Best quality 'screen captures / video captures' (recommendations)

[M1000]

Hello,

I have a capture card (4K, 1080p, 60fps, HDMI to USB.3.0) capture card. I am using OBS.

Could someone suggest the best settings screen recording or video recording?

There are a lot of options / buttons / switches in OBS and I would appreciate some help (or a link to suggestions)

For example, I did screen captures yesterday, i connected the card, but I have this . . . (attachment). How do I get it to display, full screen?

Those video captures I took yesterday didn't have any sound.

Thank you

 

[M1000]

And how do I get this fixed?

(Optik TV is my tv provider)

 

[M1000]

And how do I get this fixed?

(Optik TV is my tv provider)

I just found out how to fix this.
Place mouse on the screen, right click and go to 'fit to screen'

 

[M1000]

PS

Why are videos and photos being created in the background?
How do I stop it?
Thank you

 

[M1000]

The Best OBS Settings for Recording | Restream Learn

Learn how to record your videos with OBS Studio, the best settings for recording, and where to find your recordings.

restream.io

 

[koala]

See the OBS help knowledgebase:

Knowledge Base | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

Especially:

Aspect Ratio Guide | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. Learn how to properly make your content fit on your canvas, and how to deal with aspect ratios and scaling

obsproject.com

Knowledge Base | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

obsproject.com

 

[M1000]

Th

PS

Why are videos and photos being created in the background?
How do I stop it?
Thank you

Thank you

How do I stop captures being made in the background?

 

[koala]

How do I stop captures being made in the background?

It isn't clear what you mean with this. Could you explain? OBS is just capturing what is visible in the sources you added.

 

[M1000]

I think I figured it out . . . .

The videos and screen captures go to C:\Users\M1000\Videos

I have OBS connected from my t.v. to my laptop. OBS is running in the background.

When there is something on t.v. that I want to capture, I click on the OBS icon on the taskbar to bring it to the front of the screen.

After a recording, it is open but I may have another program maximized on my computer screen. Google Chrome, MS Word, ACDSee, or Photoshop. Whatever

Let's say I have ' I Love Lucy' on the t.v. Twenty minutes later, I go to the 'Videos' folder and I have 100 captures of 'I Love Lucy'.

How did that happen?

On my keyboard, I have CTRL assigned to 'screen capture'. What I believe happened was that every time I pressed CTRL, a screen capture was taken and saved to the Videos folder.

When I realized that this is probably what was happening, I used this key instead (or another rarely used key)

I had been either using 'CTRL' (on the left hand side of the keyboard), and 'Enter' (on the right hand side of the keyboard)

Problem solved (I hope).

 

[M1000]

Here is an example I just saw.

I was watching 'Glow Up' (British makeup competition)

I didnt take any of these photos. I didnt do it on purpose

 

[R1CH]

These are most likely not coming from OBS, as OBS prefixes screenshot filenames with Screenshot_.

 

[M1000]

I changed the filename to 'pic' ;-)
It was 'screenshot'

 

[M1000]

I turned off hotkeys and the captures stopped (while disabled)