Changelog

3.2.2

Improvements

• Made large CANVID projects faster to open.
• Made project recovery previews sharper.

Fixes

• Fixed recorded cursor movement and clicks playing out of sync with the screen recording.
• Fixed captions going out of sync or dropping words after a timeline cut over an AI Speech Edit.
• Fixed clip exports failing when they start during the frozen screen portion of an AI Speech Edit, and fixed the wrong screen frame appearing at these cuts.
• Fixed the editor potentially freezing when closing AI Speech Edit.
• Fixed zoom and camera layout context menu actions affecting the selected block instead of the right-clicked block, or failing when no block was selected.
• Fixed regenerated Camera AI Background masks covering only part of the camera image.
• Fixed camera recordings showing overly dark shadows or clipped highlights, and fixed a faint background rectangle remaining behind the subject in older projects on macOS when using Camera Background Removal.
• Fixed Privacy Areas losing coverage when tracked text changes appearance, such as on hover.
• Fixed nearby text being unavailable for Privacy Area selection because it slightly overlaps an existing area.
• Fixed Privacy Areas continuing to track unrelated content after a tracked row leaves the screen.
• Reduced the risk of crashes when loading recording source previews or taking screenshots after waking the computer or connecting or disconnecting a display.
• Fixed recording source previews potentially getting stuck loading on macOS during repeated display notifications.
• Fixed CANVID potentially hanging or crashing when quitting.
• Improved stability when resuming interrupted downloads.

3.2.1

Features

• Added a Floating camera layout that presents the screen recording and camera as separate cards on the background.

Improvements

• Added a cloud storage usage meter to storage purchase and storage-full dialogs.
• Updated screenshot upgrade prompts to refer to uploading a screenshot.
• Improved cloud upload reliability during temporary network interruptions by allowing more time between retry attempts.

Fixes

• Reduced the risk of the editor freezing or crashing when repeatedly seeking through a recording on some graphics hardware.
• Fixed microphone enhancement errors when quickly seeking through the timeline.
• Fixed cursor shadows causing memory usage to grow during playback and export.

3.2.0

Features

• Added new camera shape options for Original, Wide (16:9), Square (1:1), Classic (4:3), Vertical (9:16), Tall (3:4), and Portrait (4:5) framing.
• Added a Split camera layout that places the camera beside the screen recording, or above or below it on portrait canvases. You can choose the side and resize the camera pane in the sidebar or by dragging the divider in the paused preview.
• Added an option for cursor styles that preserves native cursor shapes, for both Windows and macOS recordings.
• Added a recording setting for choosing a maximum webcam resolution of 720p, 1080p, or 4K. New desktop recordings now default to 1080p.

Improvements

• Click the camera in the paused preview to open its layout settings, or the project's Video settings when no Camera Layout segment is active.
• Improved screen framing and zoom transitions when switching camera layouts, including Split layouts and the Always Keep Zoomed In setting.
• Redesigned camera shape, canvas aspect ratio, and cursor style controls to make the available options easier to scan and select.
• Improved progress reporting for MP4, GIF, and cloud exports so the progress bar advances consistently through rendering and uploading.
• Improved Privacy Area text tracking performance by avoiding unnecessary full-frame scans while keeping masks aligned with their text.
• Improved cloud AI Webcam processing on slower graphics hardware by automatically moving more of the processing to the cloud when needed.
• Made recording source choices appear sooner on a fresh launch. The Window chooser shows loading placeholders while it finds windows, and Record Display no longer waits for window previews.
• Updated the Account and About screens to show the effective plan's expiry date, including clearer handling for Lifetime and Maintenance licenses.

