Share all of your most triumphant victories and troubles with this Elgato Game Capture HD60 S Stream and Record in 1080p60. Capture your finest moments in full HD for all to see. Featuring Instant Gameview, this video game capture device has a reliable, high-performance USB 3.0 connection. It feeds your footage with superior low latency technology. Get all of your fresh content up and running on Twitch and YouTube in a snap. Add your webcam, overlays and more with Stream Command, and change your layout on-the-fly with scenes. Use this Elgato video game capture to add your voice with the built-in Live Commentary feature, and you're all set for the big show. Color: Black. Gender: male.
Share all of your most triumphant victories and troubles with this Elgato Game Capture HD60 S Stream and Record in 1080p60. Capture your finest moments in full HD for all to see. Featuring Instant Gameview, this video game capture device has a reliable, high-performance USB 3.0 connection. It feeds your footage with superior low latency technology. Get all of your fresh content up and running on Twitch and YouTube in a snap. Add your webcam, overlays and more with Stream Command, and change your layout on-the-fly with scenes. Use this Elgato video game capture to add your voice with the built-in Live Commentary feature, and you're all set for the big show. Color: Black. Gender: male.
Elgato Game Capture HD60 S High Definition - 1080p - USB - Black
Share all of your most triumphant victories and troubles with this Elgato Game Capture HD60 S Stream and Record in 1080p60. Capture your finest moments in full HD for all to see. Featuring Instant Gameview, this video game capture device has a reliable, high-performance USB 3.0 connection. It feeds your footage with superior low latency technology. Get all of your fresh content up and running on Twitch and YouTube in a snap. Add your webcam, overlays and more with Stream Command, and change your layout on-the-fly with scenes. Use this Elgato video game capture to add your voice with the built-in Live Commentary feature, and you're all set for the big show. Color: Black. Gender: male.
Share all of your most triumphant victories and troubles with this Elgato Game Capture HD60 S Stream and Record in 1080p60. Capture your finest moments in full HD for all to see. Featuring Instant Gameview, this video game capture device has a reliable, high-performance USB 3.0 connection. It feeds your footage with superior low latency technology. Get all of your fresh content up and running on Twitch and YouTube in a snap. Add your webcam, overlays and more with Stream Command, and change your layout on-the-fly with scenes. Use this Elgato video game capture to add your voice with the built-in Live Commentary feature, and you're all set for the big show. Color: Black. Gender: male.
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I have gotten excellent results capturing VHS tapes using the HD60 S. To do this I use an HDMI Composite to Video Converter (Tendak). It takes the VCR analog output and produces a deinterlaced HDMI video stream at either 720p@60fps or 1080p@60 fps. The HD60 S grabs the HDMI signal and writes a raw video file, and optionally, a playable/editable video file. CAVEAT: using the Elgato tools I have consistently gotten quality captures at 720p@60fps. However, you should review the system requirements and give yourself lots of headroom if you want to capture at 1080p@30-60fps. My system only just meets the *minimum* requirements (including an NVEC-compliant NVidea GPU) but it is still not fast enough to keep up. At 1080p the larger format frames have great image quality, ... MoreI have gotten excellent results capturing VHS tapes using the HD60 S. To do this I use an HDMI Composite to Video Converter (Tendak). It takes the VCR analog output and produces a deinterlaced HDMI video stream at either 720p@60fps or 1080p@60 fps. The HD60 S grabs the HDMI signal and writes a raw video file, and optionally, a playable/editable video file. CAVEAT: using the Elgato tools I have consistently gotten quality captures at 720p@60fps. However, you should review the system requirements and give yourself lots of headroom if you want to capture at 1080p@30-60fps. My system only just meets the *minimum* requirements (including an NVEC-compliant NVidea GPU) but it is still not fast enough to keep up. At 1080p the larger format frames have great image quality, but it drop frames. I have tried all the standard tricks to reduce system load (including using OBS), but the result is that while close - it's no soap. To do 1080p I need a faster system. NET-NET: great card. Easy set up. Does a great job. Gives me a good work flow. So it is worth it to me to upgrade my system - which I am doing.
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The + makes a big difference. The HD60 S+ works directly with Zoom. It's almost plug and play. After connecting it to your computer, you can just select it in Zoom settings as your video and audio source. However, to use the HD60 S for Zoom, you have to capture the stream into something like OBS and then stream from OBS to Zoom. The S+ also has a 3.5 mm audio jack that accepts line-level input. Handy! But beware, there have been lots of listings for the HD60 S+ that are actually for the HD60 S. I think that sellers don't realize that there is a difference. Be sure that the photo of the actual device has the "S+" in the name.
