[Lachlan Jadezak]

Oh and sorry for the double post, but I have component cables going out of the PS3, into the DVI breakout cable on the Intensity Pro, and then HDMI out of the intensity into my monitor.

[Lachlan Jadezak]

I currently have mine set up for Playstation 3 capture, I’ll give you all my settings. Oh and I’m running the 3.4 drivers, I hear they are the most stable.

Starting with the Blackmagic control panel:

Set ouput – HDMI & Y,R-Y,B-Y

Set input – Y,R-Y,B-Y video & analog RCA audio

setup in NTSC – 7.5 IRE

remove field jitter when video is paused – ticked

last two off and off

In blackmagic media express (v1)

Edit > Preferences

Video Format – HD 720p 59.94

Compression Type – compressed Motion JPEG (if you’re running a RAID set up and have space, then you can go uncompressed)

Capture Location/Filename – whatever you want

playback settings – irrelevant, mines unticked anyway.

On the PS3 you want to make sure you got video output on component, and have the highest resolution at 720p, any higher/lower and it won’t display

audio output is the red/white cables.

For xbox you can use a HDMI cable, but I believe the settings would be the same.

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Ok thank you very much! Shall be buying one 🙂

Oh one last thing, you can have component in and HDMI out right? My monitor doesn’t have component in, and I can’t have HDMI in to the intensity as I’ll be using a PS3 which has HDCP encoding, so I want to have component in to the card from the PS3 and then HDMI out to the monitor.

Thanks.

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Ok thank you very much! Any other confirmations welcome 🙂

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Ok, well I’ll make sure to by multiple disks next time I do. Thank you very much for the help!

This is the first thread I’ve created on the forum and I’m extremely impressed by the responses on here, great website!

I shall be purchasing the Intensity Pro 🙂

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Oh ok, thank you for that, I thought the Pro was only uncompressed as everyone I have talked to has stressed that I use >1 hard drive because it captures uncompressed. So, that raises the question, can I capture compressed footage at a smooth FPS with my current set up?

I should probably be a little more specific about my hard drive as I assume it would be the main cause of bad performance.

I current have a “WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 ATA” as my device manager tells me. I actually don’t really remember purchasing my hard drive, so I don’t really know what it is. I knew very little about computers back then, and just kinda grabbed some stuff without thinking too much about it, which I kinda regret. From my google searches, this is what I found about the hard drive (not %100 sure it’s the same one to be honest)

Drive Performance
Buffer: 64MB
Maximum External Data Transfer Rate: 300MBps
Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate: 111MBps
Rotational Speed: 5400 rpm

I’m currently looking for a new job (I’m currently doing my HSC course (important Australian final exam if you don’t live there, done in the last year of high school) so I can’t work much, but I will try and get enough money to grab an extra hard drive at some point and do some research on RAID configurations (do they need any specific hard drives?)

Anyway, just a little summary, I will be capturing at 720p, using the Black Magic Intensity Pro with 1 hard drive and an i7 860, with 2 Radeon HD 5770’s and 4GB RAM. Can I capture at a smooth FPS? If I can the Pro is definately a better choice due to lack of a PCI slot for USB 3.0 because of 2 graphics cards.

Thanks,

Lachlan.

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Hmm well that’s a bit of a pain, and I haven’t got enough money for a new motherboard. I’d almost be willing to take out one card, but this all seems to be getting a fair bit of a hassle just to capture some footage. The Intensity Pro can’t capture compressed can it? That rules that out as I don’t have a hard drive array to capture uncompressed.

That leaves me the choice of getting the Shuttle and removing a graphics card, or going with the Hauppauge, which doesn’t have the ability to capture uncompressed at all if I were to ever get a hard drive array.

Reading my motherboard manual, I have a PCIe x16 slot, running at x16 and a PCIe x16 running at x4, I currently have my graphics cards in these two slots, if I were to replace one with the GA-USB3.0, where would it go? In the x4 one?

Thanks for your explanation on PCI.

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Ok thank you 🙂 I am sure to buy this now, only one last thing, I’ve found a more suitable USB expansion card, the Gigabyte GA-USB3, the only difference I see between it and the Asus one is it is x1 lane PCI Express 2.0 where as the Asus one is x4 lane PCI Express. Is there a difference in speeds or something important here? I know very little about PCI so a quick explanation would be very nice.

Thank you both for your help!

Lachlan

[Lachlan Jadezak]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I wanted the shuttle mainly because I have the ability to work with only one hard drive due to being able to compress videos, and I believe the formats are easier to work with in editing programs, (the Hauppauge is H264, which can be a bit iffy at times), and I’d be able to work with uncompressed later on if I upgrade my hard drives. My main concern was the compatibility of the USB 3.0 expansion card with my mobo, but as all seems well i think I’ll give it a go.