Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows™ or Mac OS X™ computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras all for only $199.

True HDMI Digital Connections

Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality capture. Get higher quality capture from HD cameras by capturing direct and bypassing the HDV compression chip for high quality video captured direct from the image sensor. As edit software can't 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 out.

Go Beyond HDV Video Quality

HDV video compression suffers from not being full 1920 HD resolution, and the extra processing required makes editing difficult. With Intensity, you can now capture and play back full resolution HDTV uncompressed video for true broadcast and feature film quality editing. Totally eliminate HDV & DV compression quality problems, and render much cleaner graphics while retaining deeper color and image detail. If you need lower data rate editing, you can also select from a range of professional compressed video capture modes. Intensity includes the same Blackmagic Design video technology used on Hollywood feature films, so quality won’t limit your creativity.

Windows™ and Mac OS X™ Compatible

Plug into Windows™ or Mac OS X™ computers with the same card, and use your favorite software, including Final Cut Pro™, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Fusion™ and many more. Intensity is fully DirectShow™ and QuickTime™ compatible, which adds HDMI capture and playback ability to your computer. DirectShow and QuickTime™ allows Intensity to work with a wide range of software for editing, design and paint, through to the exciting video utility software that allows custom desktop based video solutions. Blackmagic Media Express is also included for easy capture and playback of real time HD and SD video.

Professional Video Standards

Instantly switch between HD and SD video standards including HDTV 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/59.94, 720p/50, NTSC and PAL. Intensity allows capture in professional file formats which are fully compatible with Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink and Multibridge capture cards, so you can deliver finished television programs, music videos and other work at broadcast standards.

Add broadcast quality to your editing system and move to a new world of video editing where your images always stay perfect at full resolution HDTV. At only $199, you can upgrade today!

Application Compatibility

Intensity is an ideal companion for most video editing software. Mac OS X™ compatible software includes Final Cut Pro™, After Effects®, Photoshop®, Shake™, Motion™, iDVD™, DVD Studio Pro™, Cleaner™ and many more. Windows™ compatible software includes Premiere Pro®, After Effects®, Photoshop®, Encore DVD® and many more.

Highest Quality Analog Connections

The included break-out cable connects Intensity Pro to all types of analog video and audio equipment. This gives you full compatibility with analog component, NTSC, PAL, S-Video and analog audio.

True 64 Bit
PCI Express

Break the 2GB memory limit and add as much RAM to your system as you need, so your favorite video software renders faster and takes advantage of the latest high speed computers. Blackmagic Design features true 64 bit PCI Express so you're getting the latest technology.

HDMI Quality

Unlike analog connections, HDMI is the new digital standard appearing in the latest cameras, televisions and video projectors. HDMI is fully digital and has no video compression, so it doesn't suffer from any image degradation. Unlike DV and HDV FireWire based video standards, HDMI allows deeper bit depths and full color resolution, eliminating banding and contouring problems in high quality video. HDMI is found on the latest HD cameras such as the Sony HDR-HC3 or Panasonic HDC-SD1.

Intensity works with a huge range of software to let you choose the tools you already know how to use, so you don’t need to waste time learning custom software when you want better video quality.

Editing with Adobe® Premiere Pro®

Intensity is the highest quality editing solution for Adobe Premiere Pro, and because it's fully compatible, you get a compete solution with nothing extra to buy. Play out through the HDMI video output using 8 and 10 bit uncompressed AVI and QuickTime™ files, HDV, Motion JPEG and DV files, as well as 32 bit TARGA and BMP image sequences, which can all be played back on the same Premiere Pro timeline without rendering.

Blackmagic Design’s software drivers are certified by Adobe for Premiere Pro compatibility and we work closely with Adobe to include exciting features such as Real-Time Effects effects, and full integration with After Effects and Photoshop. This assures a fully professional solution.

Online JPEG for Adobe Premiere Pro

On Windows, Blackmagic's full resolution (1920 x 1080) professional quality compressed HD codec can capture JPEG AVI files in real time using Premiere Pro. Unlike HDV and DVCPRO HD which uses reduced resolution 1440 x 1080 video, Blackmagic's Online JPEG maintains the full resolution 1920 x 1080 resolution of HD video without the huge file size of uncompressed HD video. Blackmagic's Online JPEG is so efficient that full motion 1080i HD video can be recorded at only 12 MB per second vs. a massive 119 MB per second for uncompressed HD video.

Blackmagic's compressed files are so compact, that 1080 HD video can be captured to a single internal hard disk or easily transported on a portable Firewire drive! Online JPEG is compatible with Premiere Pro and After Effects® and can even be used by editors without Blackmagic capture cards making it one of the most versatile compressed codecs available.

