Changelog

The Sources page now shows Video beside Audio with every source in one tidy shape, and the docked Studio preview no longer has a grey rim.

X now appears with its official mark everywhere in Videorc, and verified X commenters show X's own blue, gold or gray check.

• X's official mark replaces the old X drawings in chat, Activity, the Stream Manager, the highlight card and the phone remote.
• Verified X commenters show X's blue, business gold or government gray check right after their name.
• The Stream Manager footer is taller, so the platform icons have room.

YouTube now appears with its official icon everywhere in Videorc, and Stream Manager rows show the platform logo on the right with bigger avatars.

• YouTube's official icon replaces the old glyph in destinations, the Stream Manager, the highlight card and the phone remote.
• Chat and activity rows put the platform logo on the far right, with bigger avatars and same-size logos for every platform.
• The phone remote shows each viewer's initials beside their message.

Twitch Power-ups and channel point redemptions now show up in Activity, and a destination that drops mid-stream reconnects on its own and tells you.

• Twitch Power-ups like Celebrations show under Tips, and channel point redemptions show under a new Rewards chip, in your channel's own points name.
• With Auto-show on, Power-ups and redemptions pop onto your stream as the highlight card.
• If a platform's ingest drops your stream, Videorc reconnects that destination automatically and shows it as Reconnecting instead of On air.

The Stream Manager no longer shows stray scrollbars after the new Auto-show switch arrived.

• The Stream Manager window no longer scrolls sideways or grows a scrollbar; each pane scrolls on its own.

A new Auto-show switch in the Stream Manager's Activity pane puts new follows, subs, gifts, tips, raids and watch streaks on your stream automatically.

• Turn on Auto-show in the Activity pane and new follows, subs, gifts, tips, raids and watch streaks pop onto your stream as the highlight card.
• A card you show yourself always wins. Auto-show waits for the slot to be free and never takes your card down.

Twitch GIF Keyboard GIFs now show as GIFs in the Stream Manager, and messages from members and subscribers get a quiet tint so you can spot them at a glance.

• Twitch GIF Keyboard GIFs show as GIFs in the Stream Manager chat.
• Member and subscriber messages get a quiet tint next to the Member chip.

Set your stream quality separately from your 4K recording, per destination if you like, and see your MP4 save in the background with a retry if it fails. YouTube 4K streams are prepared at the quality the encoder really sends.

• Set stream quality separately from recording, with per-destination overrides.
• YouTube 4K streams are prepared at the quality Videorc really sends.
• See your MP4 save after recording, with Open and Retry buttons.
• Stream Manager fixes for the status dot, emote spacing and Copy link.

Mark the start of a new topic while you record or stream by saying "Orcle, make a marker here for…" or typing /marker, then jump to it from the Library. Twitch watch streaks now show in Activity, and links in chat open or copy with a right-click.

• Say "Orcle, make a marker here for Shadcn New Library" or type /marker in the Stream Manager.
• Open a session's markers in the Library to jump to, rename or delete them.
• Twitch watch streaks show in Activity, with a quick way to thank the viewer.
• Right-click a link in chat to open or copy it.

The Orcle tab is organized into tabs like Settings, so Orcle Live, voice commands, your stream reports and Orcle's settings each have their own place. Orcle now appears as its official eye emblem throughout the app.

• The Orcle tab is split into tabs, like Settings, instead of one long page.
• Voice commands, reports and Orcle's settings each have their own tab.
• Orcle shows as its official eye emblem everywhere in the app.

The Publish tab becomes Orcle, Videorc's AI producer for live streams. Ask Orcle out loud to highlight a comment or remove one from chat, and read its report after every stream.

• Orcle replaces Publish with Orcle Live and a report after every stream.
• Say "Orcle, highlight the comment from coders X" to put a comment on stream.
• Say "remove it from our chat" and confirm to remove a comment on YouTube, Twitch, Kick or X.
• Every comment menu has "Remove from chat", free for everyone.

Videorc checks YouTube viewer and subscriber counts less often and counts every YouTube request toward its daily budget, so YouTube chat lasts through long streams. Other platforms' viewer counts keep updating every minute.

• Videorc checks YouTube viewers every 2 minutes and subscribers every 5 minutes, saving YouTube's daily limit for chat.
• Twitch, Kick and X viewer counts keep updating every minute instead of waiting for YouTube.
• Every YouTube request, including scheduled streams and retries, now counts toward Videorc's daily YouTube budget.

Sources has a real audio mixer, with a channel strip, level meter and fader for each source, a mute button and a Sync slider.

• Sources has an audio mixer with a channel strip, level meter and fader for each source.
• The microphone has a Gain fader and a mute button that shows its keyboard shortcut.
• Set audio Sync with a slider or by typing milliseconds.
• System audio has its own Level fader and a meter while you record or stream.

When YouTube's daily limit runs out, Videorc pauses YouTube extras with one clear notice and resumes on its own. Highlighted comments show avatars and emotes, and Go Live reads Streaming with a ticking clock.

• YouTube chat no longer stops mid-stream on busy days. If YouTube's daily limit runs out, Videorc pauses YouTube extras with one notice and resumes on its own.
• Highlighted comments on stream show the viewer's avatar and their emotes.
• Going live reads "Streaming", and the session clock ticks.
• Activity shows which follow, sub or raid is on stream right now.
• Clearer window glass in dark and light, and a Microphone section in Studio with an always-on level.

Kick and 7TV emotes show as images in the Stream Manager, YouTube chat messages send again, and a live stream now waits out a short stall instead of ending.

• Kick and 7TV emotes show as images in the Stream Manager chat.
• Messages you send to YouTube chat from Videorc arrive again.
• A live stream or recording waits out a short stall on a busy computer instead of ending.
• Set a YouTube live thumbnail from Broadcast info.
• X organization badges appear beside chat authors.

Livestream setup now reads in plain words, the microphone preview shows your real level again, and Screen and Camera each open their list in one click.

• Livestream cards say "Sign in" or "Stream key", show one status per account, and "Ready to go live" names anything that still needs attention.
• The microphone waveform in Sources and the Studio mixer shows your real level again.
• Studio has separate Screen and Camera rows, and each opens its list in one click.
• The sidebar update chip reads "Restart to update" instead of cutting off.
• If the Videorc window ever stops drawing, it reloads by itself.

Google approved Videorc. Connect YouTube in Livestream → Setup and Videorc creates the broadcast, sets the title, shows YouTube chat, and lets you schedule a stream — no stream-key copy-paste.

• Connect YouTube with one click, the same way you connect Kick or Twitch.
• Videorc creates a fresh YouTube broadcast when you go live and sets the title from Broadcast info.
• YouTube chat shows in the Stream Manager, and you can reply from Videorc.
• You can schedule a YouTube livestream from Upcoming.
• Manual RTMP stays available. If you also stream YouTube Vertical, keep the horizontal YouTube card on Manual RTMP for this cut.

Livestream captions now appear on both your horizontal and vertical streams, and typed toasts keep a clear glass panel with only the icon coloured.

• Live captions burn on your horizontal stream and your vertical stream, sized for a phone screen and clear of TikTok, Shorts and Reels UI.
• Turning captions on mid-stream still reaches both videos, and the recording carries the captions when a vertical destination is on.
• Success, warning, error and info toasts keep the same glass panel. Only the small icon changes colour.

A busy Mac no longer silences your microphone for the rest of a stream, System audio pauses itself when your own stream plays back on this Mac, and 4K and 1080p60 streaming are free on every plan.

• Your microphone keeps going when your Mac gets busy mid-stream. At worst a moment of audio drops, never the rest of the stream.
• System audio pauses itself when your own stream plays on this Mac and echoes back, with one click to resume.
• The System audio hint no longer suggests headphones stop that echo, and a switch in Sources turns the pause off.
• Live streaming in 4K30 on YouTube and at 1080p60 is free on every plan.

A highlighted comment now reaches your viewers when you also stream vertical, Activity names new followers with their avatar, and menus and popovers match the window glass.

• A highlighted comment shows on both your horizontal and vertical streams, sized for each.
• Activity names each new follower with their avatar, and Thank in chat mentions their handle.
• Menus, popovers, tooltips, dialogs and toasts match the window glass instead of black panels.
• Refresh during a live session finds a newly connected camera and no longer shows an account warning.

When System audio or the microphone is on, a paused or unchanged screen keeps audio in the recording instead of writing a silent track.

• A still or barely changing screen no longer drops microphone and System audio into silence.
• System audio from 0.9.119 still works the same way: Studio switch, live meter, mid-session toggle, shortcut, phone remote and Stream Deck.
• If audio cannot be placed, Videorc says so in plain words instead of pretending the microphone stopped.

Turn System audio on in Studio and Videorc records and streams what your Mac plays, with a live meter, mid-session switch, shortcut, phone remote and Stream Deck action. Default stays Off.

• A System audio switch in the Studio mixer and Studio inputs puts your Mac's sound into recordings and every stream leg.
• Turn it on or off any time, including mid-session; a live meter shows the level, and Sources → Audio mixer has a gain slider.
• Bind a global shortcut, use the phone remote, or a Stream Deck action to toggle System audio without leaving your stream.
• Needs Screen Recording permission (same grant as display capture). When permission is missing or capture fails, the row says so and the session keeps going.
• Default is Off. Your own microphone stays separate, and Videorc's own UI sounds stay out of the capture.

Orcle can now hear you for the whole live stream, even with captions off. Say "clip that" to mark a moment, see what you're talking about and what you promised, get a nudge to greet new chatters, and have your post-stream pack made for you.

• Turn on "Orcle hears you while you're live" and Orcle follows what you say, even with captions off.
• Say "clip that" or press Mark clip to mark the last 30 seconds; your marks come first in Publish → Clips.
• Orcle shows the current topic, puts on-topic questions first and reminds you of what you promised on stream.
• Say hi lists first-time chatters you haven't greeted yet.
• After a recorded stream Orcle heard, your Publish pack makes itself, with real chapter timestamps.

Kick chat no longer says "Reconnecting" forever when it can't connect; it tells you why. The Stream Manager also shows Kick subs, gifted subs, KICKs and bans, and a warning about a session that has already ended no longer lingers.

