we're at the AVerMedia booth at computex 2023 to show you guys something really
special these are the world's very first HDMI 2.1 capture devices and they've got
two of them internal external whatever you want let's start with the internal
one this is like a traditional PCIe based capture card they call it the live
gamer 4K 2.1 because as I'm sure you can
see HDMI 2.1 on the back here it's just those two HDMI ports you've got in and
out like any gaming capture card that way you can have your monitor still visible while you're recording on the
front here not really too much you got some some cute venting you can see the
internals of the card there on the bottom PCIe gen 3 by 4 connection it's
not PCIe Gen 4 because really honestly even this connector is a bit Overkill
there's not really anything else on here there's no external power which is nice
but I wouldn't really expect it with something like this it's pretty low power device and on the top you've just
got a diffused RGB kind of triangle bar thing it's configurable in their Rec
Central software and I think they said it was also compatible with MSI stuff
which makes sense because this computer is just full of MSI stuff behind me
that's pretty much it physically RGB really isn't what's important here
though what is is those HDMI ports I talked about before their HDMI 2.1 and
if that doesn't mean anything to you it probably should if you have a
PlayStation 5 or an Xbox series X or really any modern GeForce computer that
you want to capture separately from the computer itself You're Gonna Want HDMI
2.1 and if you have basically any other capture card you're going to be limited
in theory to 4K 60 pass through which if
you have a high refresh rate 4k monitor it's going to kind of suck and then
depending on Lower resolutions it's going to kind of vary but I imagine most
of them are kind of like you might be able to get 1440p 60-year 120 maybe but
this thing 4K 144 Hertz variable refresh rate HDR pass-through you can do 1440p
144hz variable refresh rate pass through you can do 1080p 240Hz variable refresh
rate pass-through basically whatever you plug into this thing be it your Xbox or
your PS5 you go into the set settings and you look at the resolution thing and
it's going to be like check mark check mark check mark check mark As long as
your display can do it these things generally will support it but PCIe
capture cards are kind of annoying unless you're fully static and this is
like your streaming PC or whatever having to put this in there and not be
able to be portable with it kind of sucked but they know that that's where
this comes in this is the live gamer Ultra 2.1 on the back it's got the same
HDMI 2.1 in and out ports but we've also got something a little different here
it's a line in and out there there is a spelling mistake on this one it says Min
in but it's meant to say line in it's pre-production one don't worry about it
this is used for party chat which if you're a Nintendo switch person and you
want to be able to capture your party chat very useful for that I did find out
that the party chat and the HDMI get mixed into one audio stream which if
you're recording or streaming can be a little less flexible you can
independently change the volume between the HDMI and the party chat in but it is
still recorded to one track they said they might be able to do a firmware
update or something like that to make it so they're separate tracks which they
really should do because it gives you a lot more flexibility when you're editing and even when you're streaming but for
now it's all in one and then over here is what I'm really excited about I
understand it's a USB port it's not that exciting it's just it's 10 gig type c
whatever but if you look at the market
the only other capture cards that can do 4K 60 recording like these use
Thunderbolt but this is just USB if you don't have a laptop that has Thunderbolt
which I mean a lot of the modern ones do but some of the other stuff doesn't or
if you're using you know a computer a lot of them don't have Thunderbolt but
most of them these days have USB 10 gig so that means this is much more flexible
than the previous generations and if you looked at Thunderbolt capture cards AVerMedia actually has one there's
something like 500 this is not 500 but
we'll get to the price later around the front RGB of course but other than that
there's there's nothing really on here I mean size Wise It's a little bigger than
their previous capture cards they found one of their live gamer minis you can
see the new one is a little bit thicker but nothing crazy honestly they found
one of their previous gen capture cards the live gamer Extreme 3 just to compare
the size here it is a bit taller
but nothing much and then in terms of like width and height it's almost the
same so still super portable which is great but what's a capture card without
some capture so let's try it they actually let me take it out of this
computer so I'm going to put it back in this computer they've got this like PCIe
extension here so a little more finicky than usual I
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I couldn't bring it on the planes too long
there we go whoa it does like a did you see that
that was so cute it does like a little like boot up sequence the LEDs go slow
so fast I'm a child you know okay looks like
it's on it definitely can capture HDMI I don't know if it can capture this segue
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look it's working oh this is um what is this game ah what the hell is this guy
called Devil May Cry there we go I played this game before I just don't
remember what it's called I'm bad with names oh God oh God that's not good
I mean you can look at it right there it's variable refresh rate this is the
monitor showing what signal it's getting we're going through the capture card
they're over fresh rate it's working they said it's a 4K 120 hertz monitor so
let's see I don't really know how to PlayStation also it's in Chinese so okay
HDR is on 4K
and I guess 120. let's check out the display settings here
test 1440p output variable refresh rate is set to automatic
120 hertz it's automatic HDR always on hey look at that
and the next screen test will be run it's working on all of them which is
great there we go 1440p 120 hertz variable refresh rate working as well
also with HDR now in 1440p the max
you're going to be able to do is 144 Hertz for pass-through at 1080p you can
do 240Hz variable refresh rate but
there is a bit of a caveat there that is the pass-through resolution because
these cards are relatively inexpensive you're looking at 300 for either the
PCIe version or the external version which compared to the other stuff on the
market is pretty reasonable you're not going to be doing 4K 144
Hertz recording which to be honest is there's not a lot of use for that there
is professional equipment that can do higher bitrate video like 8K 60 but that
stuff is professional and also expensive
and also doesn't have pass-through so for faster this is the best you're gonna
get right now they did say it is possible to make a card that records at
4K 144 but it would be pretty prohibitively expensive and at least for
the market right now there's not a lot of demand so maybe Post in the comments
if you want a thousand dollar capture card that can do 4K 144 Hertz and maybe
they'll make it but for right now let's see there we go 4K 60fps I can't go
higher which makes sense okay so you can do 1440p 120.
