**A New Workflow: Using the iPad as a Capture Card**
I've been experimenting with portable capture cards on this channel, but I'm excited to introduce a new workflow that's more modular and adaptable to modern use cases. The iPad is going to be with me when I travel with my usual kit, like LTX and other events. It's a great device that can throw the capture card in my bag, and I'm looking forward to using it as part of this new workflow.
**Software Support: A Big Requirement**
We will need a lot more software support for this new feature. Typically, creative apps always get tons of extra support on iPads and Apple devices. I'm expecting lots to come up, like Filmic Pro already has ProRes encoding on the M2 here. Hopefully, we'll get an OBS-like streaming and multi-view program on iPadOS too. It's unlikely we'll get OBS specifically anytime soon due to some weird licensing issues with the App Store, but hopefully something like a Prism Live update for this feature will happen because they tried to support UVC on Android.
**Lossless Encoding: A Game-Changer**
One of my favorite things about the M2 iPad Pro is that it supports ProRes encoding in 422, which is even more advanced than what the Macs can do. This means we could do lossless encoding, which bypasses any compression issues from a bitrate or anything like that. It's blazing fast editing, and I can just airdrop it straight to my Mac. Like that would be amazing. Filmic Pro supports it, but this app currently doesn't. I've been talking to the Dev team to see if it's something they could get working right now, but in theory, whatever future app comes out could just enable that and immediately we're going to have a much better frame rate and quality than any of the HEVC options available for recording on the iPad right now.
**A Dedicated Monitoring App: The Future**
I'm also hoping just a dedicated monitoring app comes along in generation that supports things like scopes, waveforms, LUTs, false color, focus peaking, and all of that. So you can replace your standard field monitor with something that's bigger and better and you can see a lot better with it. Like that would be amazing. This is something they just got to implement in software, which would be really cool.
**Game Capture Events: The Future of Capture Cards**
I've never personally been to a game capture event, but I've been to conventions, LTXs, game shows, and things like that, and I've supported plenty of others building their game capture setups and configuring them for those kinds of events. It seems within the next year we could see those entire setups being replaced by an iPad and an HD 60X and those creators would have a lot less headache involved in their lives. I do hope once that time comes I can go to such a game capture event because like I said, I've helped out at a ton of people with their setups for it, but I've never been to it myself.
**Sample Videos: Check Out the Original Footage**
If you're interested in checking out the original videos that I captured straight from the iPad, my paid supporters can get access to those in the video description just because a couple of y'all always want them. Otherwise, check out the links to the HD 60X, which is basically the best USB capture card on the market right now for gamers and it's pretty sick.
**Your Input: What Do You Want to See?**
Let me know what you're looking forward to in the comments regarding this kind of workflow. Like, is this something you would use? What else do you need? Like what else do you require for this to be a part of your workflow? I'm going to be doing future testing with the M2 iPad and just got this in to see because it should work with Thunderbolt docks. So theoretically we can get some of those mobile-oriented audio things going and then really have a streaming setup.
**Other Content from Our Channel**
Remember to check out this video where I talked about giving up Windows for my main rig and checking out my Mac Studio. We're going to have a lot of stuff coming from there.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enAll of the gameplay samples you've beenwatching right nowwere captured on an iPad.In this video sponsored by Elgato andtheir HD 60X capture card,I'm gonna walk you through the future ofvideo capture on the go.And event capture and everything that'schanging with the iPadOS 17 update.Well, relating to capture.Apple is about to disrupt the fieldmonitor and recorder marketwith a long requested featurein that iPadOS version 17, which iscurrently in a free developer beta,has UVC support, which isa USB video class driver,which most of the newer video capturecards on the marketuse that kind of driver.Which means that they're plug and playwith Mac, Linux, Windows, and now iPad.And that includes Elgato's HD 60X.This has been super requested.This is something that kind of exists ina couple Android versions,but the implementation is pretty wack.And as far as I can tell, most softwarejust doesn't support it.There are a few apps that do, butrealistically it doesn't exist.But it's implemented quitebeautifully on the iPads.And because the neweriPads have USB 3 over type C,or the newer ones have Thunderbolt, youhave full bandwidth capabilities here.Anyone looking to capture or stream onthe go is about tohave a much easier time,especially those either, you know, whojust want to quicklycapture their TV setupswithout having a whole computer with you,or those traveling to esports events andneeding to do game capture eventsfor pre-release footage and promotionsand