Comments about Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio Pro, Broadcast Quality SD/HD Capture and Playback Solution for USB 3.0 Computers:

This thing looks way cool... but was missing the USB 3 cable in the box. Once I purchased my own cable did all the firmware updates and driver installs and "Tada" still didn't initialize and install properly. After fighting with it for an afternoon I called BMD support. They had me try a few things but still nothing. To Preface this, I am an IT Professional with a degree in Electrical Engineering and have supported and managed video production facilites for 10 years now so I have had to tackle my share of weird software quirks. Apparently this product doesn't currently work with my HP Envy 17 i7 (even though it matches the published tech specs) and after an email today from tech support they have no idea when it will. Just wanted to warn you all that if it isn't one of the very few pre-tested motherboards be prepared for the UltraStudio Pro to fail on install. I'll post again if they get this resolved.