What's new?

• Added Finnish localization. • Updated the German, Hungarian, Russian, and Polish localizations.

Fixed:

♦ Replaced space with dash in filename used when exporting multiple images.
♦ Context menu from system tray icon now follows the current language.
♦ Improved key to text translations for the KeyPresses feature (thanks to @jfbueno).

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Known issues

What's new?

• New gif encoder: KGy SOFT (thanks to @koszeggy).
• New option to add a highlight around the cursor when not clicking (thanks to @zsee).
• You can now set a delay for the Manual and Interaction capture modes.
• Support for AV1 export with FFmpeg.
• Updated the Danish, Dutch, Spanish and Russian localizations.

Fixed:

♦ The arm64 variant was not launching successfully (it now uses .NET 7, preview 3). ♦ Trying to install FFmpeg along with the app was not possible (in a per machine install) because of some permission issues.
♦ The option "Don't adjust" for the "Reduce Frame Count" was not being respected when the removal factor was set to "1".
♦ The recorder was not displaying hours (when going over 59:59) in the timer element.

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What's new?

• New installer and portable versions with the full package (no .NET 6 download required) are available alongside with the lighter versions, which still require the installation of .NET 6 desktop runtime.
• New installer package (MSIX) available.
• Added an option to prompt to overwrite when saving (enabled by default).
• Updated the Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Norwegian, Russian, and Simplified Chinese localizations.

Fixed:

♦ The smooth loop feature was not working properly.
♦ A new message will be displayed if you already have a smooth loop based on current settings instead of a warning.
♦ It was not possible to set the app to start at Windows startup.
♦ A settings migration issue from 2.31 to newer versions was fixed.
♦ It was not possible to export as PSD.
♦ When not having permission to save the settings to the installation location, the app would not try to save to AppData.

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What's new?

• Warning: To upgrade from versions older than v2.34.1, you must download it manually. • Updated the French localization.

Fixed:

♦ It was not possible to load projects from the recent projects list.
♦ It was possible to import images with multiple sizes, which would end up crashing during encoding. ♦ The translation updater was not working for portable releases.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Warning: To upgrade from versions older than v2.34.1, you must download it manually. • Updated the Danish and Dutch localizations.

Fixed:

♦ The ARM64 architecture variant was not loading correctly.
♦ It was not possible to export the app as a project.
♦ The region CLI parameter was being ignored when not set to open a screen recorder.
♦ The installer now prompts to install .NET 6 when automatically upgrading and if necessary.

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What's new?

• If this installer fails to update from v2.34.1 or older, download and run it manually.
• Just bug fixes.

Fixed:

♦ When applying the smooth loop feature from the start, a warning message was appearing, but frames were being removed anyway.
♦ The install process was still failing if you had SharpDx set up before (error 2711).

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Known issues

What's new?

• If this installer fails to update from v2.34.1 or older, download and run it manually.
• Just a quick bug fix for the installer.

Fixed:

♦ The install process was failing if you had SharpDx set up (error 2711).

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Known issues

What's new?

• Migration to .NET 6 and project restructuring.
• Added support for Arm64 processor architecture.
• Smooth loop: Creates a smooth loop by analyzing frames, which is done by comparing to the first/starting one.

Fixed:

♦ Reduced the chance for a crash when stopping a recording (with DirectX). ♦ Discarding when in manual or interaction capture modes could cause a block scenario.

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Known issues

What's new?

• To be able to update to version 2.35 later this year, you'll need to update to this version. • Added Hebrew localization.

Fixed:

♦ Added support for the new distribution system for v2.35 and newer releases. It's important to download this version if you want to properly update to newer versions afterwards.
♦ Numerical fields will now only react to the scroll if they have focus.
♦ The window selection mode could crash because of a wrongly sized window.
♦ When in frame selection mode, the frame list was allowing the loop between start and end selection to happen.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Added option to manually check for updates (@MaledongGit).

Fixed:

♦ The frame navigation using keyboard arrows and home/end buttons was not working.
♦ If you loaded two editors with a project, the frame list of the first one was being overwritten.
♦ The keyboard navigation of the screen recorder (newer or older variants) was out of order (@pawlos).
♦ Some shortcut key were not working for the screen recorder actions (@pawlos).
♦ Disabled Gifski on x86, since it's unsupported (@MaledongGit).
♦ Added progress info when processing frames at start and made it possible to cancel during a task (@pawlos).
♦ The option to cancel a frame altering process was not appearing if the editor already loaded something before.
♦ The text displayed at startup when an update was available was not being updated when the application language had changed.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Just some bug fixes.

