I just picked up a different one for 200€.
The first guy flaked out on me but I got another, along with some free BNC coax thrown in.
I’m literally headed home with it and could only test it for communication via the control panel on my Mac. Everything seems to be fine. Will probably install it tomorrow morning and give it a test.
Thanks for advice and encouragement.
Kent,
AJA configurations can be pretty tricky at first. PM me if you need help getting up and running and we can get on a zoom. Also, there are ways to use it as a passthrough converter without your computer which BMD just won’t ever do.
Thanks! I’m waiting upon a USB to RS232 unit so that I can update my scaler. I will go YPbPr out of the scaler to the AJA io HD for capture and conversion to something that my PVM can handle.
I’ll take advantage of your generosity should I run into trouble. Thanks again.
I bought this DIGITNOW recorder and tried it out at my first live gig last week. It was… fine? Quality was alright and having a little screen to position as a monitor was really nice. It didn’t crash on me during the show luckily, though it has crashed while I’m at home playing around randomly.
But! I would not recommend it to anyone else who is trying to record live performances. The docs are very open about the fact that the max recording file size is 4GB. What they don’t mention is that when the file reaches 4GB, it stops the recording and restarts it again, causing a gap of 3-4 seconds in your recorded video!
Fine for many applications, unacceptable for live 
idk if it’s the kind of thing they can improve with a firmware update, but unless they do I’d say make sure you know your use-cases before you commit to buying it.
Hi stith
I’ve got a few quick questions:
were you recording from component?
if so how long was the 4GB file that was recorded?
was this with stereo audio?
after the 3-4 second gap was a second file started? so file1 stops recording when it gets to 4GB then there’s a 3-4 second gap before file2 starts recording?
the unit only has HDMI input, not component. i sent my cortex’s component signal into a converter and split the HDMI out from there to the DIGITNOW and then to the main screen.
the files were about 26 minutes long, with stereo audio from a 3.5mm cable injected in at my converter. and yeah, you have it right. it stops recording and then automatically starts again a few seconds later. presumably it’s like… finalizing the file or something.
It looks like there’s a DIGITNOW recorder with a screen and component in and hdmi output - which is a decent price - I might give one of them a go then - 26 mins is long enough for me…
ah just checked it’s composite - might skip for now then and just keep on using iphone iphone - just have to find my usb adapter (again) to record audio
One cheap solution that I don’t see mentioned regularly (I don’t think anyways) is using a mini DV camera to firewire to computer. Some of you may already be fully equipped for this if you have a firewire port.
A lot of old mini DV cameras can convert AV to DV so you can just connect via firewire and capture. I use S-video out of VC into a canon zr40 (these can be had for very cheap on ebay, under 50USD, I’m sure a number of other cameras can handle this conversion, this just what I have on hand) then firewire out to an old desktop with Premiere to capture. I suppose you could also capture your video to mini DV tape then capture later if you wanted a more mobile standalone, computer-free capture.
Not sure how much the camera used affects the conversion. Definitely curious how much of a factor that is. I also have an El Gato, which works well, and while I haven’t done any scientific side by side comparison, the video captured via DV camera generally looks better.
Another nice feature is that it works the other way too, you can send video from firewire into your system with AV-DV off.
Maybe this is obvious, but hopefully it’s helpful to someone out there!
Not obvious to me and SUPER helpful. Thanks!
Has anyone’s Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt suddenly stopped showing ProRes as an option for capture format? Quicktime Uncompressed and DPX are now the only choices I have. Didn’t update my OS or anything…this just started happening out of nowhere. Black magic indeed. 
Hey ya’ll,
does anyone have capture recommendations for use with ESG3? i’m trying to explore some affordable 1080 options before my preorder is shipped (hopefully very soon 
) in the past ive stuck with camera capture but i’m now leaning towards stand alone or capture card/interface with composite and/or component input. my PC should be more than capable of handling captures. Is converting to sdi before capture worth it? what would be a solid recording setup?
thanks for your recommendations,
Keith
Hello Keith, @droningbrightnessav
Myself & @cinema.av gave a workshop & Gen3 demonstration in Berlin yesterday evening & used my BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle (USB3 version) with my HP laptop & it worked perfectly fine capturing video with OBS. Evan set it up so it was about 3.1MB per second, about 200MB per minute. I’m sure it was set to 1080p25 PAL via the dip switches.
I hope this helps.
Here’s the CCTV perspective of the workshop once we’d finished 
Can you still buy a BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle?
Good point @nerdware, it’s long out of stock but they’re easily found used & are often very reasonably priced with current drivers still available from the BM website for Windows 10, my laptop is about 4 years old & I picked up my BMIS only about 2 months ago 
This site says the driver is compatible with Win 11:
hmmm i wonder about windows 11 compatibility.
oops just saw the link posted. good to know. thanks for your input.
Blackmagic Design still make the Intensity PCIe version if that works for anybody
My Atomos Ninja 2 is still doing great, but just found out it won’t capture 1080p 59.94/60 fps, but can do 720p 59.94 fps for now. Looking for a used Blackmagic Video Assist 5" 3G for my next capture device, as I’ll be able to use a Black Magic component to SDI converter to capture 10-bit color as well. Need those smooth gradient captures for my studio work. Alternatively, I may try to revive my Intensity shuttle TB2 with a TB3 adaptor and 2020 Intel MBP for home studio captures, but I don’t recommend the Thunderbolt model.
For what it’s worth, the Gen3 formats cap out at 1080p30/1080i60, so you don’t need it to support 1080p60 capture, if recording ESG3 is the goal.
Yea, it’s low down on budget priorities due to this and having other options at home already. It’s more a pipe dream for me, or info for others searching for a solution at the moment. But I can do 720p 59.94, and then upscale in my Roland V-40HD to 1080p 59.94, so would have liked to be able capture that at a show someday.
