Changelog
Shipped, fixed, and improved
Every 1ShowcaseTool release, straight from the release notes that ship with the product.
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
SHIPPED · v1.2.0
Directed Screen Films
New
- Directed camera: Sit the recording in a device — MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Studio Display, a phone, a tablet, a browser chrome, or an app window, posed on a stage instead of a flat rectangle
- Directed camera: Drop the take into a real place — billboards, living-room televisions, theater screens, stadium boards, museum galleries, and an unbranded watch face, each with its own calibrated screen
- Directed camera: Three film styles the camera follows on its own
Improved
- The record picker leads with a drawing of what each source can and cannot see — browser (the only one that redacts before capture, and the only one a follower can replay), one-window stills, the auto screen recorder, and the screen recorder for video
- Generation customisation is tabs, not stacked accordions — branding, languages, annotations, video and guide type stay glanceable and the Generate button no longer jumps
- Describe the flow before Generate — a prompt with example chips, so the model is told who it is for without a second settings hunt
Fixed
- Fixed a crash mid-recording blocking every later recording — a stale “recording” row used to refuse both recorders permanently; the next launch now ends any leftover capture process, rebuilds the take from the movies on disk, and closes the row
- Fixed a sliver of covered content showing at a mask edge in exported video — masked areas are filled in the captured frame before anything is cropped or scaled
- Fixed the review screen treating “0 warnings” on a desktop recording as a clean bill of health — that screen now says there was nothing to inspect, which is not the same as clean
SHIPPED · v1.1.0
Initial public release
New
- Browser recorder (Chrome MV3) — captures clicks, keystrokes, navigations and page state with ordered selectors and cropped screenshots
- Manual and auto desktop screen recorders for non-browser apps
- Screen recording studio with continuous capture of display, window, or region