Elgato 4K60 S+, External Capture Card, Record in 4K60 HDR10 with ultra-low latency to PC or SD Card on PS5/PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One X/S, in OBS and other broadcasting software, for Windows

Product Information

The EDID file contains information about the type of signal the device (TV/Monitor) can accept, such as resolution, frame rate, HDR format, bit depth, audio, (Stereo, multi-channel), and much more. Recommended for : Use this setting if the Merged EDID mode is causing image issues with the attached display. Looking at the hardware there are some key differences that can affect which you buy. The most obvious is that the AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt requires Thunderbolt 3 to operate at all. If you don't have it, you can't use it, and that rules out a number of PCs, including virtually anything running on an AMD Ryzen CPU.

4K60 S+ Obsolete? : r/elgato - Reddit 4K60 S+ Obsolete? : r/elgato - Reddit

The Elgato 4K60S+ has a couple of standout features, including its own hardware encoder and built in SD card slot. If you're someone who frequently travels or just needs to be able to capture footage without needing your PC handy, then this is absolutely the box to get.By default, all PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro systems have HDCP activated on a system wide level. If you have a PlayStation 5 plugged into 4K60 Pro and are using a 120Hz monitor, you will be able to play and capture at 1080p or 1440p 120Hz. I do NOT recommend the Elgato 4K60 S+. Not in its current state for sure, but maybe not ever considering its unpredictability and giant price tag. Imagine taking it to a local tournament to record off-stream matches and getting home to realize half the footage was ruined. Well if you get this card, you won’t have to imagine! The AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt is an incredible piece of hardware, matching the company's flagship internal PCIe capture card in basically every way, without the requirement for a slot inside your PC to run it.

Elgato 4K60S+ review: This capture device is a content Elgato 4K60S+ review: This capture device is a content

HDCP needs to be turned off for Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ to be able to capture from a PlayStation. If the SD Card features these markings, it can record reliability at 30 MB/s (Megabyte) or 240 Mb/s (Megabit).When you are recording and reach the end of the card capacity, Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ will leave 90MB or so free so it can properly finish off the file. Afterwards the recording simply stops, but it will not be corrupted. Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ supports exFAT and FAT32. Most current SD Cards come pre-formatted in exFAT, and exFAT is our recommended format. These recommendations may help when Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ is used and there is no signal or USB related errors.

PlayStation 5 Setup – Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ - PlayStation 5 Setup – Elgato

In contrast with these issues, the 4K60 S+ does have two things going for it. First, the footage recorded in OBS was pixelation and corruption free. Then again, the problem with that is you can no longer record in HDR since OBS does not currently support HDR as of this writing. Even so, this shows there’s issues with Elgato’s 4K Capture Utility which means it can potentially be fixed in an update. Though, they’ve been saying they’ll fix it since the device launched. Latency is another of this card’s weak points. It’s trying to push 4K 60 FPS through a USB 3.0 connection. The result is a heavily delayed image coming to your preview window. The passthrough is lagless, so it doesn’t affect your gaming experience. This still negatively affects content creators since the gameplay will be desynced from other media sources like microphones or webcams. I didn’t do systematic testing, but it felt like an entire half second of delay. (Elgato says it’s about 250 ms) To mitigate this, you have to add render delay filters to you mic and webcam in OBS. How much delay exactly? Trial and error till it sounds about right. Yep… it’s as bad as it sounds.If you have a Xbox Series X/S plugged into 4K60 Pro and are using a 120Hz monitor, you will be able to play and capture at either 1080p 120Hz or 1440p 120Hz, depending on which resolution your monitor supports. Recommended for : Typical console capture setup where a TV or monitor is connected to the capture card HDMI output.