Hi Fred, No, the Blackmagic cards only support a couple resolutions per input (standard def for analog and 720p/1080i for HDMI/HDSDI), so what we do is take VGA out from a laptop, send it to a VGA-HDMI scaler (this one: http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-PC-Component-to-HDMI-Scaler-with-local-PC-Component-output-p-17472.html), then the HDMI output from that into an Intensity Pro for use with the HD vic. That particular scaler has worked with every resolution we've thrown at it; the only downsides are that the VGA passthrough doesn't always work on our HDTVs with all resolutions (but theoretically we could just split the HDMI out, which does always work), and it doesn't automatically preserve aspect ratio (but you can manually switch it between 4:3 and 16:9).
--Andrew 2009/5/5 Fred Dech <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> after looking at the specs more closely, i note that the component is YUV... NTSC/PAL. how about, laptop DVI out, convert to SDI, SDI into capture card? i'm starting to believe, though, that this card does not support multi-resolution input, and may not support capturing SVGA, XGA, etc. thanks, --fred On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:36PM, Fred Dech wrote: > hi. > > has anyone successfully used this card to capture, say, analog > laptop video out and stuff it into a VideoProducerService as h261as? > > thanks, > > --fred
