 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here in Jerusalem I wanted to demonstrate a feature in OBS studio that I just kind of got to grips with today Pretty cool. It's just simply cropping. So if you want to crop yourself In a webcam feed, I'm just going to show Show you exactly what you might want to do that and then how to do it and how it's going to look In video, so I'm recording this in simple screen recorder I do have a clip that I'll just pull up quickly of the before and after effect But firstly how to do it. So what I did here was just to demonstrate How this might work. I just went ahead and I'm just going to show you the screen and I just pulled a cloud pick cloudy sky just search Google images for cloudy sky and then what I did is went ahead and Open that up in GIMP and I'm recording this in 1080p HD. So 1920 by 1080 pixels And what I wanted to do here was so basically I just scaled This guy to 1920 on the vertical Took 1080 pixels from the top and then just crop that in some place that made it look okay saved that as a file called clouds.png and What you're looking at now is basically Clouds is one layer and it's filling up. It's filling up 1920 so the reason I did this just while I'm demonstrating how this cropping tool works is It's just easier for me to see Where the canvas lies and you can see if I move myself around and out of it you get this, you know the transparent vector Chevron look, but I find it easier Default if I didn't have this cloud layer if I'm just going to hide the cloud layer I'll be looking at black and for whatever reason when I'm looking at a video afterwards I just find it easier to have something in the background to see how this worked now Okay onto the onto the actual talk about what this does so as you're looking at my OBS now I have Visible Three different sources. I have I'm always trying to show this guy. I have my lab failure microphone. That's the audio input device here Top one on the mixer I have my webcam that is 930c and I've gone ahead and I have just made sure that that was set top in The order sequence here so that I'm always on top and I made sure that the clouds Were moved to bottom and then so if I want to add different layers like I want to turn the screen on I know I'm still going to be above the screen This is all basic stuff unrelated to cropping but here's why you might want to crop So imagine I'm doing a talking head video. I'm narrating some technical screencast and The webcam I have the Logitech 930e has a really nice lens, but it's a very wide angle lens So let me go if we go into the filters Right click on filters You can see I have a crop filter currently active now watch watch what happens if I take off the crop filter So suddenly you're getting a much better feel For where I am and where I'm recording this from and it's really I really love this lens Actually, it's really nice wide-angle lens But it does kind of like show you a lot of stuff that I might not really want People to see in the context of a video like this. So you can see some space here. You can see my couch Depending on how I arrange my room you can see I've got a shirt here. I've got some kindles Now of course the best solution is to clean up But if you're looking to move yourself as a talking head around this screen There it this this shot is just too wide essentially So like, you know, there are things you could do if I just don't if I just resize this to scale Some people might like this effect of me You know a wide-angle view of the person giving let's say a tutorial and the background there But for a lot of people they'd find there's just too much distraction and they don't want that wide angle They want a tight shot now. I'm not saying it's for everybody. There is There's times where this I think this might look really good if I had better lighting and a better studio But as I don't I'm at the point now where I'm trying to like hide things away Now one quick sort of hack you can do is just to kind of move Let's say I wanted to have this mic stand and this door not visible So what I could do is just using the arrow keys. You can just use the mouse and just like drag that Off the canvas, but it doesn't look great because now it's unequal And I've just got this kind of like the couches like sticking out there So if you're trying to play this game, you're probably better off just cropping. So here is how the cropping occurs So go for your webcam device minus 930c. I'm gonna just pause for a second to have Take a chunk of a breath mint So my capture device is 930e Gonna click into filters Now we're back to where I started and we can add our filters What I would do is you want to be adding in effect filters not in AV filters because it's not the same filters and If you filters are great for adding noise suppression, but what we want to do here is a crop So add filters then click on to crop crop crop Okay, now you start at zero zero zero zero and what this is doing. I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory, but I Like to make sure I understand stuff and I'm making these videos also for my own later reference It's just pixels and you can just Get rid of pixels from the four sides of the frame. So I'm gonna kick things off by taking out 100 200 And just play around with it. So you can just do a pixel by pixel, but it's gonna be Very very tedious if you speed it up as a little bit quicker if you use the mouse wheel It will be actually significantly quicker. So what I kind of do here is I just started with like 300 Bit more I'm gonna go for a super tight crop here on myself 400 Even just see 450 and What I'm gonna do the objective of this if I wanted to do it. I'm gonna try get rid of the Mic stand you can see the mic stand here where my cursor is. So that's My objective here and there's also a door that's visible. So And now I'm just using the mice wheel there we go And I'm gonna try just just get to the point where they're out of frame and no more Now if I want to get this to a square box I of course need to Take same line to pixels from the right as from the left. So if I strip 592 pixels out of the right It's a little bit too much. So I'm gonna end up with a kind of oblong Frame here at the bottom. So, okay, I've taken 350 Actually, I retract that I retract that I think I'm gonna confuse myself I'm Gonna end up with Here we go I Can't think in geometry at the moment suffice to say I'm just taking enough here that I'm gonna just like get myself really really tight You know, I can keep going Here I can go from the bottom. So you're gonna start looking freakish. I'm gonna give myself a bit of a Bit of space to to be and go for like my shoulders and then for the top I'm gonna go for let's see. What we're at 150. Let's try 250 300 super super tight, but that was kind of the purpose or whatever. I'll leave it So now we can see we've totally changed the game I don't need to do any tricks and when I resize The webcam I am keeping the crop So if I dump myself in the bottom corner here and I've just moved to my chair a little bit so I can still I can do what I did before without the cropping I can just move myself over a little bit and Down a bit here and that's it. So if I'm just gonna do actually, I can record because little intro of this recording, but I did a video earlier which I can bring in to Show you or I cannot actually do that. So this is one here and I'm useful if you're looking to get a tight shot on a talking head video tutorial just Play around with the settings go on to Grab your source filters at a crop filter and then just start chopping from the left and the right I do I do recommend if you're just trying to test it out. I like personally having this Stock image background so I can do a test recording and see how does that look exactly? Find it a little bit harder to see when there's just a black background that could be just me And you know, I think I do think it'll make a good difference to my videos hopefully if you're exactly where you want to be in frame and you don't have anything sort of extraneous and Then if you're shooting in a different environment, you can just go for a wide-angle shot and just mix it up But the fact that you can do this at a software level. I think is pretty Powerful so thank you guys for watching if you'd like to get more videos on OBS and clinics and Whatever else I'm putting up videos on this channel back then feel free to hit the subscribe button. Thank you much for watching