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3.9 x 0.8 x 3.9 inches ; 9.6 ounces
Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Product Code: B001CN9GEA
Item model number: BINTSPRO
Average Customer Review:3.6 out of 5 stars style="margin-left:-3px">See all reviews (43 customer reviews)

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Intensity Pro features the world's first HDMI and analog component, NTSC/PAL and S-Video capture and playback on Windows and Mac OS X computers. That's great for HDTV or standard definition editing using big screen televisions and video projectors. Work in uncompressed video and eliminate HDV & DV compression quality problems, or use disk-space friendly professional compressed video if required. Both HDMI and Analog ConnectionsIntensity Pro enables you to capture directly from the HD camera's CCD, bypassing the video compression chip for true uncompressed video quality. Featuring both HDMI and analog video connections means Intensity Pro works with a massive range of cameras, televisions and video projectors.Multi Camera HD Production StudioPerform live production with 2 Intensity cards and cameras plugged into your system using the included BlackmagicOn-Air software. On-Air auto sync's cameras, handles monitoring and recording, plus is so easy to use its ideal for education, theater, corporate training and much more. Only On-Air allows real time mixing between two cameras with a single button press, so anyone can produce professional results fast. Playback to your Big Screen HDTVIf you're editing in DV, HDV, uncompressed or JPEG video, you can use Intensity Pro's video outputs for incredible quality edit monitoring. Use big screen televisions and video projectors for breathtaking cinema style edit monitoring and experience the amazing quality of your work. Easy Capture and PlaybackAll Intensity cards include Blackmagic Media Express, an easy to use application for fast capture and playback of media. If you're doing web streaming or DVD authoring and need fast acquisition of video, then Media Express is ideal. Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS XUse your favorite video software such as Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Combustion, Fusion and many more. With compatibility for most QuickTime and DirectShow app...

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“I'll say it now, but thus far I've only used the Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro to capture HDMI 720p 59.94fps video. ”J. K. | 9 reviewers made a similar statement

“Tech Support: I've emailed them several times and they seem to wait a week to get back to me! ”H. MCWHORTER | 8 reviewers made a similar statement

“I'm using this to stream video for our district office meetings and it works like a charm!! ”Kiewit - Central | 10 reviewers made a similar statement

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3.0 out of 5 starsLimitationsSeptember 21, 2009

By H. MCWHORTER

Hardware:I have put together 4 SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration that maintains a minimum of 180Mbyte/s. It's running on a 3GHz Xeon processor and 16GB of RAM. I'm using a video scaler that can basically translate the component input into (almost) any kind of HDMI signal which feeds into the Intensity's HDMI input.Software:This product has some good points and some issues. In an effort to be thorough I downloaded the manual several months before I bought the product. There was no mention that a software program named "Blackmagic Media Express" was included. While this program is a simple capture/replay screen, it has limitations in the configuration and setup. There are actually TWO configuration programs: 1) a control panel addition named (appropriately) "Blackmagic Control Panel" and 2) Edit->Preferences inside Media Express. The Blackmagic Control Panel selects the types on inputs and ouputs and pre and post processing. The Media Express Preferences sets captures at a) "Uncompressed 8-bit YUV" or b) "Compressed Motion JPEG".Issue 1:Initially I couldn't get any audio thru whatsoever. I had HDMI audio or analog audio and nothing would work. Tech Support said that this has happened to a lot of people and asked if I had on-board audio. I do. They suggested adding an audio card and turning off the on-board audio. This partially worked, but I can't use HDMI audio, only analog. And I had to buy a new audio card!Issue 2:I consistently had a problem with video/audio synchronization after 31 minutes of recording. You could watch the output and Media Express screens get more and more frames apart until, after 31 minutes, a message comes up and says "Frames have been dropped". Tech support has not offered any solutions, and said that they do not buffer video/audio. I can't believe that my RAID can't keep up w/ the recording of an SD signal.Issue 3:While I don't think that Blackmagic actually SAID that 1080p is supported, I somehow thought it was. But, after further investigation, here's what they do support: HD 1080 PsF 23.976 HD 1080 PsF 24 HD 1080 PsF 25 (and other formats)So any recording of 1080p 50 or 60Hz is out of the question.Tech Support:I've emailed them several times and they seem to wait a week to get back to me! The person explained that while the hard drive performance test shows different sample rates, it's just for show. They can only sample at 8 bits. (Aren't high bandwidth ADCs common?). After I told them that I finally got some audio thru on the audio card (see Issue 1) but that it was analog, and that HDMI audio didn't work (even though the HDTV played it perfectly), tech support provided no other diagnosis or suggestions. Also, w/ Issue 2 above tech support blamed it on my computer and had no diagnosis or suggestions.Overall:I can record in 1080i60 just fine. Tech support helps somewhat, but mostly you're on your own. I'm a little disappointed in the fact that they don't get involved in customers' problems more. Overall I'm still glad that I got the card, but when something better comes along I'll probably list this one on ebay.

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