• When Kick chat can't connect, the Stream Manager says why instead of "Reconnecting" forever.
• Kick subs, gifted subs, KICKs and bans show up in the Stream Manager.
• Kick viewers read "waiting" until Kick marks you live, instead of a made-up zero.
• A recording or stream warning goes away when the session ends.

Going live on Kick works now. In 0.9.113 and 0.9.114, Videorc sent Kick streams to the wrong address and Kick refused every one. Stream keys also stay out of the logs, and signing in to a platform ends on a proper Videorc page.

• Kick streams connect again; 0.9.113 and 0.9.114 could not go live on Kick.
• Stream keys no longer appear in logs or support bundles when a stream fails.
• Signing in to a platform ends on a Videorc page that says you're connected.

Settings now has tabs across the top (General, Recording, Permissions, Shortcuts, Remote, Orcle and About), so you go straight to what you need instead of scrolling one long page.

• Seven tabs across the top of Settings replace one long page.
• Settings reopens on the tab you used last.
• Search (⌘K) jumps straight to any Settings tab.
• Update, FFmpeg and shortcut messages open the tab that fixes them.

Connect Kick in Livestream → Setup and Videorc fetches your stream key, sets your title and category, shows Kick chat in the Stream Manager and counts Kick viewers.

• Connect Kick with one click. No more copying the stream key; Videorc reads it when you go live.
• Your Kick title and category are set from Broadcast info, with a category search.
• Kick chat arrives in the Stream Manager and Comments, and you can reply from Videorc.
• Kick viewers count in the stats bar, and new Kick follows show in Activity.

Stream to Kick with your stream key next to YouTube, Twitch and X, and set every global shortcut in Settings by pressing the keys instead of typing them.

• Kick is a streaming destination. Paste your Kick stream key and go live on Kick beside your other platforms.
• Set global shortcuts by pressing the keys. Videorc shows the combination as key chips and tells you when one is taken.
• Esc cancels a shortcut change, Backspace clears it, and system combinations like Cmd+Q are refused with a reason.
• Importing an OBS profile recognises a Kick destination.

The Stream Manager now counts viewers and followers on X, lists new follows in Activity, keeps its title clear of the window buttons in full screen, and the layout shortcuts in Settings line up again.

• The viewer count in the Stream Manager now includes people watching on X.
• X followers count toward the followers total without asking you to reconnect X.
• New followers on X, and on Twitch before you grant the follow permission, show up in Activity.
• In full screen, the window buttons no longer cover the Stream Manager title.
• The layout shortcuts in Settings sit in tidy rows like the shortcuts above them.

The selection frame and resize handles drawn on the live Scene canvas were far too big; they are now small, sharp squares with a hairline frame.

• The resize handles on the live Scene canvas are small 6 px squares with a 1 px frame, at every window size.

The Scene tab now shows your live camera and screen while you compose, so you drag and resize the real picture; Circle and Round bubbles work in Freeform from any layout; Orcle can put the comment you are talking about on stream; and Broadcast info is one form again.

• The Scene canvas is live. Drag and resize your camera and screen on the real picture, with the frame and handles drawn right on it.
• Circle and Round camera bubbles now apply in Freeform whichever layout you started from.
• Orcle can put the comment you are talking about on stream, and pulls it up for you while you answer.
• Broadcast info is one form again, with a row per connected destination. Twitch category and language apply without a custom title.

The Stream Manager's stats now fit in one thin bar, with your stream time, viewers and stream health side by side, and the window says less so your eyes can stay on chat.

• One thin stats bar gives chat more room, with the ON AIR clock, viewers and stream health up front at every window size.
• Stream health shows your bitrate while all is well and names the problem the moment something goes wrong.
• Drag a stat to rearrange the bar, or right-click it to hide the stats you don't watch.
• Less to read mid-stream, from shorter activity lines to chat times that wait for your pointer.

Videorc can now go live horizontal and vertical at once, put Orcle on chat, schedule YouTube and X, and keep your studio moving without stopping, and light mode now reaches every window.

• Stream landscape and 9:16 at once, to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Vertical alongside YouTube, Twitch and X.
• Orcle, your live chat co-host, with custom rules, richer flags and Suggested badges.
• The Stream Manager puts live viewers, chat and stream health in one window, and a phone on Wi-Fi can run comments and controls.
• Change camera, microphone or screen mid-record or mid-stream, and switch saved scenes without stopping.
• Light mode now reaches the Stream Manager, Notes and Captions, not just the main window.

Recordings and streams no longer lose short pieces of microphone audio, a problem since 0.9.103 that was worst with USB microphones such as the Shure MV7+.

• Microphone audio no longer drops out in recordings and streams; the gaps that crept in with 0.9.103 are gone.
• USB microphones that deliver audio in small pieces, such as the Shure MV7+, now get the same headroom as the built-in microphone.
• When microphone audio is ever lost, the session log now says how much and why.

A thin divider line now separates the Stream Manager's stats from chat, Activity and Orcle.

• A divider line now separates the stats row from chat, Activity and Orcle at every window width.

The Chat window becomes the Stream Manager, with live viewers, followers, subs, tips, an activity feed and stream health next to your chat, and viewer counts now include X.

• Live viewers with the peak and a small chart, added up across your destinations and now including X.
• Followers and how many you gained this stream, plus subs, tips, chat pace and stream health.
• An Activity feed for follows, subs, gifts, cheers and raids; put any of them on stream or thank them in chat.
• Chat with emotes, first-time chatters, replies, filters, search and a Send to picker.
• Fits any width, from a narrow sidebar to a full screen.

Plan X broadcasts in Upcoming next to your YouTube events, each platform in its own section, and find the Videorc icon and your version in Settings → About.

• Schedule X broadcasts with a title, description, thumbnail, start time, planned end and replay setting.
• Go live with a saved X broadcast when you are ready; nothing starts on its own.
• Upcoming gives YouTube and X their own sections, each with its own Schedule button.
• Each saved stream shows its state, when it airs and one main action, with the rest in the ⋯ menu.
• Settings → About shows the Videorc icon, your version and the track you are on.

Every Videorc window now sits on real macOS glass, with a calmer desktop layout, glass badges, and native menus and scrollbars.

• Studio, Chat, Captions, Notes and Preview all sit on real macOS window glass, and follow Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast.
• A calmer layout with flush panes, a quiet status bar with your shortcuts, and Record and Stream right above your session.
• Badges, status pills and key hints are glass, with colour only where it means something.
• Settings reads like System Settings, and text fields get the native Cut, Copy and Paste menu.

Switch your camera, microphone or screen without stopping a recording or stream, keep the Chat window usable at any width, and explore the new Upcoming workspace.

• Change your camera, microphone, display or window while recording or streaming, without restarting.
• The Chat window stays readable at narrow widths and always shows how many people are watching.
• The Streaming tab now has an Upcoming workspace for scheduled YouTube events.
• Public YouTube account connection remains paused pending Google approval; scheduling is available only in authorized verification builds.
• Scheduled events never start automatically; the broadcaster chooses when to go live.

Save complete scenes and switch between them, move sources smoothly in Freeform, and keep your framing and background choices.

• Save complete scenes and apply them from Scene or Studio, including while recording.
• Drag and resize sources smoothly in Freeform, with optional snapping and easier small-source handles.
• Switch scenes without diagnostic flashes, and keep separate framing for each layout.
• Find sources with search and keep removed backgrounds removed after restarting.
• Set your own global layout shortcuts in Settings.

Drag and resize your camera and screen right on the canvas or place them freely, stream a vertical feed that shows your whole screen above your camera, and meet Orcle, the new name for Co-host.

• New layout editor. Drag and resize your camera and screen on the canvas, with snap guides and exact position and size fields.
• New Freeform arrangement. Place your sources anywhere, and the arrangement is still there after a relaunch.
• Streaming horizontal and vertical at once, the vertical stream now shows your whole screen above your camera instead of its cropped middle, and you can change it while you are live.
• Co-host is now called Orcle. It still reads your live chat, groups the questions people ask, and drafts replies you approve.
• A takeover no longer leaves your microphone muted after a relaunch, and Refresh finds a camera you plug in after opening Videorc.

Scan a QR code and a phone on the same Wi-Fi shows your live chat, puts a message on stream with a tap, and switches scenes, with nothing to install.

• New Phone remote. Scan a QR code in Settings and your phone opens a live chat monitor and control deck in its browser. There is no app to install.
• Tap a message on your phone to show it on stream, and tap again to take it off.
• Switch scenes, show takeovers, mute your microphone, and start or stop from your phone. Stop is press and hold, so a stray tap never ends your stream.
• Each phone is paired on its own. Remove one in Settings and your other devices stay connected.
• Updates and downloads now come from two independent servers, so a network that blocks one of them no longer stops you from updating.

The Comments window is now Chat, with the app's glass look and a highlight you can place in any corner, and Videorc can now measure your computer and recommend a recording quality it can actually hold.

• Comments is now called Chat everywhere, and the Chat and Captions windows get the same glass look as the main window.
• Pick the corner where a highlighted message appears on your video, so it never lands on top of your camera.
• Videorc now measures your computer once with a few short test recordings and recommends an output it can hold. Run it again any time from the Recording tab.
• New installs start at 1080p30 instead of 1440p30, so a modest computer records well from the first take.
• Stopping a recording on a struggling computer now waits for the file to finish instead of cutting it short.

Comments from your X broadcasts now show up in the Comments window next to YouTube and Twitch, with names and avatars, and the feed recovers by itself after a network hiccup.

• Viewer comments from a native X broadcast appear in the Comments window, with the author's name and avatar.
• No need to reconnect X. If you already authorized X Live, comments just start arriving.
• A dropped connection heals by itself mid-stream instead of going quiet for the rest of the broadcast.
• If something needs you, like signing in, the X row now says exactly what, instead of showing an empty feed.

The Live Co-host learns a richer way to talk to its server, so smarter moderation, highlight suggestions and your own chat rules can switch on without another app update.

• Write your own chat rules in plain language, like "no spoilers" or "English only", ready for the co-host to flag against as the new moderation rolls out.
• Flagged messages can show what kind of problem it is, who it targets and a suggested action.
• A "Suggested" badge can mark comments worth putting on stream - you still decide, nothing is shown automatically.
• A calm chat alert in the co-host pane when several people hit the same problem at once.

