Blackmagic Intensity 3.0 and CS4

I just installed the new 3.0 driver for my blackmagic intensity to use it with CS4.
Now I have two problems:
1. My sound card (on board Asus Rampage Extreme) is not running anymore. After I deactivate blackmagic audio in the vista device manager it runs again.
2. Even when I deactivate the blackmagic audio driver (see above), in a CS4 project (blackmagic settings chosen) the sound is only available via hdmi, not via sound card. Even if I choose 'Premiere WDM sound' in preferences / audio hardware the sound is only available via hdmi. The sound card works well in a standard CS4 project.
Any ideas?

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Anyone using Blackmagic Intensity Pro with Premiere CS4

I've looked through the threads and have seen similar postings, but no real good answers. Is anyone using Blackmagic Intensity Pro to viiew timeline on a HDTV using the HDMI connector?
I purchasedf the Intensity Pro and can't get it to work with CS4. Any assistance would be appreciated.

If you're using a Core i7 processor, one of the problems might be with the motherboard. There's only one Intel board that BM has approved (sorry, don't have the model in front of me -- on a piece of scratch paper in my wife's car).
I'm looking to build a new system myself and have been looking at the Intensity Pro card as well. The main feature I'm looking for is real-time preview and program output to an HD monitor that I'd hook up via HDMI. I probably also would use it to capture analog sources for audio and video. I don't have any interest in BM's lossless data capture as it creates monster-sized files. That's why I was also planning to add Cineform once it's fully approved and working for CS4. However, as best as I can tell, the Intensity Pro card doesn't recognize the Cineform codec on the timeline. Does anyone know if and how well these two will function together within Premiere? (I'm also assuming that the new 4.1 release might make these types of Premiere add-ons work better.)
Thanks.

Blackmagic Intensity HDMI cards and FCP

I was hoping someone has had a chance to try out or see the new HDMI blackmagic Intensity cards? I have a 1.25 DP G4 and am trying to monitor
my HDV video though a CRT HDTV, but don't have the $ for the more expensive cards (Kona, etc...).
This card is HDMI but less than half the cost. I fear, though that my old
G4 will not accomodate the card. Thanks in advance for your time.
-shawn

It appears to be PCIExpress card:
Installation:
PCI Express 1 lane, compatible with 1,4,8,16 lane PCI Express slots
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/techspecs/
I don't believe your G4 is a PCIExpress Mac:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4-125.html

HDMI Hard Disk Recorder to Blackmagic Intensity Pro

I have a hard disk recorder (HDR) with an HDMI out. I am wondering if I can run that through a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card and pull ProRes 422 or DVCPro HD from it. (I know the card working in both formats) I'm wondering about the HDR interacting with the card.
Card looks great, we are hot to buy it, if this could work! Thanks for the help.
Sean

It probably will not work. All HDMI output devices are to have HDCP support except Camcorders. The Intensity HDMI inputs do not support HDCP. Look in the literature of your HDR and look for HDCP. If it supports HDCP them you are out of luck.

No hdmi devices detected on HD TV with blackmagic intensity card

Im on my Macpro - 2x3 GHz Qaud-Core Intel Xeon with 8GB ram OS 10.5.8
I have installed a Blackmagic Intensity PCI card and using the HMDI connection to my Sony Bravia 21 inch HD TV so i can monitor HD footage for FCP 7 . When i=I go to HDMI setup on the TV I get the message "no hdmi devices detected" with blackmagic intensity card.
Anyone have any ideas or come across this before?

Make sure FCP is running and that you have chosen View menu > External Video > All Frames and the appropriate Blackmagic Intensity preset from the View menu > Video Playback presets.

Blackmagic Intensity Pro and G5 2.3?

Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone knows first hand if the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card will work with my Power Mac G5 dual 2.3 (has PCI express) with 256MB video card? I realize it is not supported but found this report of it working fine for someone with a dual 2.0: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6149954&#6149954
Anyway, thanks for your help!

Your particular model of G5 is PCIe, which the Intensity requires; other model G5s are PCIx, and so wouldn't work, but the card should be fine with yours.

Blackmagic Intensity Pro and G5 dual 2.3???

Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone knows first hand if the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card will work with my Power Mac G5 dual 2.3 (has PCI express) with 256MB video card? I realize it is not supported but found this report of it working fine for someone with a dual 2.0: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6149954&#6149954
Anyway, thanks for your help!

As long as your machine is PCIe, then it should work.
Shane

Blackmagic intensity extreme and adobe FMLE 3.2 question

I have been having some serious issues. FLME 3.2 keeps crashing when I have the capture device set to blackmagic intensity extreme. I am using 720p HD 59.94 as my settings.
If it is the settings how do I go about bringing it down to SD? I do not think there is a lower setting on my camera.
I am unhappily using a Sony Handycam HDR PJ200.
I would like to be using my Sony Evi D100, however those breakout cables on my blackmagic are very confusing.

Anyone know the answer to this?

