 Hi there. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rose here. So I wanted to just demonstrate something I sort of figured out today. I'm sure someone else has probably done a video about it somewhere on YouTube, but a means of just kind of protecting or filtering out little details, let's say, on just tabs on the internet. If you're using Google Chrome and you're trying to do an OBS screencast or a Twitch or whatever the case may be, you're streaming somewhere or you're recording a video and you're doing something that has a URL that you don't want to expose. I'm just going to bring over this tab to give you an example. This is a video that I just uploaded to YouTube and you can see now that I've just dragged over into the window, I'm not using OBS. I'm just recording this using a simple screen recorder and you can see there is a URL there that's clearly visible in the video. It's at the top of it and it's a private URL. So is this dangerous to expose something like this to the public? Probably not, but I still would prefer not to have it out there. Now you could obviously go into post-production in a video editor and use one of those like censoring tools or you could do a crop. There's a lot of things you can do, but for some of the tutorials I put up on YouTube and I use that word very loosely just to mean kind of like how-to videos or here's something I figured out like this video. Those I sometimes just put up straight. Sometimes I do edit and put in the intro, but I don't want to have to do that necessarily every time. So I'd prefer to figure out a way to not have that to begin with. So that was what I was trying to figure out. Now somebody suggested to just go full screen and that is, I was like that is a very simple option that I did not think about. So you can do like this and now it's full screen and you can't see it. That is fine. It definitely is one way to do it. I guess the disadvantage there would be that if you want to move between tabs as you show the same window, that would be tricky. I think you can use keyboard shortcuts in full screen mode, but I'm not 100% sure. So that is, I'm not saying it's not a solution that could work for some cases, but it's not a perfect solution. So here's another idea that could work, that will work basically. So let me just open up OBS here and I'm going to go ahead and swap out. I'm going to have to firstly take off the screen because I'm going to move it. It's going to create all these difficulties. So I'm going to just remove the screen and going to remove both screens and I'm going to get myself out of studio mode. So I should be able now to bring across an OBS that looks okay. That seems to have worked. So here's the familiar OBS studio going on here and let's say I wanted to, I'm going to move that video tab now over to the other screen. So I'm going to go ahead and open up an input in screen two and that was good. First time lucky. So I managed to guess the screen I was looking for there. Let me just pin myself here on top because this is starting to annoy me that I'm moving it back and back and forth. It's going to make it smaller first. So would you ever know that I don't edit some of these? Always on top. Okay. So here it is. So now I've gone into the screen selection window and you can see my other screen here with that URL visible studio.youtube.com. Very simple fix. You can use the crop when you are setting up sources. So what I would do here is just add take off some pixels from the top. And in this case, you know, I probably would want to get rid of, you know, if I was just doing a screen cast and just wanted to show the screen, well, I could hide my bookmark bar using control shift B. And I could do full screen. The advantage of doing it this way is that, you know, A, you don't need to go into a guest. Sometimes I go into like guest mode and Google Chrome just for the purpose of these screen shares. I can just use my actual Google Chrome profile and my bookmark bar and I don't need to actually hide anything. I can just, you know, do it like this and just stop the screen cast. And now I've gotten rid of the top of the screen and I can also add crop pixels from the bottom. Now, this morning I was doing a screen cast showing a how to set up a cellular router and there were two things I wanted to hide. On the top, there was something and on the bottom it showed the firmware version and I don't know, I just didn't really want that to make it end the video. So I actually took out some pixels from the top and you could also crop from the left and you can also crop from the right. Now, the only thing to be aware of is that the ratio is going to be changing if you think about it. So if you want to preserve the ratio, I believe it would, if you took away the same number of pixels from all four sides, you would do that. But I'm not going to concern myself with that detail for this demo. I'm just going to add my screen into my canvas. Now, my canvas is 1920 by 1080. It's a 1080p canvas and as we have chopped off stuff from the top and stuff from the bottom, it's not really fitting there to scale. So what you could do is, if I get rid of the bottom crop, it's going to make that a bit easier. Now we're getting closer and what you could do is just use the dragging functionality and bring it out to whatever point it's going to get to that will fill up that screen. I'm just going to move it back to the way it was. Or you could also fit the screen. If you do fit the screen, it's going to have those lines because of the fact that it's not, it's fitting on the horizontal axis. I think stretch the screen is going to pull it out of the ratio. You have different options here. One thing that you can do, I'm going to go back to, I'm going to go back to, if I do stretch screen again, now it's not preserved. So you can try stretching, you can try resizing, you can try dragging and dropping various means, but you can just do the cropping on the testing one, two, three. Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosa here and I wanted to demonstrate a, whoa, I'm very, I'm very big. I'm very big in this frame. I very like zoomed in. I wanted to sort of show something that I figured out a few hours ago. I was asking on the internet regarding if you want, if you're using OBS and you're doing an OBS stream and you're streaming in a screen, you're using, you're bringing a screen as a source to OBS and you're doing something like, I don't know, a tech tutorial and I used a used tutorial in the broadest possible sense or like this, as in, you know, one of these kind of how-to videos where you've got a screen up and you've got yourself up in a webcam and you want to show people how to do something on the computer, right? So a lot of the videos I posted on this YouTube channel to date would fall very much into that category. Now, if you have a screen and you don't want to show a URL or some other type of sensitive or personal data, so I'm just going to go ahead and grab in from the other screen, this window. So now here's, I'm just in my YouTube studio and I have a video that I just opened up. You can see there's a URL that's clearly visible. The omni box is visible. My bookmarks are visible. This is my bookmark bar and typically this is all stuff I kind of try to avoid showing in these videos and what I often do is go into a private Chrome guest window just for the duration of the screen share. Now, that's kind of not ideal because it's got a lot of work to do that. You're not going to have your bookmarks accessible. Now, if you didn't want to show a URL, like the one I just gotten rid of, now I have a back, you could record your screencast and edit that in post production very easily. Even using the tool I use, which is Caden Live, you have a blurring functionality for censorship. There's also a dynamic blur for moving objects you want to censor. It's a bit more complicated, but if it's a static blur, like you can point to this frame and say, please blur this, that's easy. Or you can crop it. You have options. But the truth is for some of these videos, I do edit most of the videos I shoot with my camcorder. But for these sort of like in my office, here's how to do something videos, a lot of them I don't edit. And it's a bit of a pain to have to edit them. So I would prefer to have a system for hiding stuff like the Chrome omni bar, for instance, before. If for no other reason, then it'll also make the editing process easier. Now, someone said to me, you know what you could do is do full screen. So I can go into full screen mode for sure. And now I don't have my URL. The problem with this, I would say that if you're jumping between tabs and you want to show that you want to show different tabs on your Chrome window, then you're going to have to use keyboard shortcuts, I think, if you can't even do that in full screen to get between the tabs. So I'm not saying it's not a good solution, it will work for some cases, but not for other cases. So here's another way to do it. So I'm going to put my I'm going to put that back to that screen. I'm going to add now an OBS, that's screen as a source. So I'm going to go screen to be propped. And first time lucky, we have the screen, it is DVID output zero. Now, here's the core of what I wanted to show you guys. So basically, you can see my screen here right now, all I have to do is crop. And I can add a crop, I can keep cropping from the top until now we're ready cropped out the omnibar. And I can also crop out the bookmark bar and just get to the point where I really want to show people that you can do this on each side of the picture. So you can crop in the bottom, crop, crop from left, crop from right. And that is it. And you know, I can even crop all the way to the right. So let's let's say for instance, let's take this portion of the screen is just white. So I could say, I just want to do a video based on editing this description. So I can just crop. Sometimes it's quicker just to put in a number 200 300 500 pixels and get enclosed at 500. So let's say I want to do like 551. And now I have a much tighter version of that screen on my canvas. Now, I don't know if this is what it's called, I call it the canvas. The canvas you're looking at is 1920 by 1080. It's the size up for 1080p HD. And now the thing to point out is that once I've done this, let's say I'm trying to set up set up this screen to make it somewhat workable. So let me go ahead and add the screen to be cropped as the top layer. No, second to top layer. And I want to be somewhere like, I don't know, at the bottom of the screen, like I usually put myself so the bottom left corner, let's say something kind of like this. Now the problem we have is that because we have cropped the screen that we're bringing in, it's now outer ratio, as you can see, with the canvas, as I call it, the 1080p canvas, you don't you can see it doesn't write it's got it fully. I've got it fully stretched out the top. And it is not the ratio is different. So it doesn't go all the way across. I've got they're gonna have this ugly black line. And there's a few ways around that. So you could do your censorship cropping first, and then just drag keeping the ratio. Now what's happening here is I'm I've locked the ratio, the ratio is locked for the screen. And I'm just dragging it out until I get to the point where it fills up the width. But I'm losing some stuff from you can see here at the bottom, right, I'm losing some of the description, I'm losing some of the height, because OBS is keeping the ratio. Now you can also get rid of the ratio by let's go on screen to be cropped. And under transform, you have options for fist to screen and stretch the screen. If you do stretch the screen, it's going to take it out of the ratio. So if I go back here, and I'm going to do, whoops, I'm dragging the wrong source here, screen to be cropped. So if I drag, if I go for stretch the screen, now it's stretched it out, but it hasn't preserved the ratio. And therefore you can see it looks a bit weird. It's like elongated. So in any event, those are your options. I would personally, in this case, have gone for the just dragging the manual stretching. In order to, you know, make it look not weird, but keep the censorship and I'd lose some pixels towards the bottom, but you have options essentially. So I hope that this video has been useful if you are looking for sort of a pretty simple way to censor some stuff from a screen that you're using as a source on OBS. I would say probably most commonly you're you're cropping from the top, but I was doing a screencast today in which I also wanted to get stuff from the bottom because there was some there was like firmware listed there or something or firmware version and they don't want that to be in the video. So I hope this was useful and if you'd like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.