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Elgato 4K60 use?

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Hi all, so a teacher friend at work placed a blue box in my mailbox with a note and asking if I could use it. She had bought it for her son but it couldn't be used in his computer since it wasn't the correct setup and she waited to long and the return period expired. The card is a Elgato 4k60 Pro. I looked up the specs and it seems a pretty high end internal card record stuff. After reading a bit about it I am a tad confused...can it be used as an internal capture card to record my gaming or is it a passthru card that needs another PC or game console record off of? I am def not a pro gamer by any means nor am I am broadcaster. It might be fun to record my games to see how I do so I can improve on the online games I play.

Thx everyone.

Edit: After a bit more research, I read about this Open Broadcaster software that is open source and is for streaming and recording. Now I wonder if this is can be used as I described above. Thx.
 
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The Elgato 4K60 allows your PC to take video input from any (unencrypted) HDMI source and feed it into an appropriate capture application like OBS.

If you only want to capture your own PC's video output, you don't need the Elgato card. OBS can natively capture the screen output without the help of the capture card. The Elgato will help though if the device you want to capture is something else, like an Xbox or PS4 or whatever, or if you want to have a separate PC handle capture/encoding tasks from the one handling the actual gaming.

If you just want to record your own PC gaming, I recommend selling the 4K60 Pro, since youdon't need it to capture video of your own PC gameplay.
 
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