Hi Mike,

You don't have to to record Full Screen. Instead, you can just record an application's window (Lock to App) or at Custom resolution. If you can adjust your games' windows to the desired resolution, 1920×1080, the middle mode, Lock to App, should be the best solution, in my opinion…

Jirka

Jirka, thank You for the answer!
I tried what You suggested, but it don't work out. I just don't get the 1920 x 1080. When I run my game (replay) as a Window then there are missing Pixels because of the border and the hight also don't fit.

I am not sure if I understand perfectly but if you can't resize a game window to 1920×1080, you could adjust the recording area to 1920×1080 in the Custom mode in CyberLink Screen Recorder and place the area within your game window as you think most suitable; basically leaving out the 120 pixels vertically.

Other ways to skin a cat:

You can record Full Screen at 1920×1200 and then change it to 1920×1080 by resizing the picture in PowerDirector's PiP Designer until the black bars at sides get outside the screen (losing the 120 pixels vertically) or by squeezing the vertical size after unchecking Maintain Aspect Ratio under Scale in Object Settings (vertical distortion)…

If I set my Game from Full screen to Window, then I have a Windows window with a frame around my game. This Window I don't like to see inside my Video. The frame also use some pixels and my Monitor has only 1920 wide, where I now get a new wide of about 1900 (cannot check it right now).

With the PowerDirector's PiP Designer it is a stretching, what I also do when I set my Monitor to 1920 x 1080. He also stretch the Video. Slowly I get used to the idea, to buy a other Monitor.

Well, if you resize in the PiP Designer to take unwanted margins away from the screen, effectively inflating the resolution a bit, you shouldn't see a difference in picture quality. Also, whether you resize the game window or just cut away the margins in PowerDirector, you get the same result except the frame you mention, so the full screen recording + resizing in PiP Designer should be the better option for you…

I think You are right, but it's late and I cannot find where I can release the Aspect Ratio. Already googeld it and looked all Options but I don't find it. Tomorrow is a other day and then I have a other look.

Thank You for the time You spend thinking about my problem!



I solved the Problem with a new second Monitor in 1920 x 1080. Anyhow I needed a new one because the old one was 10 years old.

Using the CyberLink Screen Recorder with my World of Warships replays is not so good. During Recording I have big Frame drops. With my GTX 970 I always will have ingame 76 FPS. With the CyberLink Screen Recorder during recording of my replays I see drops down to 30 FPS what I also later can see inside the final Video. This is no Option for me!

I solved this problem using NVidia Shadowplay to record my replays with a stabe 76 FPS and then use this Video in PowerDirector14 to cut it, put voice together and render it.

Thank You for Your help!

I've tried to show what I mean when I say the better way in the attachment. I modified one of PowerDirector's sample photos to be 1920×1200 pixels. The clip attached shows it on the timeline. You click on the Modify button, and draw the images sides to the edges of the screen (outwards); keep the Maintain Aspect Ration checkbox, which you should be able to see on the left, checked: you will lose some of the picture at the top and bottom but the picture will not be distorted in size.

If you uncheck the Maintain Aspect Ratio checkbox and follow the same procedure, you will distort the image horizontally not losing anything of the picture.

I made the video in the attachment fast to produce a small file, so you might want to slow it down or pause it while replaying…

Yes, with a JPG File this also works for me same like in You Video, but If I use a Video recorded with CyberLink Screen Recorder on my 16x10 Monitor I will have black borders right and left inside the Video, what I don't get away same like with a JPG.



I try to give You some seconds of my Video, so You can try, but I am not sure if this works like this. Still find out how I can attache it.

The point is you can do the same with your full screen, 1920×1200, video as I did with the photo and show it in the video clip attached to my previous post. Have you watched it yet?

Yes lol, see my edited post above!