Fixed:

♦ The option to change the editor's background based on the system's theme was not working properly (it was behaving as if it was always enabled). ♦ When stopping a recording by using a keyboard shortcut, the confirmation dialog to delete the previous project was not getting focus (thanks to @pawlos). ♦ When minimizing the new recorder UI by left clicking the system's tray icon, the region selection was not minimizing along.
♦ The editor window was not appearing on the correct screen after closing and opening again (when maximized).

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Known issues

What's new?

• Added options to synchronize the output folder and filename among presets (enabled by default).

Fixed:

♦ Some texts were not localizable.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Just bug fixes.

Fixed:

♦ The recorder window could crash because of a sizing issue.
♦ It was not possible to properly move frames in the timeline.
♦ It was not possible to export the frames as Jpg.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Memory usage improvements with the frame list inside the editor (thanks for @mabakay for finding it out).
• You can now open the app and start recording by using command line arguments (read the wiki for more details). • Added option to set the background of the editor to follow the OS color theme (thanks to @pawlos). • Added option to resize the frames by using percentages.

Fixed:

♦ The selection adorner could appear in the recording if the region were previously left close to the right corner of the screen.
♦ The new recorder UI command panel was getting in the way of the capture when positioned to the left of the capture region.
♦ The insert window was reporting wrong sizing information about the images and canvas.
♦ The new recorder UI was width and height text boxes were not displaying the correct scaled size based on the screen DPI.
♦ When exporting and not selecting a file path, the filename of the temporary file was not using the extension (thanks to @pawlos).

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What's new?

• Added option for theme to follow the system's one (thanks to @pawlos).
• Distinct colors can be used for the three types of mouse clicks (thanks to @pawlos).

Fixed:

♦ The updater now waits for files being blocked by other processes before continuing.
♦ Imgur upload was not working properly unless sending in authenticated mode and selecting an album.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Bug fixes and localization updates.

Fixed:

♦ The installer could leave a registry for older installations on the same folder. ♦ The option to run after the update was not being respected.
♦ The focus was not being set to the file name text box when opening the export panel.
♦ The playback buttons were getting disabled after exporting (thanks to @pawlos).

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Known issues

What's new?

• Added presets for exporting Mp4 and Mov for Twitter.
• Improved performance in previewing animations (thanks to @mabakay).

Fixed:

♦ The multi-frame selection was getting lost after removing all previous/next frames (thanks to @pawlos).
♦ Cancelling the media insertion by pressing the cancel button was causing a crash (thanks to @pawlos).
♦ The button to open the file after encoding was not appearing.
♦ The Caption was not being rendered correctly.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Just bug fixes and localization updates.

Bug fixes:

♦ When exporting as images, the warning message about existing files would not appear.
♦ DirectX capture: When the cursor was idle, it was not appearing in the recording.
♦ When exporting multiple times (near the same moment) with the same preset, the first encoding was using the filename of the second one.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Performance improvements in capturing the screen.
• Added option to improve the performance of the region selection in the new recorder UI (enabled by default).
• Improved performance of the duplicate frame remover (thanks to @DarkOoze).

Bug fixes:

♦ Delete all previous/next frames: Now multiple frame selection is considered when deleting frames (thanks to @pawlos).
♦ DirectX capture: The cursor was not being correctly captured in non-primary monitors.
♦ DirectX capture: A crash message was not displaying its details when capturing in async mode.
♦ DirectX capture: Adjusted message when trying to capture in a screen rendered by another graphics adapter.
♦ DirectX capture: The legacy recorder was not able to capture using the option to just capture when something changes on screen.
♦ Screen/window selector: Reduced lag when displaying the screen/window selector for the new recorder UI.
♦ Remove duplicates: The last frame was not being compared, so it was not being removed when needed (thanks to @DarkOoze).
♦ Save as project too: Filename was getting ignored (saving as ".stg") and the export could fail depending on the configuration of the default preset.
♦ Export as images: Files were being overwritten without confirmation.
♦ Export as images: The notification of the encoder was not correctly displaying the encoding of multiple files.
♦ New recorder: The new sizing values input in the text boxes were not being saved when closing the window.
♦ Transparency: The transparency options and unchanged pixel detection were not working well together.
♦ Cache purge: Fixed the message not appearing correctly when closing the app.
♦ Yandex: Link to get token was not working.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Just bug fixes.

Bug fixes:

♦ Some settings related to an Imgur preset were not being loaded correctly.
♦ A property with an incorrect value was causing issues when saving the settings.
♦ The file name templating (replacing date formats with actual values) was not working.
♦ Some missing translation resources were added.

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What's new?

• Just bug fixes.