that's good let's see how are we capturing it yeah
look at that cool there's like black bars because OBS is set to a 4K canvas
but this is 1440p 120 recording which is great and then let's try 1080p this
might break stuff because the PlayStation is outputting at 1440p but
I'm just going to try it anyways highest FPS that's the option I guess it
makes sense that it can capture the different resolution than the input there's 640 yeah let's try 640. yeah I
mean that works it just looks like crap it's very fast I feel like when you're
usually screwing around with capture card resolutions and frame rates it's like gonna shut off for five minutes and
turn back on you gotta wait for it but this is just right away because the
recording is decoupled from the pass-through this doesn't even flicker
when you change it which is pretty sick
cool let's try their software and change the RGB I lied we're not in Rec Central this
is their gaming utility we can go in here RGB control so by
default it's in third party mode I think they said it supports MSI and Gigabyte
for now but they're working on adding everybody else but you can also just go
in here and change it so right now we're in Rainbow mode what about glowing yoyo
rainbow flash that's rainbow Flash
got comment oh that's a seizure one static ah static that's what I like this
is very early software I think I broke
it oh there we go much better I unbroke
it I get the input video signal 1440p 120
hertz 8-bit HDR the audio signals there shows the
firmware version shows all the max capture versions USB 10 gig they have a
performance test tool in here so if you're having issues with your capture card say like you use not the proper USB
cable or your computer is not fast enough it literally says if performance
is poor please upgrade your computer this will test to make sure that the
proper resolutions are supported and that it's working I think it's still
pretty early because it's in kilobits and it's a very long number you might
want to update that to like gigabits maybe it already supports multi device
which is great oh here look you can change the headset volume for party chat
on the USB one so you can change the volume separately but again it's still
just going to be one track they've got RGB control same thing with the scaling
in here and then the performance test hey yeah
there we go all of our resolutions are supported because the last thing to do is to try
the USB one and
switch it to the ultra and there we go
we're in business let's try 4k on this one too because I set the resolution
we're 4K 60 reporting
sick oh I want one of these
I want one of these can I take one home
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only 120 hertz monitor so we weren't able to try out 144 Hertz
so we're just gonna have to take their word for it while this is loading
there's a few more things to mention they're planning on releasing white and pink versions of both the internal
capture card and the external one these won't be available at launch if so if
you want them the best you're going to be able to get is black they're targeting pre-orders in Late July and
the cards are supposed to come out in August I wouldn't recommend pre-ordering
as usual wait for independent reviews to come out but based on this first look
and my previous experience with AVerMedia capture cards I'm very excited
whoa the fact that this is USB and has feature parity with the PCIe one
so sick and for only 300 bucks I want one I can just take this one home right
something I forgot to mention earlier is you don't actually need the software for
these um you probably want something to capture with you can use OBS or Rec
Central which is their software but in terms of drivers both the PCIe and the
USB one are driverless they're just UBC plug and play on Mac it's a little bit
different story you will probably need software or driver and they told me that
the ultra 2.1 is not yet supported on macOS but it is coming soon they're
just trying to focus on getting the Windows one like 100 up to Snuff before
they work on that so thanks for watching if you like this video like it get
subscribed do whatever and maybe check out the Mini's Forum video I did I think
that had USB 10 gig you could plug this into the minis for them and that could
be like your streaming PC huh yeah because it had a GPU too you could use
the GPU to encode you don't even need to build two computers you just have like a
little one