when limus Media Group first started I wanted to have close-ups of products in
our unboxing videos but we didn't have the resources to spend half a day
shooting b-roll of like a case to Overlay during a review instead my
brilliant idea was to buy a couple of capture cards and use two cameras with a
computer as a switcher to go between the two camera angles on the Fly this I
thought would require two camera operators but would save on editing well
that idea sucked and the videos we made that way sucked too but the reason I
told this story wasn't to point out one of the many mistakes I've made as a
YouTuber but rather to explain why I've spent a lot of time shopping for video
capture cards over the last couple of years why I've bought a handful of them
and then why I hate them so very
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learn more mostly my issue is that they just aren't userfriendly detecting the
format of a video source and adapting it on the Fly is technology that we've had
in TVs and monitors for decades so why is it that many video capture cards
require you to manually select an input resolution and refresh rate something
that can be surprisingly tricky to do when cameras are such koi little about
how they're actually putting out outputting on top of that black Magic's
intensity Pro an actually fairly well-regarded card that costs a lot more
than this one here today has suffered from everything from outright refusal to
work to the random blue screen issues that we have now on the WAN Show across
a variety of os's and platforms that I've tried to get it working correctly
on and that is why I love the Aver media live gamer portable coupled with a
media's Rec Central software it's fast flexible and so easy to use that my
mother could do it if all she wanted to do was capture her gaml from the same PC
with little latency from a separate PC game console or other video device or to
an SD card for editing later okay lonus so we're a couple minutes in now and you
haven't even talked about the lgp light yet what is your point my point is that
if you just want a super easyto use portable video capture device this is
the one I would buy 7 days of the week cuz it's basically a live game
reportable with a couple fewer features it's still got the low latency HDMI pass
through that supports up to 1080 60p but bear in mind it records at 30 FPS Max
it's still got the handy record button on top that tells the software to start
capturing it's still got analog audio pass through which can be handy
sometimes and it still runs off of just a USB port with no additional power
needed but of course this solution costs
money compared to free stuff like using your CPU or GPU to do the encoding for
you so then why would you care well CPU encoding is not really ideal at all it
slows down your computer which if you're streaming like I don't know battle chest
or something on Twitch isn't a huge deal but if you're doing something demand in
and you don't have a crazy CPU it could legitimately impact your gaming
experience GPU encoding on the other hand is a pretty legit competitor here
for game streamers with shadowplay you can record and stream at 60 FPS and up
to 2560 X 1440 res there's very little
performance penalty since the graphics card is using a fairly similar type of
Hardware it's also a dedicated h264 en encoder it can record constantly so you
can go back and Capture Moments that have already passed and of course it's
absolutely free if you have a imported graphics card so then lonus why do we
still care about this Hardware the answer is flexibility with this external
h264 capture device I can use whatever
software I want for streaming and capture whether it's the included app
OBS xsplit or whatever I can capture
from any non hdcp HDMI equipped device I
want whether it's a camera PC console such as a PlayStation 4 or Xbox one as
long as you've got the appropriate firmware update for your PS4 or whatever
else and I don't have to r on the system to be booted up and GeForce experience
to cooperate with me for it to work in fact I can even record like changing
resolutions and stuff like that and it'll still manage to just sort of okay
it'll be like who no signal okay and then it'll figure it out and it'll keep
going these things are extremely robust and aside from all that I acknowledge
that not all the stuff I just said will be applicable to the average consumer
being able to use it for stuff like recording bio settings has saved us time
and improved the production values of our videos and we've done crazy stuff
like live broadcasting the entire presentation at NVIDIA's GTX 780 Ti
launch just by having a live gamer portable hooked up to a Wi-Fi equipped
laptop in a backpack and carrying a camera plugged in via HDMI around the
venue it's just a really really cool
piece of hardware and this one is just like it just without the SD slot as well
as the analog input
and it's cheaper so conclusion time the
reason I agreed to do this review even though it's basically just a slightly
trim down version of a product that I've already talked about before at a lower
price is because I feel like I didn't do the original live gamer portable Justice
last time and now that I've been using it for so long I feel like I needed to
do something to get across what a great device I think it is and whether you go
with the deluxe live gamer portable version or the barebones LG GP light one
for your video capture needs be they gaming related or something else
entirely I know that you guys will be as happy as I am because unlike so many of
the other Solutions I've tried it actually just works which is all I ask
for thank you for watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if
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