most usb capture devices with this form factor are usb 2 and 1080p but this Syllable is usb 3
and 4K. I'll check it out and see how good it works that's coming up on ThriftyAV.
i want to start by saying that this syllable usb 3 hdmi capture device is
a sample product that was sent to thrift eav for review that being said the folks at syllable
can request this back if they want it i have not been paid for this review
and any opinions expressed during this video are my own let's take a look at the packaging
on the syllable 4k usb 3 capture device syllable brand hdmi video capture u900 pro
usb 3 has 4k input and output uvc standard no external power required and compatible with obs
windows linux mac here's the system requirements android windows 7 8 10 mac os linux they put the
intel cpu requirement but i'm sure this will work with amd on the graphics requirement it's hard to
tell what's above these graphic cards but if you have a modern graphic card it should work
and they want you to have four gigabytes of ram this item is taped shut here is the capture device
we have a usbc adapter and here's some instructions in english and it's not very long
now let's plug this into my windows 10 machine and see if it's detected all right plugging the
capture device into usb3 setting up a device 4k hd capture i don't have anything plugged in right now
so it says no video let's plug a signal in on the computer i have this set to 3840
by 2160 that is 4k i have a panasonic hcx 1000 camera with an hdmi output in that hdmi output
is currently set to 4k 30. i have the hdmi plugged into my computer behind me here and i am
capturing footage using the windows camera app now if it works with the windows camera
app it'll work with obs studio or pretty much any other capture software you want to use
right now you're watching footage recorded directly on the panasonic hcx 1000
and now you're watching footage captured by the syllable usb 3 4k capture device it's
helpful to see them side by side so on the left this is the original panasonic hcx 1000 footage
and on the right what you're looking at is the captured footage from the syllable hdmi capture
device now at the risk of alarming some folks i'm going to zoom in tight on part of my face
this should give you a good comparison of the sharpness of my original camera on the left to the
captured footage on the right it's pretty obvious on that last side by side shot that my panasonic
hdx 1000 doesn't have the best auto focus but the sharpness on the original footage and the captured
footage are a very close match also the video level was a close match the chroma looked good
and uh it sounded good the audio capture sounded good so so far this is the best capture device
i've reviewed now i want to take a closer look at the scope both the original footage and color bars
okay here is a shot of my original footage levels look good chroma looks pretty good
and here's the capture now any change you might see is uh probably related to the fact
that i'm not picking the exact same frame in the footage each time let's go to color bars there's
the original color bars and there's the capture video level is spot on chroma level is spot on
chroma hue is spot on so the accuracy of this capture device is quite good and will not require
a lot of tweaks in post production checking media info for the file created by the u900 pro
it is mpeg4 format is avc codec is avc1 video bitrate is 69.2 mbps with 3840 height 2160 which
is 4k frame rate is 30 frames per second yuv 420 chroma sub sampling 8-bit depth audio is
2-channel stereo 48 kilohertz i don't own a whole lot of 4k sources but one of them that i do own
is this goo bang do android streaming device so let's take a look at some footage that i'm
streaming from this and capturing with my computer here's a video loop that i created a while back to
do 4k demonstrations the black frame around the edge is being created by my streaming device
not the capture device there is a quiet music passage on this footage and it is
coming through i wanted to see how the syllable does with other resolutions so i'm plugging in
my atari flashback 9. this is natively 720p i've had issues with other capture devices using this
let's see how the syllable does for some reason i wasn't getting any game audio through the hdmi
i've had this problem with other capture devices hooked up to the flashback 9 in the past and also
gamers keep in mind there is no headset input so you'll have to do your own audio mix on the pc
if you want to stream your games live some capture devices that do great with progressive scan
struggle sometimes with interlaced footage well this old panasonic hcv 100m i have the hdmi output
set to 1080i in fact let's play with it a little bit with the hcv 100m hdmi out i'm getting some
pixel issues on the footage and the audio is missing this is an old camera and i've never
attempted to use the hdmi on it before one thing i've been checking lately is hdcp compliance that
stands for high definition copy protection most your streaming devices including roku support that
and indeed i cannot record my roku using the syllable capture device i get a warning
that says hdcp protection so in conclusion the syllable u900 usb 3 4k hdmi capture device had
very accurate video levels chroma levels and chroma hue when capturing from my 4k video camera
it did have some issues with my atari flashback 9 but i've had issues with other capture devices
and a panasonic hcv100 which is a 10 year old camcorder perhaps if i dig into the menus i can
figure out why i was having those issues gamers there is no headset input so if you want to mix
your audio with game audio you will need to do that mix on your either with an outboard mixer
or in your computer this device does respect hdcp copy protection so if you're wanting to record
copyrighted content from say a roku or a blu-ray player you're not going to be able to do that now
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