Is there capture connections for dummies?

[KameronK]

Seriously, I'm searching everywhere for a way to hookup my Intensity Pro. I have yet to see an explanation or diagrams showing how to hook it up. This includes the Blackmagic support pages by the way.

The card is installed.

I have the cable.

What do I hook up to the cable to get ANY kind of display on my PC for any capture software?

I'm about to have to call a tech to come to my house to show me how to hook this up...

[jagabo]

Plug one end of "the cable" into the input of your Intensity card, the other end into the output of the device you want to capture from?

What kind of cable to you have? What are you trying to capture from?

[hunter99]

I have yet to see an explanation or diagrams showing how to hook it up. This includes the Blackmagic support pages by the way

I just downloaded the manual from their support page and the last 9 pages are hookups.

I have the cable

What cable? You can have 1 or 2 HDMI cables, to and/or from a HDMI componet. SEE Page 24
Also there is a breakout cable to use for nonHDMI. SEE Pages 28 -33

for any capture software

What software? See third party apps starting on page 9, choices look limited.
Also manual states the HDMI spec does NOT capture encrypted signals.

Good luck, you have a lot of reading and trial and error to do.

Hunter99

[KameronK]

Plug one end of "the cable" into the input of your Intensity card, the other end into the output of the device you want to capture from?

What kind of cable to you have? What are you trying to capture from?

I apologize for being short and non-specific. I was frustrated because my entire system keeps locking up randomly with the card (hardware) installed.

There is a "breakout cable" that comes with it.



I have it connected to the card. I have hooked component into it and no luck. The card also has HDMI. I have hooked up HDMI from my HDTV to the card with no luck.

I have used the following software: Media Express (comes with it), Pinnacle 10, and Vegas 8. I get no video display when I try to capture.

It's obvious it is not hooked up right.

[jagabo]

I apologize for being short and non-specific. I was frustrated because my entire system keeps locking up randomly with the card (hardware) installed.

That sounds like a hardware problem, probably an IRQ conflict. Use Device manager to look for shared IRQs. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Select Device Manager in the left pane. On the View menu select Resouces by Type. In the right pane expand the Interrupt Requests section. Are there any devices using the same IRQ number as the Intensity Pro? Some devices don't get along if they are sharing IRQs. Try moving it to another PCI slot if possible.

There is a "breakout cable" that comes with it.



I have it connected to the card. I have hooked component into it and no luck.

One of those sets of red, green, and blue connectors is for component input (the other set are for component output). They should have some kind of label like "Component In" or "Component out". Since you are trying to get video INTO the computer you want to connect to the set labeled "In". You connect the other end of the component cables to the device that is putting out the video signal -- your cable box or whatever.

Oh, you also probably want to capture audio. On of the red/white pairs is for audio input. Connect the audio OUTPUT of the cable box to the audio INPUT of the Intensity Pro breakout cable.

The card also has HDMI. I have hooked up HDMI from my HDTV to the card with no luck.

The HDMI connector(s) on your TV are inputs, not outputs. They are for getting video INTO the TV. There is not video coming OUT of them.

I have used the following software: Media Express (comes with it), Pinnacle 10, and Vegas 8. I get no video display when I try to capture.

It's obvious it is not hooked up right.

Until you get the hardware conflicts fixed you probably won't get any software to work.

[KameronK]

Jagabo -

Thanks, I talked to tech support at BlackMagic today and they told me to go into BIOS and disable the SLI. How do I do that and does that have anything to do with what you mentioned?

[jagabo]

Jagabo -

Thanks, I talked to tech support at BlackMagic today and they told me to go into BIOS and disable the SLI. How do I do that and does that have anything to do with what you mentioned?

Yes, that would be a hardware conflict.

The way you get into the BIOS varies. You might see a message as the computer is booting up that says what to do. Something like "Press Del for BIOS" or some such. If you don't see the message try pressing ESC, Del, and F1. Usually one of those key will take you to the BIOS. You must press these at the right time. You should see the caps lock etc. lights on the keyboard blink a few seconds after you turn the computer on. Press the keys right after you see that. Then use the arrow keys to work through the BIOS menus looking for SLI settings.

[KameronK]

I've looked in BIOS but couldn't find anything. The closest thing I saw was at the bottom it said..

"SLI - System Memory - DISABLED"

That lead me to believe that it's already disabled.