One Go Live can now send your horizontal scene to YouTube, Twitch and X while your saved vertical scene streams to TikTok, Instagram and a second portrait YouTube broadcast - a real 9:16 composition of your sources, never a crop of the landscape picture.

• New destinations - TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Vertical, a second portrait broadcast on the same channel.
• Vertical destinations get their own 9:16 composition from your saved vertical scene while landscape destinations keep the horizontal scene.
• Up to 5 destinations across both orientations on every plan, and a destination that fails only stops its own stream.
• The Go Live confirmation estimates the upload bandwidth for both legs and walks you through Instagram's "Go live" step.

Clicking Record now starts the recording within a blink and Stop hands the Record button back immediately, with the MP4 saved in the background - the same instant feel you get in OBS.

• Record starts in about a tenth of a second on a warm Studio, down from roughly a second.
• Stop is immediate; the Library shows "Saving MP4…" and swaps to the finished file by itself.
• The selected microphone stays ready while Studio is visible, so audio starts in lockstep with video.
• A failed MP4 export now offers "Retry export" instead of leaving a half-finished recording.

Every plan can now go live to up to five destinations at once - YouTube, Twitch, X, and custom RTMP - with no Premium upgrade required. Multistreaming runs entirely on your machine, so there was never a server bill behind it; Premium continues to fund cloud AI publishing, live captions, the live co-host, and higher single-destination streaming quality.

• Multistream to up to five destinations on every plan, including the free studio.
• The Premium lock on extra destinations is gone from the Live tab and the Go Live dialog.
• Premium keeps cloud AI publishing, live captions, live co-host, and 1080p60 / 4K30 streaming.

When a capture source hiccups, Videorc quietly fixes it in the background - the same self-healing as before, minus the red alert, the "Repairing capture" chip, and the Restart capture button that used to take over the Studio while you were working. Your session keeps running, the preview keeps moving, and the Studio stays about your content. The technical details remain available in the Diagnostics tab for anyone who wants to look under the hood.

• The red capture alert and Restart capture button are gone from the Studio - recovery happens silently in the background.
• The "Repairing capture" status chip no longer appears next to your session badge.
• Diagnostics keeps the full technical picture, including recovery activity, for troubleshooting.

On Intel integrated graphics, Videorc was falling back to software encoding and working the CPU harder than it needed to; hardware H.264 encoding now starts correctly on those machines, including the Iris Xe startup failures at higher bitrates. The Studio also stops showing capture-repair alerts and the OBS import banner, the controls stay responsive when the preview is struggling, and the post-recording quality check no longer gives up early on long or 4K recordings.

• Intel integrated GPUs (Iris Xe and similar) now use hardware H.264 encoding instead of falling back to the CPU.
• The red capture alert, Restart capture button, and repairing status chip are gone from the Studio - recovery happens silently in the background.
• Studio controls answer quickly even when the preview surface is struggling, instead of blocking for 30+ seconds.
• The post-recording quality check completes on longer and 4K recordings instead of timing out.

Capture cards like the Elgato Cam Link 4K advertise full 4K, but at true 4K they sit at the physical limit of a USB 3.0 port - any bus pressure collapses delivery to a choppy ~6fps, which is the laggy preview and recording some of you have seen since 0.9.77 started selecting the card's real 4K format. Videorc now notices within about ten seconds that the camera cannot sustain its negotiated resolution and steps it down one tier to 1080p60 with a single quick restart. You get 4K when your USB bus delivers it, and automatic smoothness when it cannot.

• Laggy Cam Link / USB capture card video fixes itself within ~10 seconds - one automatic step-down to 1080p60.
• The step-down happens once per camera and is remembered, so the session stays stable afterwards.
• Nothing changes for cameras whose USB bandwidth keeps up - they keep their full negotiated format.

0.9.88's camera priority boost used a system call in a way macOS forbids, which could crash and restart the recording engine in a loop the moment the app started with a camera configured. Same priority boost, correct mechanism, no crash. Update immediately if you are on 0.9.88. The "Coming from OBS?" banner in the Studio is also gone - the import lives in Settings.

• Fixes the 0.9.88 backend crash loop at camera start - update immediately.
• The camera priority boost from 0.9.88 is preserved, implemented the way macOS requires.
• The OBS import banner no longer appears in the Studio; import stays available in Settings -> Import.

The camera lag investigation reached its root - under heavy overall system load, macOS itself delivers camera frames below full rate, and restarting the camera cannot fix that. Videorc now tells the difference - a camera that genuinely froze is restarted silently, a camera that is merely slowed by system pressure is left alone and logged quietly, and no warnings interrupt your session either way. Camera capture also gets a priority boost so macOS sheds other work before your camera under load.

• No more mid-session warnings or repair attempts while you record - a slowed camera is recognized as system pressure and handled silently.
• Camera capture now runs at elevated priority, so under load macOS deprioritizes other work before your camera frames.
• A genuinely frozen camera still self-heals silently in the background - two failures before you are ever notified.
• Every diagnostic line now reports Videorc's own CPU share, so slowdowns can be attributed at a glance.

This build is functionally identical to 0.9.86 - it exists to carry the one-time capture-endurance certification. The exact signed bytes of this release passed three consecutive four-hour real-device capture soaks at 4K30 plus a live camera-and-screen recovery validation before publication, and the published files are byte-for-byte the ones that were tested.

• The exact published build passed 12+ hours of consecutive real-device 4K capture soaks with zero degradation before release.
• Automatic camera and screen recovery were proven live on real hardware in the same certified build.
• Published bytes are cryptographically sealed before testing and verified byte-for-byte after publication - what was tested is exactly what you install.

The automatic capture self-repair introduced in 0.9.84 is now a full recovery system - it covers the screen source as well as the camera, walks a staged restart-verify-recover flow you can observe in Diagnostics, and the session lifecycle around it was hardened end to end. Releases now also have to pass a 60-minute idle soak and an analyzed 15-minute recording before they ship, so this class of degradation cannot quietly return.

• Automatic capture recovery now covers both camera and screen sources, with a staged restart that verifies real frame delivery before declaring recovery.
• Recovery progress is observable - each attempt reports its phase, attempt count, and outcome instead of happening invisibly.
• Session start/stop lifecycle hardening around recovery, teardown, and process ownership.
• Every release build must now pass a 60-minute idle capture soak and an analyzed 15-minute recording gate before it can ship.

The "after a couple of videos the camera lags" problem now has a self-repair - when camera frame delivery collapses, Videorc automatically restarts the camera with your exact settings and verifies it recovered, instead of limping along until you restart the app. The diagnostics behind it also got much sharper, so the remaining root cause is being pinned down with every session you record.

• When camera frame delivery collapses mid-session, Videorc now restarts the camera automatically and verifies the recovery - no more app restarts to fix a lagging camera.
• If automatic recovery fails twice, you get a clear warning instead of silent degradation.
• Camera diagnostics now record the negotiated frame rate at every start and distinguish a starving buffer pool from a camera that genuinely slowed down.
• Deleting a recording right after making it no longer produces warning noise from its pending quality check.

During a livestream, a struggling preview window could silently jam the app's command pipeline — controls timed out with "outcome is unknown" errors and eventually "command lane is full", even though the stream itself was healthy. Preview operations now fail fast and retry quietly in the background instead of blocking everything behind them, and the errors you saw are gone.

• Preview-surface operations can no longer jam the command pipeline — they answer quickly and retry in the background instead of blocking other controls for 30+ seconds.
• The background preview-position sync no longer surfaces alarming error toasts mid-stream for conditions that resolve themselves.
• When a command does run long, Videorc now records exactly which one and for how long, so a report from the field pinpoints the cause immediately.

Some of you have hit a state where, after the app has been open a while, the preview starts lagging and recordings come out choppy until a restart. This update makes Videorc detect and record that state the moment it starts, warns you when a recording likely contains frozen frames instead of staying silent, and fixes a camera startup error and a background logging loop found in the same investigation.

• Videorc now monitors its own capture pipeline and records exactly when and where frame delivery degrades, instead of lagging silently until a restart.
• Recordings that likely contain frozen frames now raise a visible warning, even when the automated file check cannot finish.
• The post-recording quality check no longer gives up early on longer or 4K recordings.
• Cameras with fractional frame rates (29.97, 59.94) no longer hit a hidden error on every camera start.

If you updated to 0.9.79, Studio could fail to finish loading before you did anything at all. A diagnostic value that is simply absent while idle was being sent as an empty value, and the app's own safety check rejected it and stopped the load. Update to 0.9.80 — this is the only change.

• Studio loads normally again after the 0.9.79 update, which could stall on startup before any recording began.

If you installed the 0.9.79 pilot, Studio could fail to finish loading before you did anything at all. A diagnostic value that is simply absent while idle was being sent as an empty value, and the app's own safety check rejected it and stopped the load. Update to 0.9.80 — this is the only change.

• Studio loads normally again after the 0.9.79 pilot, which could stall on startup before any recording began.

Under output pressure the recorder used to throw away frames it had already encoded — the reported case reached a full queue with the oldest frame more than half a second late. It now protects every encoded frame and sheds only work it has not done yet, stopping only after a genuine stall. Live controls also stop getting stuck: switching scenes, screens, captions or chat now reconciles against what the backend actually did instead of blindly replaying a command whose outcome was unknown.

• Recordings under heavy load no longer lose frames that were already encoded — only unrendered work is skipped, and only while real progress continues.
• Scene, screen, caption, chat and takeover changes no longer stick or double-apply when a command's outcome was unclear; they reconcile against the backend's real state.
• Backend commands run in separate lanes, so a slow chat or account request can no longer delay going live or stopping a recording.
• Recording and streaming get their own encoder roles where supported, with per-role diagnostics reset between sessions and stale files cleaned up safely.

Under output pressure the recorder used to throw away frames it had already encoded — the reported case reached a completely full queue with the oldest frame more than half a second late. It now protects finished frames and skips only work it has not done yet, stopping only after a genuine stall. Live controls also stop getting stuck: scene, screen, caption and chat changes reconcile against what the backend actually did instead of blindly replaying a command whose outcome was unknown.

