Sony Shares Info on BURANO Version 2.0 Firmware at IBC 2024

An interview from the 2024 IBC Show in Amsterdam with Claus Pfeifer at the Sony Booth. Sony is pleased to announce the next firmware update for the BURANO, the newest addition to the CineAlta family high-end digital cinema cameras. The new firmware update, BURANO Version 2.0, is planned to be released in March 2025 and will include additional recording formats, new de-squeeze options and monitoring updates as well as other features and requests from the cinematic community.

BURANO Version 2.0

Planned to be released in March 2025 or later, BURANO Version 2.0 offers many new features and improvements requested from the user community, including new recording formats, new 1.8x de-squeeze, and monitoring improvements.

Version 2.0 will include new recording formats including a new 3.8K Full Frame crop that leverages nearly the entire sensor and can shoot up to 120 fps. This new recording mode allows the filmmaker to prioritize faster sensor performance depending on the needs of their application. Other new recording formats include the addition of 24.00 fps to X-OCN 16:9 imager modes and the following:

· Full Frame - 3.8K 16:9 Mode - Up to 120 fps
· Super 35 - 4.3K 4:3 Mode (for Anamorphic) - Up to 60 fps
· Super 35 - 1.9K 16:9 Mode - Up to 240 fps

BURANO Firmware Version 2.0 will also add 1.8x de-squeeze setting as well as additional high frame rate (S & Q) modes including 66, 72, 75, 88, 90, 96, 110 fps.

Version 2.0 also offers monitoring improvements, including standardized SDI video output for monitoring across X-OCN and XAVC and an improved on-screen display output which places camera status information outside of the image. Version 2.0 will also include View Finder Gamma Display Assist while using S-Log for monitoring.

BURANO Version 2.0 also includes additional exposure tools (High/Low Key) derived from the flagship VENICE camera system. Version 2.0 will also expand white balance memory presets from 3 to 8 and support Active/High Image Stabilization in Full-Frame 6K and Super 35 1.9K 16:9 imager modes.

Finally, Version 2.0 will add breathing compensation and image stabilization metadata in X-OCN.

For more information please visit: www.SonyCine.com