Intensity Pro From Blackmagic Design Now Available

Blackmagic Design has announced Intensity Pro is shipping and is available now from Blackmagic Design professional video resellers worldwide.
Intensity Pro is a new low cost and high quality video capture and playback card for professional videographers that features HDMI, analogue component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video capture and playback.
Intensity Pro was demonstrated at the recent NAB 2007 show, where it won several leading industry awards.
Intensity Pro is the first card to combine the high quality of HDMI capture and playback with the wide compatibility of analogue component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video and analogue audio capture and playback. It enables users to capture directly from the HD camera's image sensor, bypassing the video compression chip for true uncompressed video quality. Now users can go beyond the quality limits of HDV for editing, design and authoring with Intensity Pro.
Intensity Pro can be connected to any big screen television or video projector for incredible edit monitoring. Current computers don't have the processing speed to render complex multi later real time effects in HDV playing back to FireWire cameras. Intensity solves this problem by outputting video on HDMI and analogue outputs for big screen monitoring in both SD or HD formats.
Intensity Pro Features:

• HDMI video and audio capture and playback
• Analogue capture and playback in component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video;
• Stereo analogue audio capture and playback
• Capture and playback DV, HDV, Online JPEG and uncompressed video
• Use for edit playback monitoring on televisions and video projectors.
• HDMI and Component switches between HD and SD
• Real time effects supported in Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro
• Live production editing with Blackmagic On-Air mixing software with two cameras
• Video capture and playback with Blackmagic Media Express utility
• PCI Express 1 lane for compatibility with 1, 4, 8 and 16 lane PCI express slots
• Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X Universal.
• Includes breakout cable with RCA-type connectors for analogue video and audio

Included with every Intensity Pro card for real-time video mixing is the popular On-Air software. On-Air allows customers to plug in two Intensity or Intensity Pro cards into a computer for two camera mixing for live video production.
Intensity Pro instantly switches between the 1080 HD, 720 HD, NTSC and PAL video standards.
It is fully compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and any DirectShow or QuickTime based software application on Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
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