• Recordings under heavy load no longer lose frames that were already encoded — only unrendered work is skipped, and only while real progress continues.
• Scene, screen, caption, chat and takeover changes no longer stick or double-apply when a command's outcome was unclear.
• Backend commands run in separate lanes, so a slow chat or account request can no longer delay going live or stopping a recording.
• Recording and streaming get their own encoder roles where supported, with per-role diagnostics reset between sessions.

Unplugging a microphone mid-recording used to end the whole session. Now the recording keeps going, the audio track is padded with silence from the moment the mic vanished, and a warning stays on screen explaining what happened — so you finish the take and keep the video. Recordings also survive brief encoder backpressure that could previously cut a session short.

• Losing a microphone mid-session no longer stops the recording — it keeps rolling, pads the audio with silence, and tells you what happened.
• The warning about a lost microphone stays put and survives a reconnect, so you are not left guessing why the audio went quiet.
• Short bursts of encoder backpressure no longer end a recording that was otherwise healthy.

The Windows pilot catches up from 0.9.72 to 0.9.78. The biggest one for anyone using a capture card: Videorc was recording 1080p and enlarging it to fill a 4K canvas, because cards run at 29.97 frames per second and a 30 fps request rejected them by three hundredths of a frame. Also here — recordings survive a lost microphone, frozen recordings get reported instead of passing silently, the sidebar shows keyboard shortcuts only while you hold Ctrl, and scrollbars lost their heavy backgrounds.

• Capture cards record at their native resolution again instead of a 1080p image stretched to fit — 4K recordings through a Cam Link or similar were soft and now are not.
• Losing a microphone mid-recording no longer ends the session on the native audio path; the recording continues and pads the audio with silence.
• A recording whose frames froze is now flagged after capture instead of passing quietly as fine.
• The microphone meter works before you record, so you can check the mic without starting a session.
• Hold Ctrl to see the sidebar's keyboard shortcuts; release it and they fade away.
• Scrollbars are a faint thumb with no track, Settings lost its blank gap, and the co-host no longer appears during recording-only sessions.

If you record through a capture card like the Cam Link 4K, Videorc was quietly capturing 1080p and enlarging it to fill a 4K canvas — because the card runs at 29.97 frames per second and a 30 fps request rejected it by three hundredths of a frame. It now captures at the card's native resolution. Also in this release: the mic meter works before you hit record, the co-host stays out of recording-only sessions, scrollbars lost their heavy background, and the empty space in Settings is gone.

• Capture cards now record at their native resolution instead of a 1080p image stretched to fit — if you use a Cam Link or similar, your 4K recordings were soft and now are not.
• The microphone meter moves whenever the mixer is on screen, so you can check your mic is working before recording rather than guessing.
• The co-host no longer appears during a recording-only session — it reads live chat, which a recording does not have.
• Scrollbars are now just a faint rounded thumb with no track behind it, everywhere in the app.
• Settings no longer has a large blank gap in the middle of the page.

Holding Command now reveals the sidebar's keyboard shortcuts with a quick cascade, and — the actual bug — they disappear again after you use one. Pressing ⌘2 used to leave every hint stuck on screen until the next keypress. The sidebar is also 32px narrower now that those hints are hidden by default, and the header reads as just "Videorc" with a beta badge underneath.

• Using a shortcut no longer leaves the hints stuck on screen — press ⌘2, let go, and they're gone.
• The hints now cascade in over the sidebar instead of appearing all at once, and vanish the instant you release Command.
• Moving the mouse while still holding Command keeps the hints up, so reaching for the trackpad doesn't hide what you're reading.
• The sidebar is narrower, closing the empty gap that opened up when the shortcut hints became hidden by default.
• The header is just "Videorc" with a beta badge below it — the "Recording studio" line is gone.

Sidebar shortcut hints now appear only while you hold Command, so the shortcut layer shows up exactly when you ask for it instead of sitting on screen permanently. Underneath, macOS capture was reworked to track ownership per session rather than process-wide — a finished recording can no longer leave frames, encoders or preview state behind for the next one — with far deeper diagnostics behind it, including honest per-source frame freshness and drop reasons in every support bundle.

• Hold Command to see the sidebar's keyboard shortcuts; release it and they fade away, so the list is there when you want it and quiet when you don't.
• macOS capture now owns its frames per session, so stopping a recording releases its encoder, textures and preview state instead of leaving them for the next session to fight over.
• Recordings are checked more strictly after capture, including frame freshness and whether the screen actually moved, so a frozen or empty recording is reported rather than passing quietly.
• Support bundles now say exactly why a frame was dropped and how fresh each source was, which is what turns a "it looked laggy" report into a specific answer.
• Icons across the app are now managed as one reviewed set, which removes several near-duplicate glyphs that meant the same thing.

Each recording's encoder is now torn down deterministically the moment its session ends. Previously the encoder loop of a finished session could keep running — still compressing 4K video with no session attached — competing with the next recording's screen and camera capture, which is the strongest lead in the "later recordings freeze" investigation. Recording starts now also wait for (and loudly report) any leftover encoder from a previous session, and a backend logging failure can no longer crash a recording in progress.

• When a recording ends, its encoder is shut down and reaped within a bounded deadline — it can no longer keep encoding in the background and steal capture bandwidth from your next clip.
• Starting a recording now checks for leftover encoders from previous sessions, waits briefly for them to clear, and warns you honestly if one is still running.
• A failure to write a log line (for example when the app is shutting down) can no longer crash the recording backend mid-session.

A recording whose frames froze mid-session is now caught by the automatic quality check and flagged with a visible warning — previously a majority-frozen file could pass as "ready" because re-encoded held frames defeat exact-repeat detection. The recording pipeline also gains per-source freshness diagnostics (fresh vs held frame serves for screen and camera) in every support bundle and session accounting line, plus a new multi-session decay smoke gate, in direct pursuit of the "second recording lags" regression.

• Recordings with frozen frames are now flagged by the automatic quality check with a visible warning, instead of silently passing as "ready".
• The quality check listens to the recording pipeline's own counters, so a real freeze is never mistaken for you simply holding still.
• Every session now records how many frames each source delivered fresh versus held, in the session log and support bundles — the data that pinpoints where a laggy recording lost its frames.

The Comments window now shows the co-host's state at all times — off, reading your chat, thinking, paused, or stuck — with a live heartbeat, a "reading N new messages…" indicator the moment chat comes in, and a receipt when it groups questions. The Studio session panel carries the same status.

• A permanent co-host status lives in the Comments window header — even when the co-host is off, you see "Co-host off" with a one-click way to turn it on, instead of nothing at all.
• When chat messages arrive you see "reading 4 new…" with typing dots, then "thinking…" while the AI pass runs, then a brief "grouped 2 questions" receipt — the co-host is visibly alive with your chat.
• The tooltip answers everything at a glance — last pass 12s ago, 84 messages read, 5 questions found, 3 open.
• A collapsed Co-host pane shows an unread-question badge, and the first question of a session opens the pane once by itself.
• The Studio session panel shows the same co-host status during a session, so you know its state without the Comments window open.
• If you go live with the co-host off but available, one dismissible line offers to turn it on.

The Comments window now shows the co-host's state at all times — off, reading your chat, thinking, paused, or stuck — with a live heartbeat, a "reading N new messages…" indicator the moment chat comes in, and a receipt when it groups questions. The Studio session panel carries the same status.

• A permanent co-host status lives in the Comments window header — even when the co-host is off, you see "Co-host off" with a one-click way to turn it on, instead of nothing at all.
• When chat messages arrive you see "reading 4 new…" with typing dots, then "thinking…" while the AI pass runs, then a brief "grouped 2 questions" receipt — the co-host is visibly alive with your chat.
• The tooltip answers everything at a glance — last pass 12s ago, 84 messages read, 5 questions found, 3 open.
• A collapsed Co-host pane shows an unread-question badge, and the first question of a session opens the pane once by itself.
• The Studio session panel shows the same co-host status during a session, so you know its state without the Comments window open.
• If you go live with the co-host off but available, one dismissible line offers to turn it on.

A community-contributed fix makes screen + camera recordings on the direct D3D11 path hold steady cadence — deeper texture pools stop transient frame skips, and the encoder no longer silently loses frames when two arrive close together. New per-tick render diagnostics make any remaining loss visible.

• Screen + camera recordings hold their target frame rate on the direct D3D11 path — measured 29.5 fps at a 30 fps target on mid-range hardware, up from 27.5.
• Texture pools are sized for camera sessions, so a brief GPU fence delay no longer skips a frame silently.
• The encoder wakes the moment a new frame is published instead of one clock beat later, so back-to-back frames are no longer overwritten before being read.
• New render diagnostics (tick overruns, worst tick lag, compose-stage time) land in support bundles, making frame loss traceable to its stage.
• Contributed by @petercr with physical evidence on Windows 11 hardware — thank you!

Windows gets the same batch as macOS 0.9.68 — crashes now leave a record in the support bundle, the capture pipeline resets properly after a session, the preview always returns after stop, every recording logs a frame-accounting summary, and the audio mixer shows real levels without running while idle.

• If the backend crashes, the support bundle now carries the exit code, signal and the last log lines, and a backend.log is kept on disk — the first step toward fixing the restart reports we received.
• After a session ends the D3D11 capture state resets and the live preview always comes back, instead of stalling or staying in a draining state.
• Each recording ends with a frame-accounting summary (captured, composited, submitted, encoded) so dropped frames can be traced to the stage that dropped them.
• The audio mixer shows honest levels and stays idle until you turn on Monitor input or start a session.
• Recording no longer refuses to start over a brief compositor hiccup, and a start that does fail shows a persistent error with Retry.
• Settings cards fit their content in two columns, and your account avatar arrives from the web.

Recording no longer refuses to start over a brief compositor hiccup — it starts and warns instead — and a start that does fail is now impossible to miss. The audio mixer finally shows real levels and stays quiet when you're not recording. Your avatar arrives from the web, Settings cards fit their content, and backend crashes leave a record in the support bundle.

