**Elgato Cam Link Review: A Comprehensive Analysis**

In this review, we will delve into the details of the Elgato Cam Link, a capture card device designed for capturing high-quality video footage from various sources. We'll explore its capabilities, limitations, and performance in different scenarios.

The Elgato Cam Link is the company's first capture card device to support Linux, which is a notable feature. However, it's worth noting that not all programs are compatible with Linux, and even then, the option to switch to the Cam Link may not be available. Despite this limitation, we were able to use OBS Studio to capture 60fps footage from the device, and it performed well.

We also tested the Elgato Cam Link with a Canon Vixia HF R500 camcorder, which outputs 1080p 60fps footage. The camera's auto settings resulted in smooth and stable footage, but it did introduce some color shifts and added noise in low-light conditions. However, the autofocus feature on the camcorder proved to be useful.

One of the notable features of the Elgato Cam Link is its ability to pick up audio from the connected camera. This allows users to use the camera's built-in microphone as an audio source in OBS Studio. However, it's worth noting that the default audio device provided by the Cam Link does not work, and users must manually set a custom audio device to access the audio.

Another feature of the Elgato Cam Link is its compatibility with various cameras, including modern GoPros and GoPro clones. To capture footage from these devices, users need to disable certain menu settings and turn off automatic sleep mode. We were able to successfully test this functionality on a GoPro clone, which will be reviewed in a follow-up video.

**Limitations and Future Improvements**

While the Elgato Cam Link performs well in many scenarios, it has some limitations that may hinder its effectiveness for certain users. One of the major limitations is the lack of built-in scalers, which can make it difficult to achieve 1080i support for 1080i content. Additionally, there are reports of interlacing issues with 1080i footage.

Despite these limitations, we believe that the Elgato Cam Link is a solid capture card device that offers great value for its price. When paired with an HDMI splitter, it can be used to capture footage from a variety of sources, including modern GoPros and GoPro clones. The fact that it's priced at $99 or $100 makes it an attractive option for those looking for a budget-friendly capture card solution.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Elgato Cam Link is a capable capture card device that offers many features and benefits for users. While it has some limitations, particularly with regards to built-in scalers and 1080i support, it still performs well in many scenarios. With its low price point and compatibility with various cameras, we believe that the Elgato Cam Link is a solid investment for those looking to upgrade their capture card setup.

