Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today we're taking a look at the very exciting new
Atmos ninja five so this is a monitor recorder much like their Shogun inferno
and then enjoy flame monitors like that but whereas those are seven-inch this is
now a 5-inch model that can do 4k timber which is just fantastic I've been
waiting for Atmos to release a small 5 inch streamlined version of those larger
7h monitors for such a long time thus eminent ones are absolutely fantastic
pieces of kit but sometimes they're a bit overkill sometimes what you need is
a small little streamlined five-inch solution whether you're using it's just
a simple monitor or whether you're using a zoom recorder as well particularly
with small little cameras like the gh 5s we've got here or the yours off and
Canon cameras like that a small little 5 inch package on the top it's just going
to be so much more streamlined and nicer to use so I've been so excited about the
release of this product it's great to finally get it in my hands and actually
feel have a feel for what it's like to use so let's go through each of the new
things about this monitor so obviously the screen is going to be one of the
most important new aspects here it's a 5-inch 1920 by 1200 pixels
display and the interesting part is that it's a thousand NIT brightness which is
really quite remarkable you're going to be very hard pressed to find a 5 inch
monitor with that resolution and that amount of brightness for this price
point it's really quite remarkable even if you forget all about the whole
recording side of this device just as a monitor I think this is going to be very
appealing for a lot of people obviously you can use it these smaller cameras
like this and then it's a very nice convenient lightweight 5 inch monitor
and displaying platform you almost forget about the on camera ones and just
use this with these smaller cameras or with a bigger camera and a bigger rig
the nice thing about having a small five-inch one is that you're going to be
able to run it off date apps from the bigger batteries and it's so lightweight
your really gonna notice it's there so for
backup recordings and for your focus puller and stuff like that this is going
to be really really handy now obviously this is all driven by at Moss's user
interface which has always been fantastic but with the ninja 5 they've
completely overhauled it they've completely gone back to the basics and
redesigned where each thing is and how it looks and how it feels to use and
it's really really helped speed up how quick this device is to use when you're
out and about filming just having quick access to everything down the bottom and
a streamlined menu interface really does make a lot of difference I'm going to do
a video just by itself running through all the ins and outs of the new design
to make sure to keep an eye out for that
so this is a HDMI only device you get one HDMI port in and one HDMI port out
for loop through it's all run off of Sony NPF batteries you get one battery
slot here on the back and it includes a lovely little dummy adapter so that you
can run this off of mains straight out of box
or what's interesting about it is that it's got a locking port on it so if
you're using it with it's a ad tech cable or something like that which you'd
have to get up ship there's an optional accessory it's gonna be really nice and
secure and he's gonna lock into place it is a shame to miss out on the two
battery slots that you get on at most is larger units of course that's one of the
trade-offs of having a smaller five inch unit the drives are just regular SSD
drives you can use normal SSD drives and put them in the side but what we've got
here is one of the new Atom X and mini SSD drives so at masa partnered with a
couple of other companies like Sony and angel bird companies like that in order
to develop this new lineup of atom x qualified drives and what these Isis
effectively takes all of the technology in a normal SSD and then shrinks it
right down into this smaller form factor so this red bit here is the actual SSD
drive this one is red because it's pre-production the actual ones that ship
are not going to be red they'll be gray or black so that's why this one is red
and then this here on the side is an optional extra this is a handle now if
you don't have that much personal handle is going to sit nice and flush and be
really compact here with the unit but the nice thing about the handle is that
one it gives you something to grab onto to make it really easy to slot in and
out to it gives you some extra HDMI protection so if I knock the back of the
unit when I'm shooting you're not going to damage your HDMI port or your monitor
and the other thing is that of course because these are based on normal SSD
technology there's nothing to stop you using these smaller drives in your
larger units in your Shogun inferno in your sumo something like that and so the
handle brings it out to the size of a normal SSD drive which means that those
smaller ones don't get lost inside your larger units so that's a
really nice touch perhaps the most interesting poor and
exciting one is this little expansion port here hidden within the battery
plate on the back of the ninja five now this is something new from a Tomas and
is effectively a simple data expansion port
what this is going to let you do is attach one of the modules that I'm also
going to be releasing on to the back to expand the capability of your monitor
we've seen the first two of these released at IBC this year there was a
sync module and an Ethernet slash in the eye module the sync one is going to let
you timecode sync several units together and also work with things like your
phone for control over the atmosphere by bluetooth but also timecode sync if
you're using it as a wireless sound recorder something like that it's gonna
mean that multicam setups with Atmos are very very possible for all sorts of
users which is quite exciting and then the NDI slash Ethernet one is going to
