Intensity Card won’t capture.

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Ryan,

Almost all DVD players with HDMI output have HDCP encryption enabled all of the time, no matter whether you are using a commercial DVD or your own home movies which you have burnt to DVD. This will prevent you from capturing from a DVD player unless you have a rare model which does not permanently enable HDCP on output. All of the well-known brands appear to permanently enable HDCP. We found one DVD player with an obscure name which did not enable HDCP when playing back your own DVD’s. However this DVD player is now a few years old and no longer seems to be available.

You should be able to capture from the component output of the DVD player if you are playing a non-protected DVD. Many DVD players will enable Macrovision copy protection on the analog outputs of a DVD player if you are playing a copy-protected DVD.

Assuming your DVD is not copy-protected, open the Intensity PrefPane or Control panel and set the video input to Y, R-Y, B-Y to capture from the component analog video connections from your DVD player. By default this is set to HDMI input so you need to switch it to component input. Once you have done that, use Blackmagic Media Express to attempt to capture video. Try the different capture presets in case the video you are capturing is in a slightly different format to the one you thought it should be.

It would also be good to try a capture from one of your video cameras as there won’t be any copy-protection so you should be able to capture without problems.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Ryan Brown]

Thanks luke for the informative reply. Testing the card with my dvd player must have been part of the problem like you said the copy protection. The other issue was the settings you mentioned. I probably didn’t have the setting coming out the cam matching the setting in the control panel.

So now it captures and works great for live previewing to my 32″ lcd panel. Really cool.

What I need to do now is figure out the best workflow to capture uncompressed via either an hdmi(hv30) or hvx200 with 24p and remove the pulldown. I don’t think it will be able to do remove it on capture right.

Any recommendations…? Maybe this is more of a fcp question…?

Thanks again for the response.

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Ryan,

That’s great news and thanks for letting me know it’s working now.

While the hvx200 might have recorded 24p video, I believe it’s HDMI and component analog video connections will probably output 1080i59.94 and that the camera does the pulldown for you. Try capturing with Final Cut Pro or Blackmagic Media Express using an Intensity 1080i59.94 easy setup and see if that works. If not, try some of the other 1080i formats and see if any of them work. I’m pretty sure that the 1080i59.94 easy setup will allow you to capture 24p material directly from the camera.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Ryan Brown]

Hi Luke.

So far what I’ve tried is setting the camera(hf10 and sd-9) to 1080 24p and captured via fcp and used the bmd 1080 59.94 uncompressed. i then went into compressor and did a reverse telecine to make it 24p.

It would be great to try the easy setting and get 24p on capture. I guess I’ll have to try it. Also this is a probably a dumb question but how do i know if worked? Will the clip properties say something like 1080 24p or 23.976 or something…?

Thanks…I’m new to fcp and working with the bmd products. Now that I got the card working it’s pretty fun.

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Ryan,

Regardless of the format you choose on your camera, I believe the HDMI output will continue to output 1080i59.94. There are a lot of HDMI displays which do not support 1080p24 and so it might be better to stay with the 1080i59.94 format. Intensity Pro does not capture in the 1080p24 format. The current supported formats are: 1080i50, 1080i59.94, 720p50, 720p59.94 and 625/25 PAL and 525/29.97 NTSC.

You are correct in saying that, if a clip was captured in the 1080p24 format, it’s properties would say something like 1080p23.98 or 1080p24.

I’m glad you’re having fun 🙂

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design