RedShark IBC2025 Best of Show Awards — All the Winners in Amsterdam

There has been some excellent innovation on show at the RAI in Amsterdam this year, and so we are pleased to announce the winners of the RedShark IBC2025 Best of Show Awards.

First, a bit of blurb. The RedShark Awards are not pay-to-play and never have been. Other show awards tend to monetise the whole process and ask for a couple of hundred dollars (NAB) or Euros (IBC) up front to enter and be considered.

We don't do that; we just give our awards to the products we feel deserve them the most. End of. Hell, we didn't even tell anyone we were doing them this year. That way you know that every single award here was well-deserved.

So, without further ado....

Adobe Premiere Pro 25.5 & iPhone

Sean Lyden, Adobe

Adobe Premiere Pro v25.5 landed just before the show with a whole host of new motion capabilities, updates for audio editing and timeline playback, and a complete smorgasbord of additional improvements that Adobe says are aimed at making life better for editors. As a result of Adobe's acquisition of developer Film Impact, it debuted a massive 90+ new transitions, effects, and animations in a stroke, and the work the company has done on accelerating the processing on the timeline is the sort of thing that really makes a difference to the everyday lives of editors. 

It was already a serious contender, but the arrival of the software on the iPhone for the first time (and as a free app — just pay for generative credits and storage) was what tipped Premiere Pro over to Award status this year.

ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV

ASUS wowed us just before the show by releasing the magnificent 8K ProArt PA32KCX, a monitor so good that our first impressions reviewer, Brett Danton, said that taking it away would give him a heart attack. We suspect that Mac users in particular might feel the same about the ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV, which is currently the closest thing to an Apple Studio Display you can get on the market but significantly cheaper, especially when you account for the extra $400 that Apple wants to charge you for a height-adjustable stand. 

Just comparing it to other monitors does it an injustice, though; it stands alone perfectly well as an Awards-worthy piece of kit. It costs $1299,  features a 6016 x 3384 resolution screen with 216 pixels per inch for excellent image clarity, and ASUS says that compared to a 4K monitor of the same size it provides 145% more onscreen workspace. It also features 98% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB coverage, and the same LuxPixel Technology as the 8K monitor, a suite of eye-care-friendly technologies that includes Anti-Glare, Low-Reflection tech. It looks great, the images are great, and buying a Mac mini has never seemed like such a good idea. 

Blackmagic ProDock

As we wrote when this launched a few days ago, if you were looking for an excuse to buy a new iPhone, the new Blackmagic Camera ProDock is it. The ProDock adds connections for timecode, genlock, external audio, USB-C disks for recording, and more for iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max users, making it easy to custom rig the phone and get the most out of its capabilities.

Patrick Hussey, Blackmagic Design

Yes, you can shoot entire movies on an iPhone, but out of the box it has severe limitations compared to cameras that have been designed to be well, cameras. The ProDock goes a long way to helping to address that.

FUJIFILM GFX ETERNA 55

The long-awaited FUJIFILM GFX ETERNA 55 is now confirmed to be shipping in October for $16,499. It's been a short but intense journey to market for the camera, which was only announced towards the tail end of last year, and a lot of it seems to have been played out in public.

Mark Cattrall, European Business Development and Marketing Manager, Fujifilm

An eager audience for the company's first dedicated cine camera seems to have oscillated between delight and consternation with each spec and footage drop, but now that everything's locked down (and you can see two of the cinematic launch shorts here) and the first units will ship next month, the background mood music is firmly in the positive.  

NANLUX Nebula C8 Light Engine

Shirly Lin, Global Marketing Manager, Nanlux

Nanlux's new Nebula C8 Light Engine is the industry’s first 8-color LED light engine. The C8 adds Deep Red and Indigo emitters to the more common six-colour set, which are important factors in further enhancing colour gamut and especially skin-tone fidelity. The full lineup of emitters now covers Deep Red, Red, Amber, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Indigo. Together, they offer a wider correlated colour temperature (CCT) range from 1,000 K to 20,000 K, with ±200 green/magenta adjustment.The first two lights built around it have already been launched too and looked impressive in Amsterdam; the $2580 NANLUX Evoke 600C, and the $1080 NANLUX Evoke 150C, both of which are shipping 'soon'.

Nikon ZR

Dirk Jasper, Nikon Europe

Ever since the shock news that Nikon was buying RED broke, we've been waiting for the first Nikon camera featuring RED color science to be announced. We've had some steps along the way in the integration of the two companies, it looks like new RED cameras will now all be launched with a Z-Mount option if the new V-RAPTOR XE is anything to go by, but it is the Nikon ZR that really speaks of the benefits of getting the dev teams together. Featuring a 6K full-frame sensor, RED colour science, a 4-inch on-camera monitor, and internal 32-bit float audio, it's going to be available in late October for $2199 and looks like properly setting the cat amongst the pigeons in that crowded mid-level market.