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Changelog

See what's new in CANVID with our changelog, covering all updates, improvements, and bug fixes.

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

2.3.1

Improvements

  • Improved timescale zooming logic on timeline
  • Improved general responsiveness of the timeline
  • Improved usability of device dropdowns for scenarios where there are a lot of devices
  • Improved handling when trying to load invalid projects
  • Added Korean language to the app

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where various timeline actions could cause the app to crash
  • Fixed an issue where the editor preview resolution could be set lower than intended, resulting in a blurry preview
  • Fixed an issue where audio mute settings were not being respected after creating a cut
  • Fixed an issue where the position for manual zooms in the sidebar could show incorrectly
  • Fixed an issue with audio capture on Mac due to invalid memory access
  • Fixed an issue where long running processes weren't being cancelled properly when closing or switching projects
  • Fixed an issue on Mac where the screen permission dialog could show when closing the app from the tray

2.3.0

We’re still hard at work on highly requested features like clip speed control, full-screen camera layouts, and importing videos from external sources. In the meantime, this update focuses on stability improvements and delivers major performance boosts to our generative AI features, including audio retakes and synthetic webcam generation.

Improvements

  • Boosted AI Synthetic Camera and AI Retakes processing speed by 2x or more on Intel Arc™ and Intel Core™ Ultra (Series 2) systems
  • Added more flexibility to Preview Quality settings for better performance across a wider range of hardware

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where exports could fail when the recorded footage had a lower frame rate
  • Fixed a problem that caused Camera AI Background to fail to enable in some cases
  • Fixed a rare issue where local AI models could re-download despite already being available due to certain network conditions
  • Made minor styling adjustments to further improve performance on lower-end hardware

2.2.2

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where local transcription could fail on RTX 5000 series graphics cards
  • Fixed an issue where playback would stop just before completion
  • Fixed an issue where certain licenses couldn't use Cloud AI features
  • Fixed an issue with mixer initialization race condition after using replace audio
  • Fixed a potential race condition on transcript generation
  • Fixed an issue where Intel NPU was not correctly detected on some platforms for local AI features
  • Fixed an issue with with missing VC runtime dependencies on specific systems

2.2.1

Features

  • New shortcut - Press S to quickly split clips on the timeline.

Improvements

  • Mac permissions - Permissions are now more granular and only requested when needed.

Fixes

  • Fixed hotkey/keyboard labels not rendering correctly when exporting.
  • Prevented the app from going full screen, which previously caused issues with the recording bar.
  • Fixed an issue where using hotkeys could interrupt an export.
  • Fixed an issue where your logged-in session could expire mid-use, causing errors when uploading to CANVID Cloud.
  • Fixed an issue where Camera AI Background could fail in certain scenarios.
  • Fixed an issue where window recording wouldn’t stop if the captured window had a tray icon and was closed.

2.2.0

Features

  • Recording frame rate options - Choose between 30 and 60 fps for screen recordings in Recording Settings
  • Zoom and click detection - New trigger options for automatic zooms. Choose which clicks count: All Clicks, Long Clicks, or Ctrl+Click
  • Enable or disable individual zooms - You can now toggle zooms on or off. Great if you want to disable them all, then re-enable only the ones you need

Improvements

  • Transcript export improvements - When using Copy as Text or Copy as SRT in the transcript tab, cuts made on the timeline are now respected, so the exported text matches the final video
  • Lower resource use when minimized - The editor uses fewer system resources when the window is minimized
  • Reduced RAM usage - Large projects now load much more efficiently, with significantly lower memory usage
  • Zoom UX improvements - You can now right-click anywhere on a zoom (including its drag and resize handles) for easier access to options
  • Unsaved changes safety - If you try to quit from the tray while the main window is minimized and there are unsaved changes, the app comes to the front so you can save first
  • Project load fallback - Better handling when a project fails to load, with clearer messaging and a safe recovery path
  • Advanced Settings - Moved the debug settings to their own dedicated settings tab for better organization

Fixes

  • Fixed a rare issue where cursor/mouse timing could be out of sync
  • Fixed an issue where updated animation settings weren't being applied to zooms
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking Cut in the transcript after making a selection
  • Fixed a rare issue where invalid Camera AI Background data could prevent a project from opening
  • Fixed a crash that could occur after generating a Synthetic Webcam and then using Undo
  • Fixed UI on Mac that showed Windows shortcut labels
  • Fixed incorrect bitrate calculation on older, unsupported macOS versions such as Ventura
  • Fixed styling issues where disabled zooms didn’t appear correctly