Beta Changelog

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

3.1.0-beