Re: Calibrating HDMI Monitor/Output with Intensity (Pro)

Hi David,

Thank you very much for your suggestions which I will discuss with the engineers. We've got proc amps on the analog connections of Intensity Pro and the DeckLink cards as analog video needs these controls unlike digital video connections such as SDI or HDMI. The feedback we've previously received is that most people wouldn't want a blue-only mode or proc amp on all outputs as people generally don't want to affect (SDI) video itself. They simply want to adjust it on their monitor and that's why HDLink Pro has these features. However I'll bring it up again as I can see what you'd like to do and it's definitely worth discussing.

I haven't tested an MXO so I can't say for sure how well it works with Intensity Pro and I'm not quite sure what workflow you have in mind. I can say that Intensity and Intensity Pro use native HDMI and so require a HDMI connection which the MXO does not appear to have. Most video is YUV video and Intensity (Pro) happily works with that. However DVI-based products only work with RGB video and usually only work at one frequency, eg 60 Hz. So if Intensity Pro is outputting 25 or 29.97 Hz video in the YUV color space via HDMI, I'm not sure if the MXO will colorspace convert to RGB and provide pulldown processing to a frequency such as 60 Hz. It would be easier to just output from the Intensity Pro card directly to an HDMI or component analog monitor.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design