it has no pci express, or expansion capability at all.

Really bad if so...
Do you have link to specification of this mobo?

http://global.aopen.com/products_spec.aspx

basically, the acer "mini pc" line uses a proprietary motherboard form factor. it only fits in the case it comes with and has no internal expansion.

a-open also make mini itx boards, which is a "standard" form factor, and can allow for usually one card slot of some kind. so far ther have not updated or announced any i965 mini itx boards, but with the mini pc out now, i cant imagine it will be long before they do. most likely the new board will have one x1 slot like the old version, but with updated things like sata2 and such. if they were smart, they would make it and x4 slot and include an expresscard slot as well (the chipset supperts this), but i doubt they will.

terence

Howdy folks.. first post.

I've been lurking here for quite some time now. Being a video runt, there is not much that I can offer yet. But thanks all for the education... I've learned more here than I can possible thank you for.

Anyway, I've got a little good news. I've been holding off getting an Intensity card and just couldn't resist anymore emailing Kristian Lam of Blackmagic for an update. With her permission, here is what she said:

"I don't want to give any dates right now but we're very close to releasing support. There's just some last minute kinks we need to iron out. Feel free to let the guys on forum know about this."

So for all you folks looking for an Intensity update fix, I hope this helps.

Oh, by the way, I'm looking at this for doing some stop motion capture using the HV20. So if anyone wants to through me a bone on that I'll do my best to catch it.

Mark

...just couldn't resist anymore emailing Kristian Lam of Blackmagic for an update. With her permission, here is what she said:




It great to have another update; even better that it's still positive. Thanks for posting it.

Apologies all around if I'm wrong, but I pretty sure Kristian is a he, not a she.

"Apologies all around if I'm wrong, but I pretty sure Kristian is a he, not a she."

Oh, you are so right. At least that's what Kristian just told me. Excuss me while I wipe the egg off my face. Kristian, my applogies!!.

Mark

Oh, by the way, I'm looking at this for doing some stop motion capture using the HV20. So if anyone wants to through me a bone on that I'll do my best to catch it.

Mark, check out my thread below where I make my case for using the still-photo mode of the HV20 for doing stop-motion.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=91860

Thanks Wes, thought I had read all the stop motion threads but missed this one. Looks like I have more searching to do. But this is all off topic, so I'll go over my reasoning in a different thread when I've got my act together.

Ordered the intensity card with the anticipation of the new driver release, should be in next week. I see many more applications other than stop motion fo me... some of them pretty far-fetched... I'll just have to see where it takes me.

Mark

Is there a way to capture single frames from the HDMI using Intensity? The nice thing about using the digital still is you get the entire sensor plus you are mobile and I believe the stills are 4:2:2 plus you can use the remote to take an "exposure" which keeps from moving the camera.

Is there a way to capture single frames from the HDMI using Intensity?

Yup. At the moment I can't go into all of it due to a few pesky discloser clauses. But once I have all the peices together and can talk about it, I'll let you know.

Mark

Sounds good. I use BTV Pro for DV stop motion as that works really well at capturing single frames from a DV stream to any format. It also has onion skinning which is useful. Bypassing the JPEG compression of the digital still mode of the HV20 would be a good thing, since you are in a studio when shooting stop-motion usually anyway, being tied to an Intensity box isn't that big of an issue.

Hi chaps:

I've re-read most of the posts but my computer knowledge base stops at a certain point and you guys are thankfully beyond that!

I have a shoot in mid-June that will be primarily Varicam and cut on FCP but we have a couple of shots that will involve a Doggiecam style body mount on a young actor. I had thought it would be interesting to use the HV20 as the camera for this, and would like to record the output of the camera out to a better format than HDV (might as well do DVCPROHD as that is what the rest of the footage will be).

At this point, what are my functional options? By functional I mean ready to go within maybe a week, not "soon, hopefully". Analog component out?

Charles,

Analog component out to DeckLink Multibridge HD (or whatever they call it nowadays) will, of course, work with any camera that outputs analog signal.

OR, use Sony V1U and HDMI capture. V1U is not that much larger than HV20, and does not have any issues with HDMI capture to PC.

I have just re-designed my HD capture PC from analog in (Z1U analog -> HD-SDI -> PC uncompressed capture) to HDMI in (V1U HDMI out -> BlackMagic Intensity capture card -> PC capture into Cineform Aspect HD codec on-the-fly.)

Works beautifully in the limited tests I just completed yesterday.

just make sure you have a long high quality cable, because at the moment, you need to tether the camera to a full sized PC.

terence

I'm going to start a new thread on this as I'm not sure if everyone who is working to make this happen is reading this one--thanks for those who chimed in already.

Any news on this driver update to make the camera able to connect to the intensity?

I got the camera thinking it was going to be able to connect to the intensity card.

Hi guys,

We've just released support for the Canon HV20 with Intensity and Intensity Pro in the form of the v1.5 drivers.

This thread due to be locked shortly, please post here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=95892