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Most embarrassing product I’ve purchased in a long time. Not trying to be hyperbolic and maybe I’m just being testy because it was the one thing I wanted to get my kid for Xmas, but just so completely useless from all aspects on Mac. Their “supports Mac” seems to be a blatant lie. Doesn’t work with OBS, their native HD software fails. OBS link fails. Frame rate drop on dual core Macbook. Won’t encode at all. Ok, I can live with that - dual core, fine. Other errors across devices: USB error randomly. Software in use error. No compatibility with MacBook Pro 2020 Silicon 8 core, no compatibility with MacBook Pro 2021 8 core. Three downloads to attempt to get working in OBS (doesn’t work). OBS tutorial video seems idealized version of reality. Props to Elgato for having ... MoreMost embarrassing product I’ve purchased in a long time. Not trying to be hyperbolic and maybe I’m just being testy because it was the one thing I wanted to get my kid for Xmas, but just so completely useless from all aspects on Mac. Their “supports Mac” seems to be a blatant lie. Doesn’t work with OBS, their native HD software fails. OBS link fails. Frame rate drop on dual core Macbook. Won’t encode at all. Ok, I can live with that - dual core, fine. Other errors across devices: USB error randomly. Software in use error. No compatibility with MacBook Pro 2020 Silicon 8 core, no compatibility with MacBook Pro 2021 8 core. Three downloads to attempt to get working in OBS (doesn’t work). OBS tutorial video seems idealized version of reality. Props to Elgato for having some of the troubleshooting errors on their site - obviously they know they’ve shipped trash. Also props to them for a warranty program to ship a replacement + model for Silicon. Obviously the Silicon upgrade is a thing that I can live with. However, does not work with Rosetta as advertised. Some research indicates their older models are better. Presumably they removed hardware encoding to cut costs. Just embarrassingly bad product. They should be ashamed to put those compatibility features on their site and packaging. If you love your kids and you are an Apple household, buy them literally anything else. (I’m a software engineer, so I appreciate the challenges of technology - avoid if you’re not.)
| General | |
| Device Type | Video capture adapter |
| Interface Type | USB 3.0 |
| Width | 4.4 in |
| Depth | 3 in |
I have gotten excellent results capturing VHS tapes using the HD60 S. To do this I use an HDMI Composite to Video Converter (Tendak). It takes the VCR analog output and produces a deinterlaced HDMI video stream at either 720p@60fps or 1080p@60 fps. The HD60 S grabs the HDMI signal and writes a raw video file, and optionally, a playable/editable video file. CAVEAT: using the Elgato tools I have consistently gotten quality captures at 720p@60fps. However, you should review the system requirements and give yourself lots of headroom if you want to capture at 1080p@30-60fps. My system only just meets the *minimum* requirements (including an NVEC-compliant NVidea GPU) but it is still not fast enough to keep up. At 1080p the larger format frames have great image quality, ... MoreI have gotten excellent results capturing VHS tapes using the HD60 S. To do this I use an HDMI Composite to Video Converter (Tendak). It takes the VCR analog output and produces a deinterlaced HDMI video stream at either 720p@60fps or 1080p@60 fps. The HD60 S grabs the HDMI signal and writes a raw video file, and optionally, a playable/editable video file. CAVEAT: using the Elgato tools I have consistently gotten quality captures at 720p@60fps. However, you should review the system requirements and give yourself lots of headroom if you want to capture at 1080p@30-60fps. My system only just meets the *minimum* requirements (including an NVEC-compliant NVidea GPU) but it is still not fast enough to keep up. At 1080p the larger format frames have great image quality, but it drop frames. I have tried all the standard tricks to reduce system load (including using OBS), but the result is that while close - it's no soap. To do 1080p I need a faster system. NET-NET: great card. Easy set up. Does a great job. Gives me a good work flow. So it is worth it to me to upgrade my system - which I am doing.
The + makes a big difference. The HD60 S+ works directly with Zoom. It's almost plug and play. After connecting it to your computer, you can just select it in Zoom settings as your video and audio source. However, to use the HD60 S for Zoom, you have to capture the stream into something like OBS and then stream from OBS to Zoom. The S+ also has a 3.5 mm audio jack that accepts line-level input. Handy! But beware, there have been lots of listings for the HD60 S+ that are actually for the HD60 S. I think that sellers don't realize that there is a difference. Be sure that the photo of the actual device has the "S+" in the name.