things like that.It's about to get so much easier.The testing I've done for this so far hasbeen with both a preApple silicon M1 iPad Pro,which is like the A19X that I got back in2020, as well as the new M2 iPad Pro,both of which are on the different sidesof the coin in terms of Apple hardware,but both have USB type C on board.By default, this feature currently isonly supported in FaceTimebecause it's a brand new in beta.There isn't app support for it yet.It's literally just testing, althoughthat is fine for justmonitoring your cameras.But the user none exist 01 on Reddit hasuploaded a test flight beta appthat you can downloadand test called Capture Prothat actually allows youto capture images and video.And oh my goodness, this is exciting.It is very early days.This is a beta just veryrough program at the moment,but this is the most promising first lookat this kind of advancementand what we're going to be able to dothat you can get right now.The app is in beta.There's a lot of quirks to it.It's not finished, butit's off to a great start.It lets you capture an H.264 or HEVC,which is toggled on by default on both myolder iPad and my newer iPad Proin 4K30, 1440p60, 1080p120, if yourcapture card supportsit, which is insane.Again, my primary testing for this videowas with the Elgato HD 60x.They are sponsoring this video.This is their newest USB capture cardthat supports all kinds of stuff.I have my review link toit in the description below,but it supports 4K60 pass through1440p144 pass through1080p240 pass throughand HDR pass through, allowing me tocapture all this stuff.And it's the first officially licensedG-Sync pass through capture card as well.If you're looking to capture PC games,which is pretty wild.Connects via USB type Cand it is UVC compliant,meaning it has this kind of universal USBdriver here for the video capture cardmeans it's plug and play on any operatingsystem, any computer,and now your iPad with this new app.It has a nice minimal design compared toplenty of othercapture cards on the market.These days as an audio jack up front tomake audio mixing easierand it has very competitively low latencyinput in terms of your previewto like OBS on thecomputer and things like that.It doesn't necessarily meanmuch for the iPad configurationjust due to that way the iPad previewworks at the moment,but it's very low latency.Setting this up with the Capture Pro app.It's very simple to use.You just plug it in, make sureyour HDMI source is connectedand you're running a game console withinthe supported formatsand the app just kindof detects it by default.It just automatically shows it.If you don't have anything, it'll showthe Elgato no signal screen,which is pretty cool.And then you can go into the settings andkind of mess with it.I had no issues with itpassing through the feed with itdetecting the video that I was sendingany of that audio doesn't seem to recordwith any of the devices Itested here just at all.I could not get audio to work at all,but that just seems to bea limitation of the app.Like I said,sometimes the settings reset.It's got some quirks,but I have not been excited for thefuture of where things are goingwith this kind of techin quite a few years.This is making me happy.I tested capturing from the PC both atultra wide resolutionsand standard 16 by 9PlayStation 5 Xbox Nintendo Switch.I even tested the RetroTINK 5X.Everything ransmoothly just as I expected.Ultra wide the way it was passed throughand captured is still letterboxwithin a 1440p frame, whichis fine for what you're doing.It's on an iPad, but with all of theseconsoles, all this PC,all I had to do was justplug in the Elgato to my iPadand set it up next to my TV or by mycomputer and I could start capturingwithout having to fiddlewith anything on the computer,saving you that extraperformance and all that hassle,which is prettyinteresting, especially because on PC,I just display cloned over to hereinstead of even using the pass-through.There are a couple of quirks you need toknow about the videos being captured herein that they are recorded in VFR orvariable frame rate,which means that the frame rate isn't asconsistent or smooth as it could be.That is a kind of I'm fairly certainthat's a consequenceof just how the hardware encoders onbasically every mobile device,but even on the iPad works.However, you can do CFRconstant frame rate encodingson other M2 devices like my Mac Studio.So I'm going to type up a bunch offeedback to post in the Reddit threadfor the dev and I hope we get an optionfor that because the iPad,the M2 chip is definitely capable of it.Although I will say that I did havesmoother frame rate resultson my M2 iPad Pro than my older A19X one,but it was very minimal.Anyone except Vegas Pro editors will wantto kind of lock the frame ratebefore editing the video.If you upload it straight to YouTube orwhatever, it'll be fine.But if you're wanting to edit in DaVinciResolve or Premiere Pro,especially Premiere Pro, you might havesome issues with audio syncor just the judder inthe frame from VFR files.You can do so.I have a couple oldersuper old videos at this point,linked in the video description.You can do it with Handbrake.You can do it with FFmpegor with Fast Flix on Mac.I'll try to, I guess, geta tutorial up on that soonsince I haven't beencovering Mac stuff before.But overall, quality is pretty nice.Data rates average around 20 to 25ishmegabits per second in HEVC,which should be enoughfor 1080p, 1440p video.Looks pretty good to my eye, butespecially consideringit's a portable capturesetup, that