Changelog
Shipped, fixed, and improved
Every 1ShowcaseTool release, straight from the release notes that ship with the product.
SHIPPED · v1.13.1
The Shot Editor, Refinished
New
- The studio's look on the shot editor — glass panels, pill and circle controls, and a layout where nothing scrolls at a normal window size
- Tools float over the picture — one pill holds Select, Crop, Add image, the shapes, Arrow, Text, Counter, Pencil, Highlighter, Spotlight and Secure pixelate, plus colour and stroke
- A tool's own options — crop shape, arrow head, text size — appear as a second pill only while that tool is active
Improved
- Overlapping notes and masks stack on their own sub-rows — two marks that collide on the lane now each get a row instead of one hiding the other, and both stay clickable
- The shortcuts list covers the new verbs — ⌘C / ⌘V, ⌥⌘V, ⌘D and ⌥-drag are listed under ?
Fixed
- Fixed drawn marks vanishing when a screenshot saved — arrows, text and other elements placed on a shot could be dropped as the project wrote itself; the editor now keeps one copy of the project for the canvas and the panels alike
- Fixed a stray red bar sweeping over the blurred background thumbnails — an animated style meant for the app's tour was leaking into the screenshot editor
SHIPPED · v1.13.0
Hold the Pose
New
- One-click camera angles — Common angles in the pose panel holds Front, ¾ Left, ¾ Right, Side L, Side R, Back and Top; one tap poses the key at the playhead (between keys it adds one there), and the angle the pose is already on stays lit
- Duplicate a key to hold a pose — ⌘D or Duplicate beside Keyframe copies the selected key to halfway down the gap to the next one, so the camera holds its pose and then keeps moving
- Step between keys — Previous key and Next key sit beside Play, or press ↑ and ↓
Improved
- Sharper face bubbles — the camera is cropped to the bubble before it is scaled down, so hair and fine lines stop shimmering in the preview and in the exported file
- The export sheet always names where the file lands — with no destination picked, the footer shows a file in Downloads (name-2, name-3 if the name is taken) and Export writes straight to it without asking again
- A progress bar on the app's icon — exporting a guide as a video shows its progress under the Dock icon on macOS or on the taskbar button on Windows, so you can work in another app while it renders
Fixed
- Fixed frames freezing or the face camera jumping in an exported video — the export decodes the screen and camera on its own private copies, so a preview that keeps playing can no longer disturb the frames going into the file
- Fixed a frame the recording couldn't reach being written anyway — the export now stops with “The recording did not finish seeking while rendering — the export was stopped.” instead of freezing the last good frame into the file
SHIPPED · v1.12.0
A Calmer Video Editor
New
- Edit, Review and Guide modes replace the row of equal-weight buttons at the top of the editor — Review is where you draw and check masks, with a Not reviewed banner over the picture that says why, Watch from start to play the take through, and Mark as reviewed in the Masks panel next to the masks it covers; Guide opens the step maker on the step nearest the playhead, with the step count on the tab; a pill beside Export reads Reviewed or Needs review
- Nine panels instead of fourteen — Look, Device, Camera, Pointer, Text, Audio, Notes, Assist and Masks, with related settings as tabs inside: Camera holds Zooms, Director and B-roll, Text holds Captions and Keys, Audio holds Sound and Music. Silence, filler and idle suggestions moved to Assist. Select a clip and its card leads Look, Device and Pointer with its range, its speed, delete, and Merge when several clips are selected
- A timeline that shows only what's there — a lane appears once it has something on it, and the Keys, Text, Mask, Music and B-roll pills under the tracks open whatever fills that lane. In Review the Masks lane stays visible even when it's empty; clicks show as dots on the ruler; the recorded sound's waveform has its own row; the scissors button holds Split here and trimming to the playhead
Improved
- Notes show in full while you edit a paused frame — arrows and text no longer appear half-faded or half-drawn while you place them
- Placing a note takes fewer steps — playback pauses when you start placing one, the tool switches back to Select afterwards, and the text box grows as you type
- The hints in the Notes panel match the tool — click and type for text, click to place a counter, or draw and release for everything else
Fixed
- Right-clicking the picture no longer starts a note — only the main mouse button draws
- The editor no longer shows Pause when the preview failed to start — it switches back to Play
SHIPPED · v1.11.0
Hang Your Work
New
- A new 3D World section sits under 3D Mockup — pick one of ten venues (museum hall, modern gallery, expo floor, cinema, airliner cabin, metro car, space station, city rooftop, showroom store, loft hangar), each with its own walls, screens and lightboxes to fill
