Don't waste time or money on the $10 Cheapies, buy quality. If you're working with 8-bit analog tech this seems to be your only real option. Not start an operation just to stop it so I can move on. I should be able to stop recording and save when I say so. What's worse, if I have to stop recording and start over it makes me start the rendering of the video forcing me to cancel before I can start over.
Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. OBS Studios, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Thanks but I like doing a little editing first and the editor that it comes with isn't good enough to do the job. Open source software for live streaming and recording. The only thing I don't like about the software is that it holds your hand too much and it asks if you want to send this as a youtube video. The audio sounds a little bit "tinny" especially if you're used to high-fidelity sound but that's not the fault of the quality, it's the technical limitations of the equipment.
The only real problems I have with the El-Gato is that the image is a little blurry so you really don't get the crisp definition of the pixels that you would see on a more recent HDMI recording. The El-Gato has none of these issues and records a clean and continuous picture.
I kept getting ghosts, brightness issues, and a peculiar problem where I always had a yellow bar going right down he center.
The $10 EZ-Caps may be cheap but their image quality is terrible. I bought a $10 cheap version earlier and there is no comparison the El-Gato is the way to go if you want good images. I finally broke down and paid up for the more expensive capture device. Good capture device, quality is a bit dated but works well.