Screen Studio Changelog

2.25.26-beta

5 days ago — Wednesday, September 11, 2024
    Fixes
    • Ensure finalized encoder doesn’t receive frames
    Improvements
    • Loader popup when creating project from video
    • Advanced option to reduce export memory usage
    • Reduce the minimum possible time for zoom from 1 second to 0.1 second

2.25.25

1 week ago — Monday, September 9, 2024
    Features
    • Circle click effect
    Fixes
    • Do not crash editor if there are no cursors
    • Fixed issue with conflicting 1/2/3 shortcuts when editing zoom/layout
    Improvements
    • Slightly weaker ripple effect

2.25.24-beta

1 week ago — Monday, September 9, 2024
    Features
    • Circle click effect
    Fixes
    • Do not crash editor if there are no cursors
    • Fixed issue with conflicting 1/2/3 shortcuts when editing zoom/layout
    Improvements
    • Slightly weaker ripple effect

2.25.23

1 week ago — Thursday, September 5, 2024
    Fixes
    • Properly calculate rounded corners radius for webcam in non square shape

2.25.20

1 week ago — Thursday, September 5, 2024
    Fixes
    • Recorded area modal is always visible on external display
    • Removed unnecessary tooltip on export to file button

2.25.19

1 week ago — Wednesday, September 4, 2024
    Fixes
    • Exporter doesn’t skip last video keyframe in exported video

2.25.18

1 week ago — Wednesday, September 4, 2024
    Features
    • Increased export speed by approximately 25%
    • For the first time user has empty timeline - show tip saying to click or drag
    • Crop editor and area picker now show grid indicating 25%, 50%, 75% lines
    • Allowed setting custom aspect ratio for webcam
    • Ability to create Screen Studio project from any .mp4 video
    • Copy current frame to clipboard
    • Ability to select multiple items with CMD + Click
    • Copy/paste support for zooms/slices
    • Select multiple zoom ranges and perform batch actions
    Fixes
    • When removing zoom - close sidebar editor if it if was open
    • While split tool is active - clicking on timeline will not move playhead
    • When dragging or resizing item - it will not keep moving playhead
    • When picking area - form with inputs try to avoid center of the area to make it easier to pick area with something perfectly on the center
    • Preview video waits for all videos to load before being shown
    • Allow clicking small items to edit them or right click them
    • When zooming - keep preview head visible and centered if possible first
    • Export properly creates project editor needed for stage
    • Avoid wrong aspect ratio being displayed on manual zoom picker
    • Do not break preview playback for videos with long static frames
    • Avoid negative height of timeline when there are no tracks
    • Avoid running auto number spring simulation twice
    • In loop mode, ensure video is playing when going to start of the playback
    • Ensure sidebar panel is always closed if item is removed
    • Playbacks enters idle mode after 30s of inactivity instead of 1s
    • Choosing area by picker on different display
    • Show recording controls after using shortcut while recording
    • If hide dock icon is enabled - still show dock icon if recording picker or some project is open
    Improvements
    • Working lazy-loaded waveform on huge projects
    • Slight improvements in performance for tooltips
    • Improved timeline performance
    • Timeline zoom now changes with animation
    • Split tool is now activated by holding option, not toggled with S
    • When removing slices, undoing, redoing - it will adjust playhead to show exact same moment of the source video
    • Added concept of onboarding flags
    • C is now used to cut clip at current time instead of opening crop tools
    • X now performs ripple delete - it deletes clip before the playhead till previous cut
    • Waveform will only fade-in when loaded or when zoom changed, not when cutting
    • When splitting - items wiggle independently to show wave-like effect
    • Slight improvements to split tool razor line
    • Improved the way we detect if we should hide resize handles to avoid attaching it to big and heavy updates
    • Time marks on timeline are fading in when zoom changes
    • Manual zoom picker shows % of values currently being picked, it also snaps to 50% from +- 1%
    • Increased max timeline zoom
    • Added option to change preview size
    • Make playback controls more nicely shrink on narrow window size
    • Change order of options in zoom editor
    • Always keep at least one track active
    • Keep zoom track active if there are no zooms
    • Delay animating timeline height until timeline is ready
    • Added descriptions to SegmentedPicker
    • Edited items wiggle on the timeline
    • Changed icon of background type picker
    • Show toasts after zoom apply to all changes
    • Show checkmark in slices context menus for volume and speed
    • Pressing escape with custom sidebar panel opened will close it, and if pressed again will go back to background settings
    • Moved zoom level to top of zoom editor
    • When opening different sidebar panel - always scroll it to top
    • Moved hide mouse cursor / camera option from the top of sidebar panel
    • Small webcam always has the same distance to the edge, does not depend on project padding
    • Showing the user an export error message, if any
    • Simplified implementation of export animation textures