- Hang a screenshot or a short clip on any surface — attach a PNG, JPEG or WebP image, an MP4 or MOV clip, or a shot from your Screenshot library; give each slot a title and a fit. Drop a set of files on the Exhibits panel to fill the open slots in filename order — no more attaching one by one; a single file dropped on a slot swaps what hangs there. Switch venues and the work comes along — media refills the new room's free slots in order
- Four ways to move — a scripted Tour that dwells on each exhibit in slot order, or walk it yourself with WASD and the mouse: Chase over the shoulder, Eyes in first person, Orbit as a slow lap around the walker. Stroll, walk or run, and set the tour's length — it is also the exported film's duration. Comfort controls for the manual rigs: look sensitivity, field of view, head bob, reduced motion, and a switch to hide the walker
Improved
- Applying a mockup film confirms it took — the picker flashes on the film that just landed on the take
SHIPPED · v1.10.0
Stage and Score
New
- A new 3D Mockup section sits under Screenshot — drop in a PNG, JPEG or WebP, a short MP4 or MOV, or a shot from your Screenshot library, then stand it in a device. The original stays yours; this project keeps its own copy. Clips play on the glass, silently, and hold their last frame if the animation runs longer than the file. A device that does not fit the picture's shape is hidden with a sentence, rather than stretched
- Nineteen unbranded models across laptops, monitors, phones, tablets, a browser and an app window, searchable by name and filterable by Laptops, Monitors, Phones, Tablets and Windows. Pick a finish — Graphite, Silver, Midnight, Starlight — or switch on Clay for a matte body that recedes so the UI stays the hero. On a laptop, open and close the lid; the angle is stored in the selected keyframe and a lid lane on the timeline shows the motion
- Drag the stage to orbit, or type Turn, Tilt, Lean, Size and position. Press Keyframe (or K) at the playhead, drag keys along the camera track, and ease to the next one with Smooth, Linear or a jump cut. Space plays; the last pose holds for the duration you set
Improved
- Laptop devices now carry a real keyboard — staggered, labeled keys, palm rests and a trackpad, in 3D Mockup and on a posed recording in the editor, so a shot from above the deck looks like a laptop instead of a slab with a screen
Fixed
- Fixed a second pointer drawn on top of the system cursor in native macOS screen recordings — the capture already has the cursor in the footage, so those takes now open with the redrawn pointer off, the same way Chromium recordings already did
SHIPPED · v1.9.0
The Pointer, Smoothed
New
- Path and timing are two separate controls — clean the line without changing when the pointer arrives, or restyle its arrival without touching its shape. Path offers Recorded (the captured line with only the sensor spikes removed), Natural (a curve through every recorded point, tremor removed) and Smooth (broader, stylised arcs); Movement timing offers Recorded, Natural or Cinematic arrival, chosen independently. Your click positions and timestamps never move — only the path between them is redrawn
- A Smoothing dial — set how much of the hand's tremor to take out, separately from the path style
- Hide for typing cues — the cursor steps aside while a Keys panel “type” label is on screen, so a keystroke label isn't fighting an arrow; it reads only the labels you wrote, and the recorder still never stores typed text
Improved
- The recording clock ticks on its own — a running take's timer no longer re-renders the whole app once a second just to move four digits, so the app stays lighter for the length of a recording
- Faster to open — the app's icons are gathered into one shared file instead of a scatter of tiny fetches, and the screen-recording editor is loaded only when you actually open it
- The Record screen says what a Chromium capture can and can't do, up front — when a machine records through Chromium rather than the native recorder, it now tells you before you start: the pointer's movement is tracked for the automatic camera but its clicks are not, and the system cursor stays in the footage, so the editor won't draw a second one over it
Fixed
- Fixed Save preset in the export dialog silently doing nothing when it failed — a failed save now shows what went wrong instead of swallowing the error and leaving the button looking broken
- Fixed the sidebar Update button appearing to do nothing when a download or install failed — the reason now appears under the button, instead of the press quietly failing with nothing on screen to say why
SHIPPED · v1.8.0
A Countdown You Can Walk Through
New
- A countdown you can walk to your window through — press Start on a screen recording and the app hides while a click-through 3-2-1 appears on every display, restating exactly what you're about to record; get to the window you picked while it counts down, or press Cancel/Esc to bail