**Technical Details**

* Capture card device

* Supports Linux

* Compatible with OBS Studio

* Picks up audio from connected camera

* Compatible with modern GoPros and GoPro clones

* Pricing: $99 or $100

**Recommendation**

We recommend the Elgato Cam Link to anyone looking for a budget-friendly capture card solution. While it has some limitations, its features and performance make it a solid investment for those looking to upgrade their setup. If you're in the market for a new capture card device, we believe that the Elgato Cam Link is definitely worth considering.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're lean were mean and we're gonna be reviewing the elgato cam link and then in the next video the green-screen I should quit life I should just stop I should stop right now who Arisa where huh I just see a Russian cool dude will you just get a mod mic already it attaches to any headphone so you can use that good pair that you like but I'll actually be able to understand your call-out it also has a mute switch so that I don't hear all those darn conversations with your grandma we got to get serious if we're gonna get outta Platt yeah just order one tonight head on over to aunt line audio.com to learn more and check it out Adamo repos box here back with another awesome tech video today reviewing the elgato cam link which is their answer to essentially a very niche market but one that is a super-important for broadcasting and streaming and things like that especially in the like local sports broadcasting front but it is there UVC capable capturecard which means that it's recognized without pretty much a driver by any program that would read a web cam whereas their traditional capture cards aren't always picked up such as via Skype the Windows 10 camera app if you want the easiest method of you know capturing footage or just lag free latency free and uncompressed access for vmix OBS studio and so on all of the tests now you're seeing will be recorded through OBS studio I have uploaded a couple windows 10 camera app tests already to my channel over last week ish so you can check those out by the link in the video description and we're gonna be checking it out I did test it with some gameplay as well which we will touch on but first and foremost this is using my Panasonic g7 I have two softbox China ball lights out here and then a main LED panel on myself it's set to I believe the widest aperture so F 2.2 or T 2.2 it's a wide angle lens the cool thing about the elgato cam link is that it's a really small capture card that's you know the size that it is and it allows you to use your dedicated camera instead of using a webcam and for comparison I have set up essentially the best possible light for the c920 here this is the base c920 that pretty much everyone has in uses now of course this video is at 60fps because that's what the capture card sports and my other camera support but the webcam is only at 30fps here and i've touched on many number of times on the channel my issues with these webcams the auto adjustment issues the framerate issues the stuttering the delay that can sometimes happen and so on and you can watch any number of my webcam coverage in the past but this is kind of the best possible setting for it with this bright of a light as this so to me it's a it's a fair comparison you get to see what it looks like and some of you have said in previous comparisons that you actually prefer the webcam I can't possibly imagine why but in terms of set up a webcam is of course easier but this helps to bridge that gap a little bit but it's not perfect and there are some major issues that they're gonna have to address here that I'm concerned about now as far as main competition for the elgato cam link goes you have the old one that I reviewed way back in the day the mage well X I 100 D USB HDMI quite the product name but this is what most people have been using to you to get their face cam in by a camcorder or external camera and sometimes even for gameplay like it's it's an uncompressed direct access capture card just like this one this is about three hundred dollars and there is technically a knockoff being sold for a little over a hundred but I don't have it and I don't like addressing direct knockoffs because they kind of cause problems for the company but avermedia actually also just released their extreme cap UVC I believe it's called or the BU won 1-0 they have weird product names I literally just got this in so I haven't really had any time to test it but I will be mentioning in comparison to the cam link in my review of this so stay tuned for that be sure to subscribe but the cam link is fairly small it has a plastic built but it's affordable it's about $150 versus 140 I believe versus the 300 for the mage well or 250 I think for the aver media connects by USB 3.0 and has the USB port sticking out the front kind of like a flash drive but then they include a small little USB extension in case it doesn't fit or you don't want to put that strain on your USB port and it supports up to 1080p 60fps signals the problem is its it struggles with support for other signals and this is a huge problem and why a lot of people in one of my big broadcasting Facebook groups where it's people who do like sports broadcasting Church broadcasts and let me switch back to the c920 here for a second you know high school sports local broadcast those kinds of things they've actually either returned to their camp link or have serious complaints about it because it doesn't support interlaced and that may sound dumb as far as gaming and video production goes and stuff interlace is generally not an acceptable format the issue is 8 it says it right on the back so the 