You know how with apps like Lightshot, you can just hit a hotkey to select a specific part of your screen for a screenshot, skipping the whole Print Screen, pasting it in Paint, and cropping it? Well, I was wondering if there’s something similar for video. I know you can adjust the capture region in OBS for this, but it can be a bit of a hassle. Any suggestions?
Windows 11 has this built in - load up the Snipping Tool and choose video.
Cool. Hope someone ports it to Windows 10
was actually working on something like that! It records everything 24/7 and uses AI to pick out the interesting parts. It’s pretty wild—maybe a bit too wild, haha!
Microsoft PowerToys has this cool feature called “Crop and Lock.” It lets you select a part of a window, and it mirrors that selection into a new window that you can resize and move around as needed. Then, you can use OBS to capture that new window.
To use Crop and Lock, just hit the keyboard shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + WINDOWS + T), and it will bring up crosshairs so you can pick your capture area, similar to the snipping tool.
That sounds like a good solution. Little less seamless than I wouldve liked but maybe with some hotkey fiddling I could make it work like Lightshot. Thanks.
I have a replay buffer up for a display capture scene at all times, do you think if I add a “screenclip” window capture scene and save the replay buffer, it would save the last x seconds of that area of the screen even though the Crop and Lock window wasn’t open until the last second?
Honestly, I’m not too sure. I’ve only played around with Crop and Lock a little when I first tried it, and I thought it was pretty cool, but I haven’t really used it since.