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Which Magewell Product Do I Actually Need?
Four free tools to help you decide with confidence — whether you're starting from scratch or narrowing down a shortlist.
Magewell's range covers 79 products across 10 categories — USB dongles, PCIe cards, M.2 modules, standalone encoders and IP converters. Picking the wrong one usually means paying for features you'll never use, or discovering too late that you needed the loop-through, the extra channel or the higher resolution. These four free tools exist to close that gap, whether you already know the exact model or you're starting with nothing but a problem to solve.
A short, guided quiz rather than a spec sheet. It starts with one question — what do you actually want to do? — capture into a computer, stream live without a PC, convert between IP and physical signals, or run a full live production. From there it asks what signal your source outputs (HDMI, SDI, DVI, NDI), and narrows the entire 79-product range down to the handful that genuinely fit.
Use this first if you don't yet know which product category applies to you at all — it's built for that exact situation, not for people who already have two models in mind.
Find My Product →Once you've got it down to two or three candidates, this puts them side by side — same specs, same rows, no digging through separate datasheets to spot the difference. You can pick specific models directly, or browse an entire product family at once (every Pro Capture card, every USB Capture dongle) to see how the whole range is differentiated.
This is the tool for the "is the Plus version actually worth the extra cost, or am I paying for a feature I won't use?" question — answered in one table, not four browser tabs.
Compare Models →Some jobs need more than one device working together — multiple cameras into a switcher, several capture cards feeding one production PC, or a mixed HDMI/SDI/NDI signal chain. Build My System walks through this in four steps: build your first requirement, add further blocks for additional sources or outputs, let it optimise the combination automatically, then request a quote for the whole system in one go.
Use this when the question isn't "which product" but "which combination of products actually gets my whole workflow working" — it's a system configurator, not a single-item picker.
Build My System →Every product page has an Add to Shortlist button. Use it as you browse, across as many pages and as many separate visits as you need.
Our Quote Me tool builds a trade quote from suggested retail prices and your own agreed discount rate, applied across as many products as you like at once. It's built for speed once you already have a rate on file with us — the discount you enter must be your genuine agreed rate, not an estimate or a guess. A quote built on the wrong percentage isn't valid, and every quote is confirmed against your actual account before an order is placed.
Not sure what your current rate is? The tool itself has a direct link to check. And if you're a reseller, integrator or solutions provider who doesn't have a trade account with us yet, get in touch — setting one up is quick, with no obligation and no lengthy credit process to get started.
Buying for yourself or a specific project rather than reselling on? This tool isn't the right fit — find your nearest authorised reseller instead.
Still not sure which is right, even with the tools? Our team looks at every enquiry personally — send us what you're trying to achieve and we'll point you at the right product directly.
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