Man…
What an obnoxious product name, eh?
This is my second 4K capture device review from this group I got sent all at once.
I previously reviewed the Elgato 4k60 Pro - a PCIe 4x capture card.
This tiny little USB dongle is the Magewell USB Capture HDMI 4K Plus.
This is a lot more of a flexible device than Elgato's option, but for pure 4k60 recording,
it just doesn't live up to the same level.
I'm EposVox, here to make tech easier and more fun and I love capture cards.
Which is, hopefully, shown by just how many I've reviewed.
I was stoked to get to review Magewell's 4K USB offering, given how many people have
asked about USB solutions after my 4K60 Pro review.
Magewell is also letting me give one of these away soon, so if you're watching this in
2017 keep an eye on my Twitter for details.
I'm also giving away an Intel Core i7-8700K over there, so… go tweet it up.
I had a kind of roller coaster of an experience with this capture device.
At first I was super stoked for the possibilities of such a device, then bummed once I realized
its limitations, and now I'm fairly evened out, happy with what it can do - I just wish
it was a little cheaper.
This dongle costs $450 - which is "affordable" in the 4k capture space, but given that it
can't actually record 4k60 (which I'll cover in a bit), feels a bit much.
This is a USB 3.0 device with a small silent fan to keep it cool.
It's got a nice design and is quite well-built.
On one end you have the HDMI 2.0 input and passthrough output, and on the other, you
have a 3.5mm headphone jack, microphone jack, and a full-size USB 3.0 port for the included
male to male cable.
One neat feature you might notice here, is that the Magewell 4K USB… blah blah… can
act as a USB sound card.
Within OBS Studio or your favorite recording program, you'll have access to different
audio devices for the HDMI input sound, microphone input sound, AND the system sound if you have
that running to the headphone jack.
Pretty neat!
Plugging in headphones also gives you a direct no-latency output of your HDMI audio.
It's basically got a little mixer built-in.
They have a capture utility - which I will touch on later - that let's you adjust volume
levels, too.
With a 600mHz chip to process the HDMI, I had hoped it would support more - but I haven't
had luck with the high refresh rate support.
I was able to push 1080p at 120hz to the card, but not 144hz and neither 120 or 144hz at
1440p.
The card spec page says it can capture up to 120 fps below 1080p and up to 90fps above
1080p, but OBS Studio does not let you choose a framerate above 60, and you can't manually
type in a value anymore.
But if you're running a 120hz display, you might be alright.
I have a 144hz panel coming in soon for testing where I can experiment further.
Now, you can apparently import custom EDID settings to allow up to 1440p 144hz to be
set as the input signal to this card - which, again, I can mess with once I have my 144hz
monitor in the studio - but from what I've learned EDID messing around can get complicated
and risky.
The product also lists support for Rec.2020 and wide color gamut, which are required for
HDR - but my PS4 Pro does not detect HDR support from it.
It would only pass through HDR, not capture - BUT that would be a desirable feature if
it worked.
I have minimal experience with this and no actual HDR displays, so I can't test further.
Otherwise, you can send a 60hz signal through at up to 4k. 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 works.
BUT USB 3.0 is NOT enough bandwidth to support an uncompressed 4k60 signal.
If you try to pull a 4K signal from the card, it's limited to 30FPS.
I have a sample here - unfortunately a really good match that got kinda ruined - you can
see it's not quite even 30fps.
Bandwidth limits it and it can't sustain 30fps.
This is where Magewell's typically-included other features come in very handy.
This card has onboard hardware de-interlacer, scaler, and so on.
Drop the resolution of the device in OBS down to 1080p and you get a super smooth, and sharp,
60fps video feed.
I tried doing 1440p, but that didn't seem to be quite 60fps, either.
This may sound awful - but it could work for a lot of people.
The advantage of something like this card is your own PC hardware does not need to do
the scaling.
So if you're just trying to stream your 4K input and don't actually need a 4K signal
being sent out, just processed from end to monitor, this is perfect.
You can create a 1080p or 720p canvas and perform really well, even on some higher-end
laptops.
Or, considering the fact that most PS4 Pro and Xbox One X games aren't running at a
native 4K, you could jerry rig the recording setup.
I also did some testing of setting the PS4 Pro to 4K output, setting the Magewell to
scale down to 1080p, then setting OBS to upscale back to 4K and record a large bitrate with
Nvenc, and the results are very impressive.
Unless directly comparing, no one would know the difference on YouTube if you were actually
capturing at 4K or not.
Daisy-chaining the 4K60 Pro and Magewell card together since Amazon lost my HDMI splitter
shipment, shows that, of course, the 4k60 Pro AT 4K is a tad bit sharper in some areas
in the final 4k result - but you really only notice it in any significant way when you
zoom in like 600x to look at text.
Especially small red text, the native 4k Elgato capture is sharper than the Magewell scaled
capture.
But beyond that, it still looks amazing.
No blocking or artifacting or anything like that.
Plus, you can do this with many more setups due to it being USB.
This sense of "flexibility" also extends to supporting non-standard input signals,
such as the 5x line doubling mode from the Open Source Scan Converter, allowing me to
create stunning 4k 60fps recordings of Playstation 1 games that look better than most emulator
setups, while still using original hardware.
The Elgato 4k60 pro always glitches out when used with the OSSC and I can't seem to figure
out why.
So this is a pretty handy recording setup for some coverage and projects I have moving
forward.
This capture dongle supports Windows 7 and up, Mac OS X 10.9 and up, the new macOS 10.12
and Linux - specifically Ubuntu 12.04 and up or CentOS 7 or newer), as well as ChromeOS
- with a easy UVC driver that also works with video calling apps.
Magewell have also developed a "Capture Utility" for Windows, Mac, and Linux that
allows you to control volume levels, adjust scaling, cropping, aspect ratios, and so on
using the onboard FPGA processing chips, import custom EDID to get up to 1440p144hz support,
convert color spaces, flip and mirror, and update firmware.
Pretty awesome.
Magewell have made a pretty powerful and flexible device.
I really want to see this updated to support USB 3.2 over Type-C and maybe even Thunderbolt
3 (though we need desktop support for that to take off first) so we can remove some of
the bandwidth limitations here.
If you need native 4k 60fps raw captures, the Elgato 4k60 Pro is still a smarter buy,
but I really feel that this dongle has a good place on the market.
As I mentioned earlier, Magewell will be helping me run a giveaway for this device.
Once available, I'll have a link to the giveaway linked in the description and comment
section, but otherwise just keep an eye on my social media.
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check these products out for yourself.
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