It's not all that often to come across a product where there's almost nothing bad to say about it, but aside from the Stream Command issues, that's it. What Elgato has in the HD60S is the perfect capture card for anyone who wants to get involved with making videos of console gaming. Getting on board now with USB-C will help out in the long run, too, and you have to imagine future cards will support USB 3.1 and perhaps even Thunderbolt 3. Whether that experience is good enough for you will come down to personal taste, but I've found it on the whole very usable with games like Forza 6. It means that you could play your console games and manage a stream from the same monitor. It's brought about by the addition of USB 3.0 which gives you much better data transfer rates over the USB 2.0 found on the HD60. Which is great news for the Instant Gameview feature. As I've tried to show in the video up top, there is a very slight delay, but it's only really noticeable when you slow the video right down. It's probably still not going to be quite right for the super-fast paced games out there, but on the whole the experience is startlingly good. You can use the HD60S and play your console games inside the capture window. Simple controls to slide values up and down and achieve the levels that you wish for. Some mild tweaking will be involved but that's really all it is, mild. You can also, as with capture, control the game audio and commentary independently of each other and just turn off your microphone with one large, blue button. But the options are there to go high or to limit.
#ELGATO HD60 S WINDOWS 7 1080P#
You can go as high as 1080p and 60fps, but equally Twitch might not be so happy with that, since they want their viewers to be able to watch without buffering. You have a handy slider to adjust the bandwidth you're willing to dedicate to your stream (or have available to use) and in turn this will automatically dial down the output quality. That's probably the only negative point about the Game Capture HD 3.0 software.Įverything else about the streaming features are hunky dory. It's a shame, because some of the overlays pre-loaded look pretty good and you can also create your own to some extent, but it might be hit and miss as to whether you can use it without running into a bottleneck. When I tried using this I could get an output to Twitch but one with ruined colors and a weirdly distorted image. Using the GPU to encode the video didn't work either, or rather, it didn't work properly. Every time I've tried to use it has resulted in a fail, with Twitch still saying I'm offline, even when I dialed down the quality of the outgoing feed to cut back on the required bandwidth. For me, Stream Command hasn't been an easy ride.
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Stream Command is quite resource intensive, though, with Elgato recommending at least an Intel Core i7 2xxx CPU and a minimum of 4GB of RAM.įor the purposes of this review ,the HD60S has been used with my own PC sporting an Intel Core i5 4430, 16GB of RAM and a GTX 960 GPU.
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It's a handy set of tools that Elgato includes with its latest software to help you put professional looking overlays and webcam feeds (including chroma key for green screens) on to your online gaming broadcasts. Specifically that applies to Stream Command. There are also some simple audio tools to cover basics like game audio and commentary, allowing you to adjust the levels of each independently to get the best from your videos.Īs an example of captured footage, this clip below of Forza Motorsport 6 on the Xbox One was pulled using the HD60S. There are enough choices to make striking a balance easy enough. There are a whole bunch of options to configure when it comes to the quality of the footage, but if you're not streaming and you want it to look its best then crank everything up to high and leave it on 1080p60.Įqually if file size is an important factor to you, you can tone down the quality a little while still preserving the resolution and frame rate. What it can do is help you to trim the fat before importing your clips into your regular video editor.Ĭapturing is where this piece of software really shines. But it's not going to cut it for anyone interested in more complex video production. This isn't necessarily bad, and it's great for the newcomers to start out with. The editing is very, very basic, however, to the point where you're essentially just trimming the clips and extracting the best parts.
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