Thanks for that great news! The makers of the Intensity card (Black Magic) are usings Macs so it adds up in credibility (at least for me). It's True 64 Bit PCI Express!!! Look at their great web home page: http://www.decklink.com/ For Quicktime I have no doubts that Apple will add the AVCHD wrapper very soon. The question is: will they add hdmi to the pro line soon? m On Sep 24, 2006, at 8:41, Ted Langdell wrote: > Quicktime supports H264 encoding. I'd think one issue that we'll have > to wait on is whether there's Apple, Sony or third-party support for > reading the wrapper Sony uses for files written to the hard drive. > There may be some other wrinkles awaiting resolution, ala native HDV > editing, which FCP supports. > > Then, there's the HDMI port. There are cards out or on the way that > will enable capturing data sent out the HDMI port: > http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=75102