this is so much more than a Cam Link

**Face Tracking and Cam Link Technology: A Comparison**

I've had my fair share of experience with face tracking technology, particularly when it comes to webcam-based systems. The technology has improved significantly over the years, but I still find myself dealing with laggy performance and inconsistent results. In this article, we'll be exploring some of the latest advancements in face tracking technology, specifically focusing on cam link solutions that can help improve the overall experience.

One such solution is the AVerMedia Extreme Capture UVC, which offers 1080p60 video capture capabilities. While it's not a bad product by any means, I find myself struggling with its limitations when trying to use advanced features like face masks or punch-in effects. The technology simply can't keep up with my face, and even the in-and-out feature suffers from a weird pulsing effect that makes it difficult to use.

On the other hand, NVIDIA Broadcast has been a game-changer for me. With its ability to track faces and objects with ease, I've found it to be far more reliable than any other solution I've tried. The software is incredibly intuitive, allowing me to zoom in and out of specific areas with ease. Even on my high-end system, which includes a Titan RTX and Thread Ripper processor, NVIDIA Broadcast performs flawlessly.

One thing that's struck me about the quality of NVIDIA Broadcast is how much better it performs compared to more expensive cam link solutions. For example, Razer's Rip Saw X costs $120, but I'm not sure if it offers significantly better performance than AVerMedia's Extreme Capture UVC at half the price. While both products may have similar feature sets, I believe that NVIDIA Broadcast's software capabilities are worth the extra investment.

When it comes to actual usage, I've found that NVIDIA Broadcast is significantly easier to use than any other solution I've tried. The face tracking technology is seamless, and even advanced features like punch-in effects work without a hitch. This has been particularly useful for content creators who need to focus on delivering high-quality video, rather than worrying about the technical aspects of their equipment.

On the flip side, if you're looking for 1080p60 capture at an affordable price, AVerMedia's Extreme Capture UVC is still worth considering. It may not offer all the bells and whistles of NVIDIA Broadcast, but it's a solid option for those on a budget. Additionally, its compressed output might be more suitable for some users who don't need high-quality video.

**Nebula: The Streaming Site**

If you're interested in learning more about YouTube's algorithms and how to create better content, I'd like to introduce you to Nebula - the streaming site that's all about educational content. As an education creator myself, I've struggled with YouTube's ever-changing algorithms, which often penalize longer, more informative videos.

That's why I'm excited to share that Nebula has partnered with CuriosityStream to offer users access to their extensive library of documentary and educational content - as well as exclusive content from top creators like myself. For a limited time, CuriosityStream is offering a 26% discount on their annual plan, making it an incredibly affordable option for streaming enthusiasts.

By signing up through the link below, you'll not only get access to CuriosityStream's amazing content but also gain entry to Nebula - my own streaming site that offers high-quality video, ad-free and often extended from the YouTube version. You'll also have access to a community of like-minded creators who are passionate about delivering educational content.

**Conclusion**

When it comes to face tracking technology, NVIDIA Broadcast has set the bar high for cam link solutions. While AVerMedia's Extreme Capture UVC is still a solid option for those on a budget, I believe that the extra investment in NVIDIA Broadcast is worth it for the seamless performance and advanced features it offers.

