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Dr. Bill continues his testing of the ELECABLE PCIe 4-Port HDMI Video Capture Card, and the StarTech.com 4 Port USB 3.0 PCIe Card w/ 4 Dedicated 5Gbps Channels he tried to replace it with in his studio. BOTH were failed experiments. Watch for full details! (May 19, 2021)
Dr. Bill continues his testing of the ELECABLE PCIe 4-Port HDMI Video Capture Card, and the StarTech.com 4 Port USB 3.0 PCIe Card w/ 4 Dedicated 5Gbps Channels he tried to replace it with in his studio. BOTH were failed experiments. Watch for full details! (May 19, 2021)
Dr. Bill installs and tests a cheap, Chinese, four port HDMI Capture Card for the PCIe bus on your Windows PC System. It claims to be a ‘Professional video processing function, high-quality industrial-grade chip production, super stability, support for simultaneous input of 4 HDMI signals’, at least according to the ‘Engrish’ in the description! (NOTE: I did confirm, that if you select the ‘Custom Audio Device’ option in OBS, you CAN get audio off of the ports on the HDMI card, however, they are WAY out of sync, so you will have to ‘play’ with the offset.)
00:04 ELECABLE Capture Card unboxing (un-packaging)
04:59 Installing the card in my Dell Optiplex 9010
06:44 Installing the HDMI Capture Card Driver for Windows 10 64-Bit
08:49 Testing the HDMI Capture Card in OBS (Open Broadcasting Software)
12:34 Best OBS Settings for the HDMI Capture Card
13:44 Setting up Color Correction and Other Settings in OBS
20:16 SONY a5100 Video through the ELECABLE HDMI Capture Card via OBS
21:00 SONY FDR-AX100 Camcorder through the ELECABLE HDMI Capture Card via OBS
22:00 Conclusions and wrap-up
Dr. Bill installs and tests a cheap, Chinese, four port HDMI Capture Card for the PCIe bus on your Windows PC System. It claims to be a ‘Professional video processing function, high-quality industrial-grade chip production, super stability, support for simultaneous input of 4 HDMI signals’, at least according to the ‘Engrish’ in the description! (NOTE: I did confirm, that if you select the ‘Custom Audio Device’ option in OBS, you CAN get audio off of the ports on the HDMI card, however, they are WAY out of sync, so you will have to ‘play’ with the offset.)
00:04 ELECABLE Capture Card unboxing (un-packaging)
04:59 Installing the card in my Dell Optiplex 9010
06:44 Installing the HDMI Capture Card Driver for Windows 10 64-Bit
08:49 Testing the HDMI Capture Card in OBS (Open Broadcasting Software)
12:34 Best OBS Settings for the HDMI Capture Card
13:44 Setting up Color Correction and Other Settings in OBS
20:16 SONY a5100 Video through the ELECABLE HDMI Capture Card via OBS
21:00 SONY FDR-AX100 Camcorder through the ELECABLE HDMI Capture Card via OBS
22:00 Conclusions and wrap-up
Dr. Bill shows EVEN MORE TECH! Using a Rode NT-1 Mic, with NewTech NDI software to connect a Pixel 2 XL smartphone to the Open Source OBS software, he shows new lower thirds, his new Sony a5100 mirrorless camera, and a DigitNow HDMI to USB Capture Card!
Dr. Bill shows EVEN MORE TECH! Using a Rode NT-1 Mic, with NewTech NDI software to connect a Pixel 2 XL smartphone to the Open Source OBS software, he shows new lower thirds, his new Sony a5100 mirrorless camera, and a DigitNow HDMI to USB Capture Card!