The combination of technologies in the camera hardware of these phones is very unique and powerful. Just think what the super high sensitivity sensor, 5th generation OIS, and large aperture means in low light imaging.
When we started to design the camera on the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, one of our most important objectives was that everybody should be able to take good photos in all conditions. The camera has some very advanced technologies to achieve this.
Of course, more advanced photographers know how to manually adjust the ISO and exposure time for different situations. Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are making those decisions for you, by analyzing how you hold the camera and what is happening in the scene. With these phones, everybody can shoot like a pro.
And it gets even more exciting when you use Rich Capture mode. It uses two exposure times for the same image: short for the moving object and long for the static part of the image. Capturing everyday moments, like moving children, is much easier with this feature.
Due to the natural colors, it also works very well in daytime as a fill-in flash. This is a photo of my sister. It was a bit of a gray day, but I used the flash to add some sparkle. (By the way, those who open this photo in Windows 10 Photos application will see a little bit of magic.)
In addition, in Rich Capture mode it is possible for you to change the amount of light in a photo after the image is taken. The camera takes two photos, one with flash and one without, and we use very clever algorithms to get the best of both. This is called Dynamic Flash.
MS Teams sharing is too clunky when using it to switch between documents when running a training sessions and sharing different documents, PowerPoints and you can't link it to other devices like iPhone / iPad to screens for training on these devices.
I use MS Teams for training (lecture style), connected to a Blackmagic Atem Mini Pro to control up to (4) HDMI input feeds to MS Teams. This allows me to switch between video inputs like using my go-pro as a wide angle input, to my iPad running PowerPoint or Adobe file, which or my iPhone running an App on training on etc. I can setup all the camera feeds and switch between then using the Atem Mini Pro - giving a clean switch over instead of MS Teams clunky sharing. The Atem Mini Pro is then using a USB-C output to the computer running MS TEAMS; this shows up as a WEBCAM to use in MS Teams. *This all works well EXCEPT....
When having a number of people in the training session the output from Atem Mini Pro is; and looks like a normal webcam user - a tile on the screen with all other connected users. I would like MS Teams to provide a "Lecture" option, which then show the Main User (who turns on the feature) as the Main screen and all other users along the bottom in small tiles - bring the focus on the lecture and showing a larger display space to the pupils ( basically the same as when you share your screen) - a true webcast option.
Hi @adilyoosuf ,
I have the same setup with the ATEM Mini Pro. I face the problem that the output resolution (the output from the ATEM Mini Pro into the MacBook and than into Teams) is Fine on my MS Teams view but nearly very bad on the attendees view. The picture is always a bit blurry. When i share a PPT Presentation via the ATEM Mini Pro i to MS Teams the picture is blurry and changes the Resolution from Time to Time.
Hence the output experience for the viewer is very bad. I already checked bandwith of my Internet. The upload and Download stream is Fine.
Is MS Teams reducing the Resolution of the ATEM Mini Pro Input?
What is the recommended solution by Microsoft for this problem?
@Dschwieder We are having the same exact issue. Our Atem output is clear 1080p on Windows camera app and Teams preview, but Teams attendees are getting 720p at best. We had a lot of complaints at last night's hybrid meeting about blurry slides, however I think some of the problems were on the attendee's side.
Are there any alternatives or fixes to this problem? A lot of our clients want a camera or two and the desktop view to Teams, and since our events are large it's not practical for us to use document sharing and webcams etc.
We're using notebooks, so HDMI unfortunately is not an option. In particular, with the audio issue you mentioned. It's quite convenient to to mix audio and have one channel for video and audio to the notebook. I think I'll have to find alternatives for one-to-many webcasts for paying participants.
It is recommended to use your Blackmagic device only for mixing audio and video. You can share your slides on a Teams Meeting or Live Event from your computer. Microsoft is continuously improving Teams with new features and performance improvements.
