Furnishings:
Connecting the device was very easy. The PlayStation3 You just have to have a
Component video cable with the Game Capture HD 2 connect. Instead of the component video cable
Can you also use an HDMI splitter. This option is more expensive, however,
because her another HDMI cable needed.
If you connect the PS3 and the capture card with an HDMI cable, you can
you do not take because of the HDCP copy protection !!!
Then you put a HDMI cable (one is supplied) to the HDMI out port of the Game
Capture. The other end of the HDMI cable comes in the TV or monitor.
Now you still need a storage medium. I recommend an external USB hard drive with
at least 500GB, as you copy with this also the recorded videos to a PC
can. Smaller USB sticks with 16GB, for example, are only for capturing screenshots and short
Videos suitable because at about 10GB, the error message that there is insufficient
Disk space.
Now you have in the PS3 only the video and audio output settings
switch (component cable).
Operation and start the Game Capture HD 2:
The Game Capture HD 2 can be controlled well using the supplied remote.
However, you should not be too far removed from the device and from obstacles
have the equipment and the remote control, otherwise the signal can not get away.
A disadvantage is that the startup process of the Game Capture HD 2 takes about 30 seconds.
While starting occur about 3 times Black Screens and the FPS are very low.
For the unit, there are 2 modes. I recommend the real-time mode, as saving the files
completely done in the background and your game will run without delay.
Commenting:
You also can connect a headset to the device to your gameplay
comment (subsequently can not gameplay with the Game Capture HD 2
comment !!!). The headset requires two 3.5 mm jack (microphone and
Headphones). You can in the settings, the volume of the microphone and the headphones
. Adjust
Recording and Editing:
To start a recording (stop), you can simply the record button on the
Press remote control. You can at the quality of the recording between 20, 18 and 15 Mbits
choose. A 10 minute recording at 1080p and 20Mbits is about 1.5GB in size.
I find that the images are very good (I recommend 20MBits).
Subsequently can rename and cut her your recorded videos.
Too many files may cause some chaos, because the file names only numbers
exist.
To copy the files to your PC, you have the hard disk drive with eject F1 (in menu).
However, the hard drive must each time you reconnect to the Game Capture HD 2
be repaired, whether it will eject properly. The repair process does not take long
and so far no data losses are still incurred.
Support:
I have already contacted 2 times the support. The answers came after 2 days and were
very helpful.
You can see the Game Capture HD 2 also via app and you can control video over a
LAN cable directly upload the Game Capture on YouTube.
However, I have not tried these two functions.
Now again a summary of the advantages and disadvantages:
Benefits:
> Very easy insertion
> PC is not required for picking
> Very good recording quality
> Videos can be cut directly
> Simply adjusting the microphone and headphones settings
> Well controlled by the remote control
> Faster, nicer and good support
Disadvantages:
> Slow start operation
> Too many videos quickly creates chaos
> Despite proper ejection, the disk must always be repaired shortly