Screen Studio Changelog

2.22.0
6 days ago — Friday, March 22, 2024
    Features
    • Added the ability to select a new default location for storing Screen Studio projects in settings
    • Dedicated timeline for keyboard shortcuts with customization for which keystrokes should be visible
    • Ability to show single key shortcuts on a recording
    Fixes
    • Fixed an issue that prevented app closure and caused the save modal to appear twice on a new recording after changes
    • Fixed an issue with the cursor type remaining as pointer  after clicking a link and not moving the mouse
    • Waveform for microphone and system audio is now fully working, even when recording for a long time, the application does not crash
    • Beta experimental: used a different version of core of our recorder to test some microphone desync issues with the users
    • Fixed issue with the '#' symbol in the project name that prevented any edits or changes to the project
    Improvements
    • Simplified the file renaming process by allowing a click outside the project title field on the top bar to save changes
    • Enhanced the reliability and stability of the 'Open Recent' list by checking the existence of files and automatically updating the list
    • Corrected the stereo microphone mix for preview and export files, ensuring the voiceover is also played from the right channel
    • Removed glide options from the UI layer
    • Added the ability to display captions on recordings even when the built-in microphone is used
    • Rounded up the displayed FPS data from the recorded display
    • Added a warning about the microphone being muted while the laptop lid is closed
    • Removed 'No Toolbar' option from recording, because it was not working properly on on most configurations of external displays
    • Improvements around zooming the timeline: it now stays centered around the playhead or the center of visible area. Also it is now possible to zoom the timeline by scrolling while pressing CMD key
2.21.1-beta
3 weeks ago — Tuesday, March 5, 2024
    Features
    • Added the ability to select a new default location for storing Screen Studio projects in settings
    Fixes
    • Fixed an issue that prevented app closure and caused the save modal to appear twice on a new recording after changes
    • Fixed an issue with the cursor type remaining as pointer  after clicking a link and not moving the mouse
    Improvements
    • Simplified the file renaming process by allowing a click outside the project title field on the top bar to save changes
    • Enhanced the reliability and stability of the 'Open Recent' list by checking the existence of files and automatically updating the list
    • Corrected the stereo microphone mix for preview and export files, ensuring the voiceover is also played from the right channel
    • Removed glide options from the UI layer
    • Added the ability to display captions on recordings even when the built-in microphone is used
    • Rounded up the displayed FPS data from the recorded display
    • Added a warning about the microphone being muted while the laptop lid is closed
    • Removed 'No Toolbar' option from recording, because it was not working properly on on most configurations of external displays
2.21.0-beta
4 weeks ago — Tuesday, February 27, 2024
    Features
    • Dedicated timeline for keyboard shortcuts with customization for which keystrokes should be visible
    • Ability to show single key shortcuts on a recording
    Fixes
    • Waveform for microphone and system audio is now fully working, even when recording for a long time, the application does not crash
    • Beta experimental: used a different version of core of our recorder to test some microphone desync issues with the users
    • Fixed issue with the '#' symbol in the project name that prevented any edits or changes to the project
    Improvements
    • Improvements around zooming the timeline: it now stays centered around the playhead or the center of visible area. Also it is now possible to zoom the timeline by scrolling while pressing CMD key
2.20.4
1 month ago — Friday, February 23, 2024
    Fixes
    • The camera preview now displays correctly when switching between desktop spaces
    • Fixed 'open recent' projects list in application menu in File tab
    • Fixed issue where the save modal appeared twice when closing the window after renaming a file in a new recording
    Improvements
    • The volume level is now reflected on the waveform after change
2.20.3
1 month ago — Tuesday, February 20, 2024
    Fixes
    • Improved project saving code to make it more resilient
    • Fixed issue that caused custom background images not being properly handled when using presets
    • Fixed issue that caused multiple, the same menu items being present in File menu when having multiple projects opened
2.20.1
1 month ago — Monday, February 12, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed issue on macOS 14.4 Beta that caused the system to constantly ask to approve screen capture permission for Screen Studio
2.20.0
1 month ago — Tuesday, February 6, 2024
    Features
    • Added option to modify single clip audio volume
    Fixes
    • Added user friendly error code
    • Default preset is now applied to the new recordings
    • Added option to show recording widget
    Improvements
    • Added option to disable dim on unrecorded area
    • Added option to disable cursor type changes optimizations
    • Added option to select entire file name with single click
    • Added a keyboard shortcut to cut where timeline is
    • Handling shortcuts for minimize and hide app
    • Added option to delete project on exit modal
2.19.2
4 months ago — Friday, November 24, 2023
    Fixes
    • Main project window is maximizable.