Most embarrassing product I’ve purchased in a long time. Not trying to be hyperbolic and maybe I’m just being testy because it was the one thing I wanted to get my kid for Xmas, but just so completely useless from all aspects on Mac. Their “supports Mac” seems to be a blatant lie. Doesn’t work with OBS, their native HD software fails. OBS link fails. Frame rate drop on dual core Macbook. Won’t encode at all. Ok, I can live with that - dual core, fine. Other errors across devices: USB error randomly. Software in use error. No compatibility with MacBook Pro 2020 Silicon 8 core, no compatibility with MacBook Pro 2021 8 core. Three downloads to attempt to get working in OBS (doesn’t work). OBS tutorial video seems idealized version of reality. Props to Elgato for having ... MoreMost embarrassing product I’ve purchased in a long time. Not trying to be hyperbolic and maybe I’m just being testy because it was the one thing I wanted to get my kid for Xmas, but just so completely useless from all aspects on Mac. Their “supports Mac” seems to be a blatant lie. Doesn’t work with OBS, their native HD software fails. OBS link fails. Frame rate drop on dual core Macbook. Won’t encode at all. Ok, I can live with that - dual core, fine. Other errors across devices: USB error randomly. Software in use error. No compatibility with MacBook Pro 2020 Silicon 8 core, no compatibility with MacBook Pro 2021 8 core. Three downloads to attempt to get working in OBS (doesn’t work). OBS tutorial video seems idealized version of reality. Props to Elgato for having some of the troubleshooting errors on their site - obviously they know they’ve shipped trash. Also props to them for a warranty program to ship a replacement + model for Silicon. Obviously the Silicon upgrade is a thing that I can live with. However, does not work with Rosetta as advertised. Some research indicates their older models are better. Presumably they removed hardware encoding to cut costs. Just embarrassingly bad product. They should be ashamed to put those compatibility features on their site and packaging. If you love your kids and you are an Apple household, buy them literally anything else. (I’m a software engineer, so I appreciate the challenges of technology - avoid if you’re not.)
I do a lot of Zoom-casts and my high-end webcam wasn't cutting it. The picture quality varies widely with the ambient light. I would have to invest in a lot of studio lighting equipment to get what I wanted, and then I'd have all of that gear to adjust. I happen to have a good SONY camcorder for performance videos, and the Elgato HD60 S was all I needed to make it stream to Zoom. I just connected my camera's HDMI output to the HD60 and the HD60's USB output to my PC. Zoom recognized it instantly and gave me a high quality picture without any adjustments. The SONY automatically sets exposure, colour, focus, and such. The only other control I needed was optical zoom, and the camera has a smart-phone app that lets me adjust that from right beside me. There's hundreds ... MoreI do a lot of Zoom-casts and my high-end webcam wasn't cutting it. The picture quality varies widely with the ambient light. I would have to invest in a lot of studio lighting equipment to get what I wanted, and then I'd have all of that gear to adjust. I happen to have a good SONY camcorder for performance videos, and the Elgato HD60 S was all I needed to make it stream to Zoom. I just connected my camera's HDMI output to the HD60 and the HD60's USB output to my PC. Zoom recognized it instantly and gave me a high quality picture without any adjustments. The SONY automatically sets exposure, colour, focus, and such. The only other control I needed was optical zoom, and the camera has a smart-phone app that lets me adjust that from right beside me. There's hundreds of video capture devices ranging from just a few bucks to a few thousand, so I checked out reviews from experienced webcasters. Some of them suggested a bargain brand that could work if you know what you're doing, but they all mentioned Elgato as their most trusted brand. Elgato also makes professional equipment costing thousands, and professional broadcasters endorse it. Rather than spend a lot of time trying to save a little money, I went with the brand name. The HD60 does a bit more than their other mid-priced model and usually costs more, but it was on sale for an excellent price and I grabbed it. If I need the more advanced functions in the future, well I've already got them. Oh yeah, it arrived from Best Buy the very next day. The packaging, manual, and support are all very professional. I was up and running within the time it took me to hook up the cables (provided). I'm a delighted Elgato and Best Buy customer.
This capture card works great, but only on my Windows PC. I actually bought this for use with a 2020 MacBook Air with an M1 and with OBS. Elgato claims to support Mac and OBS, but their support is incomplete. The card itself works with my Mac and Elgato's software, but not with OBS. (Yes, I followed their tutorial and installed all the extra drivers and software. It gets stuck on searching for signal and Elgato has no answers. ) So I would strongly advise more research and finding a different card if you plan to use this with an M1 Mac and OBS.