be great for streaming anything IP or anything using the NDI protocol so the
TriCaster x' from new tech things like that that's going to be a great little
module but although those two modules are great what's really exciting here is
the potential for the future Atmos have been very vocal on getting manufacturers
of cameras to and us all putting pressure on them to expand what their
cameras can do from an out point point of view things like 10 bit things like
4k 60p things like debt law data outputs anything that might happen there from a
technology point of view at most are going to be able to cope with it and
make sure that these are future proof because of this expansion port all they
need to do is release a new module and they're going to be able to keep up with
whatever the industry does from a technology point of view which is really
really exciting this expansion port has got so much potential I mean you can
talk about raw inputs you can talk about giving it SDI port capability you can
talk about expanding battery power there's so many potential ideas here for
Atmos to release and let me know in the comments section down below
got anything in particular you'd like them to do with that port because this
the possibilities are just absolutely endless that is something I really was
not expecting to see with the launch of the ninja five it really caught me off
guard when they released that NAB with that port it's very very exciting and
he's really going to future-proof the ninja five
so let's look at what it can actually do as a recorder afterall Atomos are a
monitor recorder company this can do ProRes of all the flavors and deer next
HR from average and it is limited of course via the HDMI protocol but in
that's why it can't do things like war yet but in those codecs you're going to
be able to get 4k DCI 4k up to 60 frames a second in 10 bit which is fantastic
especially when you're pairing it with something like this judge 5 here that
can do all those in output all of those and as we're seeing more and more
cameras that are capable of doing that this is definitely going to be used a
lot to record 60 frames a second 4k in timber which is just fantastic in 1080p
you can do up to 120 frames a second at the moment there's no products really
that can actually output 120 frames a second it over HDMI in 1080p but when
they do arrive if they do arrive the ninja 5 is going to be capable of
recording that which is fantastic and it's also fully capable from a processor
point of view of doing a whole load more than that we have seen lots with this
release just how open Atomos are to potential future development in the
industry and so once we're able of getting a low input somehow into this
device we're going to be able to see things like pro res raw cinema DNG maybe
other codecs like 8.26 5ih produces for really anything that you might ask for
could potentially be integrated into a device like this so again I keep saying
this but this is the advice there is a lot of potential for future development
but right now I think the main thing people are going to be using this for is
recording fantastic quality Pro res files in 4k 10 bits 60 frames a second
which is going to be great but that is only one use case for recording these a
lot of people also use these which i think is forgotten about a lot of the
time as proxy machines so on maybe a bigger rig where you're recording
internally onto your camera you might have one of these as a small little
playback and proxy recording device hidden
on camera you could even double it up as the focus pullers monitor because it's
such a good quality display and then the director can take it away at the end of
the shoot sitting the pub after the shoot and just go through the rushes
into simple prayers proxy quality on a tiny little five inch portable device
like this which is really quite nice and very useful
so we've gone through some of the interesting new features with the ninja
5 but perhaps what I was most pleased by now that I physically got this in my
hands and I'm using it for the first time is the build quality it really does
feel very rugged a lot of this is down to the aluminium body around here on the
front it's still a plastic polycarbonate on the back but the main construction of
the unit feels very very solid and robust this is definitely a product that
he's gonna hold up to the rough sand rigors of a professional set and it's
got some really nice touches to it they've clearly put a lot of thought
into the design and the build quality in particular of this unit one touch I
really really like is the screw threads on the top and bottom they are the
larger 3/8 inch size but with 1/4 inch screws adapter already in the unit so
out the box you're going to be able to put the smaller screws in then all you
got to do is unscrew that little adapter and you'll be able to put the biggest
3/8 screws in as well plus days are you okay to pins on either side so for a
proper mounting solution like something from small a or shape or by tangerine
what any one of those rig manufacturers you're going to get a very very secure
and robust connection between the monitor and your camera or whatever
you're mounting it on to combine that with the extra build quality and this
entire thing is going to feel very robust and durable which is always nice
to have especially because they've seemed to be able to do all of this
without adding too much weight to the unit very very nice indeed
now I really want to know what you guys think of the Ninja 5 so let me know in
the comment section down below what modules you'd like to see added on the
back for example or if you could add one coder into the unit what would you like
to see a Tomas adds if you want to buy one of these of course the links down
below in the description they're going to be shipping very very soon thank you
so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one
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