going from sp to intensity pro…

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Stefan,

If you need to connect to a Betacam SP deck, a Digitbeta deck and the analog outputs of your HDV camera, then the DeckLink HD Extreme card would be the best option for you.

If you don’t need to connect to Betacam SP and Digitbeta decks, then the Intensity Pro would be the right card for you.

To what other hardware did you used to connect your DeckLink SP card, ie what monitors or decks? How did you acquire Digibeta files given that the DeckLink SP doesn’t capture from a Digibeta?

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Stefan Kroesbacher]

Hi,

mine is the second station – files from digibeta
are being captured at the first station…

i’d go for a bigger card, but as my budget is
limited i have to start with the intensity pro…

but i can capture from digi and beta, but
only analog and without TC and Machine control,
right?? Even HD??

if so, that’s pretty amazing for this amount of money…

thanx

stefan

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Stefan,

Sorry I missed your reply. While you could easily capture analog video from the Digibeta and the Betacam SP using the Intensity Pro, audio will be a little trickier as the decks are outputting balanced professional level audio whereas the Intensity is capturing unbalanced HiFi audio. If you already have a mixer, then you should be able to adjust this so it works fine. If you don’t have a mixer, then you would need a device such as the Rolls MB15 ProMatch which costs around US$70.

The Intensity Pro will capture directly from the analog video and audio outputs from your HDR-FX1 camera as it uses unbalance HiFi audio so no modifications are necessary.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design