Release notes
Videorc 0.9.3 Beta 1
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.
The black glass look, a background visibility slider, and a preview that explains itself
- 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.
The black glass look
Videorc now matches its logo: dark mode is glossy black glass — a deep black frost with chrome text, polished edge highlights, and a subtle light reflection across the pane. Light mode is the porcelain twin: the same design in bright white glass. The red of the record button and LIVE badge now matches the glow in our logo. Switch anytime in Settings → Appearance.
Backgrounds, your way
- Visibility slider — every background now has a Visibility control (in the Assets inspector, with a per-scene override in Layout). At 0% your recording fills the whole frame and the backdrop only peeks through the letterbox edges; at 40% you get a big stage look. The default matches the classic 80% stage exactly.
- Remove from scene — one click in Assets takes the background off and your recording returns to the full canvas.
Your whole screen, always
Screen sources are no longer cropped to fill a layout box. If your screen's shape doesn't match the canvas (a MacBook display in a 16:9 recording, or the side-by-side layout), Videorc now letterboxes it — nothing on your screen, including the Dock, is ever cut off, in the preview or the recording. When a background is applied, it elegantly fills the letterbox bars.
A preview you can trust
Opening the preview now comes with a promise: within a few seconds you either see your scene natively, or Videorc repairs the pipeline automatically — and if it truly can't, the preview window tells you the exact step it's waiting on instead of a generic "waiting" message.
Also fixed
- Built-in backgrounds (all ten presets) now load correctly in every case — a decoding gap could previously leave a scene stuck.
- A broken or missing background image can no longer prevent your scene from showing; it degrades gracefully and recording start still warns you.