1080i is supported which is you know whatever says it on the box I believe it said in their announcement and their website but a lot of very high quality 1080p cameras that people use for broadcasting and streaming and production on the output 1080i and it doesn't support it at all I tried my cameras don't seem to output 1080i at all my camcorder here the Canon Vixia r500 seems to have claimed it seems to have a 1080i recording mode but when I hook up the HDMI it's just outputting 1080p 60 anyway so I don't entirely know what's up with that so the only way that I had to test this was to hook up my ps4 and just tell it to only do 1080i and it already said unsupported but I thought I'd force it anyway since my monitor that the splitter runs to is 10 a 1080i compatible and I just got some sort of weird glitch on the screen and then OBS crashed out right and then I had a lot of trouble with it since so doesn't support 1080i at all and they need to remove that from the box or fix it and support it and but this identifies the main separating factor between the cam link and something like the mage well I don't know if this is a cupid case with the aver media yet but the mage well has a built in scalar and a built-in deinterlacing that does most of the processing work for your computer poor you it automatic you know it has a built-in encoder chip which D interlaces the interlaced video file for you if you set that to you know you want to pull progressive signal and it automatically does any upscaling or down scaling that you're pulling from the card so you have a list of pretty much every possible supported resolution and framerate and interlaced mode that you can pull from this device regardless of what you put into it whereas with the avocado cam link you only ever get to choose what is supported or you know what your camera is outputting and that actually turned out to be in the case of my Canon t3i to be 480p 60 even if I set it to 720p 60 and that's a problem with the t3i and I'll have a video clip I'll switch to in just a second explaining that but the t3i only outputs 480p 60 and there's no way to upscale that on the actual card you have to have your CPU doing that extra legwork and again doesn't seem to work with 1080i signals at all now this is this did output 480p 60 and even though 480p 60 isn't listed as compatible it worked but of course this outputs the overlays and things like that and you have to use magic lantern to turn him off and then you still get a skewed picture it's not great but this does work best with is mirrorless or DSLRs that just have raw HTMI output for recording camcorders camcorders are baller just make sure you can output 1080p 30 or 1080p 60 and that is something you can manually assign other than otherwise you're gonna run into that issue and I'll show some footage with this camcorder as well and you can use it to capture it is technically their cheapest capture card that Elgato offers for capturing gameplay and it looks very nice it is basically in that regard quality and stuff wise it is basically an HD 60s with no pastor again this goes from HDMI directly to USB so there's no pastor so if you want to hook up a game console you need to use an HDMI splitter and there's plenty of good ones on Amazon for like 20 bucks but you get uncompressed access by a USB 3 to the capture card and so I was pulling full lossless recordings off of it it looks fine in Windows 10 camera app even though it's at a lower bitrate you know it looks fine for gameplay recording as well and it's super low latency like I'm using it right now and every my audio is matching up to the video I don't have to add delays or anything it is very low latency it's only going to be a few frames and it's pretty nice you just have those limitations now one advantage that the cam link has or at least an advantage of the cam link has over something like the general UVC capable cards that are designed to be generic is that you can still use the cam link with their game capture software it still recognizes it as a capture card so you can use this for your vlogs for your facecam recordings or you can use it to capture gameplay either way you have their software behind you for live streaming broadcasting or what have you and you get to catalog your recordings which has always been my favorite feature about their software as much as I complain about it the ability to sit there and label gameplay recordings and things and keep it organized in that library is super handy and being able to do that with vlog footage or anything use the cam bling for is pretty nice now since it is uncompressed low latency and things like that if you do any sort of crazy scaling or skewing of the image your processor will have to do the work and that may impact a low performance machines and so that is a problem that my buddy Ilan Simon brought up in his review he covered a review from a slightly different perspective but I feel like it missed this point in my opinion is that he covered it from the you know budget user perspective and low-end pcs if you're doing any super crazy compression with the image you might struggle with a little bit of CPU load but the alternative is not to provide a compressed signal see basically godoh has two different ways of handling things whereas the mage well card it kind of does some of the compressing for you on the card itself well with the elgato cards you either have like the original elgato hd60 which provided a direct h.264 compressed image which then your processor had to decode and then re encode with in OBS which added way more CPU power or something like the HD 60s the h.264 or the cam link where it's an uncompressed signal uses up a lot of bandwidth you