Question / Help Obs settings and black bars left and right

boone490

New Member
hello i need help, I would like to stream and record to 720p or higher , but I always have black bars on the left and right side.i need obs settings for my system and how i remove the black bars.thank you

System:
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G - 3,6 GHZ
8gb Ram DDR4
Win 10 64 bit
GTX 1050ti
211.2 Mbit/s Download
12.1 Mbit/s Upload
Monitor 22 zoll 1680-1050 Native <- very old


sorry for my bad english ;)
 

Narcogen

Active Member
If you want to record a local file without black bars, set the canvas and output resolution in Settings > Video to the same resolution as the native resolution of your display. Even if it is not available, you may enter the correct values directly into the field.

HOWEVER

Services like Twitch, YouTube and others assume everyone has and wants a 16:9 aspect ratio. As a result, any presentation of your videos to those viewers, if presented full screen, will present with black bars.

Since your aspect ratio is different from the audience's presumed ratio, a correction has to be made. This can be done with black bars at the top and bottom (letterboxing) or on the sides (pillarboxing) or else the video can have its top/bottom or sides cropped, or the image can be stretched or squeezed in order to fit.

If you record your display with its native settings, your audience will see one of these transformations. The only way to prevent them from seeing this, is for you to see it on your end by forcing OBS and your applications or display to use a 16:9 aspect ratio, and adjusting your sources in OBS to eliminate or compensate for letterboxing/pillarboxing or stretching. Which of these is needed depends on what resolutions your monitor supports, what resolutions the software you are recording supports, and how it behaves when you try to force it to display in a non-native resolution on your display.
 

CharlieHirst97

New Member
If you want to record a local file without black bars, set the canvas and output resolution in Settings > Video to the same resolution as the native resolution of your display. Even if it is not available, you may enter the correct values directly into the field.

HOWEVER

Services like Twitch, YouTube and others assume everyone has and wants a 16:9 aspect ratio. As a result, any presentation of your videos to those viewers, if presented full screen, will present with black bars.

Since your aspect ratio is different from the audience's presumed ratio, a correction has to be made. This can be done with black bars at the top and bottom (letterboxing) or on the sides (pillarboxing) or else the video can have its top/bottom or sides cropped, or the image can be stretched or squeezed in order to fit.

If you record your display with its native settings, your audience will see one of these transformations. The only way to prevent them from seeing this, is for you to see it on your end by forcing OBS and your applications or display to use a 16:9 aspect ratio, and adjusting your sources in OBS to eliminate or compensate for letterboxing/pillarboxing or stretching. Which of these is needed depends on what resolutions your monitor supports, what resolutions the software you are recording supports, and how it behaves when you try to force it to display in a non-native resolution on your display.
My ratios are both showing as 16:9 but I still have black bars at top and bottom, how do I remove them so my viewers can see full screen properly?
 

Winterfr3sh

New Member
I had the same issue with vertical black bars when trying to use Obs.ninja as a camera for my iPad.
I was able to crop out the black bars by adding an effect called "crop/pad." through the Filters button shown below. I then adjusted the crop amount for each side (top, bottom, left & right) by simple guess and check, until I was satisfied.

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OBS 26.1.2
 
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