With this method, you get the high resolution that Teams does allow provide for screen sharing, but also the low frame rate it uses for screen sharing. This is definitely not ideal, but in my view much better than the high framerate at the cost of poor to very poor resolution and random cropping and scaling that Teams applies to webcam signals.
I ordered 2 used cameras and received them yesterday. After installing the 64-bit VRMagic software/drivers, I can see the camera in Device manager in Windows 10 and I can see the video images from their proprietary app called VRMagic CamLab, but not in Kinovea. After reboot, I can see them in Kinovea. Image quality is much better than the OV2710 I had before and price is cheaper (US $45 vs $58).
The default frame rate is set to 30 fps and the highest is 69 per their specs. I can change it in the VRmagic CamLab and the setting is saved on the camera. However, the camera show a black screen in Kinovea once the setting changed to higher fps. I adjusted the Zoom, Focus, Brightness rings on the lens and made no difference. When I open up the "configure camera" button (wrench icon), all of dropdown fields are blank (see screenshots below). Those 2 shows corresponding configurations/fields for other cameras.
Questions
.1 - Anyone experienced this with their camera and how to get the camera to show image in higher fps?
.2 - Anyone knows what can be done to get the camera configuration and device property page populated in Kinovea? They do provide a Windows SDK.
Black magic raw came out in 2019. Vegas 16 was released in 2018. So its impossible for vegas to support black magic raw from many versions ago. The most current version Vegas 16 pro does not support black raw from my BMPCC 4K. I'm asking again when will Vegas start supporting black magic raw?
The new BM Raw format is designed to give all the quality of Cinema DNG but at file sizes and processing requirements in line with ProRes, or even smaller in some cases (120mbps), with no visual degradation from the RAW original. It's actually a pretty interesting format, shame it is tied to BM's cameras only as it requires in-camera processing to achieve it.
I'd file a support request with the Vegas team, make sure they realize this is the new BM raw format and not Cinema DNG like they've traditionally used, and maybe it will generate some interest for them to download the SDK and add compatibility to Vegas.
I don't think it's supported by any open source projects like ffmpeg yet so it's not likely to get supported by anyone that's not willing to do allot of development work for BM. There's a guy over on the BM forums (Hendrik Proosa) trying to use their sdk to develop an open source viewer but he's not done yet. Maybe when he finishes it might jump start something.
Now vegas 17 has been released. Now black magic raw 1.5 has released. Now multiple other NLEs support the raw codec except Magix's Vegas. When vegas was owned by sony it supported every new codec. Under Magix vegas has become stagnant with its development. This is sad. I have officially switch to davinci resolve. Magix has lost a customer after using Vegas for 15 years.
You quit using Vegas after 15 years because Blackmagic supported a format they invented faster than Vegas did? Because a handful of other NLEs just got support for it a week ago? Vegas still supports far more input and output formats than Resolve does.
Given that BM raw is a camera format, not an intermediate, the market for Magix would = Vegas Pro users with Blackmagic cameras (or clients with such) who choose to use the BM raw codec for their project. Is that a big number of people?
Yes that tends to become a bigger and bigger number of people, given the general increasing trend to raw, the decreasing prices for cameras and the freedom to grade that footage to whatever you want in the post.
I think that there will come also some kind of raw support in Vegas in the future. The new grading tools will make most sense with raw for sure. Off course one can also shoot to ProRes (not raw) in the meantime.
And please do not forget that the support for BRAW/Prores raw in Adobe and Avid was announced some days ago only. And also Edius 9.5 was launched 2 days ago only - and does not support BRAW from the Pocket 6K in the initial version but only with some future update. And the support for ProRes RAW exists longer, but the playback performance is really weak in Edius at the moment.
Magix is aware of everyone's concerns and has RAW support on the roadmap. If I had to guess, just like Wolfgang mentioned with Edius' bad performance with RAW playback, perhaps the Magix team feels the need to finish up a few performance improvements in Vegas before they begin trying to add support for such a resource-intensive format.
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