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Videorc 0.9.149 Beta 1

Five animated backgrounds now move behind your screen and camera, free for everyone, and Videorc is lighter on memory, disk and CPU.

Live backgrounds

  • Five live backgrounds move behind your screen and camera, with three looks each.
  • Live backgrounds are free, and nothing runs while you aren't using one.
  • The Library opens quickly however long your history is.
  • Videorc frees its stale app cache once, which can give back a couple of gigabytes.
  • Busy chat in the Stream Manager stays smooth.

Live backgrounds

  • Silk, Side Rays, Plasma Wave, Liquid Chrome and Line Waves now sit next to your pictures in Assets → Backgrounds, in the new Live group. Click one to put it behind your screen and camera; click it again to take it off.
  • Adjust style on a live background picks one of three looks, the motion (Calm, the default, or Normal), how much of it shows around your screen, and how dark it is.
  • They move in your preview, your recordings and your streams. Saved scenes remember the background, its look and its motion.
  • They're free, and they cost nothing while you aren't using one.
  • If your Mac gets too busy, Videorc draws the background at half size, then holds a still frame of it and tells you, so your recording keeps its frame rate.
  • Live backgrounds move up to 4K at 30 fps. A 4K 60 fps session shows a still frame of yours and says so when it starts.

The five backgrounds come from React Bits by David Haz, used with his permission.

Faster and lighter

  • The Library loads only the recordings on the page you're looking at, so it opens quickly however long your history is.
  • Videorc no longer keeps old error pages in its app cache, and it frees the stale cache once. On some Macs that gives back a couple of gigabytes.
  • Saving to Videorc's database is quicker, with the same safety.
  • Busy chat in the Stream Manager draws once per frame instead of once per message.
  • Captions, Buddy's bubbles and other sessions' health no longer redraw every Studio view.
  • Videorc checks its own memory and CPU use without starting a new process every second.