Fixes

• Fixed resized screenshot text and shape labels rendering differently in exported images than in the editor preview.
• Fixed repeatedly using Compress Cuts potentially discarding source media that should have remained in the project.
• Fixed long or high-resolution recordings potentially exhausting memory when the encoder could not keep up. CANVID now limits the backlog and warns when frames are being dropped.
• Fixed GIF exports ignoring the selected frame rate and always encoding at 30 FPS.
• Fixed resumable cloud uploads potentially stalling at completion or failing after earlier retry attempts.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent an export from starting.
• Fixed Quick Share quality options showing incorrect names or descriptions.
• Fixed AI Webcam generation failing when a cloud job was still starting, and replaced raw server details with clearer error messages when processing fails.
• Fixed resetting an AI Speech Edit on an AI Webcam project removing the original lip-sync result.
• Fixed wrapped transcript lines not aligning with the start of their sentence.
• Fixed seeking during playback potentially failing when the editor was switching between source segments.
• Fixed pausing or seeking while microphone enhancement was still initializing potentially crashing the editor.
• Fixed the editor potentially crashing when Camera AI Background was turned off while related camera or timeline changes were being applied.
• Fixed the editor sidebar using an incorrect background color in dark mode.
• Fixed the selected window preview disappearing during source refreshes or after choosing Record Window on a fresh launch.
• Fixed cursor motion blur turning off after changing the cursor style.
• Fixed a potential crash on some older AMD graphics drivers when moving from a recording into the editor.
• Fixed recordings potentially crashing or getting stuck when Camera AI Background processing could not keep up. Recording now continues without live background processing, which can be completed in the editor afterward.
• Fixed starting a new recording before the previous one had finished cleaning up potentially interrupting the new recording or deleting its files.
• Fixed failed hardware encoder checks leaving graphics resources in use when starting a recording.
• Fixed the editor potentially crashing when switching projects quickly.
• Fixed the preview potentially failing when changing camera layouts or shapes.
• Reduced the risk of lip-sync generation crashing the editor on some graphics hardware by checking compatibility before use and skipping devices that fail the check.
• Fixed cloud AI generation continuing to show the queue stage after processing had started.

3.1.2

Features

• Added a confirmation prompt before discarding an active recording, with an option to keep recording.
• Added zoom and pan controls to the crop dialog for more precise adjustments.
• Added color and gradient swatches to background controls in the video and screenshot editors.

Improvements

• Improved long recent-project names so they scroll into view in the File menu.

Fixes

• Fixed captions repeatedly rebuilding while unchanged, improving stability during long editor sessions.
• Fixed the Zoom position preview not consistently updating with the current video frame.
• Fixed projects failing to open from Windows profile paths containing Unicode characters.
• Fixed the player using an outdated duration after timeline edits or source changes.
• Fixed playback ending early when a screen recording finishes with an unchanged frame.
• Fixed pre-recording webcam previews appearing incorrectly scaled on some display sizes.
• Fixed an issue where Camera AI Background effects wouldn't show in the preview with lower resolutions

3.1.1

Features

• Per-track volume controls: Adjust microphone and system audio volume independently, with responsive previews and matching export levels.

Improvements

• Improved Camera AI Background and Transcription status feedback with clearer progress, loading messages, and error guidance.
• Improved screenshot editor performance and viewport handling for smoother editing.
• Improved AI Webcam generation quality for local and cloud generation.
• Improved screen capture startup reliability on macOS.
• Clarified Compress Cuts confirmation text so permanent removal and the clearing of Undo and Redo history are easier to understand.
• Added disk space monitoring that warns when storage is running low, stops safely before the disk fills, and helps recover interrupted recordings.
• Added a webcam unavailable warning with an option to retry after closing another app that may be using the camera.
• Improved preset updates so renamed, deleted, or unreadable preset files no longer disrupt the rest of the preset list.
• Improved purchase checkout and license refresh reliability after completing an upgrade in the browser.

