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| 0.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Marketing does it againJun 16, 2010
Intensity Pro is a good capture device IF you are working in their codec and can guarantee you will always have their hardware to play back....so that rules out archive capturing....Editing...It DOES NOT help you with realtime previewing from Premiere as a matter of fact Premiere's firewire output is way more productive...It DOES NOT improve over firewire performance AT ALL with mixed codec timelines. It ONLY handles its Codecs and DVCPRO it seems... so in reality a VERY closed system. It DOES let you see your renderd output from Premiere from a timeline with its codec, it looks beautiful but you will need to render EVERYTHING that has an effect EVERYTIME you tweak it. Very disappointing in the editing category
Media Express, mixed codecs?/ Haha...only mixes between YUV and MJpeg, nothing you have on your drive will play on it....
I couldn't see how Directshow is supported since it only plays with its own codecs or uncompressed!
Winner? Edius still has best realtime playback. PERIOD...too bad they don't know what an alpha channel is for.....
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Poor Quality Control and ServiceJun 05, 2010
First card I received was dead on arrival, took more than a week to get a replacement, they had to test the card first to confirm before they would ship out a new one. 2nd card was good, but installation under Win XP 32, Vista 32/64, Win 7 32/64 all failed in some manner, tired all these OS on two different computers, all failed. Most often during installation when the installer called an app to perform a firmware upgrade. Stuck in that loop it would blue screen and cycle through repeated reboots and blue screens. Had to restore from back up image to recover each time. After a week of working only on getting this card to work, I took the MSI installer package apart to look for errors. Found errors in custom actions that installed wrong versions of C++ runtime libraries needed by the drivers and firmware updater. If I instlled C++ Runtime Libraries mannualy before running the MSI package, the system would not hang or blue screen, but still would not capture video. Finally returned the card and went with a Grassvalley product. Tech support didn't seem interested in collecting my data from this experience, they simply wanted to ship me out another card, another week's delay. In the end they recommended I used a more compatible platform. Give me a break, the advertising for the card says it's compatible with any Windows platform. NOT.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 To those with sync issuesMay 07, 2010
If you are having A/V sync issues with your card, make sure to check the "enable varicam frame rate" checkbox in preferences if you use Premiere Pro to capture. This will only work in 720p though. when you select this it uses a different encoding process that will keep everything perfectly in sync. Also try record at 59.94 fps and not 60. 60 fps is rather inconsistent on this card and somtimes the frame rate can get a tad choppy.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
It has serious problem with the x58 chipset.Apr 29, 2010
If your computer's motherboard uses the x58 chipset, DO NOT BUY IT!!! It doesnt work at all.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Just what I needed.Mar 29, 2010
My purpose for this was to broadcast my video game console on a online streaming website in HD.
Installing was simple, and the quality was great my audio never went out of sync however this is due to the fact that I use this card for live streaming and not recording. I tired using the recording feature just to test it out I get weird results when I try to for example the video will be extremely sped up while the audios going at regular speed. If you're thinking about getting this card to stream online then I would recommend doing so, if you're more interested in recording then I'd suggest looking into something else since this has some problems with that.
Also do yourself a favor and make sure that you're motherboard supports this card! If you go to Blackmagic's website theres a list of compatible motherboards.
+ Easy to use
+ No issues for Live Streaming
- Not good for recording
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