Nicolas Mayer
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So if I understand correctly at this point it all boils down to how much of a priority this is for Blackmagic’s developers? Or could Intel’s latest controller have some inherent limitations, such as an excessive bandwidth overhead, that could prevent them from ever working with the shuttle?
It appears that BM initially launched the intensity shuttle before there was any real compatible hardware on the market. In the end, it was not a breakthrough in mobility, and static PC users probably stuck with the intensity pro, which was less fussy and had more mature drivers; I suspect that this is what killed the product.
For this reason, I think that making the shuttle compatible with the latest crop of ivy bridge laptops would be the equivalent of a product relaunch/rebirth. This time, it would effectively expand BM’s market segments in the same way that the intensity extreme and ultrastudio 3d have done, instead of cannibalizing its intensity pro sales.
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Are you saying that it worked flawlessly on an Ivy bridge PC?
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Hi, I have had comparable issues with my intensity shuttle. I can capture in Media Express, but can’t make it work with another quicktime based application (WinVDIG) that works perfectly well with the intensity pro cards. The software crashes when interacting with the Intensity shuttle drivers. I have no idea why the shuttle’s software compatibility should be different from the pro’s. Could it be a drivers bug?
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So far I have had serious intensity pro compatibility issues with recent sandy bridge Gateway and Acer towers. I phoned Blackmagic support, who told me that the motherboards might be the source of the problem (both branded Acer). They claim that PC makers sometimes sell towers that are actually not up to full specs, with PCIe x1 slots not actually offering full bandwidth (yes, it sounds crazy), and that it causes problems with demanding video hardware.
Supposedly HP towers tend to be the most reliable with their products; I bought an HP tower after returning the other two, and the same intensity pro card worked fine on it.