I work for a web-video company that is making the move to all-mac environment. We broadcast a live daily video show to 3 different sources on the internet, each of which requires a separate feed coming into the machine. To do this we have 3 Viewcast Osprey cards in our PC.

Can anyone tell me what good equivalent capture cards are for the Mac? The Ospreys we use are the 210 and 230 models which are both in the $200-250 range. I've ordered a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card which seems to fit the bill. Ideally we'd use PCI-X cards as we have several G5 PowerMac's I'd rather use for this task than having to use PCI-e and using a new Mac Pro (or Hackintosh). I should note that using multiple external firewire devices (like Canopus DVC110, etc) does not work with the combination of software we are using.

Any advice would be appreciated!

I am using a Hackintosh with a similar config as your signature. I have added a Blackmagic HD extreme card PCI-e and it works beautifully, no issues at all.

I would like to install Blackmagic Intensity Pro card in my Hackintosh. This is the card:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/

This is my configuration:

Q6600
Asus P5K-E WiFi AP
8 GB DDR2 Kingmax 800 MHz
2xGainward Geforce 7300GT 256MB 128bit@passive (Full QE/CI working)
Seagate 250GB single-platter
Apple OS X 10.5.2 Leopard (all working)

Will it work with drivers included on a CD from Blackmagic? Or I'll need to move around with kext files or some tweaking? Will it work at all? Has anyone tried? I use FinalCut Studio 2 (FCP 6.02). Thanks

I think it should work. I'll be building a hackintosh this week, and I'm going to try to make the Intensity card work. I'll let you know how that goes.

Anything on this? i would love to put an intensity card in my Hackintosh!!!

Report: Blackmagic Intensity Pro on Osx86 (Kalyway 10.5.2) and FCP 6.0.3

- Installed in Gigabyte DS3R
- Installed drivers from the CD
- Tested & working: RCA output, HDMI in

Has anyone made a serious stress test with a Blackmagic card? I'm also considering getting one for my hack.
I keep reading everywhere that capturing and playing back HDMI absolutely requires a RAID array for smooth operation. Is that true? Does RAID and HDMI work properly under Leopard?

Much appreciated.
cheers

Yeah I think I wanna add an instensity pro when I get mine up. Has anyone used it on a hack? Is the performance good? I'm glad the install is fine but how about operation?

Our shop got 3 blackmagic so far. one with SD only, one with analog with SDI, one with HD.  they will work. no problem. If you have vanilla kernel, it will think you got the real mac and it will run mac drivers just fine.  they are great pieces of hardware.

Just wanted to inform people that this works without a glitch Just like on real Mac, so I hope this helps someone with similar question