Features
- Workflows
- HDMI® video capture and monitoring for Mac & PC — Capture uncompressed-quality, digital HD from HDMI-equipped camcorders. Monitor pixel for pixel on today’s latest plasma and LCD screens.
- Analog video I/O — Capture and monitor component HD or SD, plus composite and S-Video (NTSC or PAL).
- Tower or laptop operation — connects to a Mac or PC tower via PCI Express for ultra-fast operation, or connect to a laptop via ExpressCard connectivity for mobile operation.
- Comprehensive video capture & monitoring — supports all standard SD and HD video formats up to and including 1080p30 (720p, 1080i, 1080p & 1080PsF).
- Cross-platform software support — supports Avid Media Composer (Mac/Windows), Apple Final Cut Pro 7 (Mac), and Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows).
- Captures and plays uncompressed HD and SD — 10-bit 4:2:2 color depth and 1920x1080 resolution.
- Support for ProRes, DNxHD and other popular codecs — capture and monitor full-raster (1920x1080 or 1280x720) Apple ProRes, ProRes HQ, DNxHD or other popular host-based codecs supported by Final Cut, Media Composer and Premiere Pro.
- Support for file-based workflows — lets you capture, edit and monitor in any codec supported natively in Final Cut, Media Composer, or Premiere, with no transcoding needed.
- Broadcast quality — 10-bit 4:2:2 signal path throughout.
- Comprehensive audio — Capture 8 channels of embedded HDMI audio. Play back stereo, 5.1 or even 7.1 surround sound directly to powered speakers. Connect speakers, a home theater amp or an audio mixer and monitor your mix in stereo or full 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound. Also provides S/PDIF digital I/O with sample rate conversion.
- Half rack space form factor with dedicated connectors — no cable swapping or gangly, inconvenient breakout cables. Includes rack mounting brackets.

Almost all Macs output a digital audio signal that can produce everything from high-quality stereo to 5.1. surround sound. With the right cable any audio on your Mac can be broadcast through your primary sound system. How Digital Audio On The Mac Works. You can skip this if you aren’t interested 🙂 You Play Music Or A Movie On Your Mac ↓. Edit Room, On Location, Portable Audio Interface Apogee Quartet is the smallest, most portable and most affordable Apogee interface to offer surround sound monitoring. Quartet features six balanced TRS outputs which can be used to support up to 5.1 surround monitoring.
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Intel-based Mac systems with FireWire 800 have been tested in-house. Older Intel-based Macs with FireWire 400 only (those without Firewire 800) have not been fully tested with Apollo but we are not currently aware of any compatibility issues with those models (exception: MacBook Pro 3,1 “15-inch Mid/Late 2007” is not compatible).