Why I'm RETURNING My Elgato Camlink Pro...

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[@ll-mel]

I have to agree with fellow comments. Nothing wrong with the card or your gpu. You just need more pcie lanes to have enough bandwidth between this card and your cpu.

[@Vern_Levine]

Almost sounds like a bottleneck in the motherboard. This was partly why I was so happy to preorder the A7IV. Built in webcam capabilities. Straight from the camera. It’s awesome!

[@gogobram]

could be the number of PCI lanes I guess. Questions to ask would be which motherboard, and which PCI slot, because on most motherboards not all PCI slots are equal. personally, I always bought high end (~400€) server motherboards for my desktop computers exactly because they have a lot of PCI slots. You could put in 6 GPUs at full speed, while commodity motherboards can just do 1. I haven't tried elgato hardware on them yet. But I'm curious.

[@EUROSCI]

@@gogobram I was thinking of the same problem with lack of lanes...

[@MrMuffinLord]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue. Nothing seems to be working even though the PC is completely new and has the best specs on the market right now. Tried 2 different cam link pros on 2 different PCs even because I thought the first PC had issues but it's always either flickering in and out of existence if I plug more than 1 camera in it or lagging to the point of being unusable

[@JamesNino]

Did you return it? I can’t find it anywhere! I want to buy one!

[@tutaart]

thank you for sharing

[@BertFlanders]

Have you tried installing the card on a different PCIe slot? Some MoBo have 'shared bandwidth' on PCIe slots.

[@LucaBottonimodena]

Hi, i have Magewell 4 input and require PCI e 4x,i use with 2 pc, one with X99 and another more recent with 20 totale lanes, and in the first gtx 970, the second pc gtx 1650 and after rtx 3070. No problem, work for 3 days 24 hr live (streaming the day recording in loop at night) without restart the pc. Magewell and Elgato, the big difference its the price . And the quality, the driver, work perfect with Vmix. I think Elgato too cheap and its a bad project, the quality has a price, best regards

[@LoveGuruGreg]

I've been using avermedia live gamer ultra and works flawlessly for 1.5 yrs now, actually 2 of them. Tried the elgato cam link pro internal 4 hdmi card and not happy! Blurry video in spots of doing live, made sure software is updated, but not happy!

[@jw_film]

Such a shame. This looked like it had so much potential. I've had a CamLink 4K for a couple of years and it's been solid as a rock for me. Hopefully it'll serve you well but it's not the same.

[@creatorlife8142]

Yeah it’s just not reliable enough to save me time. Massive shame, look forward to testing the cam link 4k though.

[@jw_film]

@@creatorlife8142 I keep one in my kit bag should I ever get the "can we get the client on Zoom to see what we're filming?" Which happens far, far too much 🤣

[@ChrisChevs]

Sounds like not enough PCIE lane bandwidth. Need a CPU with more PCIE lanes most likely.

[@ChrisChevs]

Also try this with OBS instead of their software. It would probably use a lot less resources.

[@EMAZINGERIK]

i’ve recently started having problems too unfortunately

[@moviedcrea]

The problem is that you dont have enough PCIe Lanes available. You need 8 lanes for the camlink pro to work proprely. Most of consumer cpus only have 16 or 20 lanes. Your gpu is already using 16 of those. If you have m2 ssd its taking 1 or 2 more lanes or even slashing the number of pcie lane available on the pcie port by half. Thats probably why its not working properly. I have a camlink pro with 45 PCIe lanes cpu and i dont have any problem with it

[@MarkOakleyComics]

His Ryzen 3 1300x has 20 pci lanes. Sounds like you've diagnosed the problem.

[@dragonsystems5973]

@@MarkOakleyComics This is why my workstation build has a workstation platform... yeah, my old X299 chip itself isnt the fastest, but I didnt buy it for the speed of the chip, I bought it for the capabilities of my ASUS X299 Sage board

[@gatewaysolo104]

El Gato's specs state it only requires x4.

[@Adriengue964]

Hey! I'm trying to build a PC to go livestream, coming from a Mac environment, I don't totally understand the technical language. I'm building a machine and i'm going to purchase an Intel Core i9 14900KF as a CPU. I read that it's one of the most advanced one for the big public. But i'm not sure now that I will have enough "PCIe Lanes" to put a CamLink Pro. Can someone tell me if I'll be good or not ? Thanks a lot !!

[@G-Man]

I had the same problems with mine so I had return it, I wish it just worked. Btw Great Video

[@ArdyIRL]

PCIE bandwidth

[@clipz1]

has anyone found any alternatives i cant use x4 cam links atem mini might be the way ill be ok with 1080

[@oncameramastery]

Are you going onto a fast ssd or m.2 drive? I imagine a mechanical hard drive won't keep up

[@creatorlife8142]

Yep 2tb ssd 😒

[@oncameramastery]

@@creatorlife8142 ah, well in that case fair enougth, sounds like Elgatos drivers are crud!

[@RedDwarfNerd]

have you seen blackmagics new decklink mini cards? they might solve the issue fairly cheaply