THANK YOU !! This is the most common application of OBS studio in the post 2020 era. I hope the team at OBS would reconsider the text on the labels of the 'transform' settings to be much more verbose. And/Or automate in some way this process of choosing a part of the window to be recorded and output 1-to-1 to the final video file. (such as 1920x1080 section of a 4k monitor ) Anyways, thanks again!
Thanks bud. Appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I don't think the video is too long. It perfectly explains things. No more and no less than needed.
This video is literally gold for us OBS users. I will definetly try to apply this technique to make a perfect frame for my facecam, thank you so much !
One interesting thing I noticed in your video is - when you opened Display Capture, the outer window didn't show multiple windows (mirror effect) inside which is usually very unpleasant to look at. How did you achieve this?
Thank you so much! I was able to make my webcam feed (for a stream) crop and look more zoomed in, so that there wasn't so much background. This video was EPIC :) Thank you for the timestamps
Thank you for the intro to Brian's sizer! That was the missing piece for me! If you're on Windows10, grab the v4 version; it seems to more reliably size+place windows. Notepad++ is the only one I've found it doesn't work on, so far. In OBS Video Settings, I might recommend keeping your canvas and output the same and adjusting the 'crop' filter accordingly for the desktop source. The goal, ultimately, being that you avoid any raster-based scaling. Leave that for final 'post' or the end viewer for highest clarity.
Man I know I’m late but what if you have multiple tabs up on the browse and you are setting a window capture, is there a way to keep it focused on 1 tab?. Thx
This is awesome! Question - i have multiple scenes with different speakers - how to align all boxes to have exact same position & dimensions across all scenes? (copy & paste style)
Thanks Matt, that was a very clear explanation. Also, the color and quality of your video is great. If you don't mind me asking, which camera and lighting did you use for this video?
TYVM for the help but i still struggle - after setting both obs and the window to 1920x1080 I still have ~10px bars of my desktop on the left, right and bottom of my recording. Aster taking a screenshot it seems that the app is 7px short each way besides top.
How can I capture a window at it's current size and location with a 1:1 pixel ratio, so at the exact resolution it is on the screen? I need to be able to do this without moving or adjusting the window itself. This really should be a very simple thing. If you use snipping tool or any number of screenshot programs they do this properly, I don't understand why it isn't default functionality in OBS
I'm still getting black bars, albeit fairly thin ones... I wonder if Sizer includes the source window's title/menu bar? OBS is not showing the title bar in the capture preview... so possibly, OBS is excluding it and leaving black bars in it's place? Also, it's weird, but sizer leaves a small gap when it "moves to the top left"... like it doesn't snap is all the way over... there are like 30 pixels between the left edge of the window and the left side of the screen.
Is there a way to capture the canvas only? Eg I am recording art lessons in Photoshop. So have it only capture the canvas and cursor...any pops etc not being seen in the capture as it focuses only on capturing the canvas being drawn on? I was told this was possible but have yet to find how?
Why does the sizer tool I'm downloading seem more basic and less functional with fewer options than the one you're demonstrating? I'm downloading the same version from the linked site.
To answer my own question, you demonstrated downloading and installing the old 32bit version 3.34 that hasn't been updated since 2012. If you run into this problem, make sure you're downloading version 4.0 from the link at the top of the page.
Thank you for this video! I'm testing RUclips Livestream feature and I got issues with Window Capture. I think I'll switch to Display Capture and just capture the full screen.
I like this tutorial and the excellent advice, but I'm on a Mac. I want to use Display Capture because it records my cursor when I make lecture videos for students (Window Capture does not show the cursor, which is the real problem for me). So far, I have not found a good way around the annoying problems you mention at the beginning of your video with resizing the part of the screen I want to capture. It's frustrating, for sure.
Hi. Thanks for the great hint concerning sizer. I'm using Win 10 Pro. When using "top left" my window is set to the top but not to the left corner. There is an offset of 7 pixels. Do you have a solution for this? With version 4 the problems do not exist anymore. www.brianapps.net/sizer4/
too many steps. what is this with OBS things just like rocket science. wow. I just want to record my taskbar only and when video is done, I want that the video itself has the exact size of the taskbar. not a full black screen with the portion I want showing normal. But it all seems like rocket science. These OBS people things just all complex.
Thank you so much for your time and effort Matt. Even I, as a novice, understood your explanation. LOL. You are one of the few You-tubers I respect.
THANK YOU !! This is the most common application of OBS studio in the post 2020 era. I hope the team at OBS would reconsider the text on the labels of the 'transform' settings to be much more verbose. And/Or automate in some way this process of choosing a part of the window to be recorded and output 1-to-1 to the final video file. (such as 1920x1080 section of a 4k monitor ) Anyways, thanks again!
Thanks bud. Appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I don't think the video is too long. It perfectly explains things. No more and no less than needed.
This video is literally gold for us OBS users. I will definetly try to apply this technique to make a perfect frame for my facecam, thank you so much !
Thanks. There was enough info here that I found exactly what I needed to know even though your objective wasn't identical to mine.