If you're interested in learning more about YouTube's algorithms or want to explore other educational content options, be sure to check out Nebula - the streaming site that's all about delivering high-quality video and expert insights.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encap or no cap that is the question cap 4k is apparently the answer i can't believe i just said that we are in a wild market time at the moment where just a few years ago the idea of elgato's cam link being a capture card oriented just for cameras was not revolutionary but at least an exciting concept that i guess capture card companies hadn't thought of before or hadn't thought was a worthwhile investment into releasing a product who then have you know return on that investment and now we have them everywhere elgato has a couple now avermedia already had one and now has a newer one razer introduced a new one that's more expensive than everyone else's for some reason they're everywhere there's the cheap five dollar ones that are kind of crappy but good if you just want something cheap on a budget this is avermedia's new live streamer cap 4k as mentioned this is avermedia's newest entry into the cam link like product market which is just a basic rectangle hdmi on one end usb 3c on the other end but this one's actually pretty neat because most of the camera oriented capture cards including avermedia's previous entry had no kind of flexibility when it came to support it just took in like 1080p60 4k30 and that was it as is the case with elgato's cam links and even the camlink pro to some capacity but this bad boy kind of accepts everything almost including retro formats which is wild and it does hdr tone mapping so specs wise we're looking at 4k 60 input 1440p up to 144 hertz input as it is hdmi 2.0 pretty nice however it won't capture in any of those frame rates it only captures in either 1080p 60 or 4k30 so you can't actually get a native 1440p capture from it which may be disappointing for some of you but honestly 4k30 and 1080p6 is fine if you're actually using it for streaming and it's oriented towards a capture camera capture card anyway so your camera's not outputting 1440p i think gopros are the only cameras that actually capture in that format and i don't think they output over outputted over hdmi anyway since there is only one hdmi input you will need an hdmi splitter if you want to pass through your gameplay to play on a tv or whatever in terms of chroma sub sampling you get 422 yui 2 at 1080p 60 or nv12 if you want to save on bandwidth and then you get nv12 at 4k30 as well hdr is accepted into the capture card but it is always uh tone mapped to sdr and the tone mapping looks fine about like most the other capture cards can do which is pretty nice jumping into latency we're looking at 40 milliseconds of latency 40. sometimes henry at least when it's working right i had some serious issues with it being detected and lagging quite a bit on my front panel usb ports i don't know if it's a weird power draw my computer is having all sorts of driver issues so who knows but when hooked up and working correctly on various test pcs 40 milliseconds of latency this makes it this is the preview latency since obviously there's no pass through anyway this is the latency towards rendering your video feed you send it onto obs obs preview this makes it the second fastest capture card i tested second only to avermedia's own live gamer 4k which is 36 milliseconds this is wild this means it will be super in sync with your you know your video and audio can stay in sync it will be super easy to sync up your audio if you have it running in through a separate source it means theoretically if you're playing non-first-person games or non-timing focused games you could theoretically get away with playing from the obs preview i don't recommend it and i i just want to keep clarifying this because it's not just the input latency itself because some people look at 40 milliseconds and they're like oh lots of tvs are that way it's variable latency so with the tv unless there's some funky processing going on or it's a really bad tv your tv's input latency or your monitor's input latency is static it's just a set input latency and you can easily relatively easily adapt to it and be good to go with obs since it is rendering a scene that latency you know the frame time that it actually takes to render that frame varies all over the place based on what's on you know what you have going on in obs whether you're recording or not what else is happening in the background right now as i'm recording this my late my render frame latency is bouncing anywhere from 13.3 to 15 milliseconds so that kind of fluctuating latency is always talked about in the retro community when it comes to scalers that is a problem that makes it hard to adapt to because you have your monitor latency you have the capture card latency those two are stacked and then you have obs latency which is fluctuating and that makes it very difficult to adapt to and gives me kind of motion sick kind of feelings for it some people can make it work if you really want to play from the preview i'd recommend it loading up amarek or virtual dub instead the live streamer cap 4k is a uvc capture card which means it's plug and play and works great in windows mac and linux as well no issues on my m1 mac mini no issues on windows and no issues on linux and obs either so pretty rock solid there and i'm glad to see so many capture cards these days releasing that even if they don't have official linux support like you're not running cam engine for any of these special effects on linux getting the capture card