Magewell, distributed by Corsair Solutions in Australia, has delivered its USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro, expanding on its product line to enable devices like laptops to capture high-quality AV signals through a USB interface with no additional power source required.

The USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro offers everything that the existing USB Capture HDMI 4K Plus model while leveraging 20Gbps USB transfer performance on compatible host systems to enable the capture of 4K video at higher frame rates and colour precision.

“We’re proud of the role that our USB Capture devices have played in customers’ transition to software-centric AV solutions, and we’re thrilled to expand our portfolio with the USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro,” Magewell engineering vice president James Liu says.

“Combining the portability and plug-and-play convenience of the USB Capture family with support for capturing 4K video at 60fps opens up new use cases in live production, immersive presentations and more.”

The USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro supports embedded HDMI audio plus an analogue audio input and stereo headphone output. HDMI loop-through connectivity simultaneously sends the source signal to a monitor or projector without needing a splitter.

Built-in FPGA-based video processing provides high-quality deinterlacing, up/down conversion and image controls while maximising host system CPU availability for third-party software.