====== Tips and tricks ======

If I or any user comes up with some tip to ease usage I'll be adding it here.

===== Manually setting width =====

Note this tip has been included in [[vcs:docs:usage#capture_size_and_aspect_ratio|height's documentation]].

This might not be obvious at first glance but you can set the width manually in a very simple way.</p>

Although capture width cannot be set directly it can in an easy enough way:

Let's say you want your captures from a ''640x480'' source to be ''1024x300'', using ''-H300'' would lead to captures being ''400x300'', you would need to do some numbers to adjust the aspect ratio to match the desired ''1024x300'' (that would be ''-a3.41'' or ''-a256/75'')... but you don't need to set a //canonical// aspect ratio, just remember aspect ratio is the same as //width / height// and you can simply use:

**''-H 300 -a 1024/300''**.
Yep, not as straightforward as an hypothetical ''-W 1024'' would have been but, oh well :P