    • Additional checks related to checking if there is enough available space on the disk left before the recording starts.
2.19.1
4 months ago — Wednesday, November 22, 2023
    Fixes
    • Temporary fix: avoid painting audio waveform preview for super long track parts to avoid crashing the app in some cases.
2.18.1
4 months ago — Monday, November 20, 2023
Speaker Notes, New Crop Tools
    Features
    • It is now possible to open Speaker Notes where you can write down useful informations you’ll use or read while recording, while those notes will not be visible in the final recording, even if they cover whatever you are recording.
    • Precise Crop Tools - when cropping the recording, it is now possible to enter precise number values or set fixed crop aspect ratio.
    • Extracting separate recording files. It is now possible to extract parts of your recording as separate files. For example you can extract raw webcam file as a separate file. Notes: webcam file does not include audio from the microphone - you’ll need to extract microphone audio file as well. Another note - raw screen recording file will not include your mouse cursor as it is not directly recorded by Screen Studio - it is re-added later basing on your mouse position data.
    Fixes
    • When adding custom background image twice using file with the same name, it will now work correctly.
    Improvements
    • Friendly error messages for some common system error codes during the recording (eg. running out of disk space).
    • Upgraded bunch of libraries Screen Studio uses for better performance and stability.
    • Improved Figma cursors with higher resolution.
    • You can now enable or disable option that reduce noise and normalize audio in the Audio Tab of the Editor.
2.17.12
4 months ago — Monday, October 30, 2023
    Features
    • Ability do disable automatic “always on” zoom in vertical mode.
    • Ability to detect and remove mouse shakes caused by external, accessibility based apps that control the mouse during the recording.
    Improvements
    • Warning about low disk space before recording.
2.17.7
5 months ago — Wednesday, October 4, 2023
    Improvements
    • Updated the version of the core of Screen Studio recorder.
2.17.6
7 months ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Possible fix that avoids black screen cover at the beginning of the recording.
2.17.5
7 months ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Reworked “app close prevention” when having unsaved changes to properly handle all edge cases.
2.17.4
7 months ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Possible fix for issue that did lead to empty and broken exported mp4 files.
2.17.3
7 months ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
    Features
    • Button allowing picking random wallpaper.
2.17.2
7 months ago — Thursday, August 10, 2023
    Fixes
    • Properly prevent app closing when clicking “Cancel” in prompt about unsaved project changes.
    • Additional system that makes sure unsaved projects are successfully saved before app process is allowed to be closed.
2.17.1
7 months ago — Thursday, August 10, 2023
    Fixes
    • Potential fix that could solve some issue with black screen appearing in the beginning of the recording.
2.17.0
7 months ago — Thursday, August 10, 2023
New Default Backgrounds
    Features
    • Over 100 new, beautiful wallpapers created by Blue Pixel Studio - https://bpxl.lemonsqueezy.com/ are added to the library of backgrounds.
    • Backgrounds now have categories so it is easier to find them.
    • It is now possible to mark some background as favourite to find it even faster next time.
2.16.8
7 months ago — Wednesday, August 9, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid trying to compile a few more frames after exporting is cancelled.
    Improvements
    • Rebuilded networking model (license checks, etc) to be able to handle errors in better way.
    • Avoid false-positive errors from being thrown when closing some window in the middle of some actions happening inside of it.
    • Avoid logging every failed action as error to reduce noise in our errors analytics where most of the errors were reported a few times because of that.
    • Don’t treat “known errors” when opening Screen Studio projects as errors (eg. trying to open very old project with recent version of Screen Studio).
2.16.7
7 months ago — Wednesday, August 9, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid incorrect UI state that allows trying to record system audio on macOS before 13.0 which did lead to recorder error.
    • Avoid situation when the same recording was requested to be finished and cancelled at once if closing the recording picker.
    • Avoid incorrectly showing “Are you sure to close this window” prompt in some cases.
    Improvements
    • Avoids warnings when playing and pausing the video quickly.
    • Properly simulates springs that are ‘slow’ to move without stopping the simulation too quickly.
    • If restarting or cancelling recording - it doesn’t create Project from previous recording so it can start a new recording faster.
