How to record my screen in widescreen?

Lucas Brown · Aug 26, 2013

Hi, I have a bit of a dilemma on my hands. My friends and I recently decided to try and start a youtube channel. It would consist of us playing games such as GMOD and Chivalry together. Because I will be the primary editor, it would be most convenient if I could do the recording as well. The thing is, I have an older Dell 720p monitor (around 2002). It's a 19 inch and shaped like a square. Because of this, when i record, the video is squarely shaped, and there are bars at the end. As this is not optimal for viewing on youtube, I was wondering if there was some way to record my screen in widescreen without just buying a new monitor?

mauller07 · Aug 26, 2013

normally when recording it will use the aspect of your monitor, the only way to get around it would be to either set your game to a 16:9 aspect and have letterboxing on your monitor to get the video to record, or to stretch or cut the video when editing it.

Lucas Brown · Aug 26, 2013

Which would provide the best possible quality? If I set it to 16:9 resolution, wouldn't it also record the black bars on the top and bottom?

mauller07 · Aug 26, 2013

if you set your games to 16:9 then it should record in that aspect, it would provide the best quality but for you the game will look warped if it does not letterbox.

DarkDubzs · Aug 28, 2013

I actually have the same problem, i probably have the same monitor as its a Dell and it atleast 5 years old. Im trying to find out how i can render my videos from the monitor resolution(1280x1024) to widescreen to fit the Youtube player, even if it has to have black bars on top and bottom.

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