priced at $999/€999 and $1,199/€1,199 respectively, excluding native gross sales taxes.
