- This is the new 4K60 Pro actually, you know what?
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This is the new 4K60 Pro from Elgato.
The original 4K60 Pro came out in late 2017
as a premium capture card mainly used
by two groups of people.
There were the console gamers that wanted to be
able to capture their console gameplay,
and still be able to play at 4K resolution,
whilst capturing either at 4K or live streaming at
720p or 1080p or something like that.
And then there was the dual PC streamers that had
a gaming PC and a streaming PC, and they wanted to be able
to capture all the footage from the gaming PC,
by using a high quality capture card.
Now, nearly two years later,
Elgato have announced a complete hardware re-design.
I've been lucky enough to be in testing over
the last couple of weeks, and I've got to say,
there's some really interesting, new improvements,
as well as maybe, most importantly,
a significant price drop, let's take a look.
Now from the outside, you'd be forgiven if you think that
the 4K60 Pro, the new version looks familiar.
In fact, they've managed to reduce the size all the way down
to what looks like it might be a very similar body
to the one in the HD60 Pro.
It's PCI-e, and it's still a single slot but has a much
smaller footprint compared to the old device.
4K chips and circuits have obviously come a long,
long way in two years since
the original 4K60 Pro was released.
And it's great to see that Elgato is taking the time
to update their existing hardware, and making it
more useful for streamers and content creators.
One of the first major improvements is it now allows
for HDR capture, HDR which stands for High Dynamic Range,
is a new display standard for technologies,
and it just delivers a greater color depth and contrast
than traditional SDR or Standard Dynamic Range.
This results in a much punchier image, with brighter
highlights, and much darker blacks
that are truer to what we see in the real world.
The old 4K60 Pro did allow for HDR passthrough,
which meant that you could still play your games in HDR,
and actually see that on your monitor,
but only allowed for SDR capture,
so when it actually came to recording your games
from the 4K60 Pro, it would just be recorded in SDR.
So who is this new HDR feature useful for?
Well, it's more useful for the console gamers,
especially people playing on the newer consoles.
The PS4, the PS4 Pro, the XBOX One S or the
XBOX One X, as they all support HDR.
This HDR content can be then recorded using
the new 4K60 Pro, and then uploaded
to YouTube who supports HDR.
So anybody with an HDR compatible monitor could then watch
the game play that you have recorded in HDR, I feel like I'm
saying the word HDR a lot, but it's useful
for those console gamers that are specifically uploading
highlights to YouTube.
It's worth noting that right now, no live stream platforms,
or live streaming software, actually supports HDR,
so this is specifically,
currently just for content creators.
Another new feature of the 4K60 Pro is that it now allows
you to use the video feed
in multiple different applications simultaneously.
What this means in a practical sense is that you can use
the 4K60 Pro to capture game play and then stream that using
OBS Studio or Streamlabs OBS, with overlays, webcam borders,
alerts, background music, all those kind of things,
and then simultaneously, you could use something like the
Elgato Capture Utility to record the game play without any
of the alerts, or background music, or anything like that,
while still streaming, and then you can have a really high
quality recording without any overlays and alerts,
that you can upload to YouTube or find highlights from,
and then you still have your live stream that you're using
in OBS Studio and Streamlabs OBS, with all of those added
extras that make your live stream more entertaining.
I literally, just released a video talking about
how you can live stream, whilst recording at two different
qualities so that you can upload
a high quality version to YouTube.
You guys seem to love it but the number one question was,
how you could record just your game play,
without any of your overlays and things like that.
And, the 4K60 Pro, with it's new multi-app support,
definitely makes things easier.
The card has been designed to be completely plug-and-play
out of the box, so it works with streaming software like
OBS Studio, Streamlabs OBS or XSplit.
The new 4K60 Pro still looks like a great choice for
dual PC streamers that want to play at high refresh rates,
as it allows for 1080p capture at 120 hertz,
144 hertz, all the way up to 240 hertz,
and also 1440p capture at up to 144 hertz.
As I mentioned at the start of the video,
one of the best changes about this card
is the new pricing structure.
Elgato have somehow managed to drop the price massively,
I imagine some of the hardware,
as it's advanced over the last couple of years,
has become cheaper, but still, a massive price drop.
For context, the old 4K60 Pro cost just under 400 dollars,
or just under 400 euros or under 360 pounds,
and the new 4K60 Pro is retailing at 250 dollars,
250 euros or 230 pounds.
So that's a whopping 35, 37% cheaper
than the old retail pricing for the 4K60 Pro,
and you got to remember, this is actually
a better capture card than the old 4K60 Pro too,
at such a saving.
I have, as always, included some links
down in the description below if you want to purchase
the 4K60 Pro from Amazon.
I've also included a link where you can check out
more details about the 4K60 Pro from the Elgato website.
I'm really looking forward to pushing this capture card
to it's absolute limits over the next couple of months.
I think this might be a really good opportunity
for me to think about building a streaming PC,
because then I could create some videos guides about
gaming and streaming PCs because I know a lot of you
have been requesting that kind of video,
and now that there's a proper capture card that I
can really recommend, while still gaming at 1440p,
144 hertz, I think this might be the time
to create that video.
If you have any thoughts, or questions about the 4K60 Pro,
or about capture cards,
or about anything streaming in general, I would highly
recommend checking out the Gaming Careers-Discord,
where we have a whole community of streamers
helping each other every single day.
It's a really great place to be, there are links
to that again in the description.
If you are new here to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel,
the whole channel is completely dedicated
to helping you improve your live stream.
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and allow me to do this as a full-time job.
Subscribers, I'll see you in the next video, peace!
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