1 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:07,759 Welcome to another unboxing in first look. And I'm totally going to do this. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,679 I'm going to put on the little 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:14,400 We're filming in 60 FPS, which will be of zero benefit to y'all on the uh the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:18,960 YouTubes, but uh that'll make the motion clear for when I review the footage 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:25,359 later. This is the Aver Media Recentral Live Gamer HD. Capture and share your PC 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:28,960 game footage. Okay, full HD 1080p. There's a sticker on here. So, it seems 7 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:34,719 it was probably added sometime after the packaging design, but you can live stream with XSplit. This thing is very, 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:39,680 very compatible with XSplit streaming software, and it makes it very easy to 9 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:41,280 use. See, no plastic seal. This is not 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:45,440 my first time opening this product. I have actually used it already, and it's 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,920 pretty faking awesome. So, let's go ahead and have a look at the back of the 12 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,719 packaging here. And I want to show you guys what's going on. So, we got HDMI or 13 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:57,920 DVI connectors. You can just use you can adapt DVI to HDMI. So, it has an input 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:01,359 and an output. That's how you it gets a signal from your video card and then 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:05,280 passes it through to your monitor. It uses a PCI Express interface because due 16 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,960 to the enormous amount of bandwidth involved in capturing HDMI, it does need 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:16,960 PCIe. It has an H.264 hardware compression engine built into it. So, 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,880 the major advantage of this approach versus something like a Blackmagic 19 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:26,799 Intensity Pro, which is one of the other most commonly used HDMI capture cards, 20 00:01:23,759 --> 00:01:28,720 is that while you lose some of the color 21 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:34,560 depth and some of the subsampling and whatnot, you gain the fact that your CPU 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,560 is not responsible for doing any of the compression. Remember guys, if you're 23 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:42,720 not compressing 1080p footage, you're going to be working with enormous files 24 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:48,960 that you'll have to have like a multiple hard drive array or an SSD to even copy 25 00:01:46,479 --> 00:01:52,720 those files from the capture device to your hard drive. All right, moving right 26 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,040 along. You got a dedicated record button, so you can easily just press the 27 00:01:54,479 --> 00:02:01,360 button when you're ready to record. And Rec Central, so that's their software. 28 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:05,360 Recentral allows you to configure it as much or as little as you want. So, you 29 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:09,280 can either use the totally I forget what they call them, but it's like capture 30 00:02:07,119 --> 00:02:12,560 wizard or amateur. So, you can there's three different wizards that you can use 31 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:17,760 to set it up. And one of them is so simple. You basically press the button and it's ready to go. You can record 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,959 voice commentary with your gameplay. That's good. It does have a pass through for audio as well. Stream your live 33 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:27,840 gameplay over the internet using uh Twitch TV or XSplit to Twitch TV. Uh 34 00:02:26,319 --> 00:02:31,680 profile selection and overview. Yeah, the profiles. Those are easy. So, there 35 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:38,959 you go. The maximum recording quality is 1080p at 30 FPS. You can also do 720p at 36 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,519 60 FPS if you prefer to have a more 37 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:45,280 fluid frame rate versus a higher overall resolution. Remember, most people 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:50,959 watching your video are not going to be watching it at full screen. So, if you 39 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:54,720 filmed at 720p in order to get better fluidity, especially for something like 40 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:58,560 FPS gaming, you might find that to be an advantage. The packaging is excellent. 41 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:04,159 See, they got like a cool little sort of shimmery black sort of thing going on on 42 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:07,920 the cover for this. And uh Oh, right. Another reason you might want to film at 43 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:12,720 720p 60 FPS is if you're capturing from a console. So, it's fully capable of 44 00:03:10,239 --> 00:03:16,480 capturing from the PC you're gaming on, from another PC that you're not gaming 45 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,560 on. Although, there's not much point in doing that because a big part of the 46 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:23,920 advantage is the built-in uh the built-NVIDIA engine in here that makes 47 00:03:22,239 --> 00:03:28,480 it so you don't have to waste CPU cycles. And you can also use it to 48 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:33,599 capture console footage on a PC that is nearby. So before we get too far into 49 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:39,360 the uh device itself, let's have a look at all the other stuff that's included. 