Hi Carl here from ProAV TV and today we're taking a closer look at the atomos Ninja
five particularly their new user interface so además with this new unit
have completely redesigned the user interface to make it more streamlined
and particularly faster to use they've got a bit of a problem now with these
units because they pack so many features into it they what the goal has been with
this new one apparently has been to take all those features and keep all the
complexity that we were used to but really streamlining it down so that this
is it not as intimidating and it's much simpler and streamlined and faster to
use above all so let's go through the structure of the UI down here on the
left are your coloured controls for play record and monitor and edit menu
functions these were used to they're the same as we've seen on other displays
interestingly to note that they're slightly more muted now they're not
quite as colorful I guess this is so that it doesn't just attract away from
your image quite as much so when we record mode like we are now when we hit
record we're just going to start recording but if we hit play we're going
to go into playback and now that record button means that we can jump back to
the record mode moving across we've got monitor and edit these are going to
change what displays here on the bottom right and what displays on the top of
the screen so without either of those two pressed we get this normal sort of
home screen if you like and this shows us our timecode a simple wave form a
audio meter your memory so your how much time is left on your media and your
battery power and then a quick access for your menus control this is the
normal menu with input output record file your audio meters and your audio
controls along the side and so this is where you're going to change all of the
more complex settings when you hit either monitor or edit you're going to
change everything that happens down here so when we hit monitor we're going
to get a very quick and easy to access suite of tools so these are all one push
to turn off and on so when you're actually using this a monitor this will
probably be what you keep on if you want to quickly talk with things on off I'm
probably going to use it in this mode most of the time and the reason is is
that I like to really quickly toggle on and off things like peaking zebras and
wait for meeeeee so moving along the tools we've got waveform here on the
left then we've got our RGB form of waveform
we've got vector scope and is more zoomed in magnified form of vector scope
we've then got focus peaking zebras false-color blue channel only for
checking your noise levels your magnification you've got one x + 2 x
you've then got guidelines which you can scroll through you've got your markers
so for different aspect ratios things like that and your Center Point and
you've got your scaling for anamorphic so d squeezing capability then in this
mode this menu controlled here has now gone yellow to indicate that it's your
monitor menu so when you hit that you're going to get your controls for your
waveform so that you can change the opacity of it the brightness of it
things like that your focus peaking controls so you can change the color the
shape everything like that your zebra threshold your lookup table control so
this is where you're going to load in more lookup tables and change which one
and whether you're recording it outputting it everything like that
you'll monitor controls so here you can choose am I seeing what's natively
coming out of the camera am I seeing a rec 709 lookup table HL G or PQ or one
of the look-up tables now they reworked the atom's HDR engine that you might be
used to from their previous monitors into something which is a bit more fits
more within the guidelines that have been set up now for HDR particularly hey
Joe G + PQ it was always capable of doing all of these things but they've
just changed the wording and how it's going to work
so that it's a bit more intuitive for people used to HDR work so HL g is for
hybrid login of course and P Q is for graded HDR work and of course you can
input your own look-up tables and everything there and this is where
you're going to tune your monster you're going to be able to change the backlight
lift your gamma your gain everything like that here now in either of these
modes at the top you're going to get your main controls so you can see what
resolution what gamma what you're outputting the lookup table you've got
applied your pro res we look or dynix HD recording codecs and your record and
when you tap on any of those you're going to immediately jump to the area in
the menu which is going to impact that and so where you're going to be able to
control and change those things so that makes it really nice and quick so that's
been the monitor page and then when we hit edit we get our metadata flags so
this is where you can rate clips you can mark them as thumbs-up or thumbs-down
for your editor you can mark in and out points things like that so directors in
particular really like this little screen for playing back through the
rushes and marking interesting points so that when they get back to the area they
can have all that metadata for them so overall this is really has simplified
the UI it all feels much more responsive and easy to use and particularly speed
is the main thing that they've improved here I've been after simple OneTouch
buttons down the bottom to toggle things like waveforms on and off right from the
start previously you had to go into the menus and it was it took a couple of
presses to turn on and off your waveforms for example and that's
something we do all of the time on this channel when we're using it we've got a
big Atmos sho sumo here and a Shogun Inferno for the two of us to see what's
going on and we're constantly toggling on and off waveforms and peaking tools
like that so having them down here on quick little buttons is incredibly
useful so if you've got any questions at all about the new user interface let me
know down in the comment section down below it's worth pointing out
this is a pre-production unit here so this is not the final software so we
might see small tweaks between the release version and what you're seeing
here particularly in terms of how things look the size of things things like that
those are all things which they can be tweaking right up till the last minute
of release so let me know what you think of it down in the comment section down
below and of course if you want to buy an image of five for yourself the links
to our product pages are in the description thanks so much for watching
and I see in the next video