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Re: Question for Urban Reflex
Posted By: Urban Reflex	Date: 2/15/09 8:07 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Question for Urban Reflex (ElusiveEagle519) : I've been looking at getting the Blackmagic Intensity Pro myself, but it's : been a little hard to justify the cost. Do you have any advice regarding : places to buy it (cheaper, maybe : ) ) or why you chose the Intensity Pro : over some other options? Well, I saw a video the Wu posted using his Intensity (an awesome flag save on Avalanche I think), and that's what basically made me decide to get it. I couldn't find any other HD recording capture card for anywhere near the price of the Intensity, so it was a no-brainer. I got it for about £189 from http://www.onevideo.co.uk, but it's now shot up to £240 (!) so I can't really recommend it there. Best thing you can do is just look around and buy it from the cheapest place you can find. : Also, I've looked but haven't found any sort of "education" : discount for the Intensity Pro. I'm guessing one doesn't exist, but has : anyone heard of or found anything like that themselves? I would guess it'd be on there website if it does :/ : Lastly, with your hard drive setup, I'm guessing then that the HD's are not : in RAID. Is that correct? No. I have one HDD as a main, and then the other I purchased specifically for storing and "caching" my videos. My main is a 150GB Raptor, so it's about 5ms seek time and 10,000rpm, and the secondary is 9ms 7,200rpm. Yet, in terms of frame rates and read/write rates, the secondary performs about 30-40% faster because it doesn't have to suffer with OS traffic. This means it's perfectly adequate for 720p capture, though I'd still struggle with 1080i unless I went RAID. Considering that 360 games are usually rendered at 720p and anything interlaced looks horrible IMO, I decided to skip the RAID. In the new Intensity software there is now an option for "1080 PsF" at 23, 24, and 25 frames per second, though I haven't had the chance to play around with it.

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Excuse my noob-ness	Jagged	2/12/09 1:03 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	SonofMacPhisto	2/12/09 1:09 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Jagged	2/12/09 1:13 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	vlad3163	2/12/09 4:21 a.m.
What happened to gamevee?	bluerunner	2/12/09 6:48 a.m.
This one works	Karagara1	2/12/09 10:19 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Urban Reflex	2/12/09 10:56 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Jagged	2/13/09 2:24 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Urban Reflex	2/13/09 5:26 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Urban Reflex	2/13/09 9:17 a.m.
Re: Excuse my noob-ness	Jagged	2/13/09 6:33 p.m.
Question for Urban Reflex	Hoovaloov	2/15/09 1:24 a.m.
Re: Question for Urban Reflex	Urban Reflex	2/15/09 8:25 a.m.
Re: Question for Urban Reflex	ElusiveEagle519	2/15/09 5:24 p.m.
Re: Question for Urban Reflex	Urban Reflex	2/15/09 8:07 p.m.
NICE!	SonofMacPhisto	2/13/09 3:48 p.m.