- The floating recording bar shows what's live — while recording, the HUD now carries a live camera thumbnail alongside on/off pips for the microphone and system audio, so you can tell at a glance that what you thought was being recorded actually is
- Follow the pointer while zoomed — a new toggle in the Camera panel of the screen-recording editor: while zoomed in, the crop tracks the cursor through a dead-zone of the visible zoom, and stays put on the way back out — so a control the camera just pushed in on doesn't drift off screen the moment you reach for the next one
Improved
- The whole app goes cinema-black — the ground moves from a tinted navy to pure black across every screen, the browser extension popup, the follower overlay and PPTX exports; elevation is a hairline and a shadow, never a hue
- No more keychain password prompts on every launch — on macOS the license background refresh used to rewrite the same entitlement to the keychain every boot, and macOS asks for the login password to modify a stored item; it now only writes when the grant actually changed or the cached blob is due for renewal, so once you've allowed it there's no reason for it to ask again
- Navigating away cancels a pending countdown — leaving the Record screen while the pre-record countdown is running now stops it cleanly, so a recording never starts on a screen you've already left
Fixed
- Fixed the menu-bar icon being silently invisible on macOS — the wrong file path let macOS mount a zero-width status item, so the Show menu-bar icon toggle looked broken; the icon now finds its file in both dev and packaged builds, with a plain rounded-square fallback if for some reason it can't
- Fixed an entire-screen recording opening on 1ShowcaseTool counting down over itself — the countdown used to be a screen inside the app, so the first seconds of a display take were the app's own window; the app now hides before the countdown and comes back only when the take ends
- Fixed the ⌘⇧2 screenshot chord popping the app back into a display recording it had just been hidden from — a hidden library is now left hidden through a take, and the shot lands in the preview stack the way it always did
SHIPPED · v1.7.0
Screenshots, Beautified
New
- New Screenshot section — capture a window, a whole display or a dragged-out region, turn a clipboard image into a shot, or import a PNG, JPEG or WebP; every capture lives in its own library, and the app hides itself before a display or region capture so it never sits in the picture
- Pick how you capture from one button — the New screenshot button opens Capture area, Capture fullscreen and Capture window, each showing its keyboard shortcut, and a corner preview appears after each shot so you can edit or save it on the spot; global capture shortcuts start from the menu bar and are rebindable in Settings → Shortcuts
- Beautify a shot — drop it on a gradient, wallpaper, blurred or plain background with padding, rounding, shadow and aspect ratio, stand it in a phone, tablet, laptop or browser-chrome device frame in one of five finishes, and add a meme bar, a quote card, a pet or the full annotation toolset (arrows, boxes, text, counters, pencil, highlighter, spotlight)
Improved
- Faster MP4 exports — the editor asks your machine for a hardware encoder and overlaps each frame's work, so a long take exports meaningfully quicker while the file stays identical to the pixel; the export dialog says when there is no hardware encoder and it will render in software. On macOS, Windows and Linux
- Edit several clips at once — Shift-click a range or ⌘/Ctrl-click to add and remove clips on the timeline, then delete them all in one step
- Merge clips back together — a Merge button and right-click menu recombine clips you split, joining only neighbouring pieces that still touch and play at the same speed, with a plain-language reason when they can't be joined
Fixed
- Fixed the Text and Counter tools doing nothing on the first click in the screen-recording editor — a new text mark now reliably opens its field and keeps focus, so you can start typing straight away
SHIPPED · v1.6.0
Draw On the Take, Open Any Project
New
- Draw on your recording — a new Annotate panel in the screen-recording editor adds arrows, rectangles, ellipses, lines, text, numbered counters, freehand pencil, a highlighter and a spotlight right on the picture, timed to the moment and burned into the exported MP4 at full resolution
- Anchor a mark to the screen so it zooms and tilts with the recording, or to the frame so it stays put like a title; style colour, stroke width, opacity, arrow heads, text and typeface (styling is a Pro unlock, the marks themselves are free) — marks point things out without hiding anything, so masking is still how you redact
- Focus a single clip with Clip view — pick a clip from the timeline's Show in timeline menu or click it to zoom the timeline down to just that piece and edit it up close, then Exit clip view or press Esc to return to the whole take; the lanes keep the take's own clock so every mark, camera move and mask stays where it belongs
