Select area to record as opposed to window.

[pljp]

Is there a way to select an area to record. Recording windows sometimes leaves headers I don't want to see.

 

[qhobbes]

Crop the source: Hold alt and drag the bounding box (edges should turn green) or just move the window up. You can optionally resize the canvas to remove any black space.

 

[pljp]

I'm new to this software. I was able to move the image up to get rid of the top area I don't want. The crop/pad doesn't seem to do much. typing <alt> didn't turn the box green.

 

[pljp]

I got it working, thank you for helping.

 

[pljp]

No i didn't get it working still getting the full window instead of the window capture.

 

[qhobbes]

Right click on source --> Transform --> Edit Transform... --> Manually crop it from here.

 

[FerretBomb]

You hold the ALT key down, and then drag a corner handle to crop the window. The cropped edge should turn green, indicating that it's been cropped down from the full capture.
You can also add a crop Filter to the source.

 

[Want To Learn]

The long way if you can't get it through shortcuts is to click source scroll up to transform (within the source), edit transform and this box gives you lots of options. You'll need to play around with it a bit to learn it to get what you want. Good luck!

 

[pljp]

The window capture looks good

and the border looks goodin the software:

But when I start streaming it captures the whole screen. :( When I hold down the <alt> key and play with the borders on the window capture it never turns green.

 

[Want To Learn]

You're probably already doing this, but I always look to the obvious first as I sometimes forget to do the obvious, but was the correct source chosen? Many times I am thinking I am working on a certain source and find out that it's not the desired source. Good luck!

 

[pljp]

I ended up just running it full screen on my other monitor and recording. That is working well :) Thank you for looking with me.

 

[Want To Learn]

After rereading your question I realize I don't know if it is possible to record only one source by itself, I guess I wanted to help you choose it so you could record it. Sending it to a monitor is a good work around that you figured out. Enjoy!

 

[mohdosala]

after I finished cropping my source using alt key, the recorded result has still the full screen resolution but the cropped out parts are black.

 

[AaronD]

after I finished cropping my source using alt key, the recorded result has still the full screen resolution but the cropped out parts are black.View attachment 99772

Uhh... Yes, that's what cropping does. If you want to change the output size, that's in Settings -> Video.

The idea is that you set the canvas for the device(s) that your content will be viewed on, and/or the context that it will be viewed in, and then it never changes. The viewing device sees that single size, and gives you that area to play with, no more and no less. Whatever you don't use of that area is black, as you can see.

It's more like a PowerPoint slide, than an image editor.