2.25.17-beta

1 week ago — Tuesday, September 3, 2024
    Features
    • Increased export speed by approximately 25%
    Improvements
    • Showing the user an export error message, if any
    • Simplified implementation of export animation textures

2.25.16-beta

2 weeks ago — Monday, September 2, 2024
    Features
    • Ability to create Screen Studio project from any .mp4 video
    • Copy current frame to clipboard
    • Ability to select multiple items with CMD + Click
    • Copy/paste support for zooms/layouts/slices
    • Select multiple layouts/zoom ranges and perform batch actions
    Fixes
    • Playbacks enters idle mode after 30s of inactivity instead of 1s
    • Choosing area by picker on different display
    • Show recording controls after using shortcut while recording
    • If hide dock icon is enabled - still show dock icon if recording picker or some project is open
    • Change export label from 2160p to 4k in command menu
    Improvements
    • Moved zoom level to top of zoom editor
    • When opening different sidebar panel - always scroll it to top
    • Moved hide mouse cursor / camera option from the top of sidebar panel
    • Small webcam always has the same distance to the edge, does not depend on project padding
    • Show Export as the first option in the command menu after typing export
    • Custom layouts now have optional option to have custom camera size - if not toggled - default project one will be used

2.25.14-beta

2 weeks ago — Thursday, August 29, 2024
    Features
    • New sidebar panel only for camera layouts
    • Dynamic camera layouts are now editable from root camera layouts panel
    • Allowed setting custom aspect ratio for webcam
    • Export actions in command menu
    Fixes
    • Export properly creates project editor needed for stage
    • Avoid wrong aspect ratio being displayed on manual zoom picker
    • Do not break preview playback for videos with long static frames
    • Avoid negative height of timeline when there are no tracks
    • Avoid running auto number spring simulation twice
    • In loop mode, ensure video is playing when going to start of the playback
    • Ensure sidebar panel is always closed if item is removed
    Improvements
    • Added option to change preview size
    • Make playback controls more nicely shrink on narrow window size
    • Change order of options in zoom editor
    • Always keep at least one track active
    • Keep zoom track active if there are no zooms
    • Delay animating timeline height until timeline is ready
    • Added descriptions to SegmentedPicker
    • Edited items wiggle on the timeline
    • More options in context menus for layouts
    • When creating layout - move playback to middle of it
    • Changed icon of background type picker
    • Show toasts after zoom apply to all changes
    • Show checkmark in slices context menus for volume and speed
    • Pressing escape with custom sidebar panel opened will close it, and if pressed again will go back to background settings

2.25.12-beta

2 weeks ago — Tuesday, August 27, 2024
    Features
    • For the first time user has empty timeline - show tip saying to click or drag
    • Crop editor and area picker now show grid indicating 25%, 50%, 75% lines
    Fixes
    • When removing zoom/layout - close sidebar editor if it if was open
    • While split tool is active - clicking on timeline will not move playhead
    • When dragging or resizing item - it will not keep moving playhead
    • When picking area - form with inputs try to avoid center of the area to make it easier to pick area with something perfectly on the center
    • Preview video waits for all videos to load before being shown
    • Allow clicking small items to edit them or right click them
    • When zooming - keep preview head visible and centered if possible first
    Improvements
    • Split tool is now activated by holding option, not toggled with S
    • When removing slices, undoing, redoing - it will adjust playhead to show exact same moment of the source video
    • Added concept of onboarding flags
    • C is now used to cut clip at current time instead of opening crop tools
    • X now performs ripple delete - it deletes clip before the playhead till previous cut
    • Waveform will only fade-in when loaded or when zoom changed, not when cutting
    • When splitting - items wiggle independently to show wave-like effect
    • Slight improvements to split tool razor line
    • Improved the way we detect if we should hide resize handles to avoid attaching it to big and heavy updates
    • Time marks on timeline are fading in when zoom changes
    • Manual zoom picker shows % of values currently being picked, it also snaps to 50% from +- 1%
    • Increased max timeline zoom