(Summary at bottom of review) This card works very well and is fairly easy to set up (I haven't used any other capture cards so I can't make a comparison). However, I would recommend buying an Elgato Chat Link cable with it if you intend to use the card for console streaming, so you can both record your voice and game audio while also hearing game audio through your headset. I feel that Elgato should bundle the chat link cable with the capture card. Additionally you may need a ground loop isolator, depending on the console and a couple of other factors, otherwise you may hear a loud buzzing noise in your audio while streaming. That however isn't too relevant to this review so I won't go into detail about it. I just wanted to mention those things as I've had to buy a ... More(Summary at bottom of review) This card works very well and is fairly easy to set up (I haven't used any other capture cards so I can't make a comparison). However, I would recommend buying an Elgato Chat Link cable with it if you intend to use the card for console streaming, so you can both record your voice and game audio while also hearing game audio through your headset. I feel that Elgato should bundle the chat link cable with the capture card. Additionally you may need a ground loop isolator, depending on the console and a couple of other factors, otherwise you may hear a loud buzzing noise in your audio while streaming. That however isn't too relevant to this review so I won't go into detail about it. I just wanted to mention those things as I've had to buy a couple extra things as well as the capture card in order to make full use of it. Summary: The Elgato HD60 S is a great capture card that has given me no issues, but I've had to purchase a couple of additional peripherals in order to make full use of it.
If you have a system that meets or exceeds their system requirements you'll be fine. However, this device does NOT do internal video stream encoding - it transmits that stream uncompressed over the USB 3.0 cable so that the game display on the PC doesn't lag behind actual game play. This means that it will not work _at all_ over a PCI-Express x1 add-in USB 3.0 card on an older system. Even though the interface may say it's USB 3.0, it cannot meet the bandwidth requirements for this device. I found this out when I tried to hook it up to my first gen Core i7 920 HTPC (running Windows 10) in my living room. If your processor and video card combination doesn't meet the listed minimum requirements, you'll be restricted to lower video resolutions and frame rates in the ... MoreIf you have a system that meets or exceeds their system requirements you'll be fine. However, this device does NOT do internal video stream encoding - it transmits that stream uncompressed over the USB 3.0 cable so that the game display on the PC doesn't lag behind actual game play. This means that it will not work _at all_ over a PCI-Express x1 add-in USB 3.0 card on an older system. Even though the interface may say it's USB 3.0, it cannot meet the bandwidth requirements for this device. I found this out when I tried to hook it up to my first gen Core i7 920 HTPC (running Windows 10) in my living room. If your processor and video card combination doesn't meet the listed minimum requirements, you'll be restricted to lower video resolutions and frame rates in the software and experience frame stuttering on the display back while streaming. I have a Intel Core i7 2600K and an EVGA GTX 970 (running Windows 7). Even at 720P 30FPS I experience frame stuttering in the Instant Gameview. Fortunately, the game view does not seem to affect the stream performance, I assume this is because most of the stream encoding is being handed off to the video card. The HDMI pass-thru is also unaffected, allowing you to play via a TV or second monitor with an HDMI port. This device _does_ work on Windows versions prior to Windows 10. They have an older version of the software available on their website for Windows 7-8.1. I would recommend this product to anyone that does have a system that meets or exceeds the minimum requirements. If your system is older than a few years however, you should be aware that the Instant Gameview on the PC screen may not work well enough for you to play from the PC display, plan to have a separate TV/Monitor and use the pass-thru.
First, this Capture Card was my second that I have owned jumping from the 360 to the Xbox One. I am not a heavy user for creating videos until I have discovered the specs on this. The HD60S is the first capture card that I have known to not lag from Xbox to computer. Yes, it needs an active USB power source when not in use such as watching Netflix, which is the only downfall when you are not recording or streaming, is that you need to still have an active power source to make make the HDMI work as the Capture Card is the main Hub source. Second, I was interested in the streaming because I only streamed when I was living in America. Now that I have relocated, it is hard to stream because my latency reaches 190-250 daily because I am on an island. This capture card ... MoreFirst, this Capture Card was my second that I have owned jumping from the 360 to the Xbox One. I am not a heavy user for creating videos until I have discovered the specs on this. The HD60S is the first capture card that I have known to not lag from Xbox to computer. Yes, it needs an active USB power source when not in use such as watching Netflix, which is the only downfall when you are not recording or streaming, is that you need to still have an active power source to make make the HDMI work as the Capture Card is the main Hub source. Second, I was interested in the streaming because I only streamed when I was living in America. Now that I have relocated, it is hard to stream because my latency reaches 190-250 daily because I am on an island. This capture card does no latency at all meaning lagging if you plan to stream using a high ping QOS provider. My network settings are 64Up & 3 down. Now let's look over quality, I am using the Mac Beta interface because it is still in the works for Elgato, but it is insanely easy to use because of the basic settings that are not advanced for a grade school student. The quality of 1080 at 30fps is remarkable because I love how clear it is on a screen when rewatching your capture films again. The problem with 1080 60fps is that if the game is able to play 60fps then it is completely glitchy on screen were the frame rate is dropping while watching. The storage space that you need is a big amount because recording from an hour to two takes up about 20-30gb and it is recording a format with H264. When streaming, the quality outputs to YouTube or twitch 720p and down res to 480. The response from Watching live is like 7-10 seconds. If you have any questions about the card, feel free to ask.