    • Increased the timeout to start the recording to be longer than 10s to allow starting the recording on slower computers.
2.16.6
7 months ago — Wednesday, August 9, 2023
    Fixes
    • Ensure to wait for recording to fully finish before trying to create project to avoid project having missing elements.
    • Possible fixes to rare issues with encoding exported video.
    • Ensuring to properly stop webcam and microphone preview streams.
    • Fixed infinite animation simulation if ‘object mass’ is set to 0 (Hello, Einstein!, we created photons without light speed limit!).
    • Properly ignore unknown keyboard shortcuts on non-latin keyboards.
    • Avoided situation where GIF export settings were still used if exporting as MP4.
    • Fixed issue that after successful export of file bigger than 2GB was showing export as stuck at 100% and not showing the exported file in Finder (even though it was successfully exported, which could be confusing for the user).
    • Fixed false-positive error of not being able to detect if user has custom cursor size in system preferences, if user never changed this option on their machine and it was always default since the system was installed.
    Improvements
    • Better flow of setting up Accessibility permissions for focusing recorded video (Added explicit option to enable that in recorder settings).
    • Reworked Presets UI to be less confusing.
    • Updated a lot of project dependencies and libraries it uses.
    • Show more informative loading screen when finishing the recording and it takes longer than usually.
    • Added bunch of error alerts showing the user that some action has failed (eg. renaming preset with incorrect name).
    • GIF and MP4 export settings are now ‘remembered’ separately instead of constantly overwriting ‘last settings’ of each other.
    • Updated video MUX-ing library during export. Might fix some rare issues with incorrect codec data during export on some machines.
    • Cleaned up a lot of logs for easier debugging of future issues.
2.16.5
7 months ago — Tuesday, August 8, 2023
    Fixes
    • General bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.16.4
7 months ago — Tuesday, August 8, 2023
    Fixes
    • Reworked recorder core library to avoid some bugs and improve recovering from issues.
2.16.3
7 months ago — Thursday, August 3, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid restarting webcam during the recording which might lead to desync.
2.16.2
7 months ago — Saturday, July 29, 2023
    Improvements
    • Greatly optimized loading huge Screen Studio projects.
2.16.1
8 months ago — Monday, July 24, 2023
    Improvements
    • Optimized preview and playback performance.
    • Added options to reduce preview quality.
2.16.0
8 months ago — Monday, July 24, 2023
    Fixes
    • Ask for Microphone permission before picking the microphone.
2.15.3
8 months ago — Thursday, July 13, 2023
iPhone and iPad Recording
    Features
    • iPhone and iPad recording.
2.15.1
8 months ago — Thursday, July 13, 2023
System Audio Recording
    Features
    • System audio recording.
2.14.8
8 months ago — Tuesday, July 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed microphone sound desynchronizing with camera picture if there are a lot of cuts in the project.
    • Avoid exporter to be stuck if there is nothing moving in the recording for a longer while.
2.14.0
9 months ago — Tuesday, June 27, 2023
    Features
    • Ability to hide the mouse cursor if mouse is not moving for some time.
    • Ability to loop mouse cursor position, so near the end of the video it returns to the position from the start of the video.
2.13.0
9 months ago — Tuesday, June 27, 2023
    Features
    • Ability to mute microphone audio.
2.12.5
9 months ago — Monday, June 26, 2023
    Features
    • Ability to hide Screen Studio from the dock while recording.
    • Ability to change zoom level with 0-9 keyboard keys while hovered with the mouse.
    • Ability to apply zoom level of one zoom to all other zooms.
    Improvements
    • New UI of all buttons in the app.
    • Improved initial app open time.
    • Better UI of picking colors, gradients and images.
    • Minor / Secondary performance optimizations.
2.12.0
9 months ago — Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Screen Studio Preset File Format
    Features
    • New .screenstudiopreset file format for saving presets with images and sharing them with other people.
2.11.2
9 months ago — Tuesday, June 20, 2023
    Fixes
    • If first zoom range starts at the first frame of the project - start video already being zoomed in instead of animating first zoom in.
2.11.1
9 months ago — Tuesday, June 20, 2023
    Features
    • Ability to hide sidebar or timeline
    • Disabling zoom ranges without removing them.
    Improvements
    • Being able to disable sidebar navigation labels tips.
    • Better debugging crash diagnostics for failed recordings.
2.11.0
9 months ago — Monday, June 19, 2023
    Features
    • New sidebar navigation UI.
