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Blackmagic Design Intensity HDMI Capture Card
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05/16/2007 02:00 PM
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Videomaker by John Burkhart 
Intense Video, Small Size HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the newest signal standard and connector for High Definition Video. There's a lot to like about it: uncompressed digital HD video and audio travel down one easy cable connection, practically all new HD displays (well, any new HD display worth considering, anyhow) have HDMI support, and more and more camcorder manufacturers are including HDMI ports on their new HD models.
Blackmagic Design has seen this trend coming and released a video capture and display card with HDMI connectors, called Intensity. The card itself is in a deceptively small and simple package that belies the card's HD power. It plugs into a PC or Intel Mac with a PCI Express slot and has only two connectors, HDMI In and HDMI Out.
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Bringing It In So why would you want to capture video from your camcorder via HDMI, as opposed to your trusty FireWire signal? Would you get better video quality? Well, the answer here is yes and no. If you have a tape-based camcorder and are recording in DV or HDV to tape, you won't gain any advantage in picture quality when you capture your footage from the tape, since the images that are recorded on the tape have already been compressed, using either DV25 or MPEG-2. However, if you are in a studio situation and will be capturing video live from the camera to the computer using the Intensity card, you can get beautiful uncompressed HD video for a fraction of the cost of the professional solutions.
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