for media rec central for recording software so this is one of the good things that you
get out of the box with your capture card or the streaming duo is you have access to
this record software now i will say i have mixed feelings about the software
only in that one while the software is really simple and easy to set up
if you look down here in the lower right hand corner it is taxing my computer and while my
computer is a little older i did build it to be future proof so what do i mean by future proof
well in the case of this particular laptop i have a core i7 6 6820 hk cpu and i have 64 gigabytes of
ram and an nvidia geforce gtx 980 m and here you can see in the lower right hand corner i'm using
up 40 percent of my cpu just for this program and 33 gigabytes of ram this is not including
the obs software that i'm running right now to record this particular setup now i will say
just having this on and i'm not streaming anything or recording anything this is using
19 600 megabytes and 14 almost 15 of my cpu in a similar setup using obs and actually recording i
use 800 megabits worth of memory and much less cpu so just know that if you're using an older
older system you may run into problems actually streaming now in the background here you've just
been watching my roku background as it's cycling but let's take a look at what we can actually do
with the software should you have a computer that actually can support running it so what
we're looking at here is the main capture area you have single capture you have multi multi will be
multi will allow you to add layers so a camera right now i'm on single because i just need this
to capture what's on my tv set or in your case the playstation or xbox whatever you're trying to
capture off of your tv here we're indicating the live gamer mini we can always come over here and
edit anything so here we go quick little options we're not going to mess with that too much over
here on the right you have record stream and then multi stream you have different recording profiles
that you can set up right now i'm on optimal and it's doing 1920x1080 at 59.9 frames a second
here you can actually see the available space that you have on your hard drive so
if you have multiple hard drives like i do you can indicate to the hard drive that actually has the
most space for saving here you can see there is a microphone mute button and you can see you can
mess with your levels right there as well as audio that you're getting you also have your
mute device preview you've got your audio mixer here so opening this up will let you really dig in
and change settings as you like and right here you have full screen mode the beauty of this
program is that it's really start setup there's even a wizard that you walk through right here
if you ever need to reset up the wizard you click on that and you can set it up streaming recording
and it walks you through most of the settings now one of the other things i like is this help button
it actually has a visual overlay as to what the individual components mean so if this is the first
time you're messing with any type of streaming software this would be really good to kind of
help you get started you can enable always on top mode or you can have a minimized mode
we've been operating in the maximum mode so that we could see all of our options
over here coming to the wheel we just click on settings and it will bring us into our settings
you have options for general shortcuts if you want i will admit uh i did not use shortcuts in obs
until much later in my usage of obs i highly recommend setting up shortcuts it'll save you a
lot of time especially if you're using a single monitor setup and you're trying to play a game
profile management you can export or import your profiles and then you have
about one of the interesting things is you have a media share option so if you wish
to share media and here you go this is media that i have just kind of sitting there from
tests but you can share that right through the system and then we're going to hit our record
button this middle button if you select it will actually bring you to the avermedia website for
more information now this is a separate download and it did not come pre-installed with the drivers
for the capture card but just know if you're starting out and you don't want to necessarily
try to set up obs studio on your own or look through a guide this is a very simple
straightforward quick setup for streaming setup for recording software again your computer will
have to be a little beefier in order to handle it so when you're ready all you would do is
you come here click record or that would be stream if you were on the streaming option
you can select for snapshots if you so chose and then you would watch your countdown timer here
as you record and lose writable space but don't worry if you pay attention to your
capture card and don't see your numbers here once it starts blinking red you'll know that you're
getting kind of close to a full hard drive and you should stop streaming so again really simple
to use straightforward streaming software that can be used with your avermedia capture card
you