won't be able to put this in another capture card on the same bus unless you have a really powerful desktop bus on a laptop you're gonna struggle but that means your CPU doesn't have to do double duty with decoding and encoding just the encoding work so I wanted to add that note and point out his review he does some testing with low-end machines another thing about the drive of this mode is this supposedly supports the Linux so we're gonna flip over and test that in a minute because the AVerMedia live gamer hd2 said it supported linux and it did not really well they didn't say that they said it was driverless and I said hey would that support Linux and they said maybe and then it turned out not to be true I didn't say that but we're gonna flip over in test and I'm gonna show you an issue with recording from something like the t3i specifically higher in DSLRs were like a mirrorless like my panasonic do seven are going to be fine but canons stupid so you gotta want to pay attention to this so this real quick is just a really stupid example of what happens when you don't have the ability to turn off overlays or customize your cameras video output this is my Canon EOS Rebel t3i running out via HDMI to the cam link now it does the settings aren't exactly set right but it outputs a 720p or 7th note a 720 by 480 P 60fps signal despite the fact that we're set to 1080p 30 mode and all of the overlays including the grid over my face and everything else doesn't look great some cameras you can turn or most cameras especially most modern cameras you can turn off the overlays and you can use magic lantern a custom firmware to turn off some overlays for the t3i but you don't exactly get a great result either way now this is with a few tweaks I've disabled the overlays in magic lantern and I've adjusted the shutter speed and ISO and set it to 720p 60fps in the camera but it still is only outputting 480p 60fps to the cam link for some reason I can't make it do anything different than that my focus is a little off but you get the idea things are a little bit smoother we have 60 FPS theoretically but it's not perfect it's skewed a little bit I'll have to restrain you can get a result from the camera so I guess it's worth noting that Elega knows cam link is their first capture card device that seems to support Linux in OBS when I've tried other programs they don't really give me the option to switch to the cam link not necessarily you know Goethals fault probably fault of linux programs that are designed for laptops with a single camera but it does work with in OBS and seems to work just fine the same way it does on Windows so kudos for that let's see that support more often you may proceed and finally here we have my canon vixia hf r 500 camcorder they now have the like our 800 out i think but they've never really updated the cameras they just keep releasing them but this is a 1080p 60 capture card outputting to the camp link with overlays disabled yet smooth 60fps footage still but it's on auto settings which means I don't have to put in as much as much work or it'll adapt a low-light just be a little bit more noisy but the color does get a little weird shift here if you're compared to the c920 you see it's a little bit more it kind of adds more green whereas the camcorder adds more magenta but it has an automatic face locking autofocus since that versus the manual focus of my Panasonic view 7 I was just using and it still looks pretty good one of the more easier setups now I did want to mention to someone asked and I forgot to mention earlier is that it does pick up the audio from your camera so you can use that as an audio source now in OBS studio it's annoying the default audio device that OBS studio pulls from the cam link doesn't provide any audio you have to manually set a custom audio device and then set the digital audio interface of the cam link and it will work fine in my tests of the Windows 10 camera app it loads the audio from the cam link just fine so you can get your on camera a video audio if you need it I don't recommend it because it's gonna be much worse than using like a dedicated microphone but it is an option available to you or if you run a separate shotgun mic or something into your camera you have that option so hope you enjoyed this review for 1:40 it's a bit of a tougher sale sell I would wreck it if you can get it for 99 if you can get the cam link for 99 dollars or $100 I think could be the perfect value for this kind of capture card if you're just looking for their cheapest capture card option for capturing gameplay as long as you don't mind buying an HDMI splitter this will work as well just wanted to provide some tests here too but this will work again with a wide variety of cameras including modern GoPros and GoPro clones then output via HDMI it should work with them how here you see you do have to turn off all of your menus and things like that and turn off automatic sleep mode and things like that got to be careful there that shows an example but yes it will work with GoPros and GoPro clones and I actually just ordered a GoPro clone for 56 dollars on a lightning deal and then I had an Amazon gift card too so a very good value and I want to see what it looks like running to the elgato can link it won't get here for a couple more weeks so I can't do it in this video but I'll release a follow up video with that camera because I think it might be a special value point but so pretty good product just has some limitations that will hurt it for the overall broadcasting field that the like the main limitations of not having the built-in scalars like the major well is just kind of they're stuck with it but hopefully they'll be able to work out or fix