2.25.11-beta

3 weeks ago — Friday, August 23, 2024
    Improvements
    • Working lazy-loaded waveform on huge projects
    • Slight improvements in performance for tooltips
    • Improved timeline performance
    • Timeline zoom now changes with animation

2.25.10

3 weeks ago — Thursday, August 22, 2024
    Features
    • Automatically save projects
    • Possibility to save the dimensions of the recording area and use the aspect ratio
    Fixes
    • Fixed issue with incorrect zoom preview size in manual mode after cropping
    • Fixed incorrect shadow size below recording when using the crop tool and when the radius was set to 0
    • Fixed incorrect proportions of custom background image
    • Fixed an issue with exporting recording from ultra-wide displays in 4K resolution and auto aspect ratio
    • Waveform does not disappear when you resize/trim the clip
    • The waveform appears correctly on cut sections of the recording
    • Fixed flashes top menu bar when moving through the timelines in the editor
    • Fixed manual zoom preview
    • Adding zoom before mouse movement now works correctly
    • Do not allow duplicate zooms if there is not enough space before the next zoom
    • Fixed a timeline bug when trying to manage the length of two pieces of recording if one is close to the beginning edge
    • Fixed issue with freezing project editor
    • Correct iPhone 14 device mockups colors
    • Camera window change size during zoom in the vertical aspect ratio
    • Adjust the standard camera position correctly for the entire recording
    • Fixed timeline glitch wit dragging one slice over another one
    • Last zoom/camera layout on timeline now has the correct styles
    • Fixed incorrect colors on iPhone 13 mockups
    Improvements
    • New system for saving window positions
    • Disabled auto gain control that was changing the input volume
    • Better +/- timeline zooming
    • Better webcam antialiasing
    • Reduced minimum clip time to 100ms
    • Increased minimum zoom duration to 1s
    • Timeline improvements
    • Skip transcript parts that are cut off
    • Unified style for segmented pickers
    • Default option to apply previous project settings to new recordings
    • Properly hide resize controls for non-slice tracks
    • Added scrollbar to sidebar
    • Improved always-visible scrollbar functionality on the timeline
    • Enabled scrolling during playback in a way that makes head invisible
    • CMD key + mouse wheel now zooms the timeline
    • Option to disable auto gain control
    • Stop playback when you open crop tool 
    • iPhone 12 device mockups

2.25.9-beta

3 weeks ago — Wednesday, August 21, 2024
    Fixes
    • Last zoom/camera layout on timeline now has the correct styles
    • Fixed incorrect colors on iPhone 13 mockups
    Improvements
    • iPhone 12 device mockups

2.25.8-beta

3 weeks ago — Tuesday, August 20, 2024
    Fixes
    • Camera window change size during zoom in the vertical aspect ratio
    • Adjust the standard camera position correctly for the entire recording
    • Fixed timeline glitch wit dragging one slice over another one
    Improvements
    • Option to disable auto gain control
    • Stop playback when you open crop tool

     

2.25.7-beta

4 weeks ago — Monday, August 19, 2024
    Features
    • Automatically save projects
    • Possibility to save the dimensions of the recording area and use the aspect ratio
    Fixes
    • Waveform does not disappear when you resize/trim the clip
    • The waveform appears correctly on cut sections of the recording
    • Fixed flashes top menu bar when moving through the timelines in the editor
    • Fixed manual zoom preview
    • Adding zoom before mouse movement now works correctly
    • Do not allow duplicate zooms if there is not enough space before the next zoom
    • Fixed a timeline bug when trying to manage the length of two pieces of recording if one is close to the beginning edge
    • Fixed issue with freezing project editor
    • Correct iPhone 14 device mockups colors
    Improvements
    • New system for saving window positions
    • Disabled auto gain control that was changing the input volume
    • Better +/- timeline zooming
    • Better webcam antialiasing
    • Reduced minimum clip time to 100ms
    • Increased minimum zoom duration to 1s
    • Timeline improvements
    • Skip transcript parts that are cut off
    • Unified style for segmented pickers
    • Default option to apply previous project settings to new recordings
    • Properly hide resize controls for non-slice tracks
    • Added scrollbar to sidebar
    • Improved always-visible scrollbar functionality on the timeline
    • Enabled scrolling during playback in a way that makes head invisible
    • CMD key + mouse wheel now zooms the timeline

