Araelium Group : Screenflick Docs

Release Notes

Version 1.6.2 - Build 352

New	Screenflick can now record "captured" displays. Keynote, slideshows, and video games for example will "capture" the screen, which previously would prevent Screenflick from recording.
New	To fit the screen selection to the boundaries of a window, Option-Click on the window when the screen selection view is displayed.
Change	The screen selection window now remembers its window position.
Fix	Fixed a bug which sometimes would cause movies to not contain sound when multiple movies were exported simultaneously.
Fix	Worked around a QuickTime bug related to file names.
Fix	Fixed a stupidly obvious GUI bug outlining the text fields in the screen selection window.

Version 1.6.1 - Build 351

Fix	Fixed a bug which would cause a lockup near the end of movie compression for some users.

Version 1.6 - Build 340

New	Refined interface: Added a giant Record/Compress toggle switch at the top left of the window.
New	Recorded movies in the sidebar can be renamed.
New	The keyboard shortcut code has been completely rewritten from scratch to be much more flexible in what is shown.
New	Keyboard shortcut viewer now has option to show one or multiple events
New	The compression pane's movie preview can now play movies that are recorded with Screenflick 1.6.
New	Added a shortcut to toggle the camera mode between fixed and follow.
New	Compression now makes "Fast Start" movies by default. This means when you start to download the movie in a web browser, it can start playing the movie while it's still downloading.
New	Added preference to optionally show window at startup, for login items.
New	Added a little background process (affectionately named audiobuddy) to restore the system audio output device if Screenflick crashes or is force quit. The system audio seemingly being broken and going silent when Screenflick crashed has been very confusing to some users, and this cures that.
New	Added a keyboard shortcut for deleting the selected movie. Delete will bring up the confirmation sheet, and Cmd-Delete will delete immediately.
New	This version is able to handle movies recorded with 1.0 and later that are moved between Intel and PPC machines.
New	There is a new video data file format which should be better at being forward compatible.
Optimization	Intel machines now record using the native video format which bumps raw frame grabbing speed.
Optimization	Writing video data to the hard drive when recording is now done in a semi-asynchronous fashion. Combined improvements can be as great as 20%.
Optimization	Reduced the memory footprint.
Optimization	There has been a lot of general code cleanup and tweaks, affecting all parts of the program.
Fix	Reorganized some steps to work around a bug in QuickTime which prevents errors from being propagated.
Fix	Reduced useless wait time in preparing to record system audio.
Fix	Added extra error checking in audio recording.
Fix	Fixed some inconsistencies with the video codec settings when selecting a different movie, or click on the "Choose" button.
Fix	The display link now has a path to stop itself instead of being stopped in stopRecording:. This fixes the lock up. (This made its way into 1.5.1)
Fix	Fixed a bug with single-pixel-wide/high movies causing a crash.
Fix	Fixed record selection aspect ratio popup bug.
Fix	Fixed a bug where the video dimensions popup in the compression pane would not see that 100% was re-selected.
Fix	Fixed progress wheel not stopping if changed movies while compressing.
Fix	Fixed bug that would cause an exception when the last captured movie was deleted.
Fix	When compressing, the number of frames remaining is determined by the total number of frames minus the number of frames that have been compressed, rather than the number of frames that have been scheduled to be compressed. Theoretically this, with the added while loop into the compression thread will keep the compression session from being released before all compression is done.
Fix	Trying to tidy up any loose ends with stopping a recording writing bad data to the file
Fix	Found and fixed a bug new to 1.6 which would cause a crash when exporting some movies.
Fix	Fixed a crash which would occur when stopping a recording using the global status menu item. This is the last known crash in Screenflick.
Fix	Includes a fix from 1.5.3 which resolves a problem with system audio being silence when saving a movie.
Change	When camera is fixed, no longer dims the entire screen except the selection view. May add this back in using a separate window, but the old way made the screen flash when toggle camera modes.
Change	Keyboard and Mouse settings have been separated.
Change	The "Max capture rate" popup's values are determined by display configuration.
Change	Some settings and preferences have been renamed.
Note	We definitely will be adding a smooth cursor follow mode. It's a popular request, and regrettably we didn't get it in this version as we planned, but we do have a working prototype, so it's only a matter of finalizing the implementation and integration.
Workaround	Added a check to see if system audio is actually recording when it should. If not, it cancels the recording and displays an error message. A small minority of users are still having trouble with recording system audio that we've been unable to track down. This check will at least warn them ahead of time that it's not working.