Bug fixes:

♦ Opening the editor window was causing a crash for some users.
♦ The loop settings for gifs and apngs was not being respected.
♦ The upload presets panels were not following the app theme.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Reworked and redesigned exporter and uploader.
• You can now create presets for each file type and encoder.
• You can also create presets for the upload services.
• It's now possible to upload media to your Gfycat profile.
• Added option to partially export a project (by selection, frame range, time range and expression).
• You can now export as Webp, Bmp, Jpg and Mov.
• Redesigned export options for FFmpeg (you can still manually type the parameters if you want to).
• Added option to ignore simulated keystrokes (thanks to @cuiliang).
• Added option to purge the cache when leaving the app (option to ask for it).
• New settings system: It should give you less issues when persisting to disk.
• The free text can now receive text decorations, shadow and it can be aligned (thanks to @mabakay).
• Added Greek localization.
• Updated the Italian, Korean, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Turkish and Japanese localizations.

Bug fixes:

♦ Pressing the record hotkey while the old recorder was minimized was causing a crash.
♦ The border auto-task was not working if the border was not set to grow outwards.
♦ Slow playback in editor previewer (thanks to @mabakay).
♦ Recorder: A crash was happening if the monitor scheme was changed while the recorder was minimized.
♦ DirectX recorder: Recording on a non-primary screen was resulting in a project with transparent frames.
♦ New recorder: Dragging to select a screen region near the borders close to another display was slow.
♦ Cinemagraph: This feature was not working as expected in high DPI environments.
♦ The option to save gifs with transparency was not working if you didn't also select the option to detect unchanged pixels.
♦ Some gifs from Gfycat where not being correctly loaded.
♦ When the frame capture was too slow, some key presses could be not recorded (thanks to @bbuerger).

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What's new?

• Updated the German, Dutch and Hungarian localizations.

Bug fixes:

♦ The FFmpeg video importer was ignoring a 270° rotation of videos. ♦ When trying to download SharpDX to a folder in which you have no write permissions, the app was crashing. Now it asks if you want to elevate the process.
♦ The troubleshooter was not able to reposition correctly the windows when the primary monitor had a scale different than x1.
♦ The recorders where not able to be moved sideways (via arrow keys) correctly when the primary monitor had a scale different than x1 and while having other monitors with different scales.
♦ The older recorder was not opening in the correct position after being closed when in a secondary monitor to the right, while the primary monitor had a scale different than x1. ♦ By using the scroll wheel in the width and height number boxes, while having a screen scale different than 1, it was not moving the cursor to the correct position.
♦ When switching from a smaller screen resolution to a bigger one, the screen selection was not updating and limiting itself to the new available size.
♦ The selection mode of the new recorder was not displaying correctly in the secondary monitor to the left of the main monitor, if it had different scale.
♦ It was possible to start updating the app while encodings were running. Now a warning appears explaining that there is an active encoding being processed.

More info:

Known issues

What's new?

• Just bug fixes.

Bug fixes:

♦ If you tried to open the app while not having .Net 4.8 installed, a crash was happening the before the message could appear explaining that .Net 4.8 was required.
♦ Gifski was shrinking the size of gifs bigger than 800x600.
♦ It was not possible to download FFmpeg.

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Known issues

What's new?

• Updated the Korean, Russian, Hungarian, French, Dutch, and Chinese (Simplified) translations.

Bug fixes:

♦ Using non-supported shortcut keys (Shift + [non-function key] or just [non-function key]) as the recorder shortcuts (record, pause, stop) was crashing the app.
♦ The 'interaction' capture frequency was not working with clicks on fullscreen mode.
♦ After opening and closing the options window while on fullscreen mode, the recorder was displaying the guidelines.
♦ The 'Pause' button on the taskbar preview was using the 'Stop' icon (also, two Stop buttons were being displayed).
♦ The window icons (minimize and close) were not being updated to match the selected theme (dark vs light).
♦ The updater window was clipping outside of the screen (when the text inside was too big).
♦ The screen recorders were not working on Windows 7.
♦ Some texts were not translatable.

More info:

Known issues

What's new?

• Redesigned the newer recorder UI (you can still use the compact mode if you wish).
• Added better support for multi-scale set of screens.
• The new recorder UI performs better, it's less laggy when selecting a screen region.
• You can now drag the screen region selection after selecting it or during recording with the new recorder UI.
• Displays the recording time (hover with the cursor on top to see the captured frame count) and shows a counter for manually captured frames.
• Added a capture mode to capture frames only when the user clicks and types (it ignores input while focused within the recorder itself).
• Added a capture mode option, to capture only when something changes within the capture region (it can be activated with PerSecond, PerMinute and PerHour modes).
• You can now display guidelines (customizable rule of thirds and/or crosshair) in the screen recorder.
• New obfuscation methods: Darken and lighten parts of your frames.
• You can set the obfuscation to be applied to the inverse of the selection, with or without smoothened edges.
• Replaced the old folder selector dialogs with a modern variant.
• When saving a project, the button near the folder path now lets you select a folder by default. To select a folder and filename, press Shift while clicking on that button.
• Improved mouse input capture system.
• Added an optional (but default) confirmation dialog when discarding a recording.
• Added the option to display the discard button during the recording (not just when the capture is paused).
• Added scaling quality options for the resize feature.
• Added the option to download updates as a Zip to replace the executable manually (for those users who can't execute installers).
• The screen recorder now displays the recording status over the taskbar icon.
• Added the option to opt-out from the recorder remembering the previous recording region (size and/or position).
• Updated Gifski to version 1.2.0 (if using portable version, erase the old DLL and download it again to update). • Updated the Hungarian, Ukrainian and Italian translations.