the interlacing issue with 1080i support for 1080i especially since they printed it on the damn box I mean both socks here make tech easier and more fun hope you enjoyed the video smash the like button if you enjoyed get subscribe for more awesome tech content and I will see you next time a post box is a patreon supported production our videos would simply not be possible without the support and generosity of our patrons whom you can see on screen right now if you'd like to join the inner circle and get early access to videos among other things go to patreon.com/scishowwe're lean were mean and we're gonna be reviewing the elgato cam link and then in the next video the green-screen I should quit life I should just stop I should stop right now who Arisa where huh I just see a Russian cool dude will you just get a mod mic already it attaches to any headphone so you can use that good pair that you like but I'll actually be able to understand your call-out it also has a mute switch so that I don't hear all those darn conversations with your grandma we got to get serious if we're gonna get outta Platt yeah just order one tonight head on over to aunt line audio.com to learn more and check it out Adamo repos box here back with another awesome tech video today reviewing the elgato cam link which is their answer to essentially a very niche market but one that is a super-important for broadcasting and streaming and things like that especially in the like local sports broadcasting front but it is there UVC capable capturecard which means that it's recognized without pretty much a driver by any program that would read a web cam whereas their traditional capture cards aren't always picked up such as via Skype the Windows 10 camera app if you want the easiest method of you know capturing footage or just lag free latency free and uncompressed access for vmix OBS studio and so on all of the tests now you're seeing will be recorded through OBS studio I have uploaded a couple windows 10 camera app tests already to my channel over last week ish so you can check those out by the link in the video description and we're gonna be checking it out I did test it with some gameplay as well which we will touch on but first and foremost this is using my Panasonic g7 I have two softbox China ball lights out here and then a main LED panel on myself it's set to I believe the widest aperture so F 2.2 or T 2.2 it's a wide angle lens the cool thing about the elgato cam link is that it's a really small capture card that's you know the size that it is and it allows you to use your dedicated camera instead of using a webcam and for comparison I have set up essentially the best possible light for the c920 here this is the base c920 that pretty much everyone has in uses now of course this video is at 60fps because that's what the capture card sports and my other camera support but the webcam is only at 30fps here and i've touched on many number of times on the channel my issues with these webcams the auto adjustment issues the framerate issues the stuttering the delay that can sometimes happen and so on and you can watch any number of my webcam coverage in the past but this is kind of the best possible setting for it with this bright of a light as this so to me it's a it's a fair comparison you get to see what it looks like and some of you have said in previous comparisons that you actually prefer the webcam I can't possibly imagine why but in terms of set up a webcam is of course easier but this helps to bridge that gap a little bit but it's not perfect and there are some major issues that they're gonna have to address here that I'm concerned about now as far as main competition for the elgato cam link goes you have the old one that I reviewed way back in the day the mage well X I 100 D USB HDMI quite the product name but this is what most people have been using to you to get their face cam in by a camcorder or external camera and sometimes even for gameplay like it's it's an uncompressed direct access capture card just like this one this is about three hundred dollars and there is technically a knockoff being sold for a little over a hundred but I don't have it and I don't like addressing direct knockoffs because they kind of cause problems for the company but avermedia actually also just released their extreme cap UVC I believe it's called or the BU won 1-0 they have weird product names I literally just got this in so I haven't really had any time to test it but I will be mentioning in comparison to the cam link in my review of this so stay tuned for that be sure to subscribe but the cam link is fairly small it has a plastic built but it's affordable it's about $150 versus 140 I believe versus the 300 for the mage well or 250 I think for the aver media connects by USB 3.0 and has the USB port sticking out the front kind of like a flash drive but then they include a small little USB extension in case it doesn't fit or you don't want to put that strain on your USB port and it supports up to 1080p 60fps signals the problem is its it struggles with support for other signals and this is a huge problem and why a lot of people in one of my big broadcasting Facebook groups where it's people who do like sports broadcasting Church broadcasts and let me switch back to the c920 here for a second you know high school sports local broadcast those kinds of things they've actually either returned to their camp link or have serious complaints about it because it doesn't support interlaced and that may sound dumb as far as gaming and video production goes and stuff interlace is generally not an acceptable format the issue is 8 it says it right on the back so the 1080i is supported which is you know whatever says