using emulators to record AVI's

Not sure if anyone here will know or not but this problem is annoying the hell outta me. I am trying to make a recording of myself playing MM2 on my PC. I plan to chop up the footage for a PSP project im working on (a icon movie for my NES emulator on the PSP)

I have found several emulators that do the job of recording just fine. But all of them when I play back the movies are not full screen. They have black bars that are quite thick down the sides of the movie.


Is there a way to fix this and get a full screen AVI. The movie is already going to be tiny as the thumbnail on the PSP and the sides being wasted just makes it much worse. Here is a example image I took:





Please let me know and thanks. Also if its a problem to talk about emulators here please let me know and I will remove this.:thumbsup:

 

Fraps might work. Thats not an emulator, but it might get the job done.

I used it to make this lame youtube video a long time ago.:icon_bigg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-qefqb0gLE

It says "Recorded with Fraps" at the top in small white letters, not that big green thing.

 

I have tryed fraps but it wont record the emulation? As best as I cant tell its because the emulation isnt DirectX baseed.

Thanks for the idea though, anything else I might try?

 

cropping is no option i guess?

 

I was kinda hoping to just get it to record full screen. I do not have ANY idea why its doing what its doing. All 4 emulators I have tryed did the same thing. I have played with all the emulator settings and even tryed it on mylaptop with no results.

 

use a program like vegas video to edit the avi

 

I have Sony Vegas 7 but I dont really know how to utilize it. I am using it to slice and dice but I havent messed with cropping and stuff like that yet. Any tips?

 

so you open vegas

file, open, open the video

on the video track, right click, click crop.

once you have ti cropped

file render as

 

lol
thanks henners, I figured it out shortly after my last post. Turns out its not actually a problem. I converted the avi file for my PSP and it dosent have the black bars.

I dont know why it does on my PC and laptop but its working ok for PSP and thats all that matters to me.

Thanks for all the help guys!