that works on linux is a huge upgrade from where we were just like three years ago and i'm so glad to see it this also means it'll work in your video calling apps like discord teams zoom whatever quality wise it looks great got pl had plenty of captures here both from pc console nintendo switch xbox playing at 1440p 144hz 1440 p60 1080p60 had a good time with pretty much everything didn't really have any issues and it honestly doesn't get that hot either which is nice the tone mapping looks fine i don't see any huge issues there i know a lot of people aren't a huge fan of the hdr to str tone mapping in general but i think it looks pretty solid in terms of playing retro games this is where this card actually shines now unfortunately it doesn't have a pass-through so you will still need an hdmi splitter and that could break some of your compatibility with some of these scalers but running the retro tank 2x through it 480p works fine running the retro tank 5x through it you get 1080p over under fill works fine 1200p works it actually unlocks a 1920x1200 mode in obs that isn't displayed previously so that's pretty neat however 1440p and 768p modes do not work which is kind of disappointing on the flip side the open source scan converter even running the super nintendo will work all the way through to 5x which is freaking awesome now the kind of secret sauce added on to everything with this capture card is you can use it with avermedia's cam engine software to add on-screen filters and face tracking and all sorts of stuff like that i've tried it out a few times with their webcams and things like that it's always been kind of laggy not super great like i'm not a huge fan but with this capture card specifically running it through and running it at 4k 30 which i realize it's a lot of data i get it but running it at 4k trying to use even the face masks or the punch and punch out eptz stuff i don't consider it usable and i'm on a titan rtx and thread ripper system like it's the face mask cannot keep up with my face and the in and out mostly keeps up but it does this weird like pulsing thing where it'll like zoom in for a second and then zoom in more and then zoom in more like some really bad autofocus almost and i just have to imagine that it's just having too hard of a time keeping up and my gpu usage spikes through the roof when i'm doing that while on the other hand nvidia broadcast doesn't really struggle with this at all now i can't show you an exact one for one comparison because nvidia broadcast just decided to stop running on my system cool so at some point i'll have to upload a side by side but even just looking at my previous examples of broadcasts you know zooming in and out feature looks significantly better for 99 bucks you cannot go wrong with this as a cam link however if you are just after 1080p capture uh the evga xr1 light might be a better option if you don't need some of the extra flare and things like that and that was only about 60 bucks on sale i have linked below um but for a hundred bucks this is one of the most competitive cam link options on the market in terms of like an actual good one and not a knockoff one and weirdly enough it's still 20 cheaper than avermedia's previous option which is the extreme cap uvc which only did 1080p60 and it's still 120 bucks don't know what's up with that but then razer went and launched their kiox or not kio what was it the the ripsaw x at 120 bucks as well and like immediately with those products like i i don't want to dis on companies too much but when you have products like that that immediately like they are they're clearly going to offer this it's a cam link you plug your camera into it you stream it it's uncompressed versus the cheapo can't links that are compressed at that point feature for feature is going to be the same product immediately by being like 20 to 30 bucks more expensive it's kind of a no-go there's literally no reason to pay more money for it but we will be covering it if i get my hands on it regardless product links to this will be in the description below as always learning about your gear is great but what if you want to keep learning what if you want to take it further i struggle with something that many other education creators struggle with when it comes to youtube's algorithms and releasing longer more informative videos or extraneous content to get past those issues i've partnered with my creator friends to build our own videos site the site is called nebula and we've partnered with curiositystream nebula features youtube snap education creators such as mkbhd thomasfrank lowspecgamer love that dude curiosity stream saw what we were doing for educational content and wanted to partner up we've worked out a deal where if you sign up with the link below you not only get access to curiosity stream and their library of thousands of educational and documentary content but you also get access to our streaming site nebula for free for the entire duration of your subscription to curiosity stream that means you get all of the amazing content on curiosity stream but you also get my videos that are higher quality ad-free and often extended from the youtube version as well as that from all of the top education creators that are on nebula as well for a limited time curiosity stream is offering a 26 off promotion off of their annual plan making it less than 15 per year for both curiosity stream and nebula while you're there check out beyond the spotlight and a curiosity stream original series that provides a lot of insight into the rise to fame of many people including youtube's own mr beast head to curiositystream.com epos for the best deal