Audio & Accessories News

Video capture and playback

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:24
Blackmagic Design has announced Intensity Extreme, a new low cost and extremely high quality video capture and playback product for professional videographers with HDMI and analogue video based on the new Thunderbolt technology.

Intensity Extreme is the first Thunderbolt technology based device 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 in a compact size that’s completely powered from the Thunderbolt connection on the computer. This means Intensity Extreme is the perfect solution for adding video to laptop computers as it powers from the laptop battery.

The system enables users to capture directly from the HD camera’s image sensor, bypassing the video compression chip for true uncompressed video quality. Intensity Extreme can be connected to any big screen television or video projector for edit monitoring. Current computers don’t have the processing speed to render complex multi layer real time effects in HDV playing back to FireWire cameras. Intensity Extreme solves this problem by outputting video on HDMI and analog outputs for big screen monitoring in both SD or HD formats.

It switches between the 1080 HD, 720 HD, NTSC and PAL video standards and is fully compatible with Adobe™ Premiere™ Pro, Apple™ Final Cut Pro 7™, Adobe After Effects™, Adobe Photoshop™ and any QuickTime™ based software application.

“We think the combination of HDMI and analogue on an extremely compact Thunderbolt bus powered design combined with an affordable price will change the lives of thousands of professional videographers,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design Inc. “Intensity Extreme features an amazing design that’s machined out of a solid block of aluminum. Only Intensity Extreme gives you compact size, power efficient design, high quality and incredible strength, that is simply perfect as the ultimate portable video solution.”

” SCREENAFRICA Print Magazine – October 2011 (view here)