Unboxing Live 048: Elgato Turbo.264 HD

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Apple, Features, HDTV, Portable Video, Videocasts

The Elgato Turbo.264 HD is a hardware video encoding stick that seems to support just about every video format under the sun, and can convert that video for use on various devices, in high definition, much faster than your Mac can do that on it’s own. We open the item up in this episode of Unboxing Live!, and whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who works with video, or even transcodes video for use on their iPhone or other portable device.

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Elgato Video Capture: Record analog video to your Mac

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, USB, Apple, Home Entertainment, PC / Laptop, Peripherals

If you’ve got a lot of old VHS or other analog media laying around and need an easy solution to digitize it, the Elgato Video Capture device seems to be right up you alley. It’s actually quite simple, as you just plug the device into your Macs USB port, and connect the other side to your analog video player using either S-Video or RCA cables. The import software lets you do some simple editing/trimming, and will even let you send clips directly to YouTube.

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