    • New, high quality color pallete GIF export mode.
    Fixes
    • Avoid overclipping audio in preview mode.
2.10.10
9 months ago — Saturday, June 17, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed usability bugs related to dragging and resizing elements on the timeline.
2.10.9
9 months ago — Friday, June 16, 2023
    Fixes
    • App windows not showing properly on some macOS versions.
    Improvements
    • Improved flow of dragging zoom ranges and video clips.
2.10.8
9 months ago — Wednesday, June 14, 2023
    Features
    • “Start recording” button is moved next to picked window, display or area.
    Improvements
    • When trimming - show trimmed part on the playback preview.
    • Focusing the recorded window before recording starts.
    • More clear system permission prompts for focusing and resizing windows.
    • Custom cursor size warning now has link to corresponding guide on Screen Studio website.
    • When closing “Crop Editor” without confirming - it will restore crop settings instead of saving it.
2.10.6
9 months ago — Monday, June 12, 2023
Audio Waveform and Automatic Audio Improvements
    Features
    • Google Chrome and Safari crop suggestions.
    • Timeline audio waveform preview.
    • Automatic microphone audio improvements (volume normalization, noise reduction).
    • It is possible to duplicate zoom ranges.
    • It is possible to slow down part of the recording.
    Improvements
    • View option to always show timeline scrollbar.
    • It is possible to easily remove project after it was exported.
2.10.4
9 months ago — Wednesday, June 7, 2023
    Fixes
    • Properly set initial project padding and background basing on recording type.
    Improvements
    • Renaming project from topbar now renames the recording file.
2.10.2
9 months ago — Wednesday, June 7, 2023
    Features
    • It is possible to manually select transcript language.
    Fixes
    • Fixed bug that was showing next video frame too early when exporting.
2.10.1
9 months ago — Wednesday, June 7, 2023
    Features
    • macOS Sonoma wallpapers.
    • iPadOS 17 wallpapers.
    • Experimental: it is possible to unlock recording iOS/iPadOS recording under experimental feature flag.
    Improvements
    • Big improvements around export speeds.
2.8.1
9 months ago — Friday, June 2, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid incorrect timeout error stopping recording countdown.
    • If window is resized when picked and then user quickly clicks “Record”, properly update window info and render it’s fresh size.
    Improvements
    • If recording in Display mode and there is only one display - select it automatically.
2.8.0
9 months ago — Thursday, June 1, 2023
    Features
    • It is now possible to set inset around the recorded screen.
2.7.7
9 months ago — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Improvements
    • Added option to always use default system cursor and ignore other cursors.
2.7.6
9 months ago — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid warning about custom macOS cursor size to prevent user from starting the recording. Also being able to “Don’t show it again” this warning.
2.7.5
9 months ago — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Fixes
    • Removed race condition that could lead to frames lagging in exported file.
    • Possible fix - avoiding crash on macOS 13.5 Beta about missing Documents folder.
2.7.4
9 months ago — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed GIF export issues where result files had a lot of visual (usually yellow) artifacts.
2.7.3
9 months ago — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
    Features
    • Mouse cursor can slightly rotate, when it is moving quickly.
2.7.2
9 months ago — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
    Improvements
    • Greatly improved transcript editor UI and UX.
2.7.0
9 months ago — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Show Shortcuts in the Video
    Features
    • Added the option to show pressed shortcuts in the video.
2.6.4
10 months ago — Thursday, May 25, 2023
    Improvements
    • Tweaked GIF export settings to slightly improve quality and compability.
    • Added more size presets for resizing windows (smaller sizes and 16:10 aspect ratio preset).
2.6.3
10 months ago — Thursday, May 25, 2023
    Features
    • It is now possible to select fullscreen apps for recording.
    Fixes
    • Will not freeze recording countdown if trying to record fullscreen app.
2.6.2
10 months ago — Thursday, May 25, 2023
Precise Recorded Window Resizing
    Features
    • Being able to resize windows precisely before recording.
2.6.0
10 months ago — Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Export to Clipboard
    Features
    • Being able to export files to clipboard.
    Fixes
    • Avoid bug that was rendering empty last frame or was getting stuck while exporting last frame.
    Improvements
    • Color pickers are now supporting pasting colors from clipboard.
    • Show error if recording in progress failed instead of waiting until user clicks to finish the recording.
