OBS Recording Help

[Mikeltin5]

When I normally record, you see the entire screen from top to bottom, left to right. I'd like to focus in on just the game window to make it a larger viewing pane for others with smaller screens. Anyone know how to select how big the recording window is on OBS??

 

[sibble]

Under Sources:
Right-click the white area to add a new Source.
Add->Game Capture
(by the way, you should have the game already running)
Select Application: (name of the window with your game)

Should be good from there.

 

[Mikeltin5]

I can't confirm as I'm not at my home comp atm, but I believe I already have that setting. I'm able to record UO, but what I would like to do is focus in on the UO screen itself (leave out all the black space for recording purposes). I could simply close out the paperdoll, backpack, and anything else that's on the screen and make the game window larger (using EC), but I tend to need those things open when I play.

Is there a way to leave all that up but have OBS focus in specifically on that window, thus making it larger when the video is replayed?

 

[sibble]

I can't confirm as I'm not at my home comp atm, but I believe I already have that setting. I'm able to record UO, but what I would like to do is focus in on the UO screen itself (leave out all the black space for recording purposes). I could simply close out the paperdoll, backpack, and anything else that's on the screen and make the game window larger (using EC), but I tend to need those things open when I play.

Is there a way to leave all that up but have OBS focus in specifically on that window, thus making it larger when the video is replayed?

I follow you now...

What you want to do is right click on the Window Capture, Settings->Video.
High Bandwidth, Base Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Low Bandwidth, Base Resolution: 1280 x 720
Resolution Downscale: none (this will really hurt quality if you don't have it set to none.)
FPS 30 is enough
Disable Aero

So basically now you're forcing the recording area to be exactly 1920 x 1080.

If you're in enhanced client:
Preview Stream
Stretch gaming window until it fills the preview

Classic Client:
There's nothing you can do here, maximum game play area is 800 x 600

Lemme know if that doesn't help!

 

[sibble]

I forgot one thing...

If the black area really bothers you, and you're decent with creating images, you can always create a background/border image and add it as a source (image), then move it over the black area.

I'm no graphic designer but I've used photoshop for many years, you gota be at least somewhat familiar with image editing to do this.