Rather than clog up another thread that really should be kept just for driver issues I'll ask the question here as I'm curious about where this device sits today. It's two main uses seem to be:
1) Using an external monitor via HDMI.
2) Capturing HD from a consummer camera without HDV compression.
Use 1) I don't see any advantage to when we have the ability to do this with the secondary display device. Almost any monitor you care to use comes with a DVI input, the 30" models need dual DVI and as far as I know the HDMI spec pegs out at 1920x1080. If you want to feed the rather expensive HD monitors from Sony etc HD SDI seems the path to go down.
Use 2). Aside from the issue of just how much recording with less compression than HDV with consummer camcorders really gives you there's more ways to do this now than when the Intensity card first came out. The only manufacturer I'm really familiar with is Convergent Design but no doubt other have or will stepup to the plate. Convergent Design have a range of devices, some battery powered, to go from HDMI to HD SDI and the other way around as well. HD SDI is a much more robust way of carrying HD than HDMI, it's designed to run long distances over a single piece of coax cable. Convergent Design now have their XDR recorder that'll record 4:2:2 HD to compact flash cards using the Sony XDCAM codec. I haven't got my hands on one of these yet to check that the files will open in Vegas but I'd be surprised if they didn't.
Maybe I've missed something here but it seems to me that a little box that can run off batteries recording to CF cards would be a more elegant way to record HD in the field than lugging around a PC with a RAID array in it. The XDR sells for around $5K so it's probably not as cheap as a BMD card and a PC but it seems way more convenient.
Now I could be completely off the mark with all of this and/or I might have missed other very good reasons to be using the Intensity Pro card. Either way, it's probably not a bad time for everyone to chip in and talk about why we might find it beneficial to be using it.
Fire away.
Bob.
1) Using an external monitor via HDMI.
2) Capturing HD from a consummer camera without HDV compression.
Use 1) I don't see any advantage to when we have the ability to do this with the secondary display device. Almost any monitor you care to use comes with a DVI input, the 30" models need dual DVI and as far as I know the HDMI spec pegs out at 1920x1080. If you want to feed the rather expensive HD monitors from Sony etc HD SDI seems the path to go down.
Use 2). Aside from the issue of just how much recording with less compression than HDV with consummer camcorders really gives you there's more ways to do this now than when the Intensity card first came out. The only manufacturer I'm really familiar with is Convergent Design but no doubt other have or will stepup to the plate. Convergent Design have a range of devices, some battery powered, to go from HDMI to HD SDI and the other way around as well. HD SDI is a much more robust way of carrying HD than HDMI, it's designed to run long distances over a single piece of coax cable. Convergent Design now have their XDR recorder that'll record 4:2:2 HD to compact flash cards using the Sony XDCAM codec. I haven't got my hands on one of these yet to check that the files will open in Vegas but I'd be surprised if they didn't.
Maybe I've missed something here but it seems to me that a little box that can run off batteries recording to CF cards would be a more elegant way to record HD in the field than lugging around a PC with a RAID array in it. The XDR sells for around $5K so it's probably not as cheap as a BMD card and a PC but it seems way more convenient.
Now I could be completely off the mark with all of this and/or I might have missed other very good reasons to be using the Intensity Pro card. Either way, it's probably not a bad time for everyone to chip in and talk about why we might find it beneficial to be using it.
Fire away.
Bob.