Changelog

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.

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.