ARRI’s New Alexa Camera Offers Native ProRes Capture for Final Cut Studio

ARRI announced that its new Alexa digital camera now includes native support for Apple ProRes codecs used in Final Cut Studio. The Alexa supports Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) and ProRes 4444, and allows HD images to be captured and recorded onto commercially available removable storage media.

The Alexa camera’s workflow offers native recording of ProRes compressed HD images onto high performance SxS cards and provides instant access, viewing and editing of images in Apple’s Final Cut Pro on Mac desktop and notebook computers. No ingestion or transcoding step is required.

The Alexa will be shipping to customers worldwide in June for a price of $73,000. The camera is currently being used to shoot the new motion picture “Anonymous” for director Roland Emmerich.