Vegas Pro & BM Intensity Question

Cliff Etzel wrote on 12/17/2007, 8:44 PM

I've read others discuss the Intensity card - what does it do and is it something worth looking at in conjunction with VP8?

I've ordered my HC7's and am now looking at other hardware to begin working with HDV.

The BM site doesn't really describe what the card does - it seems to mention something about ingesting footage uncompressed, but I'm a little confused on that.

Does it integrate with Vegas Pro 8???

Can anyone elaborate on this for me?

Cliff Etzel - Solo Video Journalist
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Comments

TimTyler wrote on 12/17/2007, 9:21 PM

I use it to get an NTSC video preview from Vegas to my JVC CRT, and as my default Windows sound card. Eventually I'll use it to feed a larger LCD client monitor too.

JJKizak wrote on 12/18/2007, 5:24 AM

I believe it handles HDV playback without flickering. Kind of a souped up MY-HD 130 Tuner card. (Capture and playback HDV 40 meg bitrate)
JJK

Cliff Etzel wrote on 12/18/2007, 10:03 AM

I guess the real question I have is does it provide some sort of ingest of footage already shot on HDV tape and is the image quality uncompressed or is that only for shooting live material through the card?

Cliff Etzel - Solo Video Journalist
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rmack350 wrote on 12/18/2007, 10:55 AM

If it is already on tape and then you output it through the camera's HDMI port then it'd be decompressed HDV encoded footage. Probably a quick way to transcode HDV into a BlackMagic codec in real time, but not faster.

Not sure how deck control or recapturing would work.

And of course you get HDMI output to an LCD monitor.

I don't know, but I wouldn't expect to be able to feed footage from a BluRay player into the Intensity card over HDMI. HDCP should shut that down before you get started.

Rob Mack