Fixes

• Fixed Windows camera and microphone permission failures so CANVID provides recovery guidance.
• Fixed the first playback attempt failing when AI-Enhanced Voice Clarity was still initializing.
• Fixed slider edits and resets creating combined or empty steps in Undo history.
• Fixed Compress Cuts leaving Zoom and Camera Layout segments out of sync when cuts occur at the beginning or end of a project.
• Fixed camera position changes when a hidden Camera Layout becomes visible again.
• Fixed right-click context menus on clips and Zoom controls not reopening at the correct position when triggered again.
• Fixed playback controls shifting when the timecode switches between whole seconds and fractional display.
• Fixed the editor crashing when applying a crop while a Privacy Area was visible.
• Fixed Zoom animations restarting or disappearing when they span removed timeline gaps or clip boundaries.
• Fixed some Windows file paths causing errors when selecting files or folders.
• Fixed Long Click zoom detection occasionally leaving a recording stuck while stopping instead of saving it.
• Fixed unrelated window movement changing the tracked area during window recording.
• Fixed unsupported Local AI options remaining selected on macOS or incompatible hardware.
• Fixed choosing Don't Save when reopening the current project failing to discard unsaved edits and reload the saved version.

3.1.0

Features

• Camera Layouts: Change camera visibility, placement, size, and full-screen or picture-in-picture behavior across timeline segments.
• Expanded screenshot editing: Magnify details with the new Loupe tool, create resizable text boxes with more styling controls, and add editable labels to arrows, rectangles, and circles.
• Screenshot save controls: Choose where screenshots are saved, manage the destination folder, and receive a prompt before closing with unsaved changes or starting a new capture.
• More efficient Windows capture: An optional experimental screen capture method is now available in Recording settings.
• Faster timeline editing: Copy and paste Zoom and Camera Layout segments using keyboard shortcuts or timeline context menus.

Improvements

• Improved local AI Speech Edit with a new on-device voice model, multilingual support, clearer generation progress, cancellation support, and longer text input.
• Improved the first processing run for newly created AI Webcam avatars by preparing their cache during creation.
• Improved recording performance at demanding capture settings by preserving hardware encoding when possible.
• Improved AI camera background processing so background removal and replacement stay better aligned in preview and export.
• Improved initial app loading performance.
• Improved transcription error states, including clearer feedback when no speech is detected.

Fixes

• Fixed recording crashes and stalled stopping screens caused by unexpected session state changes.
• Fixed recording startup errors so they provide clearer guidance and prevent recording when the selected webcam is unavailable.
• Fixed projects and tray commands failing to open correctly when the app window was closed, hidden, or minimized.
• Fixed Privacy Areas being unavailable on macOS and non-Intel hardware.
• Fixed Compress Cuts failing when a cut was placed at the beginning or end of the timeline.
• Fixed cutting and restoring transcript selections that overlap clip boundaries.
• Fixed cloud transcripts splitting words around apostrophes or hyphens and dropping punctuation, including in languages without spaces between words.
• Fixed automatic local language detection not carrying the spoken language into captions and AI Speech Edit.
• Fixed deleting or transcript-cutting the final clip causing the editor to crash or leave an empty timeline.

3.0.0

Features

• Region recording: Record a selected area instead of an entire display or window.
• Screenshot capture and editing: Take full-screen or selected-region screenshots, then annotate them with text, shapes, arrows, and lines.
  • Apply reusable screenshot presets for faster, more consistent styling.
  • Hide sensitive information in screenshots with black, blur, or pixelated Privacy Filters.
  • Capture screenshots using a dedicated global hotkey.
• Per-clip speed controls: Adjust the playback speed of individual timeline clips.
• Background music: Add, replace, or remove background music from projects.
• Automatic transcription after recording: Automatically generate a transcript when recording finishes (Initially Windows Only).
• AI Webcam templates: Record and create reusable AI Webcam templates directly within CANVID.
• Latin American Spanish: Added language support for Latin American Spanish.
• Velocity-based cursor rotation: Cursor movement can now include more natural rotation based on its direction and velocity.

