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Black-Magic today announced the availability of their Intensity Pro card for sale across their dealers for the price of $399. They have another card with HDMI input/output only for the price of $249.Intensity features HDMI technology for highest quality capture and playback on windows and Mac computers. HDMI allows to work on true 4:2:2 color space and full true 1920X1080 HDTV video and better than compressed HDV of 1440X1080 size.

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Intensity ProTechnical Specifications

Connecions

Intensity™ Intensity Pro™
Digital Video Input 1 x HDMI input.
Digital Video Output 1 x HDMI output.
Supported HDMI formats 525 NTSC, 625 PAL, 720HD and 1080HD switchable.
HDMI Audio Input 2 Channels.
HDMI Audio Output 2 Channels.
Analog Video Input Component, NTSC, PAL or S-Video.
Analog Video Output Component, NTSC, PAL or S-Video.
Analog Audio Input 2 Channel RCA HiFi audio in 24 bit.
Analog Audio Output 2 Channel RCA HiFi audio in 24 bit.
SPDIF Audio Output 2 Channel 24 bit.
Dual Rate support HDMI and Analog Component switches between high definition and standard definition.
Sync Input None
Device Control Use FireWire if capturing from HDMI cameras.

Standards

HD Format Support 1080i50, 1080i59.94, 720p50 and 720p59.94.
SD Format Support 625/25 PAL and 525/29.97 NTSC.
HDMI Video Sampling 4:2:2.
HDMI Color Precision 4:2:2.
HDMI Color Space YUV 4:2:2.
HDMI Audio Sampling Television standard sample rate of 48 kHz and 24 bit.
Card type PCI Express 1 lane, compatible with 1,4,8 and 16 lane PCIe slots.

Processing

Colorspace Conversion Hardware based real time.
HD Down Conversion Real time 1080HD and 720HD to standard definiton during video playback.
Real time standard definition to 1080HD and 720HD during video capture.
Real time effects Apple Final Cut Pro™ internal effects on Mac OS X™.
Adobe® Premiere Pro® internal effects in DV, MJPEG and uncompressed edit formats.