2.25.6-beta

1 month ago — Thursday, August 8, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed issue with incorrect zoom preview size in manual mode after cropping
    • Fixed incorrect shadow size below recording when using the crop tool and when the radius was set to 0
    • Fixed incorrect proportions of custom background image
    • Fixed an issue with exporting recording from ultra-wide displays in 4K resolution and auto aspect ratio

2.25.5

1 month ago — Tuesday, August 6, 2024
    Fixes
    • Cmd + Shift + S shortcut for Save as action has been restored
    • Fixed an issue with missing camera resize and position options
    Improvements
    • Setting the default wallpaper if the app cannot access the custom background image

2.25.4-beta

1 month ago — Monday, August 5, 2024
    Fixes
    • Cmd + Shift + S shortcut for Save as action has been restored
    • The "Edit Layouts" button now works properly and allows you to toggle camera layouts timeline track
    Improvements
    • Setting the default wallpaper if the app cannot access the custom background image

2.25.3-beta

1 month ago — Friday, August 2, 2024
    Fixes
    • App windows are fully visible and not-cutted in the middle of display edge after e.g. opening new project.

2.25.2

1 month ago — Thursday, August 1, 2024
New exporting engine with up to 4 times faster exports
    Features
    • macOS Sequoia wallpapers
    • Ripple click effect + UI to enable/disable it
    • Handling rotating recorded device such as iPhone or iPad while recording
    • Added all iPhone 15 models bezels
    Fixes
    • Displaying only valid mockup for iPhones/iPads devices
    • Correctly playing audio and video when Loop mode is enabled
    • Fixed window resizing issue when there are multiple windows from the same parent
    • Fixed an issue with the scroll bar appearing when the selected window is outside the viewport
    • Speaker notes feature is disabled when Screen Capture Kit is turned off (cannot be used in this case)
    • Avoid initializing playback synchronization twice in preview mode that could lead to flickers or app crashing
    • Fixed shadow under large recorded displays
    • Fixed flickering sidebar when editing manual zoom
    Improvements
    • Fundamental changes to the exporting engine for faster export times
    • Rewritten animations engine core for better performance and export speeds
    • Better memory management during preview and export
    • Improved performance thanks to avoiding rendering invisible elements
    • Option to disable mockup for iPhones/iPads devices
    • Smoother animations; you can now cut recording in the middle of zoom and mouse position or zoom animation will be correctly blended
    • Delete option on close modal is only available if the new recording does not contain any changes
    • Improved way to manually set values in the crop editor
    • Information about the maximum dimensions when determining the recording area
    • The exported microphone stream is converted to mono audio
    • The font should display correctly regardless of user local configuration
    • When pressing arrows while playing - move by 0.5s or by 1s if pressing Shift key
    • New motion blur engine for more accurate results and better performance
    • Faster app boot time thanks to delaying loading multiple modules until they are needed
    • Added shortcut to start/stop prompter in speaker notes
    • Add option to disable creating automatic zooms
    • Smoother rounded window corners
    • Possibility to use the project editor when exporting from another window is in progress
    • Cursors preview in sidebar on hover

2.25.1-beta

1 month ago — Tuesday, July 23, 2024
    Features
    • Commands menu (CMD+K) with all available actions for current context
    • Added all iPhone 15 models bezels
    Fixes
    • Fixed exporting recording as GIF
    Improvements
    • Possibility to use the project editor when exporting from another window is in progress
    • Cursors preview in sidebar on hover
    • Smoother animations; you can now cut recording in the middle of zoom

