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  • Page 1 Mac OS X ™ Intensity Windows XP ™ December 2006 OperatiOn Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Using for Capture and Playback installation for Capture and playback third party applications Blackmagic Design applications Supported File Formats troubleshooting Connection Diagrams typical intensity Setup Connecting to an HDMi HDtV Monitoring using intensity Setup for Blackmagic On-air Warranty 12 Month limited Warranty...

  • Page 3: Overview

    The instruction manual you’re reading now contains all the information you’ll need for installing your Intensity card, plus extra instructions on using it as a powerful HDMI based editing, design and effects solution. Please take the time to check it out as there are lots of tips and tricks to help you.

  • Page 4: Introducing Intensity

    HDV compression chip. Because edit software cannot play back to HDV cameras for monitoring, Intensity is ideal to use for monitoring uncompressed HD, or HDV and even DV edits on the latest big screen televisions and video projectors by connecting to the built-in HDMI output.

  • Page 5: Using For Capture And Playback

    4. Find a spare PCI Express slot within the computer, any slot will do. Intensity is a PCI Express 1 lane card and is compatible with 1,4,8 and 16 lane PCIe slots. Remove the metal port access cover and it’s screw from the back of your computer.
  • Page 6 Intensity installer. Intensity Setup Wizard. Intensity software 1. The CD supplied with your Intensity contains the Intensity software. Before you install, check you have the latest driver. Visit www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software 2. Open the “Intensity Installer” folder and launch the “Intensity Installer” application.
  • Page 7 Final Cut Pro are installed before running the Intensity installer. If you Intensity Installer components. want to use the included On-Air software for live mixing you will need to install two Intensity cards, as one is used for each of the two connected HDMI cameras.

  • Page 8: Third Party Applications

    Copy a test clip, which matches the format of your project e.g. NTSC 8 bit. Take your media from within your Premiere Pro project and drop it into the timeline. You should now see the image on both your computer desktop and your Intensity HDMI output. If you can’t see any video New Project.
  • Page 9 ASIO audio device. When you first start your Premiere Pro project, make sure you select the audio device you wish to use – either Intensity with 2 channels of audio, or a selected sound card. This can be selected through Edit >...
  • Page 10 In ™ conjunction with your new Intensity, Final Cut Pro will allow you to work in every video standard from DV up to uncompressed 4:2:2 high definition video. “Easy Setups” for Final Cut Pro will have been added automatically during the Intensity installation process if Final Cut Pro is previously installed.
  • Page 11 View > Video Devices “All Frames”. Note: Your HDMI display needs to be powered on before starting your Mac. If necessary, restart Log and Capture. your Mac to ensure Intensity detects the display during startup. Capture To capture, choose . (Command + 8) File >...
  • Page 12 “Add Handles” box to capture additional frames (“handles”) before and after the “In” and “Out” points of a clip. RT Extreme Real Time Effects Real Time Effects are one of the great features of Final Cut Pro, and with your Intensity you are fully compatible with Apple’s RT Extreme ™...

  • Page 13: Adobe After Effects

    First, open Adobe After Effects and select the television standard frame size and frame rate you wish to work with. How to use Intensity as a preview output frame buffer To allow your Adobe After Effects composition to be displayed in real-time from your Intensity, go . Select and the appropriate video Adobe After Effects.
  • Page 14 Third Party Applications Adobe Photoshop Intensity includes Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, so you can directly capture and output still frames ™ from within the Photoshop application itself. If you’re working with HD/SD, you can even import and export 16 bit Photoshop images for full quality.