Legend. Concise and detailed. Awesome work.
One interesting thing I noticed in your video is - when you opened Display Capture, the outer window didn't show multiple windows (mirror effect) inside which is usually very unpleasant to look at. How did you achieve this?
Thank you so much! I was able to make my webcam feed (for a stream) crop and look more zoomed in, so that there wasn't so much background. This video was EPIC :)
Thank you for the timestamps
Nice! This was such a niche video topic, but I knew it would be helpful to people looking to solve this specific problem, lol.
@@onlinebusinesstech :)
Thank you for the intro to Brian's sizer! That was the missing piece for me! If you're on Windows10, grab the v4 version; it seems to more reliably size+place windows. Notepad++ is the only one I've found it doesn't work on, so far. In OBS Video Settings, I might recommend keeping your canvas and output the same and adjusting the 'crop' filter accordingly for the desktop source. The goal, ultimately, being that you avoid any raster-based scaling. Leave that for final 'post' or the end viewer for highest clarity.
Man I know I’m late but what if you have multiple tabs up on the browse and you are setting a window capture, is there a way to keep it focused on 1 tab?. Thx
On Mac if you control click and go to transform and stretch to fit screen it fixes the black bars
This is awesome!
Question - i have multiple scenes with different speakers - how to align all boxes to have exact same position & dimensions across all scenes? (copy & paste style)
Thanks Matt, that was a very clear explanation. Also, the color and quality of your video is great.
If you don't mind me asking, which camera and lighting did you use for this video?
TYVM for the help but i still struggle - after setting both obs and the window to 1920x1080 I still have ~10px bars of my desktop on the left, right and bottom of my recording. Aster taking a screenshot it seems that the app is 7px short each way besides top.
Fun fact: chrome windows is 7px short each way, Visual studio on the other hand is only 5px short
Does this sizer work on windows 11?
How can I capture a window at it's current size and location with a 1:1 pixel ratio, so at the exact resolution it is on the screen? I need to be able to do this without moving or adjusting the window itself.
This really should be a very simple thing. If you use snipping tool or any number of screenshot programs they do this properly, I don't understand why it isn't default functionality in OBS
Nevermind, I won't be using OBS going forward. It is far too buggy and causes a lot of issues with refresh rate/frame rate
Hi i don't want to record or stream I just want to crop and stretch my window and use it itself
Thank you!!!!! OMG!!!! Thank you 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm still getting black bars, albeit fairly thin ones... I wonder if Sizer includes the source window's title/menu bar? OBS is not showing the title bar in the capture preview... so possibly, OBS is excluding it and leaving black bars in it's place? Also, it's weird, but sizer leaves a small gap when it "moves to the top left"... like it doesn't snap is all the way over... there are like 30 pixels between the left edge of the window and the left side of the screen.
Is there a way to capture the canvas only? Eg I am recording art lessons in Photoshop. So have it only capture the canvas and cursor...any pops etc not being seen in the capture as it focuses only on capturing the canvas being drawn on? I was told this was possible but have yet to find how?
Why does the sizer tool I'm downloading seem more basic and less functional with fewer options than the one you're demonstrating? I'm downloading the same version from the linked site.
To answer my own question, you demonstrated downloading and installing the old 32bit version 3.34 that hasn't been updated since 2012. If you run into this problem, make sure you're downloading version 4.0 from the link at the top of the page.
Great!
Thank you for this video! I'm testing RUclips Livestream feature and I got issues with Window Capture. I think I'll switch to Display Capture and just capture the full screen.
I know I'm kinda off topic but do anyone know a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@Jonathan Lawrence Lately I have been using FlixZone. Just google for it :)
@Zavier Luciano Yea, I have been using flixzone for since march myself :D
@Zavier Luciano Thank you, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !!
@Jonathan Lawrence happy to help :D
Thank you. I've been trying to set up recording in 16:9 on my 21:9 monitor. Tried so many solutions and all had issues.
when I choose display Capture, It show multi shapes in shape? It is not like you.
But you still cannot switch between other apps!
So it’s not an alternative for window capture
I like this tutorial and the excellent advice, but I'm on a Mac. I want to use Display Capture because it records my cursor when I make lecture videos for students (Window Capture does not show the cursor, which is the real problem for me). So far, I have not found a good way around the annoying problems you mention at the beginning of your video with resizing the part of the screen I want to capture. It's frustrating, for sure.
I don’t know if you need this still but if you control click and got to transform and stretch to fit screen it fixes the black bars
Hi. Thanks for the great hint concerning sizer. I'm using Win 10 Pro. When using "top left" my window is set to the top but not to the left corner. There is an offset of 7 pixels. Do you have a solution for this?
With version 4 the problems do not exist anymore. www.brianapps.net/sizer4/
Glad you found a fix in the latest version!
This did not need to be almost 9 mins long
too many steps. what is this with OBS things just like rocket science. wow. I just want to record my taskbar only and when video is done, I want that the video itself has the exact size of the taskbar. not a full black screen with the portion I want showing normal. But it all seems like rocket science. These OBS people things just all complex.
too long