Blackmagic Intensity card questions

Two big questions involving the Blackmagic Intensity card and using it with FCP and an HDV camera:
If you are not shooting tethered to the computer to completely bypass HDV's compression, are there any advantages to capturing using this card? $250 seems like a small price to pay to be able to digitize pre-recorded HDV footage directly to DVCPRO HD, though this leads me to my second question ..
Is it at all possible to log footage and batch capture with this card, or would you need to do the equivilant of a 'capture now' when importing through HDMI? This would obviously be a huge hassle.
For anyone interested, I'm strongly considering the combination of a Brevis35 adapter and a Canon HV20 camera which appears to me to be the cheapest possible interchangeable 35mm lense HDV solution out there.
Love some thoughts and/or advice!
cheers,
Adam

For this thread to be of any value to future Black Magic searches, would someone please take a moment to synopsize the discussion? I'd do it but I don't know nuthin' 'bout no black magic stuff.
You guys have all kinds of knowledge and are appreciated...but it was nice to do a search and find the answers here instead of having to call Blackmagic. Some of us Producer/Editor types work crazy late hours and Blackmagic isn't always available on the phone. Just my two cents...not trying to stir up any new conflicts. Just valuing both sides of this discussion. < </div>
There are dozens of less narrow-minded twits managing and participating on much broader boards all over the Net.
creativecow.net, for instance. Vast selection of highly focused forums; many are supported by the publishers or manufacturers and most enjoy heavy traffic from top end users of specific products.
bogiesan

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    Yes....as long as you install it into an Intel Mac Pro. It won't on a G5 Quad.
    BUT...did you know that FCP 6.0.2 supports HDV conversion to ProRes via firewire? And it works on a G5?
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    Hi: After digging around a bit, several weeks ago I ran across a message board thread that indicated someone had successfully installed Blackmagic's Intesity card on a G5 Quad. The post claimed the Intensity card works G5 Quads, since they are PCIe capable.
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  • Soundtrack Pro with Blackmagic Intensity Pro Card

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    http://www.echolab.tv/
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