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    Uncompressed or lossless with Intensity Pro card?

    Posted by Devin Earthman on March 4, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    I’m looking for a solution to record the component out of my Z1U camera to an uncompressed or at least lossless codec. Strangely on the Blackmagic website all they talk about for the Intensity card is their jpeg compression, but when I google Intensity it seems that it will do this. I’m just looking for a definitive answer on the subject!

    Also, do you think my 4 Raptor HD’s on a hardware RAID 0 will handle it or do I need more drives?

    Thanks,
    Devin

    Kristian Lam replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Kristian Lam

    March 5, 2008 at 4:41 am

    Hi Devin,

    Intensity can definitely do uncompressed video capture on both PCs and Macs.

    8-bit Uncompressed HD at 1080i60 requires about 120 Mb/sec of data throughput so 4 drives stripped as RAID 0 will be sufficient. Obviously, the more drives you have, the more streams of uncompressed HD you will be able to support.

    regards

    Kristian Lam
    Blackmagic Design

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