in streaming and get access to both sites for under 15 per year it's bonkers you don't want to miss it if you're looking for something else to watch check out this other video about a ridiculous streaming box like a whole dedicated streaming box from cooler master that just sent me on this really weird journey trying to review it remember be kind rewind and join us on discord i'll see you latercap or no cap that is the question cap 4k is apparently the answer i can't believe i just said that we are in a wild market time at the moment where just a few years ago the idea of elgato's cam link being a capture card oriented just for cameras was not revolutionary but at least an exciting concept that i guess capture card companies hadn't thought of before or hadn't thought was a worthwhile investment into releasing a product who then have you know return on that investment and now we have them everywhere elgato has a couple now avermedia already had one and now has a newer one razer introduced a new one that's more expensive than everyone else's for some reason they're everywhere there's the cheap five dollar ones that are kind of crappy but good if you just want something cheap on a budget this is avermedia's new live streamer cap 4k as mentioned this is avermedia's newest entry into the cam link like product market which is just a basic rectangle hdmi on one end usb 3c on the other end but this one's actually pretty neat because most of the camera oriented capture cards including avermedia's previous entry had no kind of flexibility when it came to support it just took in like 1080p60 4k30 and that was it as is the case with elgato's cam links and even the camlink pro to some capacity but this bad boy kind of accepts everything almost including retro formats which is wild and it does hdr tone mapping so specs wise we're looking at 4k 60 input 1440p up to 144 hertz input as it is hdmi 2.0 pretty nice however it won't capture in any of those frame rates it only captures in either 1080p 60 or 4k30 so you can't actually get a native 1440p capture from it which may be disappointing for some of you but honestly 4k30 and 1080p6 is fine if you're actually using it for streaming and it's oriented towards a capture camera capture card anyway so your camera's not outputting 1440p i think gopros are the only cameras that actually capture in that format and i don't think they output over outputted over hdmi anyway since there is only one hdmi input you will need an hdmi splitter if you want to pass through your gameplay to play on a tv or whatever in terms of chroma sub sampling you get 422 yui 2 at 1080p 60 or nv12 if you want to save on bandwidth and then you get nv12 at 4k30 as well hdr is accepted into the capture card but it is always uh tone mapped to sdr and the tone mapping looks fine about like most the other capture cards can do which is pretty nice jumping into latency we're looking at 40 milliseconds of latency 40. sometimes henry at least when it's working right i had some serious issues with it being detected and lagging quite a bit on my front panel usb ports i don't know if it's a weird power draw my computer is having all sorts of driver issues so who knows but when hooked up and working correctly on various test pcs 40 milliseconds of latency this makes it this is the preview latency since obviously there's no pass through anyway this is the latency towards rendering your video feed you send it onto obs obs preview this makes it the second fastest capture card i tested second only to avermedia's own live gamer 4k which is 36 milliseconds this is wild this means it will be super in sync with your you know your video and audio can stay in sync it will be super easy to sync up your audio if you have it running in through a separate source it means theoretically if you're playing non-first-person games or non-timing focused games you could theoretically get away with playing from the obs preview i don't recommend it and i i just want to keep clarifying this because it's not just the input latency itself because some people look at 40 milliseconds and they're like oh lots of tvs are that way it's variable latency so with the tv unless there's some funky processing going on or it's a really bad tv your tv's input latency or your monitor's input latency is static it's just a set input latency and you can easily relatively easily adapt to it and be good to go with obs since it is rendering a scene that latency you know the frame time that it actually takes to render that frame varies all over the place based on what's on you know what you have going on in obs whether you're recording or not what else is happening in the background right now as i'm recording this my late my render frame latency is bouncing anywhere from 13.3 to 15 milliseconds so that kind of fluctuating latency is always talked about in the retro community when it comes to scalers that is a problem that makes it hard to adapt to because you have your monitor latency you have the capture card latency those two are stacked and then you have obs latency which is fluctuating and that makes it very difficult to adapt to and gives me kind of motion sick kind of feelings for it some people can make it work if you really want to play from the preview i'd recommend it loading up amarek or virtual dub instead the live streamer cap 4k is a uvc capture card which means it's plug and play and works great in windows mac and linux as well no issues on my m1 mac mini no issues on windows and no issues on linux and obs either so pretty rock solid there and i'm glad to see so many capture cards these days releasing that even if they don't have official linux