The cheapest 1080p capture you can buy! how good is it I'll find out of Thrifty AV! I picked up
this 1080p USB2 capture device on eBay for about 17 bucks so that's pretty cheap. I've
seen a couple of reviewers go over it so far EposVox did a video and more recently
Low Dough Tech did a video about it, but I'm gonna test different gear than they did with
this device. for gaming I'm going to use this Atari flashback 9. I'm gonna capture some VHS
footage with this Magnavox dual VHS DVD recorder that outputs an HDMI. I'm gonna see what happens
with a 4k signal using this Roku, and I have several cameras I can try out including this
Panasonic hc-v770 and my Campark V30. let's back up and check out the unboxing. let's take a look
at this box it says HDMI video capture. put a big old sticker over the product picture here
input max resolution 4k but what I've been reading is it doesn't actually support that
will test it support max output resolution 1080p it says supports most acquisition
software including VLC which I have Windows Android Mac OS ok let's get into the box.
HDMI video capture instructions. here's the capture device itself here's the input the
HDMI input and of course USB to output I have the capture device plugged into my USB 2 port
I'm going to launch the windows camera app and as you see there's the screen for my
Atari flashback ok right now it's set to 1080p which is what I want I just discovered something
interesting about this capture device if I'm not actively feeding a signal to gives me color
bars that's kind of cool I kind of like that I'm gonna record some of these color bars I'm
gonna see how true they are how about adventure alright adventure I'm gonna grab this key there
is definitely some lag when I'm playing this game oh there's a dragon ah I almost got eight
okay there's a magnet there's a chalice I gotta grab the chalice recording all this yes awesome
so the Atari flashback works the Atari flashback outputs 720p I was capturing at 1080p so I got a
black frame around everything when I captured it that was fine and let me put two things on
my screen at the same time without too much adjustment now I want to try recording a macro
vision encoded VHS tape using this capture device okay that is the screensaver from my Magnavox when
I pop this tape in it should disappear let's go ahead and record all right there is my VHS
playing I'm going to take it on faith that I'm getting audio here this is not outputting audio
and I think it might have something to do with the capture device I can only show a few seconds
of this because of potential copyright reasons but I am going to show a few seconds of this footage
that it captured I had the aspect ratio set to sixteen by nine so it was stretching the four
by three out that would be an adjustment that I need to make on the VCR not on the capture
device now let's try out the Roku ultra which was set up to output Forte all right the clog
screensaver is a good sign it helps to have internet plugged into a Roku if you want to
stream hopefully it'll be some of the family friendly it pops up here we'll see looks like
something about Clint Eastwood during the second year on rawhide ish wood becomes involved with
actress Rob thin tuna this is a Panasonic HTV 770 the HDMI on it is micro HDMI so I have to use a
special HDMI cable for it and it is a little bit short but I'm gonna go ahead and plug it
into this capture device using the HDMI capture device I'm now essentially using the HCV 770 as
a webcam right now I'm recording on the Microsoft cam software but I could just as easily use zoom
or some kind of a video conferencing software using this same approach so I would say this
is a success with the HCV 770 I was seeing menu stuff like the little pause button and
face framing so that can be turned off on the menu in the camera my camp Park V 30 action cam
has the same HDMI input so I'm going to go ahead and power this on the internal microphone on the
cam part V 30 did not function through the video capture device so I finally found something that
did not entirely work so if you're using this capture device with a camcorder be sure you
turn off the on-screen display output or you'll see the on-screen display menu if you're using
this capture card with a cam Park V 30 action cam the internal microphones not going to work you'll
have to use your own microphone when you do the capture now right now I'm capturing straight off
of my main camera my HC x1000 I turned off the on-screen display menus earlier right now you're
watching me through the capture device now just for comparison's sake let's see what it looks
like now you're now watching me recorded from the camera in 4k let's go back to the capture
device this is 1080p footage it's been upscaled to 4k for this upload but it was 1080p footage
captured on this computer over here but overall I've been very happy with this HDMI capture
device it's worked on pretty much everything that I wanted to use it with I don't blame it
for the audio not working on this I think that's a cam Park issue not an issue with this device
I will be using this in some future videos to capture HD in my signals I already have a few
ideas that I could use it for so stay tuned for that if you enjoyed this video please like and
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