Improved
- Smarter "Find silence" trims — typing now counts as activity alongside clicks, so suggested cuts land in the genuinely idle gaps between what you did on screen instead of running across them
Fixed
- Fixed "Find silence" offering to delete almost the whole recording on a take made without narration — a long, busy-but-quiet recording could collapse to a few seconds; typing and clicks are now protected and a silence cut is split around every action instead of swallowing it
SHIPPED · v1.5.0
Talking-Head Camera Overlay
New
- Talking head — turn Camera on before recording, then enable the camera track in the editor to lay your face over the demo as a separate overlay that is never drawn into the screen itself
- Position and shape the bubble — a 3×3 placement grid; Square, Horizontal, Vertical or Original crop; Rounded or Circle; adjustable size; and Mirror left-to-right
- The talking head plays with the demo — the face plays, pauses and scrubs together with the screen in the editor and rides along into the exported MP4
Improved
- The talking head stays locked to your voice — its timing is measured from the recording itself, so the face matches the audio across long takes and through pauses instead of drifting
- Older camera recordings recover on their own — a take recorded with the camera on now finds and shows that footage automatically, even one recorded before this release
Fixed
- Fixed the camera track never appearing — recorded camera footage was being dropped and the take shown as "no camera"; it is now found and displayed, in the editor and in exported MP4
- Fixed your voice running ahead of your face — the overlay is aligned to the recording clock so the lips match the audio
- Fixed the camera overlay freezing during playback — it now advances with the screen instead of sitting on a single frame
SHIPPED · v1.4.0
Sharper Exports and Self-Checking Guides
New
- Sharper exports and a preview that fits: Native and higher-resolution exports — a new Native resolution keeps the picture at its own pixels and grows the frame around it, so a Retina recording exports at the detail you recorded instead of a downscaled 1080p
- Sharper exports and a preview that fits: The export dialog states your machine's real encoder ceiling — before you export it says, for example, "Native would be 5466×3226; this machine encodes up to 4096×2304, so the file is 4096×2304," instead of quietly downscaling. The size estimate and the preview use the same number
- Sharper exports and a preview that fits: The preview fits the frame instead of stretching it — a flat recording is fit to the available space rather than squashed, and it re-fits when you change resolution, aspect, padding or background
Improved
- Recorded colours match what you saw — desktop captures are tagged sRGB, so saturated interface colours land the way your screen and browser render them (macOS)
- The extension setup steps lead with the Web Store install, keeping "Open install folder" as the path for development builds
Fixed
- Fixed the editor preview stretching a flat recording — the picture used to be squashed vertically whenever the inspector and timeline took their space; it is now fit to the frame
- Fixed Retina recordings exporting soft — a 1080p default threw away most of a high-resolution capture's detail; Native keeps the picture's own pixels
- Fixed the export silently downscaling a frame too large for this machine's encoder — the dialog now states the ceiling and the resulting size before you commit
SHIPPED · v1.3.0
Edit a Generated Guide
New
- Edit a generated guide: Edit steps — rewrite a step’s title, what the reader should do, and why it matters, straight in the preview
- Edit a generated guide: Marks are live on the picture — drag a mark, resize it from eight handles, move an arrow’s tip and tail independently, drag its label, and retype a badge number or callout text
- Edit a generated guide: Narration script — a new export that turns the step prose into a timed Markdown script at 150 words per minute, with 0:00–0:04 — Title cues and chapter headings
Improved
- A denied permission opens the exact settings pane — Screen Recording, Camera, Microphone or Accessibility, rather than always landing on the screen one
- Speech level is applied on every export path — a take with narration and no score used to export at the raw level
- Re-checking a licence repairs its local record rather than needing one to already be there, so an install restored from a backup can recover on its own
Fixed
- Fixed queued redaction boxes disappearing when you crossed to the video — the queue now survives the trip, as the hint said it did
- Fixed Crop quietly cropping to the last redaction box you drew, destroying the frame around it and discarding the rest of the queue — crop is now its own mode with its own region
- Fixed an export or rendered video missing the edit you just made — pending title, body and mark changes are written before the export starts
2 older 1ShowcaseTool releases are listed in the release history.