elgato hd60X OBS studio, it now has delay.
So this is interesting, probably about a year ago or 2 years ago I got a El Gato HD 60X capture card, plugged my camera into it and set it up on OBS and when I talked the words were think with my mouth movement so it did not require any delay
I just wiped my hard drive reinstalled Windows set everything back up and now I have to add a 250 millisecond render delay on the camera or I should say the capture card on OBS in order to get it to sync up,
What I don't understand is why I now have a delay on the capture card going into OBS when I did not before. In the past I only had a color correction filter on the camera and now I have a render delay and a color correction and I really don't understand why it would be any different.
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You could try setting "buffering" to disabled for the capture card source
Wait
You have to add a render delay to the capture card to match your audio?
What is your audio source?
@Hunter "Rabbit R1 Apologist" AP I assume you're talking about an OBS setting, I will look at that
@//addie I have a couple of different audio interfaces. Right now I'm using a 4th generation Scarlet, I also have a couple of USB microphones and a couple of audio interfaces but I don't think those are the problem.
So I can either go into advanced audio properties on OBS and add 175 milliseconds to each microphone. Or I can add a render delay filter to the capture card and add 175 milliseconds, either one of those things will make the audio and video in sync.
But I have an audio review channel so I'm constantly using different interfaces and microphones and I guarantee I'll forget if I have to add a delay or whatever onto the microphone every single time I plug a different one in and then things are going to get messed up, do it seems like adding the delay to the camera or capture card itself I should say would be the way to go about it cuz that's the one that seems to be out of sync
But I have an audio review channel so I'm constantly using different interfaces and microphones and I guarantee I'll forget if I have to add a delay or whatever onto the microphone every single time I plug a different one in and then things are going to get messed up, do it seems like adding the delay to the camera or capture card itself I should say would be the way to go about it cuz that's the one that seems to be out of sync
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So I can either do it like I did in the top picture and then it seems to match up with all audio sources or I can put the offset in the audio but then only if that audio source matches up with the video
Actually I'm going to double check with my other camera right now. And make sure the audio and video syncs up if I don't have a delay on the audio
So yeah the audio syncs up with the elgato face cam so it definitely seems to be the capture card that's out of sync
I have the capture card plugged into one of the red USB ports on my computer so I think that's a USB 3.2.
And it's only USB 2.0 capture card so I don't think the USB ports going to be a problem
Audio should always be faster than video capture cards, so the fact that you have to delay the video to match the audio is very bizarre
Do you have any suggestions to fix the problem? Like I said it wasn't like this a few days ago. I wiped the hard drive reinstalled windows and now it's like this.....
The interface has a simple rate of 4800, buffer size of 192 and it has safe mode turned on which says a 19.3 millisecond round trip latency
I think I'm going to uninstall a couple of drivers and then reinstall them and see if that does anything
@//addie When I go into properties for the capture card there is a box that says use hardware to coding when available, something I should check?
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Sure
I deleted the driver for the elgato capture card, deleted the delay filter that I had on OBS for the capture card, Make sure OBS did not have any delay on any of the audio sources. Restarted the computer which I believe should have reinstalled the driver for the capture card. Both the cameras are in sync if I put them on the screen of the same time when I move on one I move on the other, did a quick audio recording and now the audio appears to be in sync with the video
Maybe the driver for the capture card installed funny or something, but as of right now seems to be okay, hopefully it stays this way and thank you for the help. .