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Hi, there's any way to connect my old intensity shuttle thunderbolt to a Mac mini M1?

If it's not listed under the compatible models, no.

Uli Plank wrote:If it's not listed under the compatible models, no.

Ok, -------I suppose so. Will this model be added in future actualizations?

I have my old Intensity Thunderbolt Shuttle plugged into my Mac mini via a thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter. (Not an M1 Mac mini but Intel, my error)

It is working - mostly.

Media Express sends image and stereo sound out via HMDI to OLED TV correctly.

Some older (more simpler) projects are working - except for 5.1 sound, still investigating that

Some more complete older projects are giving me errors on timelines and not sending signal out - getting error
Failed to enable video output mode [0x32643234] at device O

Source clips play, just not the timeline, which is 90 minutes, multiple video and audio tracks.

I'm using Desktop Video 12.5
HDMI set to 1080p24

OS X 13.4.1
Macmini8,1

I have stereo output at HD all working, seems the timeline that was failing was faulty somehow, but a copy and paste to new timeline resolved that.

Just can't get 5.1 sound to work, but then never could before when I had an iMac. Audio Midi setup doesn't let me save speaker configurations for the Intensity Thunderbolt. Sigh.

You should keep your old setup if you still want to use the Intensity Shuttle (Thunderbolt2)
on the other hand if this means you where actually able to capture (analog?) video this way, you can also use an BMD analog to SDI converter and record from that to a ultrastudio mini recorder, to the new Thunderbold (3) interface, as long as everything is a match, it should work.
I'm doing this with a BMD Video Assist monitor/recorder now, if your source is HDMI it is even easier to do.
You're not stating in your question what you try to capture with the Intensity Shuttle….