Intensity Pro (With Break out cables)
Intensity (HDMI Only)
Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality
Intensity Pro is the first card to combine the high quality of HDMI capture and playback with the wide compatibility of analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video and analog audio capture and playback. It enables users to capture directly from the HD camera’s image sensor, bypassing the video compression chip for true uncompressed video quality. Now users can go beyond the quality limits of HDV for editing, design and authoring with Intensity Pro.
Intensity Pro can be connected to any big screen television or video projector for incredible edit monitoring. Current computers don’t have the processing speed to render complex multi later real time effects in HDV playing back to FireWire cameras. Intensity solves this problem by outputting video on HDMI and analog outputs for big screen monitoring in both SD or HD formats.
On-Air Software for Real Time Video Mixing
Included with every Intensity Pro card for real time video mixing is the popular On-Air software. On-Air allows customers to plug in two Intensity or Intensity Pro cards into a computer for two camera mixing for live video production.
Intensity Pro instantly switches between the 1080 HD, 720 HD, NTSC and PAL video standards. Intensity Pro is fully compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and any DirectShow or QuickTime based software application on Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Tested and works when capturing via HDMI to FCP with the ProRes 422.
Intensity Pro Features
• HDMI video and audio capture and playback.
• Analog capture and playback in component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video.
• Stereo analog audio capture and playback.
• Capture and playback DV, HDV, Online JPEG and uncompressed video.
• Use for edit playback monitoring on televisions and video projectors.
• HDMI and Component switches between HD and SD.
• Real time effects supported in Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Live production editing with Blackmagic On-Air mixing software with two cameras.
• Video capture and playback with Blackmagic Media Express utility.
• PCI Express 1 lane for compatibility with 1, 4, 8 and 16 lane PCI express slots.
• Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X Universal.
• Includes breakout cable with RCA-type connectors for analog video and audio.
Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro
Availability: Usually ships same/next day.
Our Price: $345.00
Blackmagic Design Intensity
Availability: Usually ships same/next day
Price: $249.00
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Does this card work for monitoring output from Apple Color?
Yes. Works with output from Apple’s Color application. Just choose it in the prefs.
Just to clarify: in order to capture uncompressed HD you would record directly from the camera to the computer (no tape and capture) through HDMI? I have a Canon A1 and no HDMI out, so that doesn’t seem to be an option. Too, isn’t it cumbersome to drag around a tower when trying to shoot?
Thanks for clearing that up!
Correct. If your camera/deck has an HDMI port you can feed directly to the Intensity and capture. This is more for a studio application, such as Green Screening.
Will the intensity card work to monitor video output with avid media composer software?
Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere only http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/software/
can you monitor video from all final cut studio applications and other adobe applications such as after effects?
FCP, Motion, Color, Adobe After Effects, Shake,Combustion preview output http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/software/
I’m confused as hell, I want to buy this, but it says it doesn’t support Powermac G5? But every person I seen with this installed on there computer has a G5. Heres my technical specs, I just want to make sure I’m not wasting my money.
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
Your G5 Quad sounds like one of the only G5 model that has a PCI Express slot so it should work. Read more here http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=175
In response to Mike about After Effects CS3. Despite what the marketing speak is on BM’s website (and I’ve spoken to them several time) the Intensity Pro will not give you any REALTIME RAM previewing in After Effects. Motion is hit and miss with the realtime. FCP is dang good!
I’ve talked to several peoplo at Blackmagic and they confirm that there is no “REALTIME” in AE or MOTION out of the Intensity Card. Just a heads up.
You can see stills and check your look from AE but no playback worth anything if you are in a client/review situation in your studio.