Most excitingly, the company showcased a new 4.6K sensor with impressive dynamic range that will soon make its home in both the URSA and URSA Mini cinema cameras. In case you're wondering how exactly that sensor performs, here's some early footage, shot in 4:1 RAW with the original URSA:
To my eye, this is some of the nicest footage to come from Blackmagic's cameras to date. This is a great sign because, coming from an early pre-release version of the upgraded URSA, the capabilities of the production versions of these cameras will likely be even better. With this footage, I'm struck by the clean, naturalistic colors and skin tones, the super smooth highlight rolloff (plus the lack of blown highlights when shooting daytime interiors against a window), and the fact that there aren't any issues whatsoever when shooting directly into the sun. I'm inclined to say that Blackmagic is really starting to get the hang of this whole camera manufacturing thing, which is exciting news for independent filmmakers everywhere.
You can pre-order all of the 4.6K versions of both the URSA and the URSA Mini through B&H, and they're expected to begin shipping later in the summer, or early fall.
As 2024 comes to a close many creators are looking for ways to kickstart their careers in the next year. If you’re ready to start a fire and take things to the next level here in 2025, then there’s only one creative technology company that can provide cutting-edge creative tools and digital assets that can truly inspire creation.
Artlist is the place to go for creators who want to empower creation without limits. Let’s look at some of Artlist’s best offerings and explore how signing up for this creative technology company could be the best way for filmmakers, video professionals, and creators of all types to kick their 2025s into overdrive.
The Highest-Quality Creative Assets
via Artlist
Over the years Artlist has built up a solid reputation in film, video, and content communities for the company’s deep and high-quality libraries of creative assets. Including hundreds of thousands of premium songs, SFX, footage, templates, LUTs, and plugins, Artlist’s creative asset collections aim to provide creators with a full solution to content creation.
Plus, at Artlist each and every asset is highly curated and made by leading artists and designers so that every creator can easily maximize their creative freedom. This includes providing a Universal license that covers all your creative desires and needs.
AI Voice-Over Feature
Also, as covered on No Film School when it first launched, Artlist has added the ability to create high-quality AI voiceovers to your videos. Creators now have access to a unique, high-quality voice catalog crafted by top-tier artists which they can use to enrich their videos with professional-grade narrations.
This AI voice-over feature should elevate the quality of your content overall to better captivate audiences like never before, with an array of exclusive voices at their fingertips.
This AI voice-over feature is one of the first AI voice generators offered by a creative assets platform. And, if you’re curious to check it out, you can hear some of the samples yourself in the video above, or head on over to Artlist’s site.
Driving Creativity Forward at Artlist
Since joining the company as Chief Product Officer in 2023 to lead product, design, and customer service while overseeing major product launches that empower video creators worldwide to reach their full creative potential, Roee Poled and his team have been focused on driving creativity forward at Artlist.
“In 2025, our product vision for Artlist is about expanding the boundaries of generative AI to empower video creators like never before. We’re working on introducing new and exciting generative tools and capabilities to the platform so that creators have access to the best generative models available. What sets Artlist apart is our deep understanding of video creators and their workflows, so the platform is very powerful but also easy to use.” — Roee Poled
And this next year looks to be shaping up to be one of the biggest ever with a focus still squarely set on delivering an exceptional experience for users. You can read more about Artlist's Vision 2025 here.
License Types and Subscription Options
At Artlist, users can access two types of licenses which will help keep all of the projects (not songs) you create and publish yours forever. The two license types include:
Pro License: perfect for everything from personal to client work once you download assets under this license the projects (not songs) you create and publish are yours forever.
Personal License: perfect for any type of social media content creator. Covering all your personal social channels, One channel per platform.
Artlist also offers different levels of subscriptions for creators of all types to tailor their plan however they’d like to maximize their creative toolkits.
Music & SFX - Including the social and the pro plans. Starting at $9,99/month
Footage and templates - featuring in the pro plan. Starting at $29.99/month
AI Voiceover - featuring in the pro plan. Starting at $11.99/month
Artlist MAX
MAX Pro: Everything you need to create amazing content, all in one plan Starting at $39.99/month
MAX Teams: All the features of MAX Pro for your whole team. Starting at $29.99/month
*Unlimited downloads included in all plans
Part of a team? Artlist also offers up to 7 seats with the Max Teams or Music & SFX Teams. There are also Artlist Business options for companies with 50+ employees and agencies as well. You can explore which plan is right for you here.