A year ago, when I was forced to figure out how to do livestream for our church services, I purchased the Elgato Game Capture HD60S, just guessing as to what to buy. After fumbling around trying to get it to work with our software (OBS and ProPresenter7). While I can't even remember why exactly why at this point, I finally opted for a device that was recommended by one of the two software companies. Now almost a year later I had to have a separate setup for another service in a totally different venue. I had already purchased a different device for this other room made by the same company that the aforementioned software company recommended, and had tested it and but hadn't used it in a live service as of yet. The second week I tried using it the device became very ... MoreA year ago, when I was forced to figure out how to do livestream for our church services, I purchased the Elgato Game Capture HD60S, just guessing as to what to buy. After fumbling around trying to get it to work with our software (OBS and ProPresenter7). While I can't even remember why exactly why at this point, I finally opted for a device that was recommended by one of the two software companies. Now almost a year later I had to have a separate setup for another service in a totally different venue. I had already purchased a different device for this other room made by the same company that the aforementioned software company recommended, and had tested it and but hadn't used it in a live service as of yet. The second week I tried using it the device became very unstable and I knew it had to be replaced. At this point, I ordered the Elgato HD60S hoping it would do the job. it did! And, it does! For several weeks now we've connected it to our streaming laptop and it has worked flawlessly with OBS. I am using the analog audio input as we do a separate audio mix from our digital mixer and there is absolutely no noise present that isn't generated from there. I've had trouble with another device which had high self-noise, but the Elgato is trouble-free. I'm glad I gave it another shot.
Currently using MacOS 10.14.4, iMac 5K 2015 The device works well for capturing video/game footage (including audio) to files, or for streaming. Captured game footage looks smooth and audio sounds good. Also works well for viewing HDMI output from small devices such as Raspberry Pis and other devices without screens. If this is the only purpose then Elgato Camlink 4K also works well, is cheaper, more compact, and also works with Quicktime, Skype and other webcam apps. The reason to specifically get the HD 60 S is for capturing games while sending the HDMI output to a TV or monitor while playing lag-free. I dont recommend trying to play games via the preview window in the Game Capture HD software app. The HD 60 S is advertised as having very low preview lag but there ... MoreCurrently using MacOS 10.14.4, iMac 5K 2015 The device works well for capturing video/game footage (including audio) to files, or for streaming. Captured game footage looks smooth and audio sounds good. Also works well for viewing HDMI output from small devices such as Raspberry Pis and other devices without screens. If this is the only purpose then Elgato Camlink 4K also works well, is cheaper, more compact, and also works with Quicktime, Skype and other webcam apps. The reason to specifically get the HD 60 S is for capturing games while sending the HDMI output to a TV or monitor while playing lag-free. I dont recommend trying to play games via the preview window in the Game Capture HD software app. The HD 60 S is advertised as having very low preview lag but there is still too much lag to play games and the video preview is a bit jerky and not smooth. Therefore my recommendation is to stick to the recommended setup - use the device to capture/stream footage on a computer, but for playing connect the HDMI OUT from the HD 60 S to a TV or monitor. The dream of using this device to play games on a laptop while away from a TV will not come true with this device (or any other USB device Im aware of). A few issues I ran into: * Sometimes have had to quit and restart the app Game Capture HD to fix an issue with garbled audio * Believe Ive had to unplug/replug the device into USB on a few occasions to get it to show up again in the Game Capture HD app. Generally not an issue
| General | |
| Device Type | Video capture adapter |
| Interface Type | USB 3.0 |
| Width | 4.4 in |
| Depth | 3 in |