• Recording starts even when the compositor stumbles for a moment at launch — a brief frame-gap hiccup now yields a recording with a warning instead of a refusal. If a start truly fails, you get a persistent error with Retry and a badge on the Record button, not a four-second toast.
• The audio mixer shows honest levels — room tone sits at the floor, speech rises fast and falls naturally — and it no longer opens your mic or dances while you're idle unless you turn on Monitor input. It arms itself the moment a session starts.
• Your account avatar now shows in the app, including for Google-linked accounts, and chat avatars render in the detached Comments window.
• Settings cards are sized to their content in two tidy columns; Remote control no longer stretches to fill an empty row.
• If the backend ever crashes, the support bundle now carries the exit code, signal and the last log lines from the crashed process, and a backend.log file is kept on disk.
• Windows groundwork: the capture pipeline resets cleanly after a session, the preview always comes back after stop, and every recording logs a frame-accounting summary so dropped frames can be traced to the stage that dropped them.

Last night the co-host could fail mid-stream with a bare "Videorc AI returned an error". The cause was on our servers and is fixed there; this update makes the app tell you exactly what went wrong, gives each AI pass more time before giving up, and confirms the Publish tab's AI works end to end again.

• When the co-host pauses on an error, the toast and the status chip now carry the reason and the server's message — "ai-gateway-error: …" instead of a mystery.
• Each co-host pass gets 12 seconds before the app gives up (was 8), matched by a longer budget on the server, so a slow moment at the AI provider no longer reads as a failure.
• One error toast per distinct cause, not one per retry — a flapping provider can't spam you while you're live.
• Server side (already live): our AI gateway client read the model's answer from the wrong field, so every structured AI call — co-host ticks and the Publish pack alike — was failing. Fixed, and the co-host now runs on a fast model that fits its budget.
• Publish-tab AI (transcript → titles, description, chapters) is verified working again end to end.

The Windows Alpha picks up the co-host reliability update — error toasts now carry the real reason, each AI pass gets 12 seconds, and the server-side gateway fix that broke last night's co-host and the Publish pack is already live.

• Co-host error toasts and the status chip now show the server's error code and message instead of a bare "AI returned an error".
• Each co-host pass has 12 seconds (was 8) before the app gives up, with a matching server budget.
• One toast per distinct cause while live, not one per retry.
• Server fix (already live): structured AI calls — co-host and Publish pack — read the model's answer correctly again.

The Windows Alpha jumps from 0.9.51 to 0.9.66 in one update. Everything shipped on macOS since mid-August comes along — steadier cameras and scene changes, recording that recovers instead of refusing, Twitch connect that completes, X viewer counts — and the new Premium AI co-host for live chat (alpha).

• Meet the co-host (alpha, Premium) — the Comments window groups the questions your chat is actually asking, drafts replies you approve with one key, and flags messages that need a moderator's eye. Nothing is ever sent without you.
• Cameras stay steady through scene changes — switching layouts no longer restarts the camera, and the optional scene-motion glide is available (off by default).
• Record recovers a tired camera instead of refusing — a degraded-but-alive device is restarted once, then recording proceeds with a warning rather than a dead button.
• Connecting Twitch completes now — the device-code sign-in no longer authorizes into the void.
• Livestream lessons — takeover mute, window-only comments, notes-only capture privacy, a stop that actually stops, and X viewer counts in the Comments window.
• Notes-proof recording and real camera panning — the Notes window can't leak into a capture, and cover-crop camera scenes pan properly.

Premium gets a live co-host that reads your chat while you stream, groups the questions people are actually asking, drafts replies you approve with one key, and flags messages that need a moderator's eye. Nothing is ever sent without you.

• The Comments window gains a Co-host pane (alpha, Premium) — unanswered questions from Twitch and YouTube are grouped across platforms and phrasings ("5 people asking what keyboard"), ranked, and kept until you answer or dismiss them.
• Press R on a question to get a drafted reply in the composer, edit it, and send with ⌘↩ — it goes to every writable platform through the normal fan-out and the question clears itself. The co-host never posts on its own.
• Press H to show the question on stream for ten seconds using the existing comment highlight; A marks it answered, ⌫ dismisses, ⌘J jumps to the pane.
• Teach it your FAQs — Settings → Co-host has a notes box; questions it can answer from your notes come with the answer pre-drafted and marked as such.
• Messages that look toxic, spammy, or self-promotional are flagged with a reason; the co-host only points, it never deletes or times anyone out.
• It only works while chat is actually moving — an idle chat makes zero AI calls, and it pauses honestly when you're signed out, out of Premium, out of daily quota, or haven't turned on cloud AI.

Scene switches can no longer restart the camera at all — the last cause of the camera flashing colors or going dark on camera ↔ screen + camera switches is gone. The app icon also finally sits at the proper macOS Dock size.

• Switching between camera-only and screen + camera no longer restarts the camera — the one preset pair that still power-cycled the device (colors, brief blackout) now shares the same capture geometry as every other scene, so the picture holds rock-steady through any switch.
• Camera quality in the screen + camera overlay actually improves — the camera now captures at full canvas size and scales down into the corner instead of capturing small.
• The Dock icon now renders at the proper macOS size — a runtime override had been quietly replacing the correctly-sized icon with a full-bleed logo on every launch since the beginning. If it still looks big right after updating, macOS is showing a cached tile; it settles on its own.

The scene-motion glitch from 0.9.63 is fixed — switching scenes no longer flashes camera color garbage or cycles the camera off and on. Scene animation is now opt-in from Settings while it settles in.

• Fixed the camera glitching on scene changes — quick scene switching used to restart the camera once per click, stacking restarts that showed color garbage and cycled the device off and on. Now the camera restarts at most once, quietly, after you settle on a scene.
• Scene glides no longer jump mid-motion — background scene updates used to cut a running animation short with a visible snap; they now carry the glide through.
• "Animate scene changes" is now off by default — flip it on in Settings when you want layout switches to glide.
• System access rows in Settings now show a clean green check or red X on the right, with a compact Manage button.

Switching layouts mid-session now glides — the camera visibly slides to its new spot over a third of a second, live on your stream and in your recording. On by default, with a Settings toggle for instant cuts.

• Scene changes animate — flip from side-by-side to screen + camera and the camera glides to its corner instead of teleporting, with a soft ease that starts and lands gently.
• The motion is real, not cosmetic — your live stream, your recording, and the preview all show the same glide.
• Sources that appear with the new layout grow in smoothly; changing scenes again mid-glide redirects the motion without a jump.
• New "Animate scene changes" toggle in Settings (on by default) — turn it off for hard cuts; if your system prefers reduced motion, it starts off.

A background validation error that fired repeatedly while the docked preview was open (introduced with the rounded preview in 0.9.59) is fixed — reported and patched by community contributor TechnicalExpo the same night.

• Fixed a repeating internal validation error while the docked preview was open — introduced alongside 0.9.59's rounded preview, reported and fixed by TechnicalExpo.
• A new cross-layer test makes this whole class of "one validator missed" bugs fail in CI instead of shipping.

Videorc's first outside contributions since going open source — Windows build and startup fixes plus a nicer FFmpeg download experience for contributors, courtesy of TechnicalExpo. Nothing changes on macOS day-to-day; this release keeps the shared codebase healthy.

• First community contributions merged — thanks to TechnicalExpo for fixing the Windows build, a Windows backend startup failure, and adding a live progress bar to the contributor FFmpeg fetcher.
• The Windows backend no longer gets killed at startup on machines where its identity probe was slow — groundwork for the Windows Alpha track.

X quietly shipped a chat-send API in their livestream beta, and Videorc wires it in the same week — type in the Comments window and your message posts to the X broadcast as you. X's 140-character limit is handled honestly across multi-platform sends.

• Sending chat to X livestreams works — messages post to your live broadcast as you, using the X Live authorization you already have.
• Messages over X's 140-character limit still deliver to Twitch and YouTube while the X result explains the limit — nothing is silently cut.
• X viewer counts now use X's current API route.

Opening Notes mid-recording no longer disturbs the capture, camera pan finally moves the picture in fill layouts, X shows its live viewer count, the docked preview clips to its rounded panel, and a Reset button restores camera defaults in one click.

• Opening or closing the Notes window during a recording no longer causes lag or corrupted colors — the capture keeps running untouched.
• Camera Pan X and Pan Y now actually move the visible window, including at 100% zoom in fill layouts — preview and recording agree, and a one-click "Reset camera settings" restores the defaults.
• X livestreams now report their live viewer count, comment-connection problems land in the session health log, and the comments panel says plainly that X chat is receive-only (X provides no send API).
• The docked preview clips to its rounded panel — no more square corners poking out.
• Your account avatar now updates from videorc.com while signed in, and the Dock icon sits at the standard macOS size.
• The caption text-size buttons fit their labels at every window width.

Everything learned from the first real Twitch livestream. Scene switches can no longer glitch the camera mid-recording, stopping a stream completes on the first click even when a platform stalls, takeovers mute your mic automatically, comments move fully into their own window, and camera zoom and pan finally work live.

• Switching scenes while recording no longer risks strange colors or a dropped take — the camera is left untouched mid-session.
• Stopping a livestream completes on the first click even when a streaming platform stops responding; no more Force stop.
• Activating a takeover now mutes your microphone automatically, and clearing it restores your previous mic state.
• Comments now live only in their own window — ⌘J opens it. Notes stays invisible on recordings; comments and captions are visible.
• Camera zoom, pan, fit, and mirror apply live in every layout — no session restart needed — and the camera margin can go to 0.
• Your account avatar and each platform account's avatar now show in the app, background presets toggle off with a second click, and the caption size buttons fit their labels.

Authorizing Videorc on Twitch's device page finally lands back in the app — the connection completes within a few seconds of clicking Authorize. Previous betas showed the Twitch page but never picked up the approval.

• Connecting a Twitch account works end to end — approve on Twitch's page and the account card fills in a few seconds later.
• Earlier betas opened the Twitch authorization page but silently never completed the connection; that listener now genuinely waits for your approval.

Clicking Record after hours of camera uptime could silently do nothing when the capture card's frame delivery had drifted. Recording now restarts the camera on the spot and, if it stays jittery, records anyway with a warning — the button always does something.

