Changelog

⚡ Faster updates: Updates now download as small patches instead of a full installer

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Side-by-side clips keep the selected layout when the export aspect ratio is different from the editor.
• Spatial layout exports have a sharper image
• Faster, more memory-efficient exports of projects with spatial layouts.
• Exporter stability improvements.
• Faster exports on machines without hardware video encoding and in multi-scene projects.

🎬 Scenes: Combine multiple Rapidemo recordings in one project with a fade-to-black transition ⌨️ Customizable hotkeys: All keyboard shortcuts are now customizable

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed recording and preview on scaled displays (e.g. 125% or 150%).
• Webcam turns off promptly after recording.
• Automatic recovery from graphics-driver problems and a compatibility mode.
• Smoother recovery after an unexpected close. Reopen a closed project easily after editor crashes.
• Better and safer handling of damaged project files.
• Fixed some unintuitive undo behavior around auto-generated zooms and other timeline elements.
• Wording changes around error recovery UI.
• Improved background error reporting, helping identify and fix issues quickly.

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed an edge case that corrupts projects while migration in some cases

🗨️ Subtitles: There is now a bigger model for higher-quality transcription on more capable machines 📖 Custom dictionary: Pass a list of custom words like brand names into the transcription for better accuracy 🌈 Preset preview: You can now preview a preset before applying 🗑️ Editor delete button: Now projects can be discarded directly from the editor

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Presets now include background images in a shareable file
• Fixed a visual glitch when transitioning between adjacent spatial clips
• Transcription is more memory-efficient
• Undo / redo now restores the background correctly
• Fixed some inconsistencies of undo / redo regarding subtitles
• Webcam and microphone are reliably released when entering the editor
• Fixed an issue regarding mouse event data when migrating older projects

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Clicks and cursor motion are now more precise
• Completed recordings now transition to the editor without starting camera or microphone again
• UI hover cursor follows native convention

💨 Projects open 100x faster: Especially large projects. Saving / closing projects is almost instant too! 🛟 App stability: Rapidemo can now recover corrupted projects

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Select button in the area picker is clickable again
• Applying a preset with an image background no longer crashes
• Fixed properties panel behavior if no elements (e.g. zooms) exist
• Many more smaller bug fixes and improvements

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Added safeguards around corrupt gradients

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed a rare bug regarding camera scaling issues

🌍 In-app changelog: You can now see what’s new when Rapidemo updates

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Small bug fixes and stability improvements

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed activation on every app launch
• Activation is now much quicker
• Timeline cursor is reset when switching projects
• Faster audio processing when exporting

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed camera background blur artefacts
• Fixed a rare bug where the first frame was rendered incorrectly

🐛Bug fixes:

• There are now buttons to create new photo or color backgrounds after deleting the last value

🌞Light mode: Switch between light, dark and follow system

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where exports error immediately
• Improved editor UI responsiveness
• Improved export speed

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Fixed a rare bug where exports would fail immediately

🧊Spatial clips: Create eye-catching 3D clips with dramatic camera perspectives on your recording. Spatial clips have 100% seamless transitions with all other clip types.

🌈Gradient color stops: Background gradients can now have between 2 and 5 color stops.

🎨Last used backgrounds: Background colors, photos and gradients now show a grid of recently used backgrounds. Last used backgrounds can be deleted individually.

🐛Bug fixes:

• New elements (e.g. zooms, clips) are selected automatically after creation
• When creating a new mask, the area selector opens automatically
• Rename modals work more reliably
• Presets and editor defaults now include the mask color
• Fixed some UI misalignments
• The editor UI is more responsive and efficient

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed the bug where camera / microphone detection never finishes
• Improved launch speed

🎚️Microphone volume indicators: Monitor your microphone volume levels before and while recording

🏷️Source indicators: Labels showing exactly which inputs will be recorded

🐛Bug fixes:

• Camera and microphone devices are detected correctly now.

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed cancel transcription button
• Fixed audio sync issues with playback speeds higher than 5x
• Unified area and window picker design
• Fixed timeline hotkeys not working in some circumstances
• Fixed crash when opening mask area selector twice
• Masks with alpha = 0 stay visible
• Wallpapers are redetected properly after deletions
• Added Esc hotkey to close exporter window
• Performance improvements in recorder and exporter

✨More accurate transcription: Choose from 3 AI models based on your speed, download size and accuracy needs

💬Background transcription: Keep editing your project while subtitles are generated in the background

⌨️Keyboard shortcuts: Hotkeys now work as expected with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts

🐛Bug fixes:

• Projects close much quicker if no changes were made
• Exports are faster and more efficient

🐛Bug fixes:

• Audio is now rendered correctly with gaps between clips
• App window position is restored in addition to size and fullscreen status

🛠️Exporter: Last-used settings (FPS, resolution…) are saved

↔️App: Last-used window size / full screen status is reapplied

🐛Bug fixes:

• Audio section is hidden when no audio was recorded
• Added better export error handling
• Out-of-range playback rates are blocked
• Added project validity checks
• Time markers are shown at any timeline zoom level

🔎Timeline: Timeline can be zoomed out completely

⏩Playback speed: Added input for arbitrary numbers up to 16x

🗺️Masking mode: Clips, clicks and zooms are pinned for orientation

🎙️Audio: Added microphone volume indicator to clips on the timeline

❌Licensing: Added more useful license failure messages

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed crash when using the coordinate picker
• Fixed rare failures in audio processing

🐛Bug fixes

• Fixed border radius slider

🐛Bug fixes

• Fixed intro and outro duration of timeline elements
• Fixed the truncated camera videos
• Fixed camera videos that sometimes loop in video exports
• Fixed the screen preview before recording
• Improved auto-save performance
• Made sliders more responsive

🔊System audio: Record your computer’s audio output

🎚️Audio mixer: Adjust volume of microphone and system audio

🐛Bug fixes:

• Permission checks (useful on PCs with restricted accounts
• Fixed projects that don’t open (rare bug)
• Editor performance improvements

🐛Bug fixes:

• Added checks for file system permissions
• Fixed many UI bugs

📂Customizable export folders: Added a setting to select where your videos will be saved

🐛Bug fixes:

• Camera recordings are finalized properly
• Fixed rare bug where the exporter wouldn’t open
• Fixed behavior when a project doesn’t exist at the given path
• Fixed window shutdown behavior

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue tracking in multi-threaded contexts
• Fixed logging in multi-threaded contexts

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed cropping tool

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed merge right
• Fixed moving the cursor or timeline elements after zooming in or out of the timeline
• Fixed subtitle text editing
• The camera shadow is previewed correctly again
• The strength of the blur of a mask is now independent from zoom effects
• The current row is unselected when masking mode is turned on

🙈Masking: Create masks to blur sensitive data like email addresses

🎯Manual zoom centering buttons: Center the focus of manual zooms quickly and precisely

🐛Bug fixes:

• Clips with faster playback speeds are now previewed correctly
• Gaps between clips are now previewed correctly
• Fixed some preset properties that weren’t applied

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed the camera and microphone selector for external devices
• Enabled issue tracking in multi-threaded contexts

↗️Cursor rotation: When enabled, the mouse cursor tilts slightly during movements for a more fun and natural look.

🔏No more SmartScreen warnings: Rapidemo now uses code signing that finally gets rid of warnings when downloading or while installing.

🐛Bug fixes:

• Smoother editing and faster exports through multi-threading
• Moved from AV1 to AVC encoding for better compatibility
• Fixed projects that don’t open
• Fixed some audio export bugs
• Fixed recording before camera is ready
• Fixed some outdated links
• Fixed default camera and mic inputs
• …and a lot of smaller bugs and improvements

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed 60 FPS screen recording with Desktop Duplication
• Performance improvements

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed cursor blur when cursor cut off or cursor loop is enabled
• Fixed selection of off-screen timeline elements

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed rare occurrences in which the window wouldn’t appear on app launch

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed stuck or looping video inputs in the timeline editor

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed microphone-only exports
• Fixed cursor blur
• Improved overall rendering performance

🐛Bug fixes:

• Improved exporter stability

🐛Bug fixes:

• Many small bug fixes

🐛Bug fixes:

• Streamlined loading and saving projects
• Saving is much faster
• Added a shutdown sequence when clicking close
• Many small bug fixes

🐛Bug fixes:

• Added ability to switch to a different license from within Rapidemo

🐛Bug fixes:

• Fixed license validation

🐛Bug fixes:

• Stability and performance improvements for longer recordings
• Fixed camera and microphone selector

🔗Shareable links: Generate a link for your video that’s easy to share if you don’t want to deal with a video file. You can view and manage your shared videos in your account.

🦾Bulk exports: You can now queue exports from the same or from different projects. When the first video has finished rendering, the next render will start automatically.

🖥️Screen recording FPS: There is a new framerate setting for the screen recording for up to 60FPS. Previously the framerate was capped to 30FPS.

📹Fixed camera and microphone labels: The camera and microphone dropdowns previously showed different input devices with the same underlaying source as duplicates. Now the device name is used to differentiate the inputs. You might have noticed this issue, e.g., if you’re using Nvidia Broadcast Camera.