Editing with Apple Final Cut Pro™

Edit in Final Cut Pro™, while using the highest quality uncompressed video, or choose DVCPRO HD and ProRes 422, which are higher quality and faster than native HDV. You can even use Intensity just for monitoring to HDMI televisions from HDV Final Cut Pro timelines! When playing back video, you get full RT Extreme™ real time effects, all with sample accurate AV sync. Intensity supports many of the advanced Final Cut Pro™ features such as 10 bit rendering, RT Extreme™, and support for ProRes 422, HDV, JPEG, DV, DV50, DV100, 8 & 10 bit uncompressed media types.

Blackmagic Design works closely with Apple™ on developing our QuickTime™ drivers, so you know you're getting the best combination for high end editing.

Design and Effects

Intensity even allows high end design and effects work, great for the special effects you've always wanted in Independent Films, use After Effects, Shake™, Motion™, Combustion™, Photoshop® and more. Intensity also includes an RGB QuickTime™ preview output for After Effects and Combustion™. And, you can always preview on the video-out interactively as you design and then play pre-renders using real time ram preview. When rendering your project, processing quality using the Blackmagic codec is full 16 bit, so you always get the advantage of uncompressed video.

Paint and Graphics

Unlike HDV where your graphics are scaled down to 1440 instead of true 1920 with the HDTV television standard, Intensity allows for broadcast quality full resolution graphics to be included in your edit. Graphics always retain the full 1920 x 1080 resolution of the HDTV television standard, and this is where Intensity's higher quality can be seen. Photoshop has become the tool of choice for broadcast designers worldwide because of its industry standard interface and powerful tool set. Intensity includes Photoshop plug-ins so you can capture still frames from the video input, and output graphics to the video-output with a simple menu click.

Live Streaming

Always get a clean uncompressed video source for your streaming files. Uncompressed source video also means you don’t waste CPU time de-compressing video on capture, so all the computer's CPU is free for compressing to streaming standards. You get faster rendering of your streaming files and more real time support. Intensity is compatible with all streaming software on Mac OS X™ and Windows™.

DVD Authoring

DVDs from uncompressed media are much higher quality, and as all media files used on Intensity are QuickTime™ or AVI, you get full compatibility with DVD authoring software. Use DVD Studio Pro™ or even iDVD™ on Mac OS X™ or Encore DVD® on Windows™ for powerful DVD creation.

Blackmagic Design started the uncompressed video revolution in broadcast, and it’s now become the standard way to work for thousands of people worldwide. HDMI cameras can now be used for uncompressed editing with professional results.

Uncompressed Video

Formats such as HDV and DV use video compression for smaller and easier to manage files, however this sacrifices image quality, and in the case of HDV you don't even get full resolution 1920 x 1080 HDTV video. That means HDV is not really HD! Uncompressed video capture with perfect quality video is now easy thanks to modern and fast computer hard disks. Uncompressed video won’t suffer from generation loss and always looks amazingly clean and sharp. Uncompressed video also renders faster as you don’t waste CPU time with video compression. Now 100% of your CPU time can be used rendering your effects!

Full Resolution

Intensity uses full resolution HDTV, which is a massive 1920 x 1080 pixels for every video frame. HDV only uses 1440 pixels wide due to the limitations of the small cassette tapes used and the FireWire speeds build into the cameras. However the newer cameras being released, such as the Sony HDR-HC3 have built-in HDMI video output which allow access to the raw uncompressed video from the CCD directly. That provides incredible quality. If you're capturing off HDV tape, you can still enjoy editing video in full resolution, so your graphics and effects look sharp because only uncompressed video eliminates the horizontal scaling that’s required when rendering HDV footage with graphics and effects.

Uncompressed or Compressed Video

HDV and DV also use heavy compression. With HDV, the compression is time based which loads up the system CPU as the editing software reassembles the video just to display each frame in the video. With Intensity you're working in uncompressed, so all CPU time is free for real time effects and the system feels snappy and fast to use. Because uncompressed video in HD requires a fast disk array, to save cost you can also choose compressed video that’s higher quality than HDV. For example you can use DV 100 codec on Mac OS X™ which is 4 times better quality than HDV, or on Windows™ you can choose our new full resolution JPEG codec.

Higher Color Resolution

HDMI doesn't use compression so you can record video without video compression, or choose a better compression more compatible with the work your doing. HDV and DV are limited to 4:1:1 color sampling, so you only get 1-red and 1-blue video pixel for every 4 pixels in your image. This blurs color and causes serious color bleed on deep colors and destroys the crispness of your images. HDMI uses 4:2:2 video which has twice the color resolution, so your video won’t suffer soft and smeared color.