Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro - HDMI and Analog Capture Card

Product Review

Intensity Pro - HDMI and Analog Capture Card ***OPEN BOX*** This NEW product you are browsing has been inspected by our certified technicians to ensure that it meets factory specifications; it is guaranteed to be in perfect working order.The Equipment is sold in AS IS condition and returns will not be accepted so please contact us with any questions BEFORE placing an order at 1-800-572-3224 Ext: 243. We accept PayPal and all major credit cards. We do our best to describe each item we are selling to the best of our ability. Bear in mind that the Item is sold as-is with no warranty. Use the contact us page to request additional info or images on this product. 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 outp...

Product Features

True HDMI Digital Connections: Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality capture.
Go Beyond HDV Video Quality: HDV video compression suffers from not being full 1920 HD resolution and the extra processing
Live Production with On-Air 2.0: Experience the incredible excitement of filming events live. Included with Intensity is Blackmagic On-Air 2.0
Windows and Mac OS X Compatible: Plug into Windows or Mac OS X computers with the same card and use your favorite software, including Final Cut Pro
The included break-out cable connects Intensity Pro to all types of analog video and audio equipment. This gives you full compatibility with analog component, NTSC, PAL, S-Video and analog audio.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(40 customer reviews)

63 of 70 people found the following review helpful

Limitations, September 21, 2009

H. MCWHORTER (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro - HDMI and Analog Capture Card (Personal Computers)

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...Read more

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

Pretty Good, November 1, 2010

J. K. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro - HDMI and Analog Capture Card (Personal Computers)

I'll say it now, but thus far I've only used the Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro to capture HDMI 720p 59.94fps video. I'm running Vista x64, and I've got a motherboard with the X48 chipset (processor is the Intel E8400), so haven't had any compatibility issues.

What this review will try to do is explain my experience so far with the card with the hope that it may help someone decide whether or not to buy this card.

I am no video production/recording professional (if I were, I wouldn't be buying this card), and don't know much about video capturing/compression/encoding, but here are my impressions of the card so far:
- Very easy to setup,
- Very easy to use.

Other thoughts:
- Blackmagic Media Express (Blackmagic Design's capture/playback software) is pretty much garbage.

As I have not tried capturing anything other than HDMI source 720p 59.94fps material, I cannot discuss any limitations for other input modes. However, for...Read more

66 of 82 people found the following review helpful

Misleading..., January 11, 2010

D. Largent - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro - HDMI and Analog Capture Card (Personal Computers)

Nowhere on the official website OR on amazon.com did it mention this card would not work with the Intel i7 processor, so I went ahead and bought it. I received it in the mail and installed it in my system, but could not get it to see video or hear audio. I tried several different things, including installing it in different ports and re-installing the drivers and programs needed for this card, but to no avail. I finally resulted to calling Customer Service and as soon as I told them that I had the Intel i7 920 Nahelm CPU, they proceeded to tell me that their card does not work with the i7 line of products and that there was no way around it.

So I've basically got a (probably) wonderful card sitting here waiting to be returned.