PE7 and Intensity Pro

Black Magic installs Intensity Pro presets for PPro,
Does the Intensity Pro also work with PE7 ?
steve

Steve,
While there are a few FireWire Capture cards/devices that do Capture directly into Premiere, nearly every PCI/PCIe and USB card/device requires other software to function. Once "Captured," Premiere can then Import the files. If your BM Intensity allows capture to DV-AVI, you are good to go, with no additional work. I use similar with a Turtle Beach card and its software. Once captured as DV-AVI, all is perfect.
I do know that BM offers some CODECs of their own (actually use a few without their card). These are good ones, however for what I think you are doing, I'd stick to plain old MS DV-AVI as the CODEC/format.
Good luck,
Hunt

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