I can also stream super easily and gracefully using the aforementioned capture card.

I can capture analog and digital footage with ease. I have an Intensity Pro 4k from Black Magic Design running in a Thunderbolt to PCI-E enclosure and it works super well on my M1 Mac mini. I never tried using it with macOS though. What's funny is that I used to have the Magewell Pro Capture HDMI, but it wasn't playing nicely with Linux (I'm also a Linux fan), so I sold it. I own two M1 Macs (an M1 Mac mini and an M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14') and they are excellent for capturing and streaming to Twitch/YouTube etc. One last nitpick I have is that macOS hasn't been called Mac OS X since 2016. The M1 Mac mini has been out for almost 2 years at this point (it was one of the first Macs to get the M1 chip), and the new M1 Max/Ultra machines are called the Mac Studio. Don't want to get a bunch of comments on that.Ĭapture hardware wise currently I have a Magewell USB Capture HDMI Plus which isn't compatible with OSX ARM so I guess that is out and my other card is a Magewell Pro Capture HDMI which is compatible with the M1 chip but I guess I would need a PCIe to Thunderbolt case, I have found a few that should work, they all say they are for Apple notebooks.Īs for mac mini vs studio mac is the mac mini good enough to capture and stream 4k? Right now my limitation is 1080p but I do want to somewhat futureproof an Apple purchase. Ok, hopefully the above tells everyone that I'm alright with the cost and I don't want to use windows for the capture/streaming. The new studio mac and Mac Mini came out and I've wanted to get a mac for a while, I had the early intel macs when I was a kid and now have more money to splurge. I know I have said that already but I feel I need to make that clear. I know it isn't as cost effective as building a PC but like I said before I use Linux mainly, windows for games/VR, but Linux just is kinda mess with audio and once again I'm not really a windows user. I play games on it but I'm not a windows user so it just blows up on me occasionally. I have consoles for backup when windows freaks out and the game won't run on Linux.

I don't really want to use windows for anything production, just games because it always has problems. I mainly use Linux but I'm getting so sick of audio situation on there, setting everything up takes an hour before I capture video or stream because how Linux assigns audio devices.

Late 2017 mac mini video input