• A camera that drifted into uneven frame delivery (long-running capture cards do this) no longer blocks recording — Videorc restarts it automatically before encoding begins.
• If the camera stays jittery after the restart, the recording starts anyway with a stutter warning in the session health log, instead of refusing outright.
• 24p and 25p sources feeding a 30fps session now get an honest frame-timing budget, so healthy cameras stop tripping the startup check.

A Noise Cleanup result saved as MP4 could leave the session library in a state that blocked recording entirely. The bad entry heals itself on launch, and new cleanups store correctly.

• Fixed a state where one Noise Cleanup result could block recording with a "container must be one of…" error — existing libraries repair themselves on launch.

The takeover hint no longer nudges the Studio layout, a saved recording offers Play and Open in Library right from the toast, and Sign out moved to the bottom of the account menu where it belongs.

• Clicking a takeover no longer shifts the Studio layout — the hint text keeps a fixed footprint in every state.
• The "Recording saved" toast now offers the two things you actually want next — Play, and Open in Library — instead of a publishing pitch.
• Sign out is now the last item in the account menu, separated from everyday actions.

The docked preview no longer looks grainy or "snowy" — it now renders at your display's full Retina resolution with proper smoothing. A crash that could kill the app when starting a recording is fixed, duplicate camera entries are gone from the picker, and two nagging toasts are retired.

• The preview now renders at full Retina resolution with proper scaling, eliminating the grainy "snow" some setups saw in the docked preview — recordings were never affected.
• Fixed a crash that could take down the whole app when starting a recording while the preview was open.
• Switching layout presets now re-tunes the camera capture automatically, so an inset camera moved to full-canvas stays sharp.
• The camera picker no longer shows duplicate "FFmpeg fallback" entries beside your real cameras.
• The "YouTube OAuth is temporarily unavailable" message no longer pops up when going live — the YouTube destination card shows the status inline instead.
• The camera frame-rate mismatch warning no longer interrupts every recording; it is recorded in the session's health log instead.

Fixes a 0.9.51 regression where switching from camera to screen share and back left the camera dead — capture cards like the Elgato Cam Link that take a few seconds to wake were restarted over and over instead of being allowed to finish. Preview ghosting during failed switches goes with it.

• Switching camera → screen share → camera works again with slow-waking capture devices — Cam Link, Continuity Camera, and virtual cameras included.
• The camera now gets the same generous startup budget as screen capture, and a retried switch waits for a camera that is still warming up instead of restarting it from zero.
• The stale "shadow" frames some setups saw during those failed switches disappear along with the retry loop.

A camera that stopped delivering frames — Elgato Cam Link owners hit this after an HDMI re-plug — no longer wedges until you restart the app. Live scene and monitor switches are more tolerant of slow starts, and a nagging YouTube notice is gone.

• A camera session that never delivers a frame now restarts itself on the next switch instead of blocking forever — the fix for Cam Link-style capture devices after an HDMI or USB re-plug.
• Switching scenes or the captured monitor during a live session now tolerates slow screen-capture starts instead of failing spuriously.
• Scene switching while idle no longer glitches after a session ends.
• The repeated "YouTube OAuth is temporarily unavailable" popup is gone — the destination card still shows the status inline.

The Windows installer carries a real Videorc code signature, so Windows names the publisher instead of warning about an unknown one. Switching scenes and capture sources is more reliable, and diagnostic support bundles now redact sensitive values correctly.

• The installer and the app are signed, so Windows shows a verified publisher rather than an unknown one.
• Switching capture sources during a session no longer reports a failure for a switch that actually completed.
• Scene switching while idle no longer glitches after the session ends.
• Support bundles shared for troubleshooting now redact sensitive values correctly.

In 0.9.49 the Twitch sign-in reached Twitch and then stopped — approving it in the browser did nothing. The app now completes the connection, and you can copy the authorization link to open it in whichever browser you are signed in on.

• Approving the Twitch connection in your browser now actually completes it — 0.9.49 stopped one step short.
• New Copy link button on the sign-in prompt, for when your default browser is not the one you are signed into the platform with.
• The sign-in prompt now stays until the connection finishes instead of disappearing after a few seconds.

Connecting Twitch was still failing after 0.9.48 — the credential fix was real but incomplete, because Twitch rejects the sign-in method Videorc was using. Sign-in is rebuilt on Twitch's device authorization flow.

• Twitch sign-in now uses Twitch's device authorization flow, the method Twitch supports for desktop apps that hold no secret.
• Correction to 0.9.48 — that release said Twitch connect was fixed. It was not; the credential it fixed was necessary but not sufficient.
• When a sign-in does fail, the browser page now tells you why instead of showing a bare failure.

Connecting a Twitch account failed for everyone because Videorc was built with a placeholder credential instead of the real one — that is fixed, and a new release check makes it impossible to ship that mistake again.

• Connecting Twitch works again — every previous build was compiled with a placeholder credential, so Twitch always answered "invalid client".
• Releases now refuse to build when a credential is still template text, so a provider can never ship looking configured but broken.
• Groundwork for native YouTube connection: the sign-in exchange with Google was missing a required field and could never complete.

The Windows Alpha now starts recording more reliably, keeps preview work bounded under pressure, and handles more hardware paths cleanly.

• Windows recording startup is more reliable across hardware-accelerated and software fallback paths.
• The live preview stays responsive under sustained capture and encoding pressure.
• GPU and capture capability detection now choose safer paths on more Windows systems.
• The signed Alpha installer remains identifiable as Videorc instead of an unknown publisher.

If your camera feeds a different frame rate than your session is set to — like a mirrorless outputting 24p over HDMI into a 30fps session — Videorc now warns you the moment you start recording, before viewers ever see the stutter. The automatic quality check also stops flagging a person simply holding still as a "frozen" recording.

• New warning at recording start when your camera delivers a different frame rate than the session is set to (for example a 24p HDMI feed into a 30fps session), including exactly how it will look and how to fix it.
• The automatic quality check now only reports a freeze when frames were genuinely repeated — sitting still on camera no longer marks a perfectly good recording "not 100%".
• Clean recordings are never re-encoded anymore by the automatic repair when nothing is actually wrong with them.
• Remote control from 0.9.46 is included in this macOS release — Stream Deck support, global shortcuts, and a token-gated local API.

Windows recording is reliable end to end — signed installer, working screen, camera, and microphone capture, and stable recording startup.

• Recordings no longer fail moments after starting; encoder stalls are tolerated instead of killing the session.
• A reliable software encoder fallback keeps recording working on machines where hardware encoding is unavailable.
• Faster, more stable recording startup.
• The installer is Authenticode-signed — no more "Unknown publisher" warning.

0.9.44 could kill a 4K recording seconds in and freeze the preview under encoder pressure — both are fixed at the root. Recordings now ride out encoder pressure instead of dying, the preview keeps rendering no matter how hard the encoder works, status checks answer instantly even while a recording is saving, and the AI tab now says exactly why cloud features are unavailable instead of silently doing nothing.

• Fixed 4K recordings dying seconds after start — a recording now rides out encoder pressure and only stops if the encoder is truly stuck, never because of a single slow moment.
• Fixed the preview freezing or tearing during demanding recordings — the compositor can no longer be starved by the encoder, by construction.
• Fixed "Backend request timed out" errors while starting or stopping recordings — status checks now answer instantly even during long saves.
• The AI tab now names the real reason when cloud features are unavailable, and your consent switch never silently turns itself off.

Recording quality got a ground-up pass. 60fps recordings now use the same high-quality pipeline as 30fps and end perfectly in sync, every file carries proper color information so it looks the same in every player, exported audio is higher quality with an option to keep the lossless original — and the green screen keyer now removes real, imperfectly-lit screens, not just ideal colors.

• 60fps recordings (1080p and 1440p) now run through the same pipeline as 30fps — what you see in the preview is what gets recorded, and audio/video stay in sync to the last frame.
• Every recording is now tagged with standard BT.709 color, so your footage shows the same colors in QuickTime, on YouTube, and in every editor — no more player guesswork.
• Green screen now actually keys real screens — the first release keyed only ideal colors; the new keyer handles unevenly lit, real-world green screens with room to spare.
• Exported MP4 audio jumped from 160 to 256 kbps, and a new setting can keep the original lossless-audio recording file next to the MP4.

Going live to multiple platforms no longer dies when one connection hiccups. A brief stall now just drops a few stream frames and recovers, you get a warning when a destination is struggling — and if streaming genuinely fails, your local recording is finished and saved instead of being thrown away.

• A brief network stall on any streaming platform no longer ends your session — the stream drops a few frames, recovers, and keeps going.
• When a destination is accepting data slower than your stream produces it, a warning tells you — before anything worse happens, not after.
• If streaming genuinely dies mid-session, your local recording is finalized and saved with an honest message about what happened — previously the whole session was marked failed and the recording was buried.
• Recordings themselves keep their strict quality guarantees — nothing about local recording reliability was loosened.

On a fresh install, a camera or microphone you have never used now shows an Enable button that actually asks for access — instead of a dead end that sent you to System Settings, where a first-time permission cannot be granted. Plus a Windows recording-finalization reliability fix.

• A camera or microphone you have never used now shows "Enable" and prompts for access directly, instead of dead-ending at a System Settings link that could not grant a first-time permission.
• Every permission entry point — onboarding, Sources, Settings, Diagnostics, and preview recovery — now runs through one consistent flow, and simply viewing the mic meter never triggers a prompt.
• Windows: recording finalization now retries transient file locks so your MP4 completes normally instead of falling back to MKV recovery.

Starting a plain recording no longer touches your streaming destinations at all — no platform checks, no chat setup — unless you actually go live. Deleting sessions is handled more reliably, and Windows gets a batch of live-microphone and recording fixes.

• Starting a local recording no longer runs any streaming setup — no destination validation, no live-chat attachment — unless you explicitly go live.
• The microphone you had selected at the start of a session is preserved exactly, so an untouched mic no longer sends a redundant mid-session change.
• Deleting recordings is handled more reliably in the Library.
• Windows: live microphone gain and mute now apply correctly while recording and streaming.
• Windows: recording captures your device's native audio format and normalizes cleanly to 48 kHz stereo.

Switching back to horizontal after using vertical mode no longer leaves the preview stuck in the old shape — the preview window now follows every orientation and size change immediately, while recordings keep their fixed canvas.

