You have to use a smaller dimension in your project and than cut things off the events by Pan/ Crop (sometimes in combination with track motion)

Hi,

Ok, I'm sorry but I do not understand what you mean ...

What must I do? How do I do this?

Thanks,

Lee

Therefore you have to publish here the projectsettings of that project and the MediaInfo of the used OBS file. Look here how to provide that Info: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/
and here:  https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/important-information-required-to-help-you--110457/

Ok,

Here is the information from MediaInfo concerning the MP4 video file I am working on -

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General
Complete name                            : E:\OBS Captures\CYVR-New.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size                                : 3.40 GiB
Duration                                 : 48 min 59 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 9 944 kb/s
Writing application                      : Lavf58.29.100

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.2
Format settings                          : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames        : 4 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 48 min 59 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 9 740 kb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 40.0 Mb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 60.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.078
Stream size                              : 3.33 GiB (98%)
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Codec configuration box                  : avcC

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
Duration                                 : 48 min 59 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 67.5 MiB (2%)
Title                                    : simple_aac_recording
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1

*****************************

And here is the Vegas File Properties data -

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General
  Name: CYVR-New.mp4
  Folder: E:\OBS Captures
  Type: AVC
  Size: 3.57 GB (3,653,662,169 bytes)
  Created: 10 November 2020, 11:15:41
  Modified: 10 November 2020, 12:04:41
  Accessed: 10 November 2020, 22:32:09
  Attributes: Archive

Streams
  Video: 00:48:59.450, 60.000 fps progressive, 1920x1080x32, AVC
  Audio: 00:48:59.412, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, AAC

Summary
  [TCFM]: 7

ACID information
  ACID chunk: no
  Stretch chunk: no
  Stretch list: no
  Stretch info2: no
  Beat markers: no
  Detected beats: no

Other metadata
  Regions/markers: no
  Command markers: no

Media manager
  Media tags: no

Plug-In
  Name: so4compoundplug.dll
  Folder: C:\Vegas Movie Studio 17\FileIO Plug-Ins\so4compoundplug
  Format: AVC
  Version: Version 1.0 (Build 8532)
  Company: MAGIX Computer Products Intl. Co.

I hope this helps,

Lee

1920x1080 is 16:9 display aspect ratio.

Your 2560x1440 monitor display is 14:9 ratio, if fifth grade math serves me correctly..

The two rectangles are different shapes.

Personally I would choose to live with it, although you could crop off the sides and zoom to fill the screen.

However, I do not know how to remove the inevitable black bars that result when I use EVENT/PAN/CROP to remove the P3D top title banner and also my bottom taskbar buttons (I use Windowed Mode). Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

An option to avoid those bars when cropping your video is to set in the Pan/crop tool the "Maintain aspect ratio" of Source to "No". Ofcourse this will give a little distortion of the aspect ratio.

Also you can avoid recording the Windows taskbar by hiding it automatically.

1920x1080 is 16:9 display aspect ratio.

Your 2560x1440 monitor display is 14:9 ratio, if fifth grade math serves me correctly..

The two rectangles are different shapes.

Personally I would choose to live with it, although you could crop off the sides and zoom to fill the screen.

Hello,

Yes, for the moment, I have lived with it - I guess I was just looking for a way to just polish the video and improve things.

Thank you,

Lee

However, I do not know how to remove the inevitable black bars that result when I use EVENT/PAN/CROP to remove the P3D top title banner and also my bottom taskbar buttons (I use Windowed Mode). Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

An option to avoid those bars when cropping your video is to set in the Pan/crop tool the "Maintain aspect ratio" of Source to "No". Ofcourse this will give a little distortion of the aspect ratio.

Also you can avoid recording the Windows taskbar by hiding it automatically.

Hi,

That is what I do already. The Simulator has a top menu which always shows through, so I use Event/Pan/Crop with the Aspect Ratio OFF and just drag the top and bottom sides of the screen downwards and upwards respectively, to remove the menus - and I am left with two black borders!

But thank you for your comments,

Lee

Be aware that in the Pan crop tool there are TWO aspect ratio controls. There is in the side tool bar an icon where you can switch ON/OFF the aspect ratio of the pan/crop selection window and there is a Maintain aspect Ratio in the Source tab where you can change maintaining the aspect ratio of the source to YES/NO.

To avoid the black bars or zooming into the video but instead stretching the video when cropping, aspect ratio of selection window must be set to OFF and aspect ratio of Source must be set to NO.

Be aware that in the Pan crop tool there are TWO aspect ratio controls. There is in the side tool bar an icon where you can switch ON/OFF the aspect ratio of the pan/crop selection window and there is a Maintain aspect Ratio in the Source tab where you can change maintaining the aspect ratio of the source to YES/NO.

To avoid the black bars or zooming into the video but instead stretching the video when cropping, aspect ratio of selection window must be set to OFF and aspect ratio of Source must be set to NO.

Thank you for that. I'll give it a go - just recorede another flight in OBS Studio so we'll see how the edit goes later.

Really appreciate everyone's help!

Lee