Bug fixes:

♦ The update could fail if the update window was opened before the download of the update finished.
♦ The recorder (newer UI) was not detecting some windows (those without the system title bar).
♦ When capturing with the DirectX, the capture was crashing if the recording area was outside of the screen.
♦ When selecting a small screen region with the newer recorder, near the side edges, the capture controls would be displayed outside of the screen.
♦ The newer recorder was crashing in selection mode when the selection was occupying the more than 90% of vertical space, while tucked to the right side of the screen.
♦ When exporting a file with a name with emojis and selecting to copy the filename after encoding, the emojis were not being copied correctly.
♦ The cinemagraph feature was not working correctly when the frame image had a different DPI than the screen.
♦ When capturing using the older recorder and moving the window could result in a long pause (while the window was still being moved) in the recording.
♦ Added missing f, z, g, t, and K date and time formats to the automatic file naming feature.
♦ When the "Single instance only" mode was enabled, dragging and dropping a media file into the executable or into the shortcut of ScreenToGif would show the app window but it would not load the file.
♦ When applying a feature multiple times, the image quality would start to degrade (the image would become blurry).
♦ The troubleshooter is now correctly displaying the position of the windows in multi-DPI systems (also it can now detect screen settings changes while opened).
♦ Removed the indefinite taskbar button animation when importing media.

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What's new?

• Updated the Dutch, French, Russian, and Chinese (Simplified) translations.

Bug fixes:

♦ The BitBlt capture mode with Memory Cache was resulting in some black frames.
♦ Clicking on a link of an encoding (when setting to upload the file) was causing a crash.
♦ The error and exception details windows were not adjusting to the correct theme.

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What's new?

• Time-lapse recording!
• The built-in encoders got re-designed from scratch! • Now you can select the color quantization method (Neural, Octree, MedianCut, Grayscale, and MostUsed) and understand the differences.
• You can select the the amount of colors used for the Neural, Octree, MedianCut, Grayscale, and MostUsed quantization methods.
• Added support for transparency in the built-in encoder (works with all quantization methods).
• You can now switch between capture frequency modes from the recorder window (when paused or stopped, and even change the framerate).
• The encodings are now displayed in a popup attached to the editor (but you can still use the older alternative, a separated window).
• You can now see the total elapsed time of the encoding process.
• The 'Quality' slider of the Neural quantization method is now called 'Sampling', and it's properly explained what it means.
• Updated the Hungarian, Dutch, and Russian localizations.

Bug fixes:

♦ The built-in encoders were giving green artifacts when the color used as chroma key was present in the frame.
♦ When opening the recorders while on snapshot mode and pressing the stop button, the app would crash (thanks to Naoki for finding that).
♦ The eye dropper of the color selector window was changing size when the drag started.
♦ It was impossible to capture the screen in manual mode with the DirectX capture method.
♦ The context menu items (undo, redo, and delete) were not being enabled (thanks to László for the help).

More info:

Known issues

What's new?

• You can disable tasks without having to remove them.
• Added the option to upload APNGs too.
• Added a new parameter to the post encoding commands (URL).
• Updated the Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Dutch and Russian localizations.
• The options window will adjust its width to its contents when opening.

Bug fixes:

♦ The screen capture (BitBlt + cursor) over a remote desktop connection was not working properly (thanks to Luis for the help).
♦ The editor window chrome (title bar) was not getting extended when needed.
♦ The app could crash before warning of the missing .Net 4.8 when having .Net 4.6.2 or older versions.
♦ If the project was too big (too many frames or frames too big), the PSD exporter could fail (thanks to Jakob for the help).
♦ Several texts where not translatable (thanks to László for the help).
♦ Copy and pasting a frame, then doing it again multiple times, could exceed the filename limit (thanks to Riku for the help). ♦ The 'duplicated filename' warning was not getting hidden when unticking the option to save the file to a selected folder.

More info:

Known issues

What's new?

• Updated the Spanish localization.
• Added the Swahili localization.

Bug fixes:

♦ Replaced the download link of FFmpeg to download v4.2.2. If you are still unable to export using FFmpeg, download it again.

More info:

Known issues