PSA: Check your background!

[Drakhen99]

Last night I shot & edited a quick video on the upcoming Harley Pan America versus the BMW R1250GS. I used OBS and recorded my screen to do it... and a few hours after it went live, I noticed that my BOOKMARK BAR was visible in my browser. Now normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but recently I added a bookmark to my work's employee portal... thus giving viewers the name of the company I work for and the name of the site we use - OOPS!

I re-edited the on-screen footage to crop out the whole top 111px (the bookmark bar and everything above it) and then re-rendered and re-uploaded it... UGH!

Anyone else make this faux pas? What do you do to remove the top bar of your browser if you're doing a screen recording, without leaving a blank or black space there?

-John

 

[Dewey316]

Last night I shot & edited a quick video on the upcoming Harley Pan America versus the BMW R1250GS. I used OBS and recorded my screen to do it... and a few hours after it went live, I noticed that my BOOKMARK BAR was visible in my browser. Now normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but recently I added a bookmark to my work's employee portal... thus giving viewers the name of the company I work for and the name of the site we use - OOPS!

I re-edited the on-screen footage to crop out the whole top 111px (the bookmark bar and everything above it) and then re-rendered and re-uploaded it... UGH!

Anyone else make this faux pas? What do you do to remove the top bar of your browser if you're doing a screen recording, without leaving a blank or black space there?

-John

You should be able to just hide the bookmark bar, it is something you can turn off.

 

[Theodor]

I have rarely recorded my screen. When I do, I usually select an area to record, not the whole screen. And I don't use work stuff on personal computer anyway, that would be a violation of data protection rules.

 

[Hippo-Drones]

If I am recording my screen it is normally recording video or a game, so that would be full screen, if however I am recording web based stuff (which I used to have to do when making training videos for work), I'd just crop the footage to remove it.

 

[LandyVlad]

On the other hand it can be really fun to have a few unusual tabs open and see if they generate comments

and if you have a related website then have that website open in a tab too.

 

[Drakhen99]

You should be able to just hide the bookmark bar, it is something you can turn off.

Thanks - I'll try this for the next one

I have rarely recorded my screen. When I do, I usually select an area to record, not the whole screen. And I don't use work stuff on personal computer anyway, that would be a violation of data protection rules.

It was not related to my actual work, just the company I work for - that stuff all stays on my work computer. I use my personal computer for work overhead type stuff. (time keeping, email, etc.) It's just a lot faster & newer.

On the other hand it can be really fun to have a few unusual tabs open and see if they generate comments

and if you have a related website then have that website open in a tab too.

I usually have my YT channel page open on my laptop screen if it's visible in frame, but yeah, I should have my blog visible too!

-John

 

[SighBored]

Lucky you were quick to spot it before releasing it for public viewing, bookmark bar can be hidden if you want to do some screen recording.

 

[Drakhen99]

Lucky you were quick to spot it before releasing it for public viewing, bookmark bar can be hidden if you want to do some screen recording.

Oh no, it was up for a few hours and had garnered around 85 views by that point - serious oops!

First thing I did was throw up a blur bar in the top 10% of the screen through the whole video, and then let it process... the video only got a few more views in that time [thankfully?].

In the mean time, I pissed off my wife by going back to the editor to fix it, re-render it, and then uploaded it again. When the HD version finished processing, I hit PUBLISH, changed the embedded video in my blog post [which changed it across Facebook, etc.] and then made the original private [thus preserving the views and watch hours].

-John

 

[SighBored]

That's a lot of effort, if the blur bar worked (I assume you used YT Studio editor), for me that would have been enough I wouldn't go thru the process of re-doing it but I guess you wanted it to be perfect.

 

[Drakhen99]

Slightly off-topic, but yes. For reference, my average video takes around 5.5 hours to fully edit, and I think the average length is like 8 minutes. This includes the rough cut, the text/video/pic overlays, adjusting volumes, audio effects, sound effects, watermark, intro, end screen card, color grading [where necessary], multicam editing, transitions, music, yeah I think that's about it.

It also includes the 2nd and 3rd round of edits, since I watch my renders when they're done and if I find anything, I'll take notes or just have the editor up on my 2nd monitor and go through it alongside the fully-rendered video [no frame drops in the render, so it's easier to pick out "faults"], then re-render and go through it again. Final watch, then upload to YT if it's good enough [or "perfect", however I define that].

I mean, it took me over 5 minutes of editing just to write this post because it has to flow and be "perfect" grammatically [again, my definition of perfect].

Yep... I'm obsessed, OCD [or CDO, if the letters have to be in the right order], and yeah, I just sucked all the fun out of reading this post, didn't I?

So, back to on-topic, yeah, the blur bar looks like s**t, so I felt I had to re-do it. In the end, I just cropped out the top 111px on the recorded-screen footage and then re-rendered [and watched the new render] and then uploaded it.

Dude, I sweat ALL the details on my videos. If only I was half interesting, I'd probably have 10k subs by now

-John