Elgato green screen review in Spanish (full analysis)

Elgato returns strongly in this first half of the year with a new arsenal of peripherals for content creators. Today it is time to analyze Elgato Green Screen, or what has been an innovative folding chroma and incredibly versatile so that it can be practically used anywhere. Built directly on an aluminum suitcase it will be ideal for broadcasts where we are sitting and can remove the background for the videos.

Before we begin, we must thank Elgato Gaming for giving us their product to do our in-depth review.

Elgato Green Screen technical characteristics

Unboxing

Elgato is one of the brands for content creators with the most innovations tae for the most demanding, and above all, for users who want to get started simply and quickly in the world of streaming and video editing. And this is the clear example of this, a chrome screen that does not even need installation to start using it.

But we will start with the Unboxing of Elgato Green Screen and we must bear in mind that the greatest difficulty of this is the transfer of the package, because it measures no less than 150 cm, so be careful with the friendly walls. The presentation is very simple, and almost Ikea type, with a neutral cardboard box with the logo and brand name and hard cardboard coverings in all corners to avoid bump and bending.

Let's make sure to place the box with this logo upwards to open it correctly and easily access the product. We say it because it comes in a suitcase with a handle, and surrounded by several molds of expanded polystyrene cork. In any case, the difficulty is minimal, since we will not have any accessories, just the main product perfectly tucked inside your suitcase, which as we will see, will also be its base.

High quality suitcase

Well, we have this suitcase taken out of its packaging, now we just need to put it somewhere fairly spacious and without too low lamps. But before opening it, let's see the great quality of this Elgato Green Screen packaging.

And it is that the entire screen system will be installed and ready to use in a suitcase completely made of aluminum with a case-type opening by means of two claws on each side. All this casing is hard and rigid, which allows transport in a simple way thanks to a somewhat hard rubber handle we must say. The total measurements of the equipment in this state are 148 cm long and 10.5 cm high, that is, very compact, although certainly long. It weighs about 9.3 Kg, which is not bad for the size we handle and for being all metal.

Next to it, we have a small piece of paper with the assembly instructions, nothing that we cannot deduce by intuition. In the lower area of this Elgato Green Screen suitcase we have two plastic elements that, if we try to force them, we can rotate them 90 degrees becoming 40 cm long perpendicular legs to support the suitcase on the ground.

Product assembly and design

After seeing the exterior, it is time to finally open this metal case and find the entire Elgato Green Screen mounting system. Everything you need is stored in this case, panel and support bars, in fact, all we have to do to mount the chroma is pull the central metal handle up.

With this simple action we will have the chroma completely assembled and ready to use. The system is the same as traditional roll-ups used for removable advertising panels or conference projection screens. The design work that the brand has done on this Elgato Green Screen is simply to be applauded, because its design is obvious as soon as you see it, but until now no one has thought of doing it in such a practical way.

Precisely for its ease of use, we do not need to hang it on the ceiling or use external elements to support it. Thanks to the system, we can move it to the place where we have our recording studio or wherever we want to transmit, without the need for fixed locations, and complicated hanging panels. Our congratulations for the originality.

This panel basically consists of a fabric rim made of 100% green polyester that is lifted upwards by means of a scissor system. Thanks to being completely supported by a metal bar at its ends, the panel will be completely smooth and wrinkle-free when we unfold it. The measures that we can reach are 148 cm wide by 180 cm high. Therefore, we can deduce that Elgato Green Screen is intended to be used when we are sitting, the most normal thing would be in a double scene where we retransmit the game as the main element and we are in a corner sitting on our throne.

The quality of the fabric of this panel is impressive, with a fairly thick fabric and with a very precise sewing it will avoid the typical shadows that are generated when placing flexible fabrics making it very difficult to get a completely clean background behind us. Perhaps it may seem to you that, due to the large height measurements, the system may be in danger of falling, but 40 cm of legs are more than enough.

The system that we have in the back area is one provided with telescopic scissors also built in aluminum. We basically have a double arm with a central joint that will allow the fabric panel to be raised and lowered easily. Two spreaders, one on the first "X" and one on the second will prevent this system from deviating from the vertical path it must follow.

And at the bottom, acting as a pressure element, we have two extendable pneumatic shock absorbers, similar to the ones we have on the tailgate of cars and that support a weight of 10 kg. Their function is simple but necessary, keeping the panel vertically without falling under its own weight. At no time should you grease these two rods, because they could lose their compression and not be able to support the weight, it is something that happens frequently in cars.

Use and configuration

Being an element that does not need direct interaction with the team, all we need is an editing and capture program that allows us to configure chroma panels as an image filter. These programs can be the typical Elgato Game Capture, OBS, or XSplit among others.

For example, in OBS it will be as simple as creating a new scene in which to attach our video capture source, which could be a webcam or any camera. The higher the resolution provides, the finer the final result will be, that is evident. Opening its properties, we can add a chroma filter and modify the filter parameters until it is to our liking.

Something that we do recommend (and that has not been possible in the tests) is to have a direct lighting system on the chroma to eliminate the shadows that we ourselves create and thus not generate black holes in the broadcast. And another obvious element is not having anything the same or similar color as the chroma. We (I) to highlight the example, I have a chair with green edges, so you can imagine what happens, obviously they will be eliminated, whatever we do to try to adjust the chroma.

Final words and conclusion about Elgato Green Screen

Well there is practically not much more to say about this Chroma Elgato Green Screen. We have no doubt that it is, today, one of the best acquisitions we could make to improve the quality of our GamePlay by optimizing the game's recording space to the maximum.

It is a chroma with a spectacular design and quality, a smooth polyester fabric, very uniform thanks to the fastening frames and with quite large measures to be used when we are sitting. With 180 cm high and 145 cm wide, measures more than acceptable for this use.

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And without a doubt the great advantage is the versatility it offers, the system is all installed on the transport case itself, so we do not need to hang it or hold it for assembly. The double scissor pneumatic system works like a charm, just like its aluminum case with its included legs.

Finally say that Elgato Green Screen is currently available for a price of between 140 and 150 euros. It is not exactly cheap cost, but it is the general trend for quite exclusive products for content creation. Faced with possible imitations, we must consider the high quality of the materials, the stability and versatility of the system. So we have no choice but to make it a recommendable product for content creators.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ DESIGN AND EXTREME EASE OF ASSEMBLY	- THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT USED TO BE CHEAP
+ QUALITY OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAME
+ SMOOTH PANEL, NO WRINKLES AND UNIFORM
+ POSSIBILITY OF TRANSPORT WITH SUITCASE INCLUDED