FCP / Intensity Pro

I'm capturing some material with BlackMagic Intensity Pro in FCP on my MacPro.
The capture process seems to go fine, but as soon as I start working with the clip, I immediately notice that the sound is completely out of synch with the video.
Video was captured from a cable box, using component video connection and simple L/R audio.
I have a feeling I didn't make the correct selection for capture/input device and/or didn't set the sequence prest properly. I'm not sure what setting to use. (audio/video was captured at different rates?) Any ideas? Also, would there be a way to re-synch the audio/video in the clip I have without have to perform another capture?
I've been hunting online for some kind of guide to "which capture input setting to use for which kind of source material" when using the intensity Pro, but so far have been unsuccessful.
Thanks!

If there is a control panel for the BM Intensity see if you can adjust the audio there to sync up.
Why not try using HDMI as the Audio and video and embedded digitally together.
Good Luck
Z1

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Kory - the BlackMagic card is temperamental.
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I even returned my card for replacement. Unsure why they have such issues. But once you figure, by trial an error, a technique for getting the display to work, it does basically work. It's just quirky.
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Brad - the good news is that with some tweaking - you can get it to work.
The bad news is that it is very temperamental.
I've found that I can always get it to output 1920 x 1080 24p if I select 'capture now' with a video camera connected to HDMI input.
Sometimes, just doing that without one connected, will do the trick. Had to close FCP and then open it again.
Sometimes a reboot would 'fix' things.
Sometimes, I'd want to sacrifice a chicken and do a dance.
Lately, it has surprised me, and just worked.
If you play with Motion, you'll find that you may need to change from 59.94 the nearest other resolution (maybe 50i? I'm doing a backup now so can't look).
And Motion will play perfectly, and then all of a sudden, it will want 59.94 to synch.
I tried 4 different HDMI monitors, and a 40' Sharp HTMI TV. Was messed up the same way with ALL of them.
I tried an HDMI switch, didn't help.
I tried swapping out the card for a new one from Black Magic, zero change.
Try yelling at their tech support. They really should fix this. They would deny to me that 1080 24p would even work, very frustrating. Tech support has not been much help, and doesn't seem to be very aware of what's going on. I had to send them a small file to show them it would play it. Must be some higher level folks at their company somewhere.
They could sell a lot more if they'd enable color calibration on it - and they could do this as drivers are about the same as for their DecLink (one tech even said there was a way to do this, get DecLink drivers to work, but he wouldn't tell me, I'd love to find out how).
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I'm demoing CS6 and had my own thought on this. Let me see if this helps articulate the problem.
The crux of the matter is, in Final Cut Pro as an example, the BM Intensity output is completely independent of whatever sequence settings you use. This has never been possible and is still not possible in Premiere.
In my case, I use an older HD CRT for color correction that only accepts and outputs 1080i and I often edit 23.98 material. The main thing in FCP -- I could always leave my monitor on no matter what I was editing.
In Premiere Pro CS5 and earlier, the framerate output of the Intensity always changes to match the BM sequence. Obvious, yes.
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