Question / Help Help with monitor capturing

Idkidks

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Hey, so I want to capture a part of my monitor (not a windowed game) but it chooses to show my whole screen, with part of it black (because I'm not capturing there). Is there any way I can change it so it doesn't do that?

P.S: Thanks in advance, I'm somewhat of a noob at this.
 
Hey, so I want to capture a part of my monitor (not a windowed game) but it chooses to show my whole screen, with part of it black (because I'm not capturing there). Is there any way I can change it so it doesn't do that?

P.S: Thanks in advance, I'm somewhat of a noob at this.
post your logfile and a screen shot of what you mean. Its a little hard to understand.
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so you want it stretched? the best way to capture something is to use the source programs (with window capture) of what is being captured and use a monitor capture region. I cant recall if monitor capture can do screen region but if it can, double click on the monitor capture and set the screen region to be captured. Ideally, if you dont want black bars then you will need to set the screen region to an aspect ratio identical to your screen resolution. In your case, 16:9.
 
so you want it stretched? the best way to capture something is to use the source programs (with window capture) of what is being captured and use a monitor capture region. I cant recall if monitor capture can do screen region but if it can, double click on the monitor capture and set the screen region to be captured. Ideally, if you dont want black bars then you will need to set the screen region to an aspect ratio identical to your screen resolution. In your case, 16:9.
I don't want it stretched, I want to remove the black half and have the other half centered. I'm trying to record my desktop, so there's no program it's running on. (unless you mean rainmeter, but that doesn't work) I can't set it to 16:9 because I want to capture the whole vertical resolution, but not the full horizontal.
 
I don't want it stretched, I want to remove the black half and have the other half centered. I'm trying to record my desktop, so there's no program it's running on. (unless you mean rainmeter, but that doesn't work) I can't set it to 16:9 because I want to capture the whole vertical resolution, but not the full horizontal.
so you cannot have it both ways, you want to full vertical yet exclude part of the horizontal which is called cropping the image, if you crop the image, the aspect ratio changes and there-fore means you would need to either stretch, or crop part of the vertical.

Please feel free to screenshot your desktop and use pain to explain what you want. then describe it better, but from my understanding of what you want, or I am not getting a clear picture of what you are trying to do.
 
so you cannot have it both ways, you want to full vertical yet exclude part of the horizontal which is called cropping the image, if you crop the image, the aspect ratio changes and there-fore means you would need to either stretch, or crop part of the vertical.

Please feel free to screenshot your desktop and use pain to explain what you want. then describe it better, but from my understanding of what you want, or I am not getting a clear picture of what you are trying to do.
Here's a screenshot of my desktop, showing what I want to do. https://imgur.com/CuJShk5
 
Here's a screenshot of my desktop, showing what I want to do. https://imgur.com/CuJShk5
If you literally want your capture to not be 16:9 and only show the EQ, then you can change the aspect ratio to the same as your croped screen region. Both twitch and youtube enforce a 16:9 aspect ratio so if you are sending to one of them, they will just add back the black bars (which your EQ graphic will be in center with black bars on both sides.

TL;DR
What you are wanting to do will look bad on twitch and/or youtube.


How to do what you want to do:

set base resolution to 800x1080 (which is just an estimate of the vertical pixels). then downscale or actually you could keep it at base resolution with no downscale since your pixels will be low enough to equal about the same pixels as 720p
 
If you literally want your capture to not be 16:9 and only show the EQ, then you can change the aspect ratio to the same as your croped screen region. Both twitch and youtube enforce a 16:9 aspect ratio so if you are sending to one of them, they will just add back the black bars (which your EQ graphic will be in center with black bars on both sides.

TL;DR
What you are wanting to do will look bad on twitch and/or youtube.


How to do what you want to do:

set base resolution to 800x1080 (which is just an estimate of the vertical pixels). then downscale or actually you could keep it at base resolution with no downscale since your pixels will be low enough to equal about the same pixels as 720p
Thank you sir.
 
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