Blackmagic Intensity now supports the HV20

[joseph soriano]

http://blackmagic-design.com/support/software/

[Mal]

Yesssssss


Thanks joseph!

[white_2kgt]

I notice in the comparison chart it says this,

Device Control None. Use FireWire if capturing from HDMI cameras.

So you hookup the HDMI and Firewire ports to the camera and computer? How do you KNOW you are capturing over the HDMI is there a place to select BM Intensity in Vegas as the capture device? If I plan on Rendering the final project as 720p will there be a $250 advantage to using this card?

[bluegrass]

Yesssssss


Thanks joseph!

Can you give a brief run down on what impact this software & card can have on both a pro and a typical HV20 user? Maybe throw out some numbers such as the disk space needed for an hour of video and just what the resultant resolution you would be aiming at with this package and maybe the same data for the best out of the box results we can get from our HV20. I'm not looking for high tech jorgan here, just down & dirty stuff so the typical user understands what the potential is here.

I have an idea that it is a way to capture even higher definition video than we typically are capable of with out of the box HV20. Some of the banter I hear on the subject of "real time" capture kind of pisses me off that a standard like HDV is limiting the technology that is built into a camcorder such as the HV20. Is the capture hardware internal to the camera the limiting factor here? If SD memory could keep up with the pace of what the camera's sensors can pick up and process than the engineers could build in "uncompressed" capture capability into the camcorder? Why would the industry design a standard - HDV that is substandard to what the hardware can provide. Have the SD camcorders always been able to capture and store uncompressed video inside or outside of the camcorders hardware but we just never heard about it?

What equipment is needed for the viewer to benefit from this software/hardware capture of "uncompressed" video?

[hizbiz]

A great news to make me happy!! :hv20-smilie31:

But.... I have to spent another 250$ !! ! :(

And have to justify the expenditure to my wife too!!!!!!! :hv20-smilie119:

[sean90291]

I'm not clear on what advantage the Intensity Pro ($349) card has over the Intensity ($249). The site says the Pro version offers "analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video capture and playback." Do we HV20 folks want that? Or is the basic Intensity card enough to capture HDMI.

[frenadolman]

Sorry for my english , im from Spain:

Only i want to know if the intensity can do downconvert , hvd to dv when we are capturing , so we can work better in dv with less effort in the cpu.
be cause editing in hdv( i have vegas 7) it looks slow and whit image Jumps.
Do you undertand me.
Thanks

[Mike]

Sorry for my english , im from Spain:

Only i want to know if the intensity can do downconvert , hvd to dv when we are capturing , so we can work better in dv with less effort in the cpu.
be cause editing in hdv( i have vegas 7) it looks slow and whit image Jumps.
Do you undertand me.
Thanks

Sorry about my english, I'm from the U.S. At least you know more than one language. You'd think a country as large as ours would teach their children at least one other language. Ahhh, being dummed down feels wonderful you ought to try it!

[Michael Hackney]

1. So then, by capturing our HD footage to our pc through the HDMI port and into an Intensity card, we don't have to worry about the HDV/ mpeg2 compression?
2. Would this be similar to capturing HD from an HDV camera, using the SDI ports?
3. Let's say we capture as normal, through the firewire cable using HDV compression, is there any way to get it to the quality within the NLE, without having to capture with HDMI? (I was thinking maybe importing that footage into a 10-bit HD-SDI project would do that after rendering in that higher bit depth project.).