Crop the captured image

In most video capture situations, you'd like to record everything that is captured by the DVI2USB 3.0. Sometimes, however, there's a need to remove some information (e.g. confidential or personal information) or to crop out black bars or unwanted areas of a scene. For these purposes, the Epiphan Capture Tool lets you crop the captured source prior to recording.

For example, using cropping you can change your capture from what you see on the left side, below, to the cropped image on the right. The status bar displays the cropped coordinates.

To set capture cropping, start by Record a video

To specify your cropping parameters:

  1. From the Tools » Options dialog, select the Capture tab.
  2. Check the Enable hardware cropping checkbox.

  1. In the Width and Height fields, specify in pixels the size of the cropped area that you want to capture.
  2. Using the Left and Top fields, specify in pixels the top left corner where to start capturing. As you change these values, you can see the visible portion of the image change in the cropped area.
  3. Click Apply to see the changes immediately and keep fine-tuning, or click OK to save your changes.