I was kind of bored tonight so I was searching my good friend Google for some good ways to transfer video from my Xbox360 (or any component video output) to my trusty macbook pro for editing and publishing. Just for fun. Halo 3 lets me ‘record’ my matches and clips, but it’s rather limited when it comes to putting together a decent ‘movie’. That and with the imminent release of Grand Theft Auto IV, I figure I’ll have plenty of stuff to piece together and have fun with. I’ll admit that my search wasn’t extensive, but what I found was that there were not a whole lot of good suggestions being thrown around. It was either video capture devices that only seemed to have composite inputs or things that cost an arm and a leg. That was until I came across BlackMagic Design’s BlackMagic Video Recorder. This seems to have just been announced a week or so ago and isn’t coming out until July, but for $120 it gives you component, composite and s-video inputs and automatic conversion to h.264 format for iTunes. The software sounds like it’s going to make it all really easy to do too. After the craptastic things I’ve read about other’s software, I’m looking forward to this and may have a review for you all come July. For those of you who might stumble over here looking for ways to convert video from your xbox or playstation to your mac, keep an eye on that one.