2.5.10
10 months ago — Friday, May 19, 2023
Raycast Integration and New GIF Export Engine
    Features
    • Prepared the app for Raycast integration by exposing a custom URL schema that allows controlling main features of Screen Studio from the outside of it.
    • New GIF exporting pipeline which should make exported GIF files smaller, while having better quality.
2.5.7
10 months ago — Friday, May 19, 2023
New Recording Picker
    Features
    • New recording picker UI
    • Widget visible during recording allowing finishing, restarting and canceling the recording in progress.
    • It is now possible to record custom area.
2.4.4
10 months ago — Friday, May 5, 2023
    Features
    • Being able to extend duration of the video over duration of the original recording.
2.4.3
10 months ago — Friday, May 5, 2023
    Features
    • It is now possible to slice zoom ranges.
    Improvements
    • Stabilized user experience around basic editing tools.
2.4.2
11 months ago — Friday, April 28, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed “failed to open app” bug.
2.4.1
11 months ago — Friday, April 28, 2023
Trim and Speed Up
    Features
    • Basic editing tools
    • Option to increase the speed of video.
    • The capability to easily slice and separate specific portions of your video footage.
2.3.5
11 months ago — Friday, April 21, 2023
    Improvements
    • New screen recording engine is set to be enabled on macOS version 12.3+.
2.3.4
11 months ago — Thursday, April 20, 2023
    Fixes

    Fixed console dump bug.

2.3.0
11 months ago — Tuesday, April 18, 2023
    Features
    • Enabled timeline scrolling with a classic mouse by reversing the scroll direction.
    • Simplified zoom settings. Now all zooms have two options to choose: Auto and Manual.
    Fixes
    • Fixed bug: Cursor failed to stop at the end of the video.
    • Non-functional link in Onboarding Window now redirects correctly upon click.
    • Fixed bug: Mirrored selfie camera window is not visible in exported videos.
    Improvements
    • Implemented detection and warning for double cursor issue caused by increased pointer size in system settings, along with a help link to resolve it manually.

Legacy changelog

1.4.0
Friday, November 18, 2022
  • Undo/Redo
  • Support for .screenstudio files save/open
  • Streamlined recorder UI
  • Improved tools UI
1.3.1
Thursday, November 17, 2022
  • Touch cursor
  • Improved custom color pickers
  • Export quality option + estimated export size preview
1.3.0
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  • Stability fixes
  • Revamped UI of tools
  • Hide cursor option
1.2.0
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
  • Crop mode - allows cropping original recorder eg. to skip some part of the UI or to record local interaction like Subscribe to my channel.
  • Also did tweak a lot of UI elements basing on your feedback (tho I will need some more fundamental work here)
1.1.18
Monday, November 14, 2022
  • The new version (1.1.18) also adds a 'beta' version of custom colors. I did not have time to polish it as much as I'd liked to, but so many of you requested it. It also should fix some exporting issues and restore hd+ exports not working before
1.1.17
Monday, November 14, 2022
  • Show time remaining on exports
1.1.16
Sunday, November 13, 2022
  • Fixes issue with the recording being 2x as big as it should be when recorded/played on non-retina displays
1.1.15
Saturday, November 12, 2022
  • Fixed export error on Intel Mac's aka "Unknown error -86"
1.1.14
Friday, November 11, 2022
  • I pushed a patch (1.1.14) that should fix a bunch of errors related to exports and recording and should make exports faster.
1.1.9
Thursday, November 10, 2022
  • Fix: issue with cursor not being properly synced with video & video being extremely long even if recording was short
  • Fix: error when stopping recording on M1 mac without rosetta installed
  • Fix: bug with app freezing when starting new recording
1.1.2
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Fix: avoid crashing the app on minor errors
1.1.1
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Fix: start new projects with proper crop
1.1.0
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Crop recording video to use only part of original recording (eg. remove UI of the browser)
  • A lot of UI tweaks and improvements based on onboarding feedback
1.0.12
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Dramatically faster exports thanks to being able to pick desired export size. Before all exports were generated in pretty huge resolution.
  • Fix: Fixed issues that could make app freeze when closing recorder widget
1.0.11
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Fix: incorrect cursor position on recordings bigger than 4k (such as big windows on large display)
1.0.10
Friday, November 4, 2022
  • Removed Recorder Window covering UI while recording
  • Automatically create zoom ranges on new recordings
  • Improved default settings for background color and spacing
  • Show recording picker UI when app is activated (eg. from dock or CMD + Tab)