is amazing.It beats out basically every littleportable capture card on the marketin terms of quality.Those typically always have, you know,low bit rates and poor qualitybecause they'rerecording the little SD cards.I've got 1 terabyte of storage in my iPadand it's justrecording HEVC without issue.If you're just wanting a monitor,iPads have amazingly bright and highquality screens these days,making them a great choice for monitoringapplications like this.Like right now, I'm sending the camerafeed you're watching right nowboth to my 7-inch normal field monitorI would typically use andmy older 11-inch iPad Pro.And I can see significantly better andmake sure like I'm in frameand everything's going well,significantly betteron my iPad Pro here thanmy level 7-inch recorderthat I would typically be using.And plus, you don'tneed the HD 60X for that.You could actually use their Cam Link 4K,which was their original capture carddesigned to be used with cameras.Just get a little USB-Ato USB-C adapter for it.You got a nice 4K video feed runningright into your iPad.This is the future of capture setups.So it's a lot more modular, a lot moreadapted to modern use caseswhile still beingfunctional for other things.You can still pull upyour chat or, you know,the new Stream Deckapp on iPad or whateverwhile you're doing all of this.I've beenexperimenting with on this channel,obviously capture cards in general, butportable capture cards off and on.I don't even talk aboutthem very much in videos,but I've been doing it foryears and I'm always disappointedbecause the quality is poor and theworkflow isn't super great.And I got to remember this extra device.The iPad is going to be with me if I'mtraveling with my usual kit,like I'm taking it toLTX and things like that.It's going to be with me.So I can just throw thecapture card in my bag.Good to go.We will need a lot moresoftware support for this.This is a brand new beta feature.Typically, these creative apps always gettons of extra supporton iPads and Apple devices.So I'm expecting lots to come up.Like Filmic Pro already has ProResencoding on the M2 here.So hopefully we get an OBS-like streamingand multi-view program on iPadOS too.It's unlikely we'll getOBS specifically anytime soondue to some weird licensingissues with the App Store.But hopefully something like a Prism Liveupdates for this featurebecause they tried tosupport the UVC on Android.So hopefully they will update for thisbecause then you get proper livestreaming support and things like that.And hopefully otherprograms show up as well.And super exciting for me as I kind ofalluded to the M2 iPad Pros,the sixth generation iPad Pros supportProRes encoding even in 422that the Macs can do,the iPads can do now.You could do lossless encoding whichbypasses any compression issuesfrom a bitrate or anything like that.And it's blazing fast edit and I can justairdrop it straight to my Mac.Like that would be amazing.Again, Filmic Pro supports it.This app currently doesn't.I've been talking to the Dev Turn to seeif it's something that theycould get working right now.But in theory, whatever future app comesout could just enable thatand immediately you're going to have amuch better frame rate and qualitythan any of the HEVC options availablefor recording on the iPad right now.Like that is huge.I'm also hoping just a dedicatedmonitoring app comes along in generalthat supports things like scopes andwaveforms and luts and false colorand focus peaking and all of that.So you can replace yourstandard field monitorwith something that's bigger and betterand you can see a lot better with it.Like that would be amazing.And that's something they just got toimplement in softwarewhich would be really cool.I've never personally beento like a game capture eventbut I've been to conventions to LTXs togame shows and things like thatand I've supported plenty of othersbuilding their game capture setupsand configuring themfor those kinds of eventsand it seems within the next year wecould see those entire setupsbeing replaced by an iPad and an HD 60Xand those creators would have a lot lessheadache involved in their lives.I do hope once that time comes I can goto such a game capture eventbecause like I said, I've helped out aton of people with their setups for it,but I've never been to it myself.Seems like fun.If you're interested in checking out theoriginal video samplesthat I captured straight from the iPad,I'll have a couple ways that my paidsupporters can get access to thosein the video description just because acouple of y'all always want themand otherwise check outthe links to the HD 60X.This is basically the best USB capturecard on the market right now for gamersand it's pretty sick.I'll have my review link to it in thevideo description as well.Let me know what you'relooking forward to in the commentsregarding this kind of workflow.Like is this something you would use?What else do you need?Like what else do you require for this tobe a part of your workflow?I'm going to be doingfuture testing with the M2 iPad.I just got this in to see because itshould work with Thunderbolt docks.So theoretically we can get some of thosemobile oriented audio things goingand then you reallyhave a streaming setup.Let me know what you wantto see in the comments below.And if you're like, hold up, why is thisdude talking about Apple?You need to check out this video where Italked about giving up windowsfor my main rig andchecking out my Mac Studio.We're going to have a lotof stuff coming from there.Remember to be kind, rewind.\n"