it on the box I believe it said in their announcement and their website but a lot of very high quality 1080p cameras that people use for broadcasting and streaming and production on the output 1080i and it doesn't support it at all I tried my cameras don't seem to output 1080i at all my camcorder here the Canon Vixia r500 seems to have claimed it seems to have a 1080i recording mode but when I hook up the HDMI it's just outputting 1080p 60 anyway so I don't entirely know what's up with that so the only way that I had to test this was to hook up my ps4 and just tell it to only do 1080i and it already said unsupported but I thought I'd force it anyway since my monitor that the splitter runs to is 10 a 1080i compatible and I just got some sort of weird glitch on the screen and then OBS crashed out right and then I had a lot of trouble with it since so doesn't support 1080i at all and they need to remove that from the box or fix it and support it and but this identifies the main separating factor between the cam link and something like the mage well I don't know if this is a cupid case with the aver media yet but the mage well has a built in scalar and a built-in deinterlacing that does most of the processing work for your computer poor you it automatic you know it has a built-in encoder chip which D interlaces the interlaced video file for you if you set that to you know you want to pull progressive signal and it automatically does any upscaling or down scaling that you're pulling from the card so you have a list of pretty much every possible supported resolution and framerate and interlaced mode that you can pull from this device regardless of what you put into it whereas with the avocado cam link you only ever get to choose what is supported or you know what your camera is outputting and that actually turned out to be in the case of my Canon t3i to be 480p 60 even if I set it to 720p 60 and that's a problem with the t3i and I'll have a video clip I'll switch to in just a second explaining that but the t3i only outputs 480p 60 and there's no way to upscale that on the actual card you have to have your CPU doing that extra legwork and again doesn't seem to work with 1080i signals at all now this is this did output 480p 60 and even though 480p 60 isn't listed as compatible it worked but of course this outputs the overlays and things like that and you have to use magic lantern to turn him off and then you still get a skewed picture it's not great but this does work best with is mirrorless or DSLRs that just have raw HTMI output for recording camcorders camcorders are baller just make sure you can output 1080p 30 or 1080p 60 and that is something you can manually assign other than otherwise you're gonna run into that issue and I'll show some footage with this camcorder as well and you can use it to capture it is technically their cheapest capture card that Elgato offers for capturing gameplay and it looks very nice it is basically in that regard quality and stuff wise it is basically an HD 60s with no pastor again this goes from HDMI directly to USB so there's no pastor so if you want to hook up a game console you need to use an HDMI splitter and there's plenty of good ones on Amazon for like 20 bucks but you get uncompressed access by a USB 3 to the capture card and so I was pulling full lossless recordings off of it it looks fine in Windows 10 camera app even though it's at a lower bitrate you know it looks fine for gameplay recording as well and it's super low latency like I'm using it right now and every my audio is matching up to the video I don't have to add delays or anything it is very low latency it's only going to be a few frames and it's pretty nice you just have those limitations now one advantage that the cam link has or at least an advantage of the cam link has over something like the general UVC capable cards that are designed to be generic is that you can still use the cam link with their game capture software it still recognizes it as a capture card so you can use this for your vlogs for your facecam recordings or you can use it to capture gameplay either way you have their software behind you for live streaming broadcasting or what have you and you get to catalog your recordings which has always been my favorite feature about their software as much as I complain about it the ability to sit there and label gameplay recordings and things and keep it organized in that library is super handy and being able to do that with vlog footage or anything use the cam bling for is pretty nice now since it is uncompressed low latency and things like that if you do any sort of crazy scaling or skewing of the image your processor will have to do the work and that may impact a low performance machines and so that is a problem that my buddy Ilan Simon brought up in his review he covered a review from a slightly different perspective but I feel like it missed this point in my opinion is that he covered it from the you know budget user perspective and low-end pcs if you're doing any super crazy compression with the image you might struggle with a little bit of CPU load but the alternative is not to provide a compressed signal see basically godoh has two different ways of handling things whereas the mage well card it kind of does some of the compressing for you on the card itself well with the elgato cards you either have like the original elgato hd60 which provided a direct h.264 compressed image which then your processor had to decode and then re encode with in OBS which added way more CPU power or something like the HD 60s the h.264 or the cam link where it's an uncompressed signal uses up a lot of bandwidth you won't be able to put this in another capture card on