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Recording map of player view, how to?

Forgive me if this is the incorrect forum for this and feel free to move it should it be in another. I would like to record a google+hangout and the video portion be the map the players see. At this time all I can do is use the "screenshare" app and the recorded version will use the DM map. My players can also use screenshare but I cannot figure out how to force the view to "stick" to one of them. I am using the "On Air" feature within the hangout to record. Anyone have suggestions?
Not sure if that works: Start a second window and start roll20 and join the campaign there too, which is then the one you record. In that second session you go to Settings and "Re-Join as Player". Your primary account/window stays logged in as GM. You might have to do that directly on the roll20 page as I don't think you can rejoin in Hangout. As I said, I'm not sure if that works, or if that messes up Alternatively you could of course have one of your players do the recording. Also if in Hangout you click on the little picture of the people in the lower row (the hangout picture not roll20), then it will show you their icon full screen and if they're screensharing it will show that to you.
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Gauss
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Quatar's example should work. Note, you should be able to rejoin as player in Hangout. I believe this was fixed awhile back.  - Gauss
So to follow up I tested this. 1) started my roll20 campaign up in google+hangout. 2) screenshared, then started the broadcast 3) re-started session as player 4) Opened new tab in browser to roll20.net, selected the campaign, launch (NOT in google+hangout) normally. I would DM from the roll20.net tab. Trying to launch the 2nd tab using google+hangout will fail (you are already there). Not sure how this will work in actual play but I will give it a shot this weekend. My only concern is the random crashes (last time we had about 2-3 on a 4 hour session) on my side. Hoping this does not cause it to crash more often as it is kinda tedious to setup.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Celestian, what kind of crashes are you getting? Are you using 3d Dice?  - Gauss
W ould I be able to have both windows up and running if I have dual monitors, one browser open on each monitor?
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Gauss
Forum Champion
OldSchoolChris, there are a number of people that run two instances of Roll20 on one computer. It shouldnt be a problem. :) - Gauss
Yeap, running 3d dice Gauss. It definitely seemed to be related to either dice rolling or a macro tho I could not nail it down. I know one time it caused me and a player who rolled the dice/macro to both crash out at the same time. OldSchoolChris, When I tested I was running it on separate monitors for what it is worth.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Celestian, 3d dice may cause crashes. If you keep experiencing crashes I would suggest turning it off and see if that fixes the problem.  - Gauss