Question / Help Position of the part of the screen recorded

[UchuuStranger]

I'm trying to capture the part of the screen in my browser. At the moment I use the source "browser" for that purpose, using the particular link in its properties, but anything would work for me, even real-time recording of what is actually on the screen. I seem to vaguely remember it used to be very easy, as you could manually stretch the rectangular frame over the part of the screen. Not the red frame that contains the source output and determines its position on the obs screen (the black screen within obs window), but the frame that captures the source input and determines its position on the actual computer screen as a whole. Even if it's not possible to set that frame manually now, I'd like to know where "numeric" settings for putting the input fragment of the screen in a particular position are now.

I vaguely remember that there was a way to set the "indent" from the top, bottom, right and left side of the PC screen for the source. That might work for me, but I can no longer find this setting.

Another thing I'd like to know is how to preserve the original resolution of the source, without stretching and compressing it. What I mean by that is, if the source frame on the actual PC screen has some random resolution like, for example, 440x777, I want the red frame, the obs screen, and the actual resulting video file to also be 440x777. I got the impression this is impossible though, at least for the obs screen.

 

[koala]

I think you mean this: Press and hold ALT and drag the red anchors of the borders of a source to crop the source. A cropped border turns green to indicate the crop status.

 

[UchuuStranger]

I think you mean this: Press and hold ALT and drag the red anchors of the borders of a source to crop the source. A cropped border turns green to indicate the crop status.

TL;DR: Thank you, that works, but I'm still curious about some stuff.

While I was experimenting with your suggestion, I found out a few strange things. The thing is, I haven't used OBS in a while, and it had some settings I left there since that time. The initial way my setup in OBS looked like is shown on screenshots below. The first is the YouTube page the way it appears in my actual browser (Google Chrome), and the second is how it looked in OBS, because of whatever settings I used to have.

I tried using the green frame the way you described. With it I was able to crop what is shown on the screenshot, but I could not stretch the green frame beyond what is shown. In other words, it seems to crop the output image, not the input area.

While I was experimenting with all that, I somehow managed to mess up the frame and the output beyond repair, so I had to delete the source and create new sources to experiment with, trying "browser" again, but also "display capture". They both show the entire area now, and your green frame method works well on those.

But you see, the way I had the OBS in the beginning makes me think that it is possible to crop the input area, rather than the output image, especially given that I don't remember ever using a green frame before. You can see that even though none of the borders on my screenshot are green, the top left corner of my initial OBS image clearly does not match the top left corner of how it appears in browser. I just find it interesting, it appears there's an alternative solution I no longer remember.

 

[koala]

I'm sorry, but I'm unable to help with this. Perhaps you demand too much from the browser source. It's not meant to replace a standalone browser with interaction. It's also not meant to crop some youtube video from the youtube player. The quality loss is tremendous. It's as if you film a movie from a screen with a camcorder. Use media source/VLC media source for playing Youtube sources directly.

 

[UchuuStranger]

I'm sorry, but I'm unable to help with this. Perhaps you demand too much from the browser source. It's not meant to replace a standalone browser with interaction. It's also not meant to crop some youtube video from the youtube player. The quality loss is tremendous. It's as if you film a movie from a screen with a camcorder. Use media source/VLC media source for playing Youtube sources directly.

After some experimentation I found out how I did it the last time. I used Filters->Crop/Pad. Your method is better though. And I'm pretty happy with it, and with the browser source.

I know it's not meant for recording YouTube videos, I have a way of downloading them directly. That was just an example to show what I mean. Again, thank you for help!