AVerMedia Releases Game Capture HD II: Makes Gameplay Recording Easier Than Ever

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Updated: September 24, 2013
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For those folks who want to be able to record things on their PC your options are  few and limited and some companies want to improve that experience. AVerMedia is one such company and they have been in the business for quite awhile now providing various products to help capture the moments in your gaming adventure.

We have been using one their products for some time now to capture our PC game footage and it is light years beyond the software solutions that are offered on the net making transfers and format changes much easier than ever before. That product is called the Live Gamer HD and if you are a PC user this is the way to go, and we have had great success using it to capture our game play action on the fly without issues.

Now AVerMedia wants to introduce the new Game Capture HD II, the next evolution of the capture technology and this product is also future proof and will work with the new PS4 and Xbox One as well as all the current and older models of those consoles. This means that the new HD II product will cover whatever console you have now or may buy in the near future, so all you need to do is game and let AVerMedia do the real work.  Game Capture HD II supports both HDMI and component connections, which work with Xbox One and 360, PlayStation3 and 4, and Wii U. Its HDMI video pass-thru guarantees you the full HD gaming experience. With Game Capture HD II, you can pause and resume while recording if you decide to skip some footage. For those who want to preserve a specific moment, just take a snapshot while gaming or playing back

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You can also capture your voice if you so desire; Simply plug in the microphone and put on the headphone, you can add live commentary when recording the gameplay! Game Capture HD II lets you adjust the voice volume before you start recording. It surely saves you from the hassle of post-production. You can also do the unimaginable and capture footage without the use of a PC, wait did I just say without a PC? Yes Sir, I surely did as the Game Capture HD II comes with built-in video editor, allowing multiple video trimming directly on your TV. All you have to do is select and remove unwanted parts from a clip. Video editing can never be easier. Have you recently thought to yourself that having your own gaming YouTube channel would just be amazing, if you have the new HD II has you covered and its never been easier to get started with great content as the Capture HD II enables direct connection to your YouTube account and lets you share the gameplay straight from the box.

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Now you can effortlessly prove yourself with high quality footage. Many of you I know own an iPhone and amazingly enough there is an app for capturing videos right on your phone. The Red Dot Award-winning “GameMate” is the iOS App designed for Game Capture HD II. Upon pairing up with Game Capture HD II, it turns your smartphone into an additional monitor for checking recording status and remaining hard drive space. It also serves as another remote control for recording, snapshot, playback, and file management. Moreover, GameMate supports video sharing on YouTube and photo posting on Facebook. It certainly extends what Game Capture HD II can do. There are many options here and for those looking for a really solid solution to capture their console moments the new AVerMedia Game Capture HD II is affordable and very user friendly. I am more the PC gamer, but my friends and partners at TLD will be doing an unboxing and full review of this new product and will bring you the stories as they unfold. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow and we would love to hear your thoughts and/or questions regarding AVerMedia products. Have a great day and game on my friends. I know many people will say that software based solutions work just as good, but that is entirely not true. See you soon.

Source: AVerMedia 

  • wubwubwub

    Can it be used for livestreaming like other cards?

    • GamerLCD

      I tried looking for an answer to this and couldn’t find one. I hope it does

    • Elric Phares

      Yes It Can

  • Revolver Bobcat

    I still don’t get the point of using this with a PC when software is as good or better. You say it is “light years beyond”, and are extremely vague in what makes it so great. I’d really appreciate it if you’d be more specific because I’d like to learn.

    • Elric Phares

      Software solutions many times uses weird video formats that when you try and change them for YOUTube either don’t work at all or works really poorly. It also does not take away system resources like software based solutions so when you record what you see is what you get not a degradation in performance like FRAPS.

  • Michael Scaraggi

    Going in my next PC build!!

  • WhiteSkyMage

    I wonder what is really the performance of the Live Gamer hd. Even with high CPU usage, if i have a very high end cpu, say the 6-core i7 4930K, won’t that keep the game fps up (i mean won’t the 6cores handle it all – capturing and the game itself)?

    • UE

      Nah it doesn’t because of how the footage is captured, processed and written.

      Whenever you end up using a hardware .h264 encoder it takes a HUGE amount of load off, not only this you are grabbing the video signal straight from the output and encoding it from there.

      • WhiteSkyMage

        So I am grabbing the signal of the game straight from my graphics card and recording it using that Live Gamer (which has it’s own CPU). Now cuz i heard that the Ivy Bridge-E was really good when I am planning to do those kind of things (video editing, rendering and encoding) and that’s why i am really concerned, is it really that worth buying Live Gamer HD or i can simply use that crazy high end CPU…

        • UE

          -shrugs- up to you. I would say just go for a 4770k and a capture card.

          Also Nvidia are releasing shadowplay sometime later this year which if you have an nvidia card will make the whole capture card thing obsolete and pointless. (their latest update said they were swapping the output file from m2ts to mp4… not sure why that is taking so long but /shrugs)

          • WhiteSkyMage

            …you are telling me that a software will do a better job than a capture card :D i am not convinced at all. What will most likely happen is really, it will put my CPU on 30% more load (it’s not like i don’t wanna challenge my CPU, but hey!) and then take lots of performance out of the game into capturing and recording…Tell me that shadowplay isn’t like the other capturing software ive used…

          • UE

            Shadowplay isn’t just software r_r… it links to the .h264 encoders BUILT IN on all 6xx and 7xx series nvidia graphics cards and takes the image from the card itself directly. before spitting it out to the hard drive.
            The idea is that it will put even less stress on the processor and hard drive than traditional capture cards.

            Infact the program doesn’t have a software only mode and is reputed to have a sub 3% performance drop on the minimum requirements for the system.

            Enough that their “shadowmode” allows the program to be on constantly while playing games and when you hit a button it saves the last 20minutes (meaning you can be playing a game and just hit a button while playing to record something you did rather than having to be recording all the time and creating gigantic files)

  • Connor Orischak

    would i be able to use this to capture directly from my 660 Ti, then to my monitor, then back to my pc?