• The preview now reshapes instantly on every orientation switch — including switching back to horizontal after vertical mode, which could previously leave it stuck in the old shape.
• Recording and streaming canvases stay locked at their session size — only the idle preview follows window and orientation changes.

Key out your background with the new Green screen control and put yourself over any scene or backdrop — it works in every camera layout, live and recorded. Plus live captions finally render in the style you chose instead of a black box, and two Windows fixes for the preview and microphone controls.

• Green screen: flip one switch in the camera Inspector to key out a green or blue screen — works in every camera layout, on the live stream, in recordings, and with the camera bubble shapes.
• Similarity, smoothness, and spill-removal sliders tune the key live while you watch, and the keyed camera over a background image makes a clean virtual set.
• Live captions now render in the style you picked in the Captions tab — the no-background Classic style no longer shows up as a black box on your stream.
• Windows: the preview now reports live correctly, and microphone gain and mute apply during a session.

Premium users can now clean background noise out of a recording with one click in the Library — processed entirely on your Mac, never uploaded, and the original stays untouched. Plus the orientation switch now flips the preview instantly, and recordings stop warning about live comments.

• Noise cleanup (Premium): one click in the Library produces a cleaned copy of a recording — processed on-device with no upload, no quota, and the original file never modified.
• Cleanup runs as a durable job with live progress; it survives app restarts, steps aside automatically if you start recording, and can be cancelled or retried anytime.
• Switching the Studio between horizontal and vertical now reshapes the preview immediately — it no longer stayed in the old orientation until you pressed record.
• Plain recordings no longer warn that Twitch comments are not connected — that check now only runs when you actually go live.
• The scene editor centers the camera label inside circle bubbles.

Switching the Studio between horizontal and vertical could briefly leave the preview and the next recording disagreeing about the canvas — a recording could come out in the wrong shape. Both now change together, every time, in both directions.

• Flipping between horizontal and vertical mode now updates the preview and the recording canvas as one step — a recording can no longer come out in the orientation you just left.
• Switching back to horizontal reliably restores the exact resolution you had before going vertical.
• The fix covers slower machines too, where the mismatch was most likely to appear.

Vertical recordings can no longer come out letterboxed — the canvas is always true 9:16, single-source scenes fill the whole frame, and a new full-screen Camera scene joins vertical mode.

• Vertical mode always records a true portrait canvas — picking a resolution can no longer flip your short-form recording to landscape.
• Portrait resolutions got a proper ladder — 720, 1080p, 2K, and 4K, matching the landscape options.
• A vertical scene with only one source now fills the whole frame with it, instead of leaving a black band.
• New vertical scene, Camera — your camera full screen in 9:16, cropped to fit, with zoom and pan to frame yourself.

Nine small fixes from daily use — a glassier sidebar that reaches the top of the window, aligned window titles, drag-and-drop takeover ordering, and a tidier Studio with duplicate and leftover controls removed.

• The sidebar is glassier, reaches the top of the window, and its footer lines up with the bottom bar.
• Takeover screens reorder by drag and drop — grab a tile and drop it where it belongs.
• Window titles in Notes, Comments, Captions, and Preview now sit level with the close buttons.
• The Scene diagram now shows the camera exactly as it records — no rounded corners where there are none.
• Duplicate and leftover controls removed across Studio, Sources, and Livestream.

Vertical mode's camera and screen now fill their sections edge to edge, cropped like every short-form app — no black bars above or below, in the preview and in the recording.

• Camera and screen fill their sections of the vertical frame edge to edge — scaled and cropped, never letterboxed.
• The preview and the recording now show exactly the same framing.
• In the stacked vertical scenes, use camera zoom and pan to frame yourself inside the crop.

A follow-up patch for vertical mode — the preview sticked into the Studio now shows a real 9:16 portrait picture instead of a stretched one.

• The docked preview in vertical mode is now a true 9:16 portrait picture, centered on its strip — no more stretching.
• Horizontal mode's docked preview is unchanged, pixel for pixel.

A patch for 0.9.31 — switching the Studio into vertical mode failed with a settings error for every updated user; the vertical canvas profile is now understood end to end.

• Switching to vertical mode no longer fails with an "unknown variant" settings error.
• The vertical 1080×1920 canvas profile is recognized everywhere, including saved settings.

The Studio now has a vertical mode with its own set of 9:16 scenes — flip one switch and you're composing, previewing, and recording a true 1080×1920 portrait video; flip back and your landscape setup returns exactly as you left it.

• A new toggle in the Scenes panel switches the whole Studio between horizontal (16:9) and vertical (9:16) modes.
• Vertical mode brings five scenes built for short-form — camera on top, camera on the bottom, an even split, full-screen recording with a floating camera bubble, and screen only.
• Recordings in vertical mode are real 1080×1920 portrait files, not landscape videos with bars.
• Each mode remembers its last scene and your canvas settings, so switching back and forth never loses your setup.
• Switching scenes inside a mode stays live-safe while you record or stream.

The Studio now shows your microphone as a live multi-band visualizer — in the mixer, when picking a mic, and right next to the session status while you record or stream — so "is my mic on?" is answered at a glance.

• The audio mixer replaces its thin meter line with a live multi-band visualizer you can read from across the room.
• Picking a microphone now shows a live waveform preview of that device, so you never go live on the wrong mic.
• While recording or streaming, a small live signal indicator pulses next to the session status.
• A clip warning lights up when your input runs hot enough to distort.
• The sticked-in preview now sits flush in the Studio — no more border and panel around it.

A reliability patch on top of this morning's release — recordings that stall or come out short now fail honestly instead of pretending to succeed, capture uses less memory per frame, and Windows tester builds got a big stability pass.

• A recording that stalls or ends up shorter than what you recorded now fails loudly with a real error, instead of quietly saving a broken file.
• Screen and camera capture allocate less memory per frame, so long recordings run leaner.
• Recording finalization is sturdier — stuck probe processes are cleaned up instead of hanging the save step.
• Windows tester builds — capture, the live proof preview while recording, and imported backgrounds on any drive path are all far more reliable.

The Publish tab now genuinely works — instant transcripts from live captions, hooky title options, chapters, clip exports, and social post drafts — plus rebuilt live captions with styles, a cleaner docked preview, and smoother long sessions.

• Publish now delivers — record with live captions and your transcript is ready instantly; one consent switch (it finally stays on) generates real title options, description, summary, and chapters from what you actually said.
• Pick from several suggested titles and set the tone — hooky, informative, or casual — then regenerate any card on its own instead of re-running everything.
• Clips — Videorc finds the moments where your chat lit up and exports them as ready-to-share video files, one click each.
• Social posts — an X post, a thread draft, and a Twitch VOD title written from your recording, ready to copy.
• Live captions were rebuilt — honest status states, sturdier reconnects, and new on-stream styles including Classic, Glass, Lower third, and High contrast.

Backgrounds now change instantly while you're live, the microphone meter reacts the moment you speak, duplicate "Fallback" microphone entries are gone, alarming error pop-ups that fired while everything worked are fixed, and a silent comments feed now tells you how to fix it.

• Clicking a background asset changes your live scene immediately — no layout switch needed to see it.
• The microphone meter is now truly live, reacting the instant you speak with a peak marker, even before you start recording.
• Duplicate "Fallback - …" microphone entries are gone, and setups stuck on one are moved back to the real microphone automatically.
• Fixed false "preview proof was not observed" error pop-ups that appeared during live sessions while everything was working fine.
• If comments can't connect — like Twitch needing a reconnect — Videorc now says so when you go live, with a one-click path to fix it.

Long recordings and streams no longer drift out of sync over time, the preview is more reliable while you move, resize, and switch scenes, and Windows testers get a big batch of capture fixes.

• Fixed the slow audio/video drift where sound fell further behind the longer you recorded or streamed — timelines now stay true to the clock from start to finish.
• The preview was rebuilt on a sturdier foundation — it now keeps up smoothly when you drag or resize the window, switch scenes, or move between displays, without flashing stale frames.
• Windows (tester builds) — camera and microphone permission prompts work properly, recording is more reliable, and the blank preview on some GPUs is fixed.

The "Recording quality check failed" error that could pop up after a perfectly good recording is gone, automatic recording repairs now actually work in the shipped app, and quality warnings only appear when something is truly wrong with your file.

• The red "Recording quality check failed" error after ordinary recordings is gone — your file was always fine; the check itself was failing.
• Automatic recording repairs (fixing choppy or uneven playback) now actually work in the installed app instead of silently failing.
• Quality warnings now only appear when your recording is genuinely damaged — like missing audio — instead of for technicalities you'd never notice.
• At most one quality notice per recording, so finishing a session no longer stacks up toasts.

The app now opens fully formed instead of shifting into place, the glass background and hidden notes no longer leak what they shouldn't, in-progress recordings look right in the Library, and your stream title and category now reach every platform.

• The app opens fully formed — no more flashing and shifting while everything loads in the first second.
• The glass background no longer lets text from windows behind Videorc show through.
• A recording in progress now appears in the Library as a live entry with a pulsing indicator and running time, instead of a broken row.
• Your stream title, category, and description now reach every connected platform — including Twitch over a manual stream key.
• Hovering hidden notes during a capture no longer changes the cursor and gives them away.

A flaw in the bundled video engine silently starved secure (RTMPS) stream connections, so X broadcasts looked live but never played for viewers — fixed, with your full stream now reliably reaching the platform.

• X broadcasts now actually play for viewers — the bundled video engine could silently starve secure stream connections down to a trickle.
• The fix applies to every secure (RTMPS) destination, not just X.
• The bundled video engine no longer depends on developer tools being installed on your Mac.
• Combined with the recent playback checks, Videorc now confirms within seconds that your broadcast is watchable.

Every X broadcast now gets a fresh ingest setup and a clean, properly ordered shutdown — fixing streams that looked live but never became watchable after an earlier session.

• Each X session now broadcasts on a fresh ingest setup — the condition that reliably plays for viewers right away.
• Stopping a stream now ends the X broadcast first, then shuts down the encoder, matching how X expects broadcasts to close.
• Stream shutdown is gentler, giving the connection to X time to close cleanly instead of being cut off.
• Old ingest setups are tidied up automatically, so nothing accumulates on your X account.