50 00:03:36,239 --> 00:03:42,159 So first things first, there's our 51 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:47,120 ready to record button. It's just a USB sort of software enabled hardware button 52 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,879 that you can keep up on your desk. We've also got their software which is 53 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,560 included, but you can also download on the Aver Media website. They've made so 54 00:03:52,959 --> 00:03:58,159 many revisions to the software over the last little while that continue to 55 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:01,680 improve it. I'm very impressed with the way that they continue to support the 56 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:06,239 product. Sometimes you see these kinds of products where they're kind of purpose-built specialty pieces of 57 00:04:04,959 --> 00:04:11,040 hardware and they'll kind of release it and they'll go, "Oh yeah, no, the software is fine. Just don't worry about 58 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:14,480 it." Um, but it's not fine and you do have to worry about it. In this case, 59 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:19,600 they are actually trying to make sure that they're keeping everything updated 60 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,680 and everything coup xsplit broadcaster 61 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,320 gift certificate. Oh, okay. Cool. So, apparently they're giving you a deal on 62 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:29,280 XSplit. XSplit is awesome, by the way. XSplit is what I use to do my live 63 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:30,240 streams. Um, okay. Content. Okay. We're 64 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:35,520 not going to read too much about that. Let's have a look at included accessories. So, just a three and a half 65 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:38,000 millimeter audio cable. Uh, oh, look at 66 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:44,000 that. They include uh a DVI to HDMI adapter. So, if you 67 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:46,240 wanted to capture HDMI in from a DVI 68 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:50,160 output on a video card, you just go like that. Well, you'd have to have a DVI 69 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:56,160 cable out to this, but you guys get the point. So you might go HDMI out to your 70 00:04:54,080 --> 00:05:00,800 DVI monitor and sort of everything would be cool. And then this one is for the 71 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:04,400 other way around, right? So this one, so you can go out from DVI from your video 72 00:05:02,479 --> 00:05:08,560 card and then use a small HDMI cable to go into here. And they actually include 73 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:12,720 the HDMI cable you need. So they include pretty much all the cables you need to 74 00:05:09,919 --> 00:05:16,479 get going because you'll already have DVI out from your from your video card. 75 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:20,240 That's what they're assuming. So you just 76 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Excuse me. Sorry. You swap this. You use this HDMI cable to go into the input and 77 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,600 then you go DVI out to your monitor and you're ready to go. So, we'll have a 78 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:32,479 close look at the card itself. It's got sort of a, you know, shield on it that 79 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,759 may or may not do anything, but looks really nice. It's got like a brushed 80 00:05:33,919 --> 00:05:41,360 metal finish on it. There's your PCI Express OneX interface. Flipping over to 81 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,840 the back, um, just got some logos and 82 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,840 stuff. And this is the business end. So, there's your HDMI out that goes out to 83 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:53,280 the device you're going to be using to monitor what's actually going on. So your monitor or your TV there's HDMI in 84 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:59,199 that goes from the device that's outputting the signal you want to capture audio out and audio in to go 85 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:05,039 along with those although you are not forced to use the analog connectors you 86 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:08,319 can also capture audio over HDMI which I 87 00:06:05,039 --> 00:06:11,039 have done with this card already. 88 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:15,520 So what's the point? Lots of people are streaming on XSplit. Okay, do yourselves 89 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:19,440 a favor. Go look up PewDiePie on YouTube. 90 00:06:17,759 --> 00:06:24,160 Mind blown. It's the most bizarre thing in the world, but he's making hundreds 91 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:27,840 of thousands of dollars streaming games and sort of having a webcam going in the 92 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:33,600 background. So, I'm not saying that you buy one of these, you're going to make back your investment like that. But, if 93 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,039 you're good at it, then there's a huge advantage to having something like this 94 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:40,800 because instead of using up CPU cycles, which will cause your game performance 95 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,720 to degrade because unless you have a beast CPU, that's just what happens. 96 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:48,639 This does all the compression of the footage on its own. You can use it to 97 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:54,080 capture external sources such as consoles as well. So, it gives you more 98 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:56,080 flexibility and it works very seamlessly 99 00:06:54,080 --> 00:07:00,080 compared to and the compatibility is better compared to the Blackmagic 100 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,680 Intensity Pro that I also own. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and 101 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:06,639 first look at the A Media Live Gamer HD. 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