Older Versions

New	Added a preference to show Screencast in the Dock.
New	Added a progress wheel in the movies list when a movie is being compressed.
New	Added quit confirmation while a movie is being compressed.
Fix	Audio and video in the exported movie are synchronized to correctly end at the same time.
Fix	Fixed a number of interface bugs when compressing a movie.
Fix	Fixed a number of issues when compressing the same movie more than once without quitting Screencast.
Chg	Screencast registration information is now saved machine-wide so that Screencast recognizes that it is registered for all users on a machine.

Release Notes

Version 1.6.2 - Build 352

Version 1.6.1 - Build 351

Version 1.6 - Build 340

Version 1.5.3 - Build 236

Version 1.5.2 - Build 233

Version 1.5.1 - Build 218

Version 1.5 - Build 216

Version 1.0.5 - Build 182

Version 1.0.4 - Build 180

Version 1.0.3 - Build 179

Version 1.0.2 - Build 178

Version 1.0.1 - Build 176

Version 1.6 Highlights

Requirements

New	Name changed to Screenflick.
New	Added a new set of options for intermediate compression when recording movies which allows optimization for either conserving disk space or maximum recording speed. The new recording speed option can dramatically improve recording performance in many cases.
New	The location of captured movies can be chosen in the Preferences panel. (This will allow you to choose a second hard drive to prevent your main hard drive from filling up.)
New	You can now choose the scale to export a movie at when choosing other compression settings. This will allow you to create large, medium, and small versions of the same movie, even at different qualities all within Screenflick.
New	For movies recorded with sound, there is now an option to exclude the sound from the final exported movie.
New	The size and position of keyboard shortcuts display can now be chosen before recording a movie.
New	A list of keyboard shortcuts to exclude from the display has been added. This will allow you to turn off display for standard text movement combinations such as Command-Arrow Key.
New	The average frame rate of the recorded movie is shown with the movie information in the compression pane.
New	When recording a movie the Desktop can be hidden by a solid color or image chosen in the Screenflick preferences pane.
New	When registering Screenflick, there is now the option to register it for the current user or all users on the machine. Registration information is also hidden from non-admin users when Screenflick is registered for all users on a machine.
New	The disk space used by the video data captured in a movie is shown with the movie information in the compression pane.
New	For users that record frequently, the countdown before recording starts can be turned off.
New	Added the option to show recording size and duration next to the global Screenflick menu.
New	The global Screenflick menu now turns red when recording.
New	There is now a new Screencast help manual which is more indepth.
Fix	Keyboard shortcuts show the correct characters for combinations that would otherwise display a special character. (For example Opt-Shift-K would previous display the Apple character.)
Fix	Corrected a problem which may be the source of a very rare cursor-related crash.

New	Left and Right mouse clicks can now be visualized independently.
Fix	Resolved a movie timescale issue preventing Final Cut Express and Pro from importing movies made with Screencast.
Fix	Fixed a permissions issue with the system audio device on some systems.
Fix	The Show Mouse Cursor option is respected once again.
Fix	Worked around an issue with animated cursors not appearing correctly. Mac OS X limits capturing of animated cursors to the first frame only.
Fix	Registration is saved in both the local and user Application Support folders which resolves licensing issues for some users.

New	A successful registration is now acknowledged by a message.
Fix	Fixed issues with an "invalid authorization" when installing the system audio device.