Hey folks -
I play a lot of Battlefield 3 on my PC, and every so often I'd love to record some of the game play to share with others. I have the ability to record the game play (I'm still trying to figure out how to also record the sound!) but there's a challenge: I play the game spanned across 3 1920x1200 LCD panels. Essentially, the game's final resolution is 5760x1200, which gives me a relatively nice panoramic view of what's going on.
Problem: I need to crop that down to the middle screen's 1920x1200, and then crop/zoom it again to 1920x1080 for upload to YouTube. But I'm not quite sure how to do that. If the recording software was smart enough, it would let me choose which part of the final screen to record, but that'd require a lot of extra processing power while in-game. So it just blindly records every pixel it sees to disk.
While experimenting last night, I tried two things:
- Import the big AVI file, create a sequence from it, and then add a crop. With said crop, I trimmed the left by 33.3% and the right by the same amount. As I expected, I was left with a perfect image in the center of the massive image, but with a large black box on either side of it. I wasn't sure what to do with it from there.
- Create a new sequence of 1920x1080 resolution and drop the untouched AVI into it. This is closer to what I want, but I still have some zooming/cropping issues. Specifically, the black bars on either side of the image indicate that I'm still off.
Here's what the second attempt looks like:
There's a step or two more that I need to do here, and I'm just not sure what it is. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
jas
