Broadcast & Production Capture

Broadcast and live production is where PCIe capture earns its keep over USB alternatives — multiple simultaneous camera feeds, sustained 24/7 reliability, and latency low enough that a director calling a cut actually feels instant. As a UK supplier of PCIe capture hardware, EMS covers the signal types a broadcast gallery or OB truck actually uses: 3G/HD/SD-SDI, HDMI and current-generation UHD (4K60 4:4:4) capture for the growing number of productions moving to genuine 4K workflows.

The XtremeDV-SDI4 is a common choice for multi-camera SDI production — four channels of 3G-SDI on one card, with synchronised hardware timestamping so a vision mixer or software switcher sees genuinely aligned feeds rather than drifting ones. For HDMI-based productions needing true 4K, the XtremeDV-UHD2 gives dual-channel 4K60 4:4:4 with HDCP2.2 support, direct into OBS, vMix or Wirecast without a separate driver layer.

Where a production needs IP/network sources alongside local capture — remote contributors, NDI-style feeds, or a mixed SDI-and-IP workflow — the Xtreme-ActiveSQX2 handles simultaneous encode and decode of multiple network streams on the same PCIe bus.

Everything here works standalone in a single production PC — no wall controller required unless the same hardware is also feeding a studio or gallery video wall. See the full capture card range, our guides to the best capture card for streaming and setting up 4K capture, or get in touch with your channel count and signal types.