• Possible fix that avoids black screen cover at the beginning of the recording

• Reworked “app close prevention” when having unsaved changes to properly handle all edge cases

• Possible fix for issue that did lead to empty and broken exported mp4 files

• Button allowing picking random wallpaper

• 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

• Potential fix that could solve some issue with black screen appearing in the beginning of the recording

• 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

• Avoid trying to compile a few more frames after exporting is cancelled

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• General bug fixes and stability improvements

• Reworked recorder core library to avoid some bugs and improve recovering from issues

• Avoid restarting webcam during the recording which might lead to desync

• Greatly optimized loading huge Screen Studio projects

• Optimized preview and playback performance
• Added options to reduce preview quality

• Ask for Microphone permission before picking the microphone

• iPhone and iPad recording

• System audio recording

• 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

• 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

• Ability to mute microphone audio

• 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

• 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

• New .screenstudiopreset file format for saving presets with images and sharing them with other people

• If first zoom range starts at the first frame of the project - start video already being zoomed in instead of animating first zoom in

• Ability to hide sidebar or timeline
• Disabling zoom ranges without removing them

• Being able to disable sidebar navigation labels tips
• Better debugging crash diagnostics for failed recordings

• New sidebar navigation UI
• New, high quality color pallete GIF export mode

• Avoid overclipping audio in preview mode

• Fixed usability bugs related to dragging and resizing elements on the timeline

• App windows not showing properly on some macOS versions

• Improved flow of dragging zoom ranges and video clips

• “Start recording” button is moved next to picked window, display or area

• 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

• 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

• View option to always show timeline scrollbar
• It is possible to easily remove project after it was exported

• Properly set initial project padding and background basing on recording type

• Renaming project from topbar now renames the recording file

• It is possible to manually select transcript language

• Fixed bug that was showing next video frame too early when exporting

• macOS Sonoma wallpapers
• iPadOS 17 wallpapers
• Experimental: it is possible to unlock recording iOS/iPadOS recording under experimental feature flag

• Big improvements around export speeds

• 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

• If recording in Display mode and there is only one display - select it automatically

• It is now possible to set inset around the recorded screen

• Added option to always use default system cursor and ignore other cursors

• 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.

• 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

• Fixed GIF export issues where result files had a lot of visual (usually yellow) artifacts

• Mouse cursor can slightly rotate, when it is moving quickly

• Greatly improved transcript editor UI and UX

• Added the option to show pressed shortcuts in the video

• 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)

• It is now possible to select fullscreen apps for recording

• Will not freeze recording countdown if trying to record fullscreen app

• Being able to resize windows precisely before recording

• Being able to export files to clipboard

• Avoid bug that was rendering empty last frame or was getting stuck while exporting last frame

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Being able to extend duration of the video over duration of the original recording

• It is now possible to slice zoom ranges

• Stabilized user experience around basic editing tools

• Fixed “failed to open app” bug

• Basic editing tools
• Option to increase the speed of video.
• The capability to easily slice and separate specific portions of your video footage.

• New screen recording engine is set to be enabled on macOS version 12.3+

Fixed console dump bug.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.