Blackmagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera

The hard drive is already plugged into the USB C port on the camera

This is the primary recording format that will be used

The USB C drive connects in the cradle as shown here

NOTE: The connection is tricky to get so make sure that you see

the BLUE dot on the hard drive shown here.

Power on the camera with the switch on the top of the camera

body

The home menu is where we will find the recording media

Here we see the "No Card" because we don't have any cards

in the camera because we are using the USB C drive for recording

First format the USB C drive

Press on the screen on the USB External Drive icon

OS X Extended is the recommended choice

Format Drive

Go to the Record tab and set the following

Dynamic Range - Film

Project Frame Rate - 23.98 fps

Preferred Card for Recording - External Drive

Click the arrow to go to the next Menu on the Record Tab

You have a couple of choices

First

Blackmagic RAW = 6K resolutions

Choose the following settings:

Codec And Quality - Blackmagic RAW

Choose Constant Bitrate

Resolution - 6K 6144 x 3456

Second Recording Option

ProRes = 4K resolutions

Choose the following settings:

Codec And Quality - ProRes

Choose HQ

Resolution - 4K DCI 4096 x 2160

Recording time on the drive goes up to 175 minutes on this setting

This is the recommended setting by Tech Staff for the easiest workflow

Frame up the shot and set focus

The + button on the camera will zoom the shot in the viewfinder

This will help you focus

When you see the RED outlines you are in focus

Press the + button again to exit this mode

Start shooting press record as normal

When finished you can mount the hard drive on any of our lab seats

All have USB 3 inputs

See the files here? They are self contained files

The Blackmagic RAW files have a .braw extension

ProRes have .mov

Back them up to another hard drive or server