Possible fix that avoids black screen cover at the beginning of the recording
2.17.5
1 month ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
Fixes
Reworked “app close prevention” when having unsaved changes to properly handle all edge cases
2.17.4
1 month ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
Fixes
Possible fix for issue that did lead to empty and broken exported mp4 files
2.17.3
1 month ago — Friday, August 11, 2023
Features
Button allowing picking random wallpaper
2.17.2
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month ago — Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Fixes
General bug fixes and stability improvements
2.16.4
1 month ago — Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Fixes
Reworked recorder core library to avoid some bugs and improve recovering from issues
2.16.3
2 months ago — Thursday, August 3, 2023
Fixes
Avoid restarting webcam during the recording which might lead to desync
2.16.2
2 months ago — Saturday, July 29, 2023
Improvements
Greatly optimized loading huge Screen Studio projects
2.16.1
2 months ago — Monday, July 24, 2023
Improvements
Optimized preview and playback performance
Added options to reduce preview quality
2.16.0
2 months ago — Monday, July 24, 2023
Fixes
Ask for Microphone permission before picking the microphone
2.15.3
2 months ago — Thursday, July 13, 2023
iPhone and iPad recording
Features
iPhone and iPad recording
2.15.1
2 months ago — Thursday, July 13, 2023
System audio recording
Features
System audio recording
2.14.8
2 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
3 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
3 months ago — Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Features
Ability to mute microphone audio
2.12.5
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 months ago — Saturday, June 17, 2023
Fixes
Fixed usability bugs related to dragging and resizing elements on the timeline
2.10.9
3 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
3 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
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
4 months ago — Thursday, June 1, 2023
Features
It is now possible to set inset around the recorded screen
2.7.7
4 months ago — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Improvements
Added option to always use default system cursor and ignore other cursors
2.7.6
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 months ago — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Features
Mouse cursor can slightly rotate, when it is moving quickly
2.7.2
4 months ago — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Improvements
Greatly improved transcript editor UI and UX
2.7.0
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 months ago — Thursday, May 25, 2023
Precise recorded window resizing
Features
Being able to resize windows precisely before recording
2.6.0
4 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
4 months ago — Friday, May 19, 2023
Raycast integration, 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
4 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
4 months ago — Friday, May 5, 2023
Features
Being able to extend duration of the video over duration of the original recording
2.4.3
4 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
5 months ago — Friday, April 28, 2023
Fixes
Fixed “failed to open app” bug
2.4.1
5 months ago — Friday, April 28, 2023
Trim & 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
5 months ago — Friday, April 21, 2023
Improvements
New screen recording engine is set to be enabled on macOS version 12.3+
2.3.4
5 months ago — Thursday, April 20, 2023
Fixes
Fixed console dump bug.
2.3.0
5 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.
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
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — Monday, November 14, 2022
Show time remaining on exports
1.1.16
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — Saturday, November 12, 2022
Fixed export error on Intel Mac's aka "Unknown error -86"
1.1.14
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — Friday, November 4, 2022
Fix: avoid crashing the app on minor errors
1.1.1
10 months ago — Friday, November 4, 2022
Fix: start new projects with proper crop
1.1.0
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — 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
10 months ago — Friday, November 4, 2022
Fix: incorrect cursor position on recordings bigger than 4k (such as big windows on large display)
1.0.10
10 months ago — 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)