Using a cheaper Decklink card

[Sascha Haber]

Now thats an interesting question…
Not only about money for me.
But in regards of slot usage.
I would love to use the Intensity only..
I need HDMI video out and analog sound out.

…and i just ordered a Extreme HD…well

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.0.3
Dual Xeon 2,4
OSX 10.6.5RAM 6 GB
RAID 8TB intern
Extern 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
WAVE

[Robert Houllahan]

The Decklink HD I have worked for monitoring, I think the drivers are the same for all of the Decklink cards so Resolve just sees the card as being there.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

Mackbook Pro

[Uli Plank]

Decklink HD works fine here. Don’t know about the Intensity – doesn’t it have different drivers?

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Joshua Helling]

Eh….sticky situation.

The short answer is that because the architecture of our cards and their drivers all run off the same code, any of our modern boards should theoretically load in and run. This should also not affect performance.

What do you loose? Well, we’ve made some pretty serious firmware changes to the Decklink HD Extreme 3/3d/3d+ cards that allow for LTC and deck control to be accurate within Resolve (there are a number of things, but those two come to mind).

Here’s the thing. We only test the boards i’ve mentioned above. And right now, we don’t plan on testing others. So, if you have some problems doing this…we’ll log the issue but that’s as far as it will go.

The bottom line is that we can only support the configurations we define in our support guide.

I hope that helps for what it’s worth.

Sincerely,

Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc.

[Jonathon Lee]

So the Intensity may work or for sure will NOT work? thanks!

[Robert Pitman]

The upshot of all this is: it may or may not work but more importantly it will not be tested for compatibility. I personal think their reasons are very fair “LTC and deck control to be accurate within Resolve” etc.

At my work we just got two copies of Resolve with two new Decklink HD Extreme 3d+ cards (and a couple Decklink HD Extreme 3) but we also have a number of other Decklink cards.

I’ll do a test with the Intensity and Multibridge Pro when I can (maybe in the new year) and I’ll post the outcome.

Cheers,
Robert

[Marco Rusch]

We work with the lowest price BM SDI Card. No Problem!

[Yann Heckmann]

The problem would be that the Intensity doesn’t support 1080p25.

Yann Heckmann – Editor & Color Grader – London

[Uli Plank]

True! So it doesn’t work with the HP Dreamcolor.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Jonathon Lee]

I too am trying to figure out which video i/o card with HDMI will work directly connected to the HP Dream Color.

The Dream Color needs RGB + true progressive in order for it’s color profiling system to work. I was hoping the Intensity would work, however, it looks as though it only passes YUV 422 (YCbCr do they mean?). The Decklink HD Ext 3D supports RGB & YUV in general, but is not specified on the spec sheet as to wether it supports RGB 444 via the HDMI port. My guess is yes???

I want to avoid having to put an SDI to HDMI/DP converter inline with the monitor. Looks like the AJA K3G supports RGB over HDMI too. I heard BM may support 3rd party i/o boards at some point. I’m one of those people trying to cram a Smoke and Resolve into the same box. 20 pounds of gold into a 5 pound bag or so the saying goes? Ultimately I’d rather use the BM card due to cost. So if Autodesk supports the DL card and BM supports the MC Color panel and nvidia releases Q5 or Q6 for mac… I’m in biz. But, looks like another PCI-e expansion chassis is in my future. Boo.