Can you attach another clip that will be a little over 1 second long for PowerDirector to open it? Could you actually also produce a recording in the Window mode with aspect ratio 16:9? I would summerize the options showing how to do them…

Sorry about that!
Here is a Video a little longer then 1 second, but wait for it until I attached the File, because If I press replay to Your Post I cannot attache nothing. So First I replay and then I edit an attache the File.

If I record it in the Window mode, then my Monitor 1920 x 1200 is too small to have a 1920 x 1080 replay and a Windows window around it together. As I don't like to see the Window in my replay this is not a Option for me.

Did You read my edited Post above (08/05/2016 13:51:52), where I solved my Problem with buying one more Monitor and my problems with CyberLink Screen Recorder?

I wasn't completely right showing how you adjust the photo. With a video, which is actually 1920×1080, you need to drag the top or bottom side outwards, not the left and right sides, to get rid of the black stripes at sides. In principle, you can expand the picture beyond the screen borders. The result is as attached.

Using the same way, you can also get rid of a Windows window frame. That's why I suggest you produce one as well, trying to resize the window to be as close to 16:9 aspect ratio as possible. This is because you may not want to lose the on-screen alphanumeric details of the game. Part of them is lost in this post's attachment…

You are right, but doing this like in Your example I loose a part of the Video in the bottom. This is not what I want, because there are information's that should be inside the final Video.
As You can see, the problem is not easy to solve. The Screen Recorder know that I have a bigger resolution that I like to capture where he solve this with adding black borders to the result Video. He could be more clever and detect this and offer me the option to capture the Video without a Border but stretched 1920x1080.

Anyhow, now after I have a new second Monitor with the right resolution 16x9, I can save my replays without problems using NVidia Shadowplay instead of the Screen Recorder.

Thank You and regards Mikel

You do need to drag the sides if you want to change the aspect ratio. I attach such an option. First I unchecked the Maintain Aspect Ratio checkobox in the PiP Designer, then I moved the picture to the right to hide the right-hand side black bar, and finally I dragged the left side to the left extending the picture horizontally to hide the other bar…

Okay. However, now that you mention you have a new monitor, it has occurred to me it is not the monitor that decides the screen resolution. It should be possible to select 1920×1080 pixels even on a 1920×1200 monitor. The operating system will try to choose the resolution according to your monitor but it should be possible to change that in the operating system's settings…

You need to set the desktop resolution and the game resolution and the screen recorder to 1920 x 1080. Then record in full screen. That's the only way it works for me. Asus X79-Deluxe, Intel i7-4930K, EVGA GTX 980ti, G.Skill memory 16GB, Corsair HX1000 PSU, OCZ Vertex4 SSD, OCZ Vector180 480GB, (2)Western Digital Black 1TB(RAID0), Western Digital 2TB, LG Blue Ray Burner, Lite-on DVD Burner, Logitech G19 keyboard, Window

@Jirka.Bolech
Yes You are right! I could do the same thing with my Video. Now I learned something. Thanks to my new Monitor I found a more expansive but more easy solution with a better final result.

@Skibum
I did exactly what You suggested. At the end the Monitor is showing a 1920 x 1080 replay on a 1920 x 1200 Monitor and the Video is from the Aspect Ratio now 16x9 and correct but because of the wrong resolution of the Monitor it is less sharp and the objects inside the Video are slightly unproportional.
For who can live with this, it is ok and working, but I know it, I can see it and I found it disturbing.

When you watch it on the 1920 x 1200 monitor. Do you have black bars on the top and bottom? You should. Otherwise the monitor is stretching the video. That would be one of your settings on the monitor itself. Asus X79-Deluxe, Intel i7-4930K, EVGA GTX 980ti, G.Skill memory 16GB, Corsair HX1000 PSU, OCZ Vertex4 SSD, OCZ Vector180 480GB, (2)Western Digital Black 1TB(RAID0), Western Digital 2TB, LG Blue Ray Burner, Lite-on DVD Burner, Logitech G19 keyboard, Window