2.24.6-beta

2 months ago — Thursday, July 11, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed project window position after disconnecting external display
    • Fixed shadow under large recorded displays
    • Fixed flickering side menu when manual zoom preview is visible
    • Fixed mirror camera mode issue
    • Fixed debug export option
    Improvements
    • Added shortcut to start/stop prompter in speaker notes
    • Add option to disable creating automatic zooms
    • Smoother rounded window corners

2.24.1-beta

2 months ago — Thursday, July 4, 2024
    Features
    • Ripple click effect + UI to enable/disable it
    • Handling rotating recorded device such as iPhone or iPad while recording
    Fixes
    • Avoid initializing playback synchronization twice in preview mode that could lead to flickers or app crashing
    • Captions and Shortcut labels background is now correctly positioned
    • Correctly playing audio and video when Loop mode is enabled
    Improvements
    • When pressing arrows while playing - move by 0.5s or by 1s if pressing Shift key
    • Rewritten animations engine core for better performance and export speeds
    • New motion blur engine for more accurate results and better performance
    • Fundamental changes to the exporting engine for faster export times
    • Better memory management during preview and export
    • Faster app boot time thanks to delaying loading multiple modules until they are needed
    • Improved performance thanks to avoiding rendering invisible elements

2.24.0-beta

2 months ago — Thursday, June 20, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed an app crash when deleting a manually created zoom
    • Fixed background wallpaper not visible issue when using default presets with Raycast wallpapers
    Improvements
    • Improved way to manually set values in the crop editor
    • Information about the maximum dimensions when determining the recording area
    • The volume level in the preview should match the export result
    • The exported microphone stream is converted to mono audio
    • The font should display correctly regardless of user local configuration

2.23.0-beta

3 months ago — Wednesday, June 12, 2024
    Features
    • macOS Sequoia wallpapers
    Fixes
    • Fixed window resizing issue when there are multiple windows from the same parent
    • Displaying only valid mockup for iPhones/iPads devices
    • Fixed an issue with the scroll bar appearing when the selected window is outside the viewport
    • Speaker notes feature is disabled when Screen Capture Kit is turned off (cannot be used in this case)
    Improvements
    • Option to disable mockup for iPhones/iPads devices
    • Delete option on close modal is only available if the new recording does not contain any changes

2.22.19

2 months ago — Thursday, June 27, 2024
    Improvements
    • Added new wallpapers from Raycast

2.22.19-beta

3 months ago — Monday, June 10, 2024
    Features
    • macOS Sequoia wallpapers
    Improvements
    • Added new wallpapers from Raycast

2.22.16

3 months ago — Friday, May 31, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed incorrectly stretched microphone audio
    • Fixed incorrectly recorded webcams, before resolution was sometimes incorrectly changed
    Improvements
    • Reduced the amount of logs in the console during cursor changes by implementing texture caching.

2.22.15-beta

3 months ago — Monday, May 27, 2024
    Improvements
    • Reduced the amount of logs in the console during cursor changes by implementing texture caching.

2.22.14

3 months ago — Monday, May 27, 2024
    Features
    • Experimental: Ability to enable multi-threaded export mode, which might increase exports speed by 20-40%, but might result in broken video file in some rare cases and hardware setups
    Fixes
    • Fixed broken crash reports integration
    • Fixed issue with FN shortcuts not displaying correctly when combined with arrows and other navigation keys
    Improvements
    • Slight improvements to exports speed
    • Warn user if trying to record with camera selected, but no microphone selected
    • Allow selecting camera without microphone
    • Changed space symbol in shortcuts to ‘’Space’’ word
    • Correct order of Ctrl key in shortcuts
    • Complex shortcuts with arrows keys are displayed without FN key
    • F1-F12 keys are displayed without FN key

2.22.13-beta

3 months ago — Monday, May 20, 2024
    Improvements
    • Correct order of Ctrl key in shortcuts
    • Complex shortcuts with arrows keys are displayed without FN key
    • F1-F12 keys are displayed without FN key

2.22.12-beta

4 months ago — Thursday, May 16, 2024
    Features
    • Experimental: Ability to enable multi-threaded export mode, which might increase exports speed by 20-40%, but might result in broken video file in some rare cases and hardware setups
    Fixes
    • Fixed broken crash reports integration
    • Fixed issue with FN shortcuts not displaying correctly when combined with arrows and other navigation keys
    Improvements
    • Slight improvements to exports speed
    • Warn user if trying to record with camera selected, but no microphone selected
    • Allow selecting camera without microphone
    • Changed space symbol in shortcuts to ‘’Space’’ word

