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Using for Capture and Playback
Blackmagic Design Applications
Blackmagic On-Air 2.0 for Mac Pro
Blackmagic On-Air is an exciting new utility which turns two Intensity cards into a live video mixer
so you can easily mix between two HDMI cameras, such as the Sony HDR-HC3 Handycam
®
. Simply
plug two Intensity cards into your Mac OS X Intel based computer and you get all the advantages
of live HD video production.
Live production gives you instant results, because all mixing is live and when your event is complete,
you have a finished television program ready to burn to DVD, or distribute via the internet. Live
production is much easier than spending hours in a dark edit suite, so people who are not trained
in video can get the advantages of professional video production.
Unfortunately one of the side effects of low cost non linear editing is the art of live television
production is being lost! On-Air is perfect, because it uses NLE video cards for live production.
Live production is simply more fun.
You’re flying by the seat of your pants and you can’t help but
get emotionally connected to the event you’re editing as it unfolds before you. Mistakes aren’t a
problem as you can also record to the video tape in each camera and drop those shots in later!
Blackmagic On-Air is a self contained two camera television studio designed to feature a complete
interface within a single application window that fits on a 20 inch computer monitor. With two
Intensity cards installed in the same machine, you can plug-in two cameras with HDMI and see the
camera-view in the window, along with a graphics key input and the main program view.
Exciting new low-cost HDV cameras with HDMI outputs, means that anyone with a PCI Express-
based Mac and a 1600 x 1000 pixels resolution computer monitor can perform SD or HD editing.
The first step is to launch Blackmagic On-Air and open the
Preferences
. Set the Video format to
match the output of your cameras, e.g. HDTV 1080i 59.94 or 720p 50. Decide whether you want
to capture uncompressed video, or if you don’t have a disk array, you can capture professional
compressed video such as DV, DV50, JPEG or DVCPRO HD to your internal disk drive.
