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Blackmagic Design made a trio of product announcements at NAB, including Intensity Pro, a new, low-cost yet high-quality video capture and playback card for professional videographers; the Multibridge Eclipse editing system; and HDLink Pro, a new model of the popular HDLink converter.
The Intensity Pro is said to be the first card to combine the high quality of HDMI capture and playback with the wide compatibility of analog component, NTSC, PAL, and S-Video, along with analog 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.
Intensity Pro can be connected to any big-screen television or video projector for edit monitoring, since current computers don't have the processing speed to render complex, multi-layer, real-time effects in HDV playing back to FireWire cameras. Included with every Intensity Pro card for real-time video mixing is On-Air software, which enables customers to plug two Intensity or Intensity Pro cards into a computer for two-camera mixing for live video production.
The card is available for $349.
Also at the show, the company unveiled its Multibridge Eclipse, possibly the first editing system with 3gb/sec SDI, HDMI, and analog video capture and playback, 16-channel ...