Disabling Blackmagic Card Playback in PPro CS4

I am trying to work in Premiere Pro CS4 using footage that I captured from the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card. The timeline is playing on my external device and no matter how times I change the Player and Audio settings, it continues to play audio through the device. It will not play in Premiere at all. Not through speakers nor headphones. Even if I unplug the external monitor from the Intensity Card, it still will not play audio in Premiere.
It plays the source monitor audio through the computer but any playback done in the Timeline doesn't. Please help me, I am so confused.

I created a new sequence using the standard Premiere Pro NTSC settings and copy everything over. It works. I didn't realize that I was creating Blackmagic sequences. I'm going to test it out with some other projects I was having problems with.
Thanks a bunch. This was driving me nuts.

Are there benefits to the Blackmagic Intensity Pro for HDV capture ?

Are there benefits to the Blackmagic Intensity Pro for HDV capture ?
I have a Sony HDR-FX1 that records in HDV 1440 x 1080
I have already captured the footage to miniDV tape.
Can the intensity card get the full 1920 x 1080 video ?
I now use Premiere to capture my video and my HDV is in mpeg2 and my SD is in DV type 2 AVI
What format does the intensity card capture at ?
Are there other ways to capture that would make the footage better.
From what I have read allot of people have had problems with these cards.
Im just looking for the best way to get the footage off my camera with the best resolution.
Thanks: Glenn

Glenn,
I have posted this before in the PC Buying Guide (post #23 and later), but have a look at this diagram:
The problem is that once recorded to tape, the material is compressed to MPEG and there is no way to get the data back, that were lost during compression. The only thing you achieve is that you lose device control, lose all timecode information, lose all metadata like date and timestamp and exposure data and lose the capability of scene detection. There are no gains to compensate the losses.
Compare it to a glass of orange juice, that was made by heavily compressing oranges. How do you think you can reconstruct the original oranges that the juice came from? Were there 4 large oranges or 6 small ones or a mixture? Were they light colored or were they dark or a mixture of light and dark?
BlackMagic in their marketing may lead you to believe otherwise, but the truth is they can only guess at how many oranges were used, their size and color. It is nothing more than a guess.

SpeedGrade 2014.2 will not send output via BlackMagic Intensity Pro HDMI to my external monitor.

I occasionally can get a few pixels near the left side of the monitor, and 2014.1 would display the lower half of the frame, but now, after the 2014.2 update, I can't even get that much. Premiere is monitoring perfectly. Any suggestions welcome!

I am having the same problem. I am on Speedgrade version 2014.1 currently and it won't output to either of the monitors I've tried. Both are connected via HDMI.
One is a 22' ASUS monitor, which reads "Out of Range" when I connect it to my blackmagic Intensity Pro output. From what I've read this has to do with the frame size coming out of SP being too large for the monitor.
Next I tried to output to a 50' HD TV. I don't get the "Out of Range" message on this one, instead the monitor is black with an occasional flicker when I hover over a clip or an option in Speedgrade. By flicker I mean the screen flashes a garbled purple mess for less than a second, then goes black again.
I'm running the Creative Cloud Suite on a Mid 2012 Mac Desktop with a 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processor, 52GB of RAM, and ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB graphics card. OSX version 10.8.5.
Been waiting for this capability for a while, any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Josh

FCP capture problem with Blackmagic Intensity Pro

I just installed a Blackmagic Intensity Pro and I am having problems capturing in Final Cut Pro 6. I have a Sony VCR/DVD player with a HMDI out connection that works fine when connected to my TV. The video setting on the VCR/DVD are 720P. In FCP I have chosen the “Blackmagic HDTV Intensity Pro 720P 60 Uncompressed” capture/input setting. If I unplug the HDMI cable from the VCR/DVD and plug it back in I see the video for about 4 seconds and then just a gray screen. I have tried several video tapes all with the same results.
Any suggestions?
Dennis

I am having the same problem. I edit reels and was trying to use the higher quality HDMI input to capture video from my DVD player for client's video reels.
I could be mistake, but I do 'recall' hearing that you cannot record HDMI video (copyright issues) but only play back HDMI. We may be stuck using component.
Intensity Pro's website only mentions recording HDMI video from a camcorder with an HDMI output.
Maybe someone will clear this up for us with a definite answer. I have put a request in to Blackmagic support and will let you know what they say.
Rob

Soundtrack Pro with Blackmagic Intensity Pro Card

Hi
Just wondering if anyone was using STP with the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card to monitor video on a TV?
If so, whta are your experiences and especially does STP allow you to continue using your selected audio device (MOTU Ultralite over Firewire for me) while viewing your Quicktimes on the TV.
Thanks in advance
Gavin
gavin little
echolab
dublin, ireland
http://www.echolab.tv/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1962022/

Hey Bill
Thanks for getting back so quick! No, I've checked the audio/midi and the default audio device is my MOTU Ultralite firewire interface - even when the default output is set to the mac's internal speaker, once you select the external video it mutes the output.
I can still see levels withing STP as if the audio is playing. There is an official Apple Support document about audio not working when you are using external video to firewire and it says that it is a bug that can be bypassed by setting your bus to surround (1-6) instead of stereo (1-2) but this has no effect for me )-:
Would love to know if it works for you! and if so, what way you have things configured
Thanks
gavin little
echolab
dublin, ireland
http://www.echolab.tv/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1962022/

