I recently had the opportunity to test and review the Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Card. I was quite impressed to say the least.
According to the folks at BMD(Blackmagic Design)–>
Intensity Pro is the world’s first HDMI and analog component, NTSC/PAL and S-Video PCIe capture and playback card for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers. Intensity Pro is great for HDTV or standard definition editing using big screen televisions and video projectors. Intensity Pro works with uncompressed SD or HD video, and compressed codecs such as DNxHD, ProRes, DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO 50, JPEG, HDV and DV! Intensity Pro is a professional editing card featuring maximum real time effects in Avid Media Composer 6™, Apple Final Cut Pro™ and Adobe Premiere Pro™, with full support for both uncompressed and compressed AVI and QuickTime files. Intensity Pro also has full integration with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.
I tested mine with Windows 8 and Mac OS 10.8.4 and it did an amazing job, and imported video with extreme clarity and very quickly.
Here is a chart of the available inputs and outputs:
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It seems to be a useful and power full device and I definitely recommend it to people that need to import and edit video.
Blackmagic’s Intensity Pro is a PCI Express card which allows you to capture footage from an unprotected HDMI source, along with analogue Composite, S-Video and Component footage. Believe it or not, capturing via HDMI could deliver superior quality from certain HD camcorders than a traditional Firewire link, and doing so with the Intensity can also deliver files which are quicker and easier to edit too.
In addition I found that when I used the card it can allow you to save space on your storage device. The Intensity can capture it, giving you 1/3 greater horizontal resolution. Obviously it’s not practical to lug a PC with you just to capture the full resolution from a tethered HDV camcorder, but there’s many studio-based applications which can exploit it. If you have a powerful but small pc or mac that can be taken with you then it can be advantageous.
If you are interested in one of these cards they are available on the apple store http://store.apple.com/us/product/TP150LL/A/blackmagic-design-intensity-pro-hdmi-card
Here is an unboxing video–>
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Overall I am quite impressed by the Intensity Pro and Recommend it!!
Here is an overview from Engadget as well!!
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/blackmagic-design-announces-intensity-first-hdmi-pci-express-ca/
I personally captured video with it, I also made a video to dvd, put it on a blueray, then captured it to my mac via the intensity pro as a test and it worked well, with amazing quality.
Personally I am working on a kickstarter project to do a documentary on autism and I plan on using blackmagic designs cameras and hardware to do the movie!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1456183616/documentary-about-autism-in-las-vegas-and-music-th
I would definitely recommend their cameras and hardware!!
