Flint 4KP Plus, 4K@60fps Passthrough, 1080p@60fps Video Capture with Mic Input, Ultra-Low Latency, Plug&Play. for Game Consoles, DSLR

The media could not be loaded. This was a plug and play device that worked right with Ubuntu 18.04 and also worked with windows, also plug and play, if you care about that sort of OS. I originally used this to screencast from a different machine and although it recorded video footage fine, i was getting awful quality from recording a screen. It turns out Cheese, the default linux webcam program, did an amazing job. It pulled 1920 x 1080 30fps at perfect quality without hardly adjusting a setting. I eventually got OBS working after a lot of settings tweaks. So if you need something easy, try running this thing through cheese. I'm including some footage - cheese has vivid colors and is extremely sharp compared to OBS but isn't as good in darker settings- probably ideal for screencasting. I'm also including a few OBS configurations in Linux in the video too with the original to help compare.VLC media player has a codec analysis tool that can tell you if you're truly recording at 1920 x 1080 and what fps. In the beginning, my card was recording at 720 even though the settings were at 1080. I figured out I could rescale the input from OBS and then I was truly in 1080 60fps. I recommend checking the codec to make sure it's truly at the definition the settings are at, I would have never known otherwise.Support was OK. I contacted them with regard to the screencast quality problems and every reply they had was prompt. The answers were vague, such as 'adjust your settings' and 'try it in windows'. But they stand behind their product, and I feel good about purchasing from them again because of the level of service I received.Great product, highly recommend!

I got this to use with a DSLR (Nikon D7100) as a high quality HD video recorder and I am very happy with the results. I use Linux as my primary OS and it worked immediately. This shows up as a webcam so you can use it in any video recording/streaming/chat application you want.I tested on 3 computers:-Linux Mint 18 (based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) -- "just works" no drivers or config needed.-Windows 7 Pro 64-bit -- Needed to download their "HDML Cloner Pro" software to install drivers, they don't seem to offer separate drivers-only downloads.-Windows 10 Enterprise -- "just works" no drivers or config needed.One problem I found, the included USB cable was total garbage. Initially I couldn't get it to work worth anything but then I noticed the USB plug doesn't "click" into place and feels very floppy -- looking at my system logs it was dropping out randomly. As soon as I got one of my USB-A 3.0 to USB-C 3.0 cables I use for my phone it immediately started working.Since it uses proper USB-C port on the capture card you can also just get a good quality USB-C to USB-C 3.0 (or full feature...but avoid USB-C 2.0 which is slower) cable and avoid using any of the included adapters.I was also very impressed with the documentation from ClonerAlliance for setting up their device to use in OBS, it was much better than I expected. The one thing I did learn the hard way, OBS apparently defaults to a stupid low bitrate (2.5Mbps) even when you pick 1080P encoding quality so you have to manually bump it up to something reasonable (I set it at 24Mbps based on what my DSLR normally records MPEG4 files at). That made the quality go up a ton.One last note, I understand most/all these USB capture cards have latency, in my experiments I found ~300mS latency requiring a delay be inserted on my computer audio/window captures to keep it sync'd with the capture card. This doesn't seem unreasonable tot me, my USB microphone has around 250mS latency as well. I believe it's a limitation of the USB interface - the cost of such a compact highly-portable universally connectable device. I find it very acceptable.

I had trouble getting the Flint 4KP Plus working on my Windows 10 PC. The supplied desktop application, HDML-Cloner Pro Helper, issued only a general error message. Eventually I discovered that my routine security lockdown, involving disabling everything in sight, included disabling Camera access in the Privacy settings area. Evidently, the HDML-Cloner Pro Helper application was intended to issue a specific error message in this case, but the latest version of that, running on a recent Windows 10 update, did not.Along the way, I contacted ClonerAlliance Customer Support. They were extremely responsive and provided suggestions for resolving the problem. When I reported the Privacy Settings resolution to them, they indicated that the developer team will be looking into the HDML-Cloner Pro Helper application to ensure a proper error message.Once the Camera Access issue was resolved, I tried the Flint 4KP Plus with the OBS Studio application and it worked like a champ. However, the HDML-Cloner Pro Helper application. while able to preview video images and capture GIF and still image snapshots, generated only 259-byte long non-playable capture files. ClonerAlliance support offered some suggestions relating to the PC's Sound/Audio device setup which unfortunately didn't resolve the issue, and ultimately recommended using OBS Studio for capturing videos.The hardware and customer support alone would get 5 stars, not so much the supplied desktop application on Windows 10.

I was considering this item or the UHD Pro, also from Cloner Alliance. I thought a computer based unit would be more reliable. I read more than thirty reviews of the Flint and not one review mentioned it does not actually record in 4k. It passes through up to 4k 60. Some reviews clearly indicated it did and some stated it was better than the UHD Pro in this area. Clearly those reviews were inaccurate as the Flint only records up to 1080p/60. Even the box does not state no support for 4k capture at all. I just feel it is misleading and with a name like 4k plus, it should be made clear that it does not capture 4k. Had this been clear I would have purchased the UHD Pro instead. Be careful and do not assume anything.