( It’s for PC, I’m not sure if there’s a Mac or linux equivalent.) With sizer, you can right-click the corner of any window and choose a resolution from the menu, and it will resize the window for you.

The secret to doing that is to use a little free utility called sizer. You need to accurately resize and position the program window to a 16:9 ratio (or whatever output ratio you’ll be recording in) so that it will fill the entire canvas perfectly when it’s scaled, without leaving any black bars on the canvas or cropping out any of the window. If you’re doing something different, adjust accordingly. But for this video, I’m going to start out by having my base canvas resolution match the resolution of my monitor, and I’ll assume we’re going to be exporting to 1920×1080 for the final video. NOTE: Now keep in mind, you might have a different resolution monitor or scale factor (I have a 4k monitor scaled at 200%), and your canvas resolution settings might be different than mine. How do you capture all popups and menus with OBS Window Capture?ĭon’t use the Window Capture source type! Use Display Capture, but instead of trying to manually crop and scale everything, automate it! Let me show you how how. But it’s such a pain to try and get the crop exactly perfect and the window ratio perfect, so you end up with either black bars around the screen or you’ve cut off part of the window, or you have part of your desktop showing. What you may have tried in the past is using the Display Capture source to capture your monitor, and cropped it down to the window by holding the ALT key, then scaling it up to fit the canvas. And using the Display Capture source type to record full screen isn’t always ideal because all the icons end up super small when people watch the video on their phone or tablet. With Window Capture, if you open up a properties panel or whatever, OBS won’t record it.

Obs crop window