support like you're not running cam engine for any of these special effects on linux getting the capture card that works on linux is a huge upgrade from where we were just like three years ago and i'm so glad to see it this also means it'll work in your video calling apps like discord teams zoom whatever quality wise it looks great got pl had plenty of captures here both from pc console nintendo switch xbox playing at 1440p 144hz 1440 p60 1080p60 had a good time with pretty much everything didn't really have any issues and it honestly doesn't get that hot either which is nice the tone mapping looks fine i don't see any huge issues there i know a lot of people aren't a huge fan of the hdr to str tone mapping in general but i think it looks pretty solid in terms of playing retro games this is where this card actually shines now unfortunately it doesn't have a pass-through so you will still need an hdmi splitter and that could break some of your compatibility with some of these scalers but running the retro tank 2x through it 480p works fine running the retro tank 5x through it you get 1080p over under fill works fine 1200p works it actually unlocks a 1920x1200 mode in obs that isn't displayed previously so that's pretty neat however 1440p and 768p modes do not work which is kind of disappointing on the flip side the open source scan converter even running the super nintendo will work all the way through to 5x which is freaking awesome now the kind of secret sauce added on to everything with this capture card is you can use it with avermedia's cam engine software to add on-screen filters and face tracking and all sorts of stuff like that i've tried it out a few times with their webcams and things like that it's always been kind of laggy not super great like i'm not a huge fan but with this capture card specifically running it through and running it at 4k 30 which i realize it's a lot of data i get it but running it at 4k trying to use even the face masks or the punch and punch out eptz stuff i don't consider it usable and i'm on a titan rtx and thread ripper system like it's the face mask cannot keep up with my face and the in and out mostly keeps up but it does this weird like pulsing thing where it'll like zoom in for a second and then zoom in more and then zoom in more like some really bad autofocus almost and i just have to imagine that it's just having too hard of a time keeping up and my gpu usage spikes through the roof when i'm doing that while on the other hand nvidia broadcast doesn't really struggle with this at all now i can't show you an exact one for one comparison because nvidia broadcast just decided to stop running on my system cool so at some point i'll have to upload a side by side but even just looking at my previous examples of broadcasts you know zooming in and out feature looks significantly better for 99 bucks you cannot go wrong with this as a cam link however if you are just after 1080p capture uh the evga xr1 light might be a better option if you don't need some of the extra flare and things like that and that was only about 60 bucks on sale i have linked below um but for a hundred bucks this is one of the most competitive cam link options on the market in terms of like an actual good one and not a knockoff one and weirdly enough it's still 20 cheaper than avermedia's previous option which is the extreme cap uvc which only did 1080p60 and it's still 120 bucks don't know what's up with that but then razer went and launched their kiox or not kio what was it the the ripsaw x at 120 bucks as well and like immediately with those products like i i don't want to dis on companies too much but when you have products like that that immediately like they are they're clearly going to offer this it's a cam link you plug your camera into it you stream it it's uncompressed versus the cheapo can't links that are compressed at that point feature for feature is going to be the same product immediately by being like 20 to 30 bucks more expensive it's kind of a no-go there's literally no reason to pay more money for it but we will be covering it if i get my hands on it regardless product links to this will be in the description below as always learning about your gear is great but what if you want to keep learning what if you want to take it further i struggle with something that many other education creators struggle with when it comes to youtube's algorithms and releasing longer more informative videos or extraneous content to get past those issues i've partnered with my creator friends to build our own videos site the site is called nebula and we've partnered with curiositystream nebula features youtube snap education creators such as mkbhd thomasfrank lowspecgamer love that dude curiosity stream saw what we were doing for educational content and wanted to partner up we've worked out a deal where if you sign up with the link below you not only get access to curiosity stream and their library of thousands of educational and documentary content but you also get access to our streaming site nebula for free for the entire duration of your subscription to curiosity stream that means you get all of the amazing content on curiosity stream but you also get my videos that are higher quality ad-free and often extended from the youtube version as well as that from all of the top education creators that are on nebula as well for a limited time curiosity stream is offering a 26 off promotion off of their annual plan making it less than 15 per year for both curiosity stream and nebula while you're there check out beyond the spotlight and a curiosity stream original series that provides a lot of insight into the rise