Premiere Pro with Blackmagic Intensity Pro; Importer

I'm using a Blackmagic Intensity Pro with Premiere Pro. I don't Import anything with it directly, i just use it to preview my timeline on a seperate monitor.
The issue I have is when I try to import a AVI-file to my project
before I had the Intensity Pro, Premiere would input the file as a Microsoft AVI and it worked perfectly.
But now the exact same file is imported as a Blackmagic AVI-file. now I am experiencing green bars in my video and the color information is totally screwed up.
So my question is: can I deactivate or change the Import-settings of Premiere, without to remove the Card completely (turn PC off, remove card, turn back on...)?

Ok, my workflow is:
I'm importing a video file from my hard drive via double-click or drag'n'drop. i don't capture from a video source with the intensity pro!
the specs of the video file according to premiere are:
Type: Blackmagic AVI File
File Size: 1,7 GB
Image Size: 1024 x 768
Frame Rate: 18,00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00;15;18;28
Average Data Rate: 1,9 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0
############### BMD Importer Supplemental ###############
AVI File Details:
Timecode:
Reel name: ''
User timecode:
Alternative reel name: ''
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Interleave: 1 : 1.00 (conforming required)
Video Track 1:
Size is 1.49G bytes (average frame = 94.18K bytes)
There are 16541 keyframes.
Frame rate is: 18.0000 fps
Frame size is: 1024 x 768
Video format is 'MJPG' 422 8-bit ITU-R 709
Audio Track 2:
Size is: 168.2637M bytes
Rate is: 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is: 16 bits
I've tried importing the video file at a friend's pc with premiere pro 5.5 and there the file works just fine. so I'm assuming that it has to do with the intensity pro...
It has the same properties execpt under Type there is "Microsoft AVI File" and everything beneath Pixel Aspect Ratio isn't there.
Thanks

Lag with Blackmagic Intensity Pro

I just got Adobe Prod. Premium CS6 as well as a Blackmagic Intensity Pro monitoring card and an eVGA GTX570 graphics card, and to avoid problems, I did a new Windows installation from scratch on a formatted drive. This was done today, so all the drivers and program updates are completely up to date.
I know the Intensity Pro is about the cheapest card you can get to preview video correctly on a TV set, since graphics cards don't display video in the same way as a dedicated editing card does, so I'm still happy with it, but I would like to find it if I can get around this annoyance until I can get a better card, or if perhaps it's a flaw in Premiere and a more expensive card would not make a difference.
The card has about 200 miliseconds of lag compared to the program monitor in the Premiere window. This is not really terrible, but it becomes distracting when watching the TV screen and the change of frame in a cut happens first in the computer monitor in a small window within Premiere, and a fraction of a second later on the TV screen. Also, it makes it difficult when I have to sync cuts to changes in the music. I guess in that type of situation it would be better to do the cuts on the computer monitor and then switch to the TV set for color correction.
But this is not just in regular playback. It gets worse when scrubbing the timeline, or moving with JKL. In those cases, sometimes it takes it like a second to catch up to what I see on the program monitor.
I also have a GrassValley HD Spark monitoring card for Edius that while it has a little lag, it's much shorter than this and it's not so distracting. That card was connected using the same cable to the same TV set, so that tells me the Intensity Pro has some extra lag, but it's hard to complain about it on a $190 card. However, I was wondering if anyone here has found themselves in the same problem and found a solution? I searched but so far I couldn't find anything.
And as far as these type of cards, what is the least expensive one that will give me perfect preview with no lag?

Thanks, I might try that one, although it's a bit over my budget at $660.25, but I'll have to if I don't have a choice.
What about the Matrox MXO2 Mini, has anybody tried it?
About turning off MPE GPU's acceleration, that is not an option for me. I'm used to edit in Edius, where almost everything you do is real time and you barely have to render anything ever for previewing purposes, and Edius doesn't even require an expensive Nvidia card for that, it only uses the CPU. But, it lacks several features Premiere CS6 has, especially when it comes to artistic effects. Overall I'm really hooked up on Premiere CS6, but only if I can have the same fluidness of work I always had with Edius, so I wouldn't turning off MPE. That's why I spent $280 in a new graphics card.
I really hope that this is just a matter of the BM Intensity being a cheap card and not Premiere, because this past couple of days I've been editing almost all day and while I enjoyed the editing process in Premiere, it's very frustrating to start playback and sometimes it will be fine but other times the audio and video will be out of sync, so I have to position the playhead back and start playing again. When that happens half the times you play something, it's really annoying. This is regardless of real time areas or not. To make sure of this, I forced render of an area that had no effects on it and it still has the sync problem. I had to disable auto playback after rendering because that would cause the problem every time, while if I position the playhead manually and then hit play, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

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