MILPITAS, CA - Blackmagic Design (www.blackmagic-design.com)
has introduced Intensity, a low-cost HDMI capture playback card. Now,
lower-cost cameras with HDMI video connections can move beyond the quality
limits of HDV compressed video to the world of uncompressed editing and design.
Intensity is a small HDMI capture and playback card that
instantly switches between 1080HD, 720HD, NTSC and PAL video standards. Once
it’s plugged into a compatible PCI Express Windows or Mac OS X computer, users
get the quality of uncompressed video via HDMI from cameras, decks and set-top
boxes, enabling them to playback to any HDMI big screen television or video
projector for video editing, in SD or HD, and with realtime effects.
“For the first time, customers don't need expensive SDI
based cameras to access uncompressed quality,” says Grant Petty, CEO of
Blackmagic Design. “We hope Intensity finally allows videographers on a tight budget
to afford full resolution HDTV post production that goes well beyond HDV
quality limits.”
Intensity allows direct-from-CCD recording for the highest
uncompressed quality. Users can capture to disk arrays for high speed
uncompressed video, or when disk speed and space is tight, choose from a range
of professional compressed codecs that go beyond HDV for quality.
Intensity is compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, After
Effects and Photoshop, as well as with Apple Final Cut Pro and any DirectShow-
or QuickTime-based software application. Pricing for the card will be $249 when
it ships on October 15th.