Black Magic Intensity Pro and Vegas 9.0

[Norman Willis]

Hi John.

Reprinted from:
https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/what-happens-vegas/98261-vegas-intesity-hdmi-card-2.html
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I’ve successfully used the Intensity Pro HDMI card with all versions of Vegas Pro 8, i.e. capturing via HDMI and preview via HDMI to a HD LCD during edit even though Blackmagic Design maintains that it is only Beta drivers available for Vegas Pro 8.

ONLY INSTALL THE INTENSITY DRIVERS AFTER VEGAS HAS BEEN INSTALLED!! If for some reason you had to un/re-install Vegas Pro 8, uninstall and reinstall the Intensity Pro drivers.

I’ve installed both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vegas Pro 9. The Intensity Pro drivers do not get installed in the appropriate Vegas Pro 9 directories, for the Vegas Pro 9 32-bit version do the following (these .dlls will be found in the corresponding Vegas Pro 8 directories):

Copy BMDDecklinkVideoProperties.dll to Vegas Pro 9.0 directory
Copy DeckLinkVegas.dll to Vegas Pro 9.0Video Hardware Drivers directory

Thus far I have not had any problems with Vegas Pro 9 32-bit using the Intensity Pro card. However it appears that the 64-bit version of Vegas Pro 9 does not “recognise” the Intensity Pro drivers, as far as I am concerned, looking at the Vgeas documentation, it is rather a Vegas issue than an Intensity Pro issue as the only ather device apart from Firewire that Vegas will recognise is the AJA card or device.

It is a real pity that Sony actually launched the 64-bit version with many shortcomings, e.g. I can’t open any .m2t files captured with Cineform with Vegas 64-bit version. This is discussed elsewhere on the forum. At this point in time the quote “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is really applicable. So far tests done with footage captured directly with Vegas 64-bit and editing/rendering seems to work well.

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I hope that helps.

Norman

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[Norman Willis]

Also this:

https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/what-happens-vegas/98261-vegas-intesity-hdmi-card-2.html#post1159938

Picked up an Intensity Pro on ebay and so far it seems to work properly with the latest drivers. So it seems it works with Vegas, but is not officially supported. It may be a hit or miss thing depending on the OS or other factors. I’ll post updates if I come across any issues. Win XP 32bit, Vegas 8.0c, Intensity Pro drivers 3.1.2

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So apparently the two drivers from v8 need to be loaded into v9, and then it should work.

[John Frey]

Thanks for the info, Norman. Your post is very encouraging. Will test one of the new Intensity Pro cards this coming week!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Norman Willis]

Hey John.

Would you feel like writing Sony directly, and asking them for better third-party hardware and software support?

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/productsuggestion.asp

I have been writing them, asking them to improve third part hardware and software support, and I think it would really add some weight if they knew that other independent producers also wanted that.

[Marco Di agostino]

Whit sony Vegas Pro 9.0e (64bit) Blackmagic Intensity is found and work perfectly 😉