My VA came with firmware 1.1 pre-installed.Ī version of Da Vinci Resolve ships with the VA and it is MASSIVELY full featured. The new settings did not take when I first tried setting the clock and date, but it does work if I have an HDMI signal feeding into the VA. Setting the clock on the Video Assist is quirky but can be accomplished with a simple work around.

The screen is extremely clear (looking similar to my iPhone's and iPad's Retina screens) and the touch function is perfectly responsive. The VA works very well in combination with the recommended SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards there are no dropouts at ProRes HQ or below. You can see the results of frame rate when watching a video but you don't see how you started the recording.

The D810 handshakes with Atomos products for start/stop handshaking but then I'd lose the frame rate. I could not find any other HDMI recorder on the market today that can handle that frame rate at 1080 for less than double the VA's price. I'm using this with a Nikon D810 which outputs 8-bit 1080P/60 at 4:2:2 over HDMI.

Blackmagic video assist