Conversations with Tony Mobley needs a capture card. Can the panel members please make a recommendation and a new ATEM is not an option.
ASKED BY · Tony Mobley · NOONAN, GEORGIA · 19 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:52:00
Recommends Blackmagic Deck Studio Express at half the price of ATEM Mini; supports uncompressed 4:4:4 and H.264/H.265 codecs for quality capture.
Recommends Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio HD ($149) with smooth jog wheel, Ethernet and SD card support, HDMI loop-through for video routing.
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51:59Carl. So Blackmagic just updated or released a new one, however you want to look at it. so they're all to studio express so there's a recorder and a monitor so the recorder is the capture monitor is the playback um so i'll just scroll down so you can see the price a little bit easier so um this is pretty much the best bang for the buck you're going to get at a 1080p
52:20as far as price and features it will do uncompressed 444 so you know it goes right up there as far as you know quality if you want to get in high quality but it will do all the other the codex as well of course like 420 h264 h265 that kind of stuff um so this is probably your best bang for your buck and it's about half the price of you know an a10 mini um that can that
52:40can use that you could also use as a capture card of course so this is about half the price um and it does have a lot of new features um that are not found on the a10 mini of course 100 percent um i'm gonna go with so one step up from that i think it's 149 us um is the the simplest possible
52:59possible capture card is a I'm trying to remember this is the hyperdeck studio HD it's actually really nice and the clutch on the wheel it just feels really good you can operate it without having to look at it you can operate it manually it's got a plug-in for Ethernet it's got an SD card plug-in and it has an external disc plug-in that you can also use kind of as a as a as a video
53:26input converter and then an HDMI loop through. So if you've got a way through, you know, whatever your output is from your ATEM, if you take one of your outputs from the ATEM and just loop it through there, if it's going to another broadcast machine, I have no complaints. This is, you know, it's not going to save the world, but it is absolutely worth what it costs. Yeah. They're
53:50They're on special at the moment. Oh, there you go. Even better. Yes. All right. It is time for content recommendations. And if the panelists can put their hands up in the order that they would like to be called, I will call on them. Courtney, you're first. What is your content pick of the week? Well, I'm not going to recommend a video, which I usually do, but I'm going to recommend a website.
54:14You know me. I do a lot of 3D printing. I print little boxes and things and just working on some little plug-in voltmeter that's this big. Anyway, I used Tinkercad for many years, but there's a new guy on the block called Layerling. So go to layerling.com and you'll see this, which is a browser-based 3D design program. It does everything Tinkercad does. So it's a very familiar interface.
54:43Face, if you use Tinkercad from AutoCAD, is completely free, runs in a browser. You can download it onto your own computer, runs cross-platform, and it does fillets and chamfers automatically, even on round objects. So check out layerling.com, vibe-coded. It gets updated about every week. So take a look there. It's freebie. Next in line is Tony Mobley and then Guy. Go ahead. head um lanterns is my recommendation for content uh just it just ended and they are already working
55:21on season two um very interesting show and i recommend it is it about the green lanterns like is that yes yes it's about the green lanterns well they're intentional in saying lanterns because Because there are different dimensions. Sure. Right. Yeah. I won't, I won't spoil it for anybody. I'll just say, okay, if you've picked up a Green Lantern comic in the last 30 years, like it's not a spoiler, but yes, you know, no, you're, you're absolutely correct to, to, to leave it be.
55:56Guy, what do you got? Yeah, this one's going to be a little doomer, but it's still good. It's called how to survive the next two years of AI. And it does make a lot of sense. He starts talking about, hey, you know, a human needs X amount of calories a day, so you should have some food and some water. So here's how much water you're going to need.
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