2.22.10-beta

4 months ago — Friday, April 26, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed an issue with running the app on devices with Intel processors

2.22.9

4 months ago — Saturday, April 20, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed incorrectly recorded webcams, sometimes the webcam resolution was incorrectly changed when starting to make the resulting video letterboxed.
    • Fixed issue with connection error while activating license key. It was occurring for cases when connecting to the internet through a proxy, VPN or custom network configuration. Go to Settings → Advanced and toggle the switch to the on position if you're having trouble activating your license.
    • Fixed issue that caused Screen Studio to crash on devices with Intel processors.
    • Fixed issue with a crop shortcut that was triggered while renaming a file.

2.22.5-beta

5 months ago — Thursday, April 4, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed incorrectly stretched microphone audio
    • Fixed incorrectly recorded webcams, sometimes the webcam resolution was incorrectly changed when starting to make the resulting video letterboxed.

2.22.4-beta

5 months ago — Thursday, April 4, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed issue with connection error while activating license key. It was occurring for cases when connecting to the internet through a proxy, VPN or custom network configuration. Go to Settings → Advanced and toggle the switch to the on position if you're having trouble activating your license.

2.22.3

5 months ago — Saturday, March 23, 2024
    Fixes
    • Fixed the issue causing problems with authenticating the license key.

2.22.0

5 months 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

6 months 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

6 months 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

6 months 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

6 months 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

7 months 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

7 months 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

10 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

11 months ago — Wednesday, October 4, 2023
    Improvements
    • Updated the version of the core of Screen Studio recorder.

2.17.6

Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Possible fix that avoids black screen cover at the beginning of the recording.

2.17.5

Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Reworked “app close prevention” when having unsaved changes to properly handle all edge cases.

2.17.4

Friday, August 11, 2023
    Fixes
    • Possible fix for issue that did lead to empty and broken exported mp4 files.

2.17.3

Friday, August 11, 2023
    Features
    • Button allowing picking random wallpaper.

2.17.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, August 8, 2023
    Fixes
    • General bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.16.4

Tuesday, August 8, 2023
    Fixes
    • Reworked recorder core library to avoid some bugs and improve recovering from issues.

2.16.3

Thursday, August 3, 2023
    Fixes
    • Avoid restarting webcam during the recording which might lead to desync.

2.16.2

Saturday, July 29, 2023
    Improvements
    • Greatly optimized loading huge Screen Studio projects.

2.16.1

Monday, July 24, 2023
    Improvements
    • Optimized preview and playback performance.
    • Added options to reduce preview quality.

2.16.0

Monday, July 24, 2023
    Fixes
    • Ask for Microphone permission before picking the microphone.

2.15.3

Thursday, July 13, 2023
iPhone and iPad Recording
    Features
    • iPhone and iPad recording.

2.15.1

Thursday, July 13, 2023
System Audio Recording
    Features
    • System audio recording.

2.14.8

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

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

Tuesday, June 27, 2023
    Features
    • Ability to mute microphone audio.

2.12.5

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, June 17, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed usability bugs related to dragging and resizing elements on the timeline.

2.10.9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, June 1, 2023
    Features
    • It is now possible to set inset around the recorded screen.

2.7.7

Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Improvements
    • Added option to always use default system cursor and ignore other cursors.

2.7.6

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

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

Wednesday, May 31, 2023
    Fixes
    • Fixed GIF export issues where result files had a lot of visual (usually yellow) artifacts.

2.7.3

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
    Features
    • Mouse cursor can slightly rotate, when it is moving quickly.

2.7.2

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
    Improvements
    • Greatly improved transcript editor UI and UX.

2.7.0

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Show Shortcuts in the Video
    Features
    • Added the option to show pressed shortcuts in the video.

2.6.4

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

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

Thursday, May 25, 2023
Precise Recorded Window Resizing
    Features
    • Being able to resize windows precisely before recording.

2.6.0

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

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

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

Friday, May 5, 2023
    Features
    • Being able to extend duration of the video over duration of the original recording.

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)