What's up guys! Welcome back to the
Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
We're a YouTube channel completely
dedicated to teaching you how to
livestream and create content within the
gaming niche so there's loads of
tutorials here helping you learn how to
do all of that and today's video we're
looking at capturing from a games
console using a capture card. So if you
wanted to stream from your Xbox or your
Playstation through OBS and through your
computer that's what we're gonna be
covering in this video and then
streaming to Twitch or YouTube from
there. Now you might be thinking 'Hey I
can already stream from my xbox, I can
already stream from my PlayStation,
there's an app, a Twitch app and through
there I can stream my gameplay', but it
doesn't really allow the same amount of
customization as it does if you have a
capture card and you're streaming
through your computer. You might be able
to do some basic things with your webcam
and some basic microphone options but
you can't really get the same amount of
customization as you can if you use OBS
and a capture card. So if you want to
have you know alerts, donation alerts,
subscriber alerts,
now playing information, countdown,
your twitch chat embedded, it basically all
the cool things that we teach on this
channel, you're gonna need to use OBS and
to be able to capture your console,
you're gonna need to use a capture card.
There are a number of different
companies that are now producing these
capture cards: Elgato, Avermedia,
Blackmagic, Roxio, Razor, loads and loads
more, because the streaming market is
becoming more and more lucrative so a
lot of these hardware companies are now
building capture cards. The cards
themselves also come in a variety of
different shapes and sizes, you have some
are made for desktop computers and they
plug directly into the motherboard
through the PCI slot, and you also have
ones that are more on the go and laptop
friendly that plug directly into USB
ports. The card that we are going to be
looking at and installing today is
Elgato's HD60 Pro, now this is a really
commonly used capture card, it's an
internal one so it's going to fit
directly into our desktop computer into
the motherboard. It's really popular, very
critically acclaimed and it's just had a
massive drop in price actually because
I've got a released it's bigger brother
the 4K60 Pro and this card is capable
of capturing 1080p, 60 frames per second at 60
megabits per second. In this video we're
gonna be covering the installation of
the card, the setup both in the Elgato
software and OBS studio so that you can
get it set up properly for your
streaming and we'll also be covering
some common troubleshooting issues and
of course we'll have some examples of
some console footage that it has
captured. Let's jump in!
So in the box of the Elgato HD60 Pro you're going to get
the actual capture card itself which is
pretty small I expected it actually to
be a little bit bigger, which is handy
for those of you that have messy builds
and not the greatest cable management
like mine. You also get the HDMI cable, so
you only get one HDMI cable and you're
going to need a second if you're wanting to
capture from a console, but I'd imagine
those console gamers already have an
HDMI cable that goes from their console
to their screen so you can of course use
that. The HD60 Pro plugs directly into a
PCI Express slot on your motherboard, now
the card only requires a 1x slot so if
you have one of these smaller PCI
Express slots on your motherboard you
can plug it into that one but of course
if you don't, it can plug into the bigger
PCI Express slot just fine.
Make sure that the card is seated
properly within the slot and then screw
in the attachment at the top to make
sure it stays in place. Now the card as I
said comes with an included HDMI cable
so what we're gonna do with this cable
is connect the output HDMI of our
console and yes I am using an Xbox 360, I
know I'm completely out of date it does
of course work with the PS4, Xbox One and  all
of the latest consoles, but you're going to
plug the first HDMI cable into the
output of your console and then into the
input which is the HDMI port labeled 'IN'
on the Elgato card. Next take the second HDMI
cable, plug it into the HDMI port labelled
'OUT' on the card and attach the other end
of the HDMI cable to your monitor which
you're going to use to play on your
console with. Now to configure the
streaming software we need to be on our
computer and for this kind of setup it's
quite useful to have a second monitor,
this way you can have one connected
to your PC where you can monitor OBS and
make sure that your stream is running
nicely and the second monitor can be
connected to your elgato capture card
and your console and you can actually
play the console game on that monitor.
The first thing that we're going to need
to do is download the Elgato game
capture software and I've included a
link to it in the description below and
also popping it up on screen now.
Download the software, install it as you
would with any other piece of software
and then run when we are finished with
our installation. Once this is done we're
actually going to set up OBS and it's
really important to note here that you
need to close the Elgato Game Capture
software to be able to use OBS, otherwise
you'll get an error message letting you
know that the device is already in use.
