Blackmagic Design has dropped an update to the popular Intensity HDMI capture card. With the new Intensity Pro, you get analog component inputs as well as HDMI. So you can shoot straight-up uncompressed with a wider variety of commodity camcorders, or just use the card (as many do) to ingest frame-accurate long-GOP HDV into a more easily editable format like DVCPRO HD, or perhaps Apple’s exciting new ProRes 422 codec. You can do realtime colorspace and down-conversion to a variety of HD and SD formats on the fly during capture. And the cards are cross-platform with drivers for both Mac and PC. The new Intensity Pro card retails for just $349, and you can still get the HDMI-only version for $249. A great update to an already fantastic product.

Videoguys has the HDMI Intensity card series listed at $245 and $345, respectively. B&H has them for $249 and $331.