the same bus unless you have a really powerful desktop bus on a laptop you're gonna struggle but that means your CPU doesn't have to do double duty with decoding and encoding just the encoding work so I wanted to add that note and point out his review he does some testing with low-end machines another thing about the drive of this mode is this supposedly supports the Linux so we're gonna flip over and test that in a minute because the AVerMedia live gamer hd2 said it supported linux and it did not really well they didn't say that they said it was driverless and I said hey would that support Linux and they said maybe and then it turned out not to be true I didn't say that but we're gonna flip over in test and I'm gonna show you an issue with recording from something like the t3i specifically higher in DSLRs were like a mirrorless like my panasonic do seven are going to be fine but canons stupid so you gotta want to pay attention to this so this real quick is just a really stupid example of what happens when you don't have the ability to turn off overlays or customize your cameras video output this is my Canon EOS Rebel t3i running out via HDMI to the cam link now it does the settings aren't exactly set right but it outputs a 720p or 7th note a 720 by 480 P 60fps signal despite the fact that we're set to 1080p 30 mode and all of the overlays including the grid over my face and everything else doesn't look great some cameras you can turn or most cameras especially most modern cameras you can turn off the overlays and you can use magic lantern a custom firmware to turn off some overlays for the t3i but you don't exactly get a great result either way now this is with a few tweaks I've disabled the overlays in magic lantern and I've adjusted the shutter speed and ISO and set it to 720p 60fps in the camera but it still is only outputting 480p 60fps to the cam link for some reason I can't make it do anything different than that my focus is a little off but you get the idea things are a little bit smoother we have 60 FPS theoretically but it's not perfect it's skewed a little bit I'll have to restrain you can get a result from the camera so I guess it's worth noting that Elega knows cam link is their first capture card device that seems to support Linux in OBS when I've tried other programs they don't really give me the option to switch to the cam link not necessarily you know Goethals fault probably fault of linux programs that are designed for laptops with a single camera but it does work with in OBS and seems to work just fine the same way it does on Windows so kudos for that let's see that support more often you may proceed and finally here we have my canon vixia hf r 500 camcorder they now have the like our 800 out i think but they've never really updated the cameras they just keep releasing them but this is a 1080p 60 capture card outputting to the camp link with overlays disabled yet smooth 60fps footage still but it's on auto settings which means I don't have to put in as much as much work or it'll adapt a low-light just be a little bit more noisy but the color does get a little weird shift here if you're compared to the c920 you see it's a little bit more it kind of adds more green whereas the camcorder adds more magenta but it has an automatic face locking autofocus since that versus the manual focus of my Panasonic view 7 I was just using and it still looks pretty good one of the more easier setups now I did want to mention to someone asked and I forgot to mention earlier is that it does pick up the audio from your camera so you can use that as an audio source now in OBS studio it's annoying the default audio device that OBS studio pulls from the cam link doesn't provide any audio you have to manually set a custom audio device and then set the digital audio interface of the cam link and it will work fine in my tests of the Windows 10 camera app it loads the audio from the cam link just fine so you can get your on camera a video audio if you need it I don't recommend it because it's gonna be much worse than using like a dedicated microphone but it is an option available to you or if you run a separate shotgun mic or something into your camera you have that option so hope you enjoyed this review for 1:40 it's a bit of a tougher sale sell I would wreck it if you can get it for 99 if you can get the cam link for 99 dollars or $100 I think could be the perfect value for this kind of capture card if you're just looking for their cheapest capture card option for capturing gameplay as long as you don't mind buying an HDMI splitter this will work as well just wanted to provide some tests here too but this will work again with a wide variety of cameras including modern GoPros and GoPro clones then output via HDMI it should work with them how here you see you do have to turn off all of your menus and things like that and turn off automatic sleep mode and things like that got to be careful there that shows an example but yes it will work with GoPros and GoPro clones and I actually just ordered a GoPro clone for 56 dollars on a lightning deal and then I had an Amazon gift card too so a very good value and I want to see what it looks like running to the elgato can link it won't get here for a couple more weeks so I can't do it in this video but I'll release a follow up video with that camera because I think it might be a special value point but so pretty good product just has some limitations that will hurt it for the overall broadcasting field that the like the main limitations of not having the built-in scalars like the major well is just kind of they're stuck with it but hopefully they'll be able to work out or fix 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