Question / Help Elgato HD60S for mac : bad idea ?

[w00looo]

Hello,

EDIT : found my answer I guess Elgato+Mac = no go. : https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-is-not-detecting-elgato.73142/

Here is my setup for livestreaming with OBS :

I am considering adding a third input, preferably in USB3 so it plugs to the Belkin dock.

The Elgato HD60S can be found prety cheap on second hand. So I am considering it... But I didn't find any comment of someone happy with this setup with a Mac.

 

[Harold]

Because people aren't happy with the setup. It's a limitation of the elgatos on mac (their software doesn't expose the elgato to other software AT ALL).

If you want a capture card that will work well on mac you're limited, although blackmagic brand devices work fairly well.

 

[w00looo]

Thanks Harold for your reply, and sorry for the double-topic, I didn't find a way to delete this one, or edit the title.

Anyway I like Blackmagic, I use some of their stuff already for work, like converters and it all work great, but I will not trust their Intensity capture cards (usb or pcie), I had a bad experience in the past with reliability and I realised it's just a bad design for "complex" setups (multiple capture cards etc).

Wirecast released a list of their compatible devices : https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/devices.htm
From there i've researched some of the USB options and it sounds like the only one with a strong reputation is the AJA U-Tap : Three downsides : only HDMI or DVI (not both like the mini-recorder), price (350$) and availibility in my country (France)

 

[Videophile]

Elgato Cam Link is fully supported by OBS Studio as a native capture device on macOS. If you need passthrough, you can then just add an HDMI splitter.

 

[Narcogen]

Is Elgato planning on adding device drivers for their other products for MacOS? Products like the HD60S are labeled as compatible with MacOS and compatible with OBS and lots of people end up here wondering why it doesn't work, because while you can use Elgato's software on MacOS or OBS on Windows, you cannot use OBS with it under MacOS because of the absence of a standard video device driver.