to fame of many people including youtube's own mr beast head to curiositystream.com epos for the best deal in streaming and get access to both sites for under 15 per year it's bonkers you don't want to miss it if you're looking for something else to watch check out this other video about a ridiculous streaming box like a whole dedicated streaming box from cooler master that just sent me on this really weird journey trying to review it remember be kind rewind and join us on discord i'll see you latercap or no cap that is the question cap 4k is apparently the answer i can't believe i just said that we are in a wild market time at the moment where just a few years ago the idea of elgato's cam link being a capture card oriented just for cameras was not revolutionary but at least an exciting concept that i guess capture card companies hadn't thought of before or hadn't thought was a worthwhile investment into releasing a product who then have you know return on that investment and now we have them everywhere elgato has a couple now avermedia already had one and now has a newer one razer introduced a new one that's more expensive than everyone else's for some reason they're everywhere there's the cheap five dollar ones that are kind of crappy but good if you just want something cheap on a budget this is avermedia's new live streamer cap 4k as mentioned this is avermedia's newest entry into the cam link like product market which is just a basic rectangle hdmi on one end usb 3c on the other end but this one's actually pretty neat because most of the camera oriented capture cards including avermedia's previous entry had no kind of flexibility when it came to support it just took in like 1080p60 4k30 and that was it as is the case with elgato's cam links and even the camlink pro to some capacity but this bad boy kind of accepts everything almost including retro formats which is wild and it does hdr tone mapping so specs wise we're looking at 4k 60 input 1440p up to 144 hertz input as it is hdmi 2.0 pretty nice however it won't capture in any of those frame rates it only captures in either 1080p 60 or 4k30 so you can't actually get a native 1440p capture from it which may be disappointing for some of you but honestly 4k30 and 1080p6 is fine if you're actually using it for streaming and it's oriented towards a capture camera capture card anyway so your camera's not outputting 1440p i think gopros are the only cameras that actually capture in that format and i don't think they output over outputted over hdmi anyway since there is only one hdmi input you will need an hdmi splitter if you want to pass through your gameplay to play on a tv or whatever in terms of chroma sub sampling you get 422 yui 2 at 1080p 60 or nv12 if you want to save on bandwidth and then you get nv12 at 4k30 as well hdr is accepted into the capture card but it is always uh tone mapped to sdr and the tone mapping looks fine about like most the other capture cards can do which is pretty nice jumping into latency we're looking at 40 milliseconds of latency 40. sometimes henry at least when it's working right i had some serious issues with it being detected and lagging quite a bit on my front panel usb ports i don't know if it's a weird power draw my computer is having all sorts of driver issues so who knows but when hooked up and working correctly on various test pcs 40 milliseconds of latency this makes it this is the preview latency since obviously there's no pass through anyway this is the latency towards rendering your video feed you send it onto obs obs preview this makes it the second fastest capture card i tested second only to avermedia's own live gamer 4k which is 36 milliseconds this is wild this means it will be super in sync with your you know your video and audio can stay in sync it will be super easy to sync up your audio if you have it running in through a separate source it means theoretically if you're playing non-first-person games or non-timing focused games you could theoretically get away with playing from the obs preview i don't recommend it and i i just want to keep clarifying this because it's not just the input latency itself because some people look at 40 milliseconds and they're like oh lots of tvs are that way it's variable latency so with the tv unless there's some funky processing going on or it's a really bad tv your tv's input latency or your monitor's input latency is static it's just a set input latency and you can easily relatively easily adapt to it and be good to go with obs since it is rendering a scene that latency you know the frame time that it actually takes to render that frame varies all over the place based on what's on you know what you have going on in obs whether you're recording or not what else is happening in the background right now as i'm recording this my late my render frame latency is bouncing anywhere from 13.3 to 15 milliseconds so that kind of fluctuating latency is always talked about in the retro community when it comes to scalers that is a problem that makes it hard to adapt to because you have your monitor latency you have the capture card latency those two are stacked and then you have obs latency which is fluctuating and that makes it very difficult to adapt to and gives me kind of motion sick kind of feelings for it some people can make it work if you really want to play from the preview i'd recommend it loading up amarek or virtual dub instead the live streamer cap 4k is a uvc capture card which means it's plug and play and works great in windows mac and linux as well no issues on my m1 mac mini no issues on windows and no issues on linux and obs either so pretty rock solid there and