So again close the Elgato Game Capture
software once it's been installed and
open up OBS. Choose the scene in which
you want to have the console captured
into and then come across to the sources
list and click the little plus icon and
select video capture device from the
list of options. Name it whatever you'd
like to name it I'm going to name mine
Elgato HD60 Pro, just because it's what it's
called and it's going to be easy for me to
understand which source is which. The next
window that pops up is going to let us
choose the device that you want to
capture, select the drop down menu next
to device and find the device named
Elgato Game Capture HD. All the options
below this don't need to be changed
right now so we can just press OK and
hopefully we should see a preview of the
consoles output in OBS. To configure the
settings on the Elgato HD60 Pro, what we
need to do is right click on the source,
select properties and then select
configure video. This should now open up
a new settings window from Elgato. Here
we should firstly select the type of
device that is plugged into the input of
the capture card, there's a drop-down
list of some consoles and devices that
are used most frequently so find the
console that you have plugged in and
select that option. Next we can choose
between the standard and the expanded
HDMI color ranges, usually standard will
look better but you can instantly see
the preview window change the color
ranges so play around with both and
see which one you want to choose. For the
profile option we want to select the
resolution that our console or video
device is outputting, if you're unsure
it's probably best to leave this at HD
1080 and ticking the allow 60fps box.
Note that this isn't actually going to
be what OBS is using to stream, it's simply
the resolution that the elgato capture
card is using to capture your console.
You can leave the next two checkboxes
unchecked as they shouldn't be required.
Now the next section allows you to play
around with the brightness the contrast
the saturation and the hue of the
picture that you're getting from your
console. Again this is totally personal
preference so play around with the
options, see the live preview update and
choose whatever you think looks best for
the game or the console that you're
capturing. Finally we have an option to
change the audio levels of the console
or video device so come in here and turn
it up a bit if your console is too quiet
on your stream. Once you're all happy you
can click done and your settings will be
saved. Now hopefully what you can now see
in the OBS preview is exactly the same
as what your monitor that's connected to
your console via your capture card is
also showing, so it should be a live
preview there should be no delay no lag,
you should be able to play completely
normally and OBS should be showing the
exact preview of your console. Now it's
totally up to you to add all your
overlays, your webcams,
donation alerts and everything else you
want to add on top of this source. If you
need to watch some videos and describing
how to do all those cool things then
this is the right channel we've got
loads of videos adding overlays, webcams,
now playing music, twitch chat, all those
kind of things so just have a look
around this channel if there's anything
that you want to add on top but
basically customize your stream as much
as you want to make it look exactly as
you want to. One thing to remember is
that you need to have the capture card
at the bottom of all of your sources, so
that you can have all those other layers
appearing above it, so just make sure
that you are having the capture card
right down at the bottom of the sources
you can move it up and down using these
arrows. It's worth noting that if you are a
streamer that streams both PC and
console games you can add both your
capture card and your game capture
source into the same scene and then just
enable or disable the one that you wish
to stream by clicking this little
eye icon next to the one that you want to
hide or display. That is pretty much it
and hopefully you haven't had any issues
setting up your console, it's worth
noting that if you are capturing a PS4 you
may need to play around with the HDCP
settings, before your Elgato Game
Capture can actually capture your
console so to be able to do that make
sure that your PS4 firstly is directly
connected to your TV so not connected
through your capture card, then visit the
settings system section of the PS4
interface and turn off enable HDCP.
After that you can then connect your PS4
to your elgato capture card your capture
card to your monitor and everything
should work exactly as I've described in
this video. I've also added a link to a
help article on the elgato website down
in the description of this video in case
you run into any sort of playback issues, it's
super rare but some of the more common
ones have been added to this help
article and now some ways to resolve
those issues. That's pretty much it guys
so thank you very much for watching I
hope you have found this video useful
and you now have your capture card set
up with your console and a good looking
stream that's using OBS rather than just
the standard software that's included on
the consoles because that's a much more
professional look. I realize that the
majority of the content on this channel
is sort of focused around PC streaming
with software like OBS so this is
probably my first proper console based
guide, let me know in the comments if
this has been useful and I'll obviously
create more content based around capture
cards and things to do with console
streaming as well as all the PC
streaming guides that I am obviously
going to keep creating. Lastly I would
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Last week I quietly announced just
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