  • Page 15: Blackmagic Design Applications

    ® . Simply plug two Intensity cards into your Mac OS X Intel based computer and you get all the advantages of live HD video production. Live production gives you instant results, because all mixing is live and when your event is complete, you have a finished television program ready to burn to DVD, or distribute via the internet.
  • Page 16 Use two HDV cameras with HDMI output. Connect Camera 1 to Intensity card 1, and Camera 2 to Intensity card 2. Remember, Intensity card 1 is always the higher card in the PCIe slot and the furthest from the CPU. (See diagram on page 27) The Blackmagic On-Air interface will preview live video from Camera 1 and Camera 2 combined with real-time program monitoring via the single window interface.
  • Page 17 Blackmagic Design Applications Blackmagic On-Air 2.0 for Mac Pro Your setup is now complete. Experiment with transitioning from Camera 1 to Camera 2, or between cameras and black ( ), or even add a graphic ( ) to your camera feed. For a smooth transition between cameras, set the number of frames for the transition and use the button.
  • Page 18 Blackmagic Design Applications Blackmagic On-Air 2.0 for Mac Pro How to include a graphic or title If you want to add a logo to your captured video, Blackmagic On-Air will enable you to over-lay a corporate logo or title over your live video. The third “camera” window is actually an image well for dropping in a graphic.
  • Page 19 Blackmagic Design Applications Blackmagic On-Air 2.0 for Mac Pro How to create alpha channels for keying 1. Open your logo in Photoshop. 2. To make your graphic easier to see, make a new layer, fill it with white and send to the back. 3.
  • Page 20 29.97 HD capture and playback, as the margin is too tight. When checking the results, look at the 8 bit YUV 4:2:2 video sections, as intensity uses the 8 bit uncompressed video format. Disk Speed RAID results after testing a disk array.
  • Page 21 29.97 HD capture and playback, as the margin is too tight. When checking the results, look at the 8 bit YUV 4:2:2 video sections, as intensity uses the 8 bit uncompressed video format. Disk Speed RAID results after testing a disk array.

  • Page 22: Supported File Formats

    Supported File Formats Data Rates for Capture and Playback The data rates for uncompressed video are quite high, and listed below are minimum recommended disk requirements for uncompressed and compressed standard definition and high definition video. Supported standards: HDTV 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/59.94, 720p/50, NTSC and PAL. Compressed Video Standard Definition –...

  • Page 23: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Using your Intensity as a capture and playback card is exciting, but also complex due to the huge range of different software applications. Video data rates are also very high, so the disk array you use for uncompressed video storage can have a big impact on your system’s performance.

  • Page 24: Connection Diagrams

    Typical Intensity Setup Intensity uses HDMI for connecting video cameras, televisions and projectors to your computer for use with popular editing and design applications. Intensity captures video in real-time directly from the HDMI output on HDV cameras, and will playback directly to large screen HDTVs or HD projectors for client-monitoring and editing.

  • Page 25: Connecting To An Hdmi Hdtv

    Connection to an HDMI HDTV This example shows Intensity connected to a consumer HDTV with HDMI input. Connect the HDMI cable from the video output on your Intensity card into the HDMI video input on your HDTV for high definition monitoring.

  • Page 26: Monitoring Using Intensity

    Monitoring using Intensity When using a large screen HDTV with an HDMI input, Intensity can be used to client-monitor in either NTSC/PAL (4:3 and 16:9) or High Definition (1080i and 720p) formats. NTSC/PAL 16:9 Desktop NTSC/PAL 1080i 720p High Definition...

  • Page 27: Setup For Blackmagic On-Air

    Setup for Blackmagic On-Air Blackmagic On-Air is a live video mixer that uses two Intensity cards. This application can live-edit between two HDV cameras recording directly to your local disk or external disk array. Camera 1 Camera 2 Computer Display...

  • Page 28: Warranty

    OWN RISK. Copyright 2006 Blackmagic Design. All rights reserved. ‘Blackmagic Design’, ‘DeckLink’, ‘HDLink’, ‘Workgroup Videohub’, ‘Multibridge Pro’, ‘Multibridge Extreme’, ‘Intensity’ and ‘Leading the creative video revolution’ are registered trademarks in the US and other countries. All other company and product names may be trade marks of their respective companies with which they are associated.

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