i'm glad to see so many capture cards these days releasing that even if they don't have official linux support like you're not running cam engine for any of these special effects on linux getting the capture card that works on linux is a huge upgrade from where we were just like three years ago and i'm so glad to see it this also means it'll work in your video calling apps like discord teams zoom whatever quality wise it looks great got pl had plenty of captures here both from pc console nintendo switch xbox playing at 1440p 144hz 1440 p60 1080p60 had a good time with pretty much everything didn't really have any issues and it honestly doesn't get that hot either which is nice the tone mapping looks fine i don't see any huge issues there i know a lot of people aren't a huge fan of the hdr to str tone mapping in general but i think it looks pretty solid in terms of playing retro games this is where this card actually shines now unfortunately it doesn't have a pass-through so you will still need an hdmi splitter and that could break some of your compatibility with some of these scalers but running the retro tank 2x through it 480p works fine running the retro tank 5x through it you get 1080p over under fill works fine 1200p works it actually unlocks a 1920x1200 mode in obs that isn't displayed previously so that's pretty neat however 1440p and 768p modes do not work which is kind of disappointing on the flip side the open source scan converter even running the super nintendo will work all the way through to 5x which is freaking awesome now the kind of secret sauce added on to everything with this capture card is you can use it with avermedia's cam engine software to add on-screen filters and face tracking and all sorts of stuff like that i've tried it out a few times with their webcams and things like that it's always been kind of laggy not super great like i'm not a huge fan but with this capture card specifically running it through and running it at 4k 30 which i realize it's a lot of data i get it but running it at 4k trying to use even the face masks or the punch and punch out eptz stuff i don't consider it usable and i'm on a titan rtx and thread ripper system like it's the face mask cannot keep up with my face and the in and out mostly keeps up but it does this weird like pulsing thing where it'll like zoom in for a second and then zoom in more and then zoom in more like some really bad autofocus almost and i just have to imagine that it's just having too hard of a time keeping up and my gpu usage spikes through the roof when i'm doing that while on the other hand nvidia broadcast doesn't really struggle with this at all now i can't show you an exact one for one comparison because nvidia broadcast just decided to stop running on my system cool so at some point i'll have to upload a side by side but even just looking at my previous examples of broadcasts you know zooming in and out feature looks significantly better for 99 bucks you cannot go wrong with this as a cam link however if you are just after 1080p capture uh the evga xr1 light might be a better option if you don't need some of the extra flare and things like that and that was only about 60 bucks on sale i have linked below um but for a hundred bucks this is one of the most competitive cam link options on the market in terms of like an actual good one and not a knockoff one and weirdly enough it's still 20 cheaper than avermedia's previous option which is the extreme cap uvc which only did 1080p60 and it's still 120 bucks don't know what's up with that but then razer went and launched their kiox or not kio what was it the the ripsaw x at 120 bucks as well and like immediately with those products like i i don't want to dis on companies too much but when you have products like that that immediately like they are they're clearly going to offer this it's a cam link you plug your camera into it you stream it it's uncompressed versus the cheapo can't links that are compressed at that point feature for feature is going to be the same product immediately by being like 20 to 30 bucks more expensive it's kind of a no-go there's literally no reason to pay more money for it but we will be covering it if i get my hands on it regardless product links to this will be in the description below as always learning about your gear is great but what if you want to keep learning what if you want to take it further i struggle with something that many other education creators struggle with when it comes to youtube's algorithms and releasing longer more informative videos or extraneous content to get past those issues i've partnered with my creator friends to build our own videos site the site is called nebula and we've partnered with curiositystream nebula features youtube snap education creators such as mkbhd thomasfrank lowspecgamer love that dude curiosity stream saw what we were doing for educational content and wanted to partner up we've worked out a deal where if you sign up with the link below you not only get access to curiosity stream and their library of thousands of educational and documentary content but you also get access to our streaming site nebula for free for the entire duration of your subscription to curiosity stream that means you get all of the amazing content on curiosity stream but you also get my videos that are higher quality ad-free and often extended from the youtube version as well as that from all of the top education creators that are on nebula as well for a limited time curiosity stream is offering a 26 off promotion off of their annual plan making it less than 15 per year for both 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