Improvements

• Privacy Areas can now be added on non-Intel platforms.
• Supported Intel systems can use NPU-accelerated privacy processing.
• Improved Privacy Area OCR detection, matching reliability, column detection, automatic sensitive-information detection, and model selection.
• Privacy scanning can now detect masked credit-card numbers and associated CVC codes.
• Similar sensitive items can now be selected together, with the option to remove individual matches when necessary.
• Improved local transcription performance and timestamp accuracy on supported Intel hardware.
• Improved cloud transcription timestamps and reduced hallucinations.
• Improved local transcription for languages without spaces, such as Thai.
• Improved transcript selection near the beginning and end of recordings.
• Renamed Replace Audio to AI Speech Edit and simplified its workflow.
• Added Region Capture and Take a Screenshot directly to the source-selection screen.
• Updated the recording toolbar and source preview for region recording.
• Revised default recording hotkeys to avoid common shortcut conflicts.
• CANVID now detects missing system codecs before recording begins on Windows N editions.
• Improved timeline responsiveness when adding or editing zooms.
• Improved timeline scrubbing after playback has started.
• Added clearer replace and remove controls for background images.
• Improved background-image sharpness when blur is disabled.
• Improved messaging for projects where no keyboard input was detected.
• AI Webcam now remembers the selected Cloud or Local processing mode and last-used template tab.
• Added full project filenames to title-bar tooltips.
• Updated macOS cursor assets and wallpapers.
• Improved recording startup and window detection reliability.
• Improved camera-background preview reliability and reduced flickering during rapid changes.
• Improved general Privacy Area performance, tracking consistency, and interface reliability.

Fixes

• Added the ability to recover unsaved work if the app crashes.
• Fixed distorted macOS system-audio recordings with some audio formats.
• Fixed macOS variable-bitrate exports not applying the selected encoder bitrate.
• Fixed audio and lip-sync drift after AI Speech Edit changes.
• Fixed click indicators and ripple effects drifting after replacement edits.
• Fixed missing ripple effects in exported videos.
• Fixed stale waveform previews appearing after switching projects.
• Fixed cut markers causing incorrect waveforms or missing caption words.
• Fixed Compress Cuts availability and handling for projects without audio.
• Fixed crop changes persisting after closing the crop dialog without saving.
• Fixed zoom editing becoming sluggish and fixed an undo/redo crash involving zooms.
• Fixed recording hotkeys remaining active after being cleared.
• Fixed a potential memory leak when loading projects.
• Fixed the selected default zoom level not being included in presets.

2.4.0

Features

• Privacy Areas + Scan: Select text to hide and CANVID will track and mask it using Blur, Pixelate, or Black. Includes automatic sensitive info detection.
• New “On Zoom” camera options: Choose how your camera behaves during zoom with Do nothing, Resize, or Fade.
• Custom hotkeys for Pause and Stop recording: Assign new recording controls in Settings > Hotkeys.

Improvements

• Synthetic Webcam is now AI Webcam: Updated name and improved workflow.
• Example Templates for AI Webcam: Get started instantly with ready-made templates.
• My Templates library: When you select an existing project or MP4, it’s added to My Templates so you can easily reuse and manage your AI Webcam sources.
• Expanded NVIDIA support for Local AI: AI Webcam and Audio Retakes now work on select NVIDIA GPUs.
• AI Webcam supports non-English audio

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Launch on Startup was not always respected.

2.3.3

Another patch of mostly fixes as we make very good progress on some of the roadmap wishlist items such as clip speed adjustment options and privacy masking as well as big strides in support for our AI related features.

Improvements

• Improved the resolution of the waveform when zooming in on the timeline for better accuracy
• Logging out while in a project with unsaved changes will now ask if you want save your changes or cancel

Fixes

• Fixed an issue on Mac where bluetooth microphone audio could be distorted due to timestamps
• Fixed an issue where undoing a cut via the transcript did not update when playing back
• Fixed an issue where AI models could unintentionally redownload when not necessary
• Fixed an issue where window selection could be missing preview thumbnails
• Fixed an issue with audio retakes where the transcript selection timestamps could be slightly wrong

2.3.2

Improvements

• Improved the smoothness of zoom animations in some circumstances

Fixes

• Fixed a critical issue that caused an exception dialog to show on app launch