Going live on X now confirms your broadcast is actually watchable — Videorc checks playback the way a viewer's player does and warns you immediately if X is still getting your stream ready.

• Videorc verifies your X broadcast plays for viewers, not just that video is flowing to X.
• The announcement post now waits briefly for playback to be ready, so it links to working video.
• If X is still preparing playback, you get a clear heads-up while you stream instead of silence.
• Your broadcast link is shown right on the X destination while you are live.

Videorc is an official X Livestream API partner — connect your X account, authorize once in the browser, and go live on X directly from Videorc, no stream keys needed.

• Go live on X natively through our official X partnership — no manual stream keys or RTMP setup.
• One-time "Authorize X Live" button in the Streaming tab approves Videorc on x.com and you're ready to broadcast.
• Your X broadcast is created, published, and ended by Videorc, with the share link ready to post.
• Manual RTMP stays available as an explicit choice for any destination.

Switch scenes while recording or streaming without the layout getting blocked when a screen or window source has not visibly changed yet.

• Scene changes stay available while recording and live streaming, even when a screen or window source is momentarily static.
• Videorc can commit a valid scene switch without waiting for a visible change on an unchanged screen source.
• Manual Twitch streams can read Twitch live comments once the connected account has the chat permission.

Move the detached preview onto a second monitor and it stays put and keeps rendering — and it now reacts when you plug in, unplug, or rearrange displays.

• The detached preview no longer gets stranded on your main display when you move it to a second monitor.
• The preview keeps rendering at the right scale across monitors with different resolutions (a Retina laptop next to an external screen).
• Plugging in, unplugging, or rearranging monitors now re-homes the preview instead of leaving it on stale geometry.

Granting camera or microphone access no longer throws a wall of red errors, the preview no longer stretches or flashes text when it starts, and cameras that can't hit your requested frame rate now say so.

• Granting camera/microphone access no longer shows a stack of "Backend not connected" errors while it reconnects.
• The preview no longer stretches for a moment when it starts, and clicking it no longer flashes "Waiting for preview" text.
• A capture camera that can only run at a lower frame rate (like a 4K/25p HDMI source) now tells you, instead of silently falling back.
• Support reports now identify the exact app version — so we can actually help when you send one.

Coming from OBS? Import your scenes and settings in one honest step. Twitch accounts connect natively now, a live "watching" counter joins your comments, and recording while livestreaming produces the smooth file it always should have.

• Import your OBS setup — scenes, devices, resolution, recording folder, and stream settings — with an honest report of what maps and what doesn't, before anything changes.
• Connect your Twitch account natively — stream setup, chat, and stream keys without leaving Videorc.
• See how many people are watching, live, right in the Comments window — YouTube and Twitch counts combined.
• Recording while livestreaming is fixed — local recordings are smooth at full frame rate with audio in sync, on the stream and in the file.
• If recording quality ever degrades mid-stream, Videorc warns you while there's still time to act.

All account, sign-in, and update links now point at videorc.com, opening Notes no longer sends the whole app behind your windows, and several rough edges got smoothed.

• Account, sign-in, billing, and updates now use videorc.com — no more Vercel preview address.
• Opening the Notes window no longer hides the rest of Videorc until you close it.
• The Library actions menu shows its labels in full instead of squeezing them into fragments.
• The Comments window title no longer hides behind the close and minimize buttons.
• The confusing red "requires native CAMetalLayer" badge is gone — the preview window reports its own health in plain language.

The detached Comments window works again, notifications stop covering the bottom bar, source pickers always say what's going on, and the light theme got a real contrast pass.

• The detached Comments window shows your comments again — it broke when fed a saved session's transcript.
• Notifications no longer cover the bottom command bar, and repeated source warnings collapse into one.
• Source pickers always tell you what's happening — finding devices, none found, or a saved device that's gone.
• The light theme is easier to read — darker text, clearer borders and controls.
• Settings now shows the full name of each macOS permission target instead of cutting it off.

The preview window now recovers from stalls on its own, a recording with a silent microphone warns you while there is still time to fix it, and Videorc keeps checking for updates while it runs.

• The preview window recovers from stalls by itself — no more clicking it awake or seeing "Waiting for preview" until a restart.
• A silent microphone now warns you 10 seconds into a recording, and again when the recording finishes — before you find out from the file.
• Videorc checks for updates every 30 minutes while it runs, so new releases show up without a relaunch.
• On Macs without wallpaper access, the app window no longer lets other windows show through its glass.
• Scene polish — the position arrows form a proper d-pad, and source labels no longer hide under the legend chips.

A security-focused update that refreshes the credentials Videorc uses to connect to YouTube — update now to keep YouTube connect and streaming working.

• Videorc's YouTube connection credentials were rotated as a security precaution.
• Update to this version to keep connecting and streaming to YouTube — older versions will lose YouTube sign-in soon.

The camera bubble learns new shapes and framings — a rounded square, an adjustable corner radius, and a Theo-style portrait crop — identical in the preview and the recording.

• New Rounded camera shape — a rounded square by default, with an adjustable corner radius.
• Frame your camera as Wide, Square, or Portrait — portrait center-crops like the vertical-camera look.
• The scene stage now draws the camera bubble with its true shape.
• Recording with the preview window closed no longer shows a "Blocked" health warning.

Videorc now checks for updates automatically on every launch, and an output directory written with ~ no longer sends recordings to the wrong place.

• Videorc checks for updates on every launch — no more visiting Settings to find out.
• Updates download in the background and apply on your next quit, never interrupting a recording.
• An output directory written with ~ (like ~/Movies) now works exactly like in the terminal.

The Publish pipeline now shows exactly what each run produced, importing works without any setup, session names use your local time, and a batch of small annoyances got fixed.

• Publish pipeline cards now show what each run produced — including what is still waiting on cloud consent.
• Import recordings without setting an output directory first — the default just works.
• Recording names now use your local time, not UTC.
• Enabling the microphone flips the permission chip immediately.
• Keyboard shortcuts now work from the Notes and Comments windows.

First launch now just collects the macOS permissions Videorc needs — and skips itself entirely if you already granted them. 4K recording is free on every tier, and the camera circle is a true circle again.

• New first launch — one screen that collects Screen Recording, Camera, and Microphone permissions, with live status and native macOS prompts.
• Already granted everything? Onboarding never appears, reinstalls included.
• 4K recording is now free on every tier — 4K streaming stays Premium.
• The Circle camera bubble is perfectly round again in the preview (it could render slightly oval).

Window recordings are now full Retina resolution, the preview stops tearing during motion, and takeover screens flip on and off right from the Studio.

• Window captures record at full Retina resolution — they were half-res before.
• The native preview no longer tears during fast motion.
• Takeover screens have a new home — manage them in Assets, flip them live from the Studio panel.
• Premium now works offline for up to 7 days between sign-ins.
• A cleaner Studio session panel with bolder Record and Stream controls.

0.9.6 rebuilds the Library into a proper recordings manager with thumbnails, real file sizes, rename, duplicate, import, and Trash-safe delete; the Comments window now shows every platform's chat with icons and avatars, can highlight a comment on your stream, and sends replies to all platforms at once; and the whole app wears a new black-glass dark theme with a porcelain light twin.

• The Library is now a recordings manager — thumbnails, sizes, duration, format, search, and filters in one table.
• Rename, duplicate, or import recordings; deleting moves files to the system Trash, never straight to gone.
• Live comments from every platform in one window, each tagged with its platform icon and the commenter's avatar.
• Click a comment to feature it on your stream — username, avatar, and text, right on the video.
• Write one reply and send it to every platform you're streaming to.
• A new black-glass dark theme (and a clean porcelain light mode) tuned to the Videorc look.

0.9.5 fixes captions carrying over from the previous video, keeps the docked preview from lingering on other tabs, repairs background uploads, makes the audio mixer move while you speak, cleans up the Studio and Scene pages, and enforces multistreaming as a Premium feature end to end.

• Captions belong to their video — no more lines from the previous recording burned into a new one.
• The docked preview now fully leaves the screen when you switch tabs, and comes back on Studio.
• Background uploads work — imported images no longer show a false "Missing" badge.
• The audio mixer meters live while you record or stream.
• An update notice appears in the sidebar when a new version is ready.
• Multistreaming now correctly unlocks with Premium — and only with Premium.

0.9.4 lets you dock the live preview right into the Studio page — it moves with the app window like any other panel — plus finer camera nudging on the Scene stage and clearer AI transcripts for your recordings.

• Stick to app — dock the live preview into the Studio page; it moves and resizes with the app window.
• Pop out anytime — one click returns the preview to its own floating window, right where you left it.
• The docked preview always says why it's hidden — behind a dialog, scrolled away, or in fullscreen.
• Scene stage — nudge the camera free of a corner snap with the arrow keys.
• AI transcripts now pick the recording that actually exists and say when none does.

0.9.3 debuts Videorc's black-glass design in both themes, adds a Visibility slider for scene backgrounds (0% keeps your recording full-size), never crops your screen in any layout, and makes the preview start reliably — or tell you exactly why it can't.

• New look — glossy black glass in dark mode, porcelain white in light, with a real glass reflection.
• Background Visibility slider — choose how much of the backdrop shows, from 0% (recording full-size) to 40%.
• Remove a background with one click; your recording snaps back to the full canvas.
• Your screen is never cropped — every layout now letterboxes instead of cutting off the Dock.
• The preview starts reliably, heals itself, and names the exact holdup if it can't.

0.9.2 fixes the bug that left camera and microphone capture dead in the installed app — and it's the first release delivered through the in-app updater.

• Camera and microphone capture now work in the installed app.
• First release delivered automatically through the in-app updater.
• More reliable native preview when starting and switching sources.

Videorc now updates itself — check, download, and install new versions from Settings without re-downloading from the website.

• Update Videorc from inside the app — Settings → About & updates.
• Updates never interrupt you mid-session — installing is blocked while a recording or stream is live.
• Your installed app version is now shown in Settings.

Videorc's first beta brings local screen, camera, and microphone recording to macOS in a signed, notarized app.

• Record your screen, camera, and microphone locally on macOS.
• Native detached preview window for setting up your layout before you record.
• Signed and notarized DMG, downloaded through your Videorc account.