Instruction manual

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Using for Capture and Playback
Third Party Applications
Adobe After Effects
It’s very easy to set up playback and rendering in Adobe After Effects
™
for a complete creative and
design workstation that supports real time preview while working on your compositions.
First, open Adobe After Effects and select the television standard frame size and frame rate you wish
to work with.
How to use Intensity Pro as a preview output frame buffer
To allow your Adobe After Effects composition to be displayed in real-time from your Intensity Pro,
go to
Edit > Preferences > Video Preview. Select Blackmagic RGB and the appropriate
video standard. This lets you view your Adobe After Effects compositions in video colorspace on
your broadcast monitor as you work. This means you will always see the correct color and interlace
when working, and you don’t have to wait until your composition is rendered to see what it looks
like when output as video.
Create a New Composition
Go to the “Composition” menu and select
Composition > New Composition. (Control + n for
PC or Command + n for Mac) In the dialogue box, select an appropriate television standard from
the pulldown menu. Click OK
For all HD standards select upper field first.
For NTSC and NTSC DV use 720 x 486 and select lower field first.
For PAL 720 x 576 and select upper field first for uncompressed video.
For PAL DV 720 x 576 and select lower field first.
For HD 1080i select 1920 x 1080 and select upper field first.
For HD 720p select 1280 x 720 and select “none” in the field render box.
Rendering
When you have completed your composition, you will need to render to a pixel format supported
by Intensity. Below is a list of supported codecs:
Blackmagic 8 Bit QuickTime
™
(uncompressed)
Blackmagic 8 Bit AVI for Windows (uncompressed)
Blackmagic Motion JPEG AVI for Windows (compressed)
Apple QuickTime
™
PhotoJPEG (compressed)
Apple QuickTime
™
DV - NTSC (compressed)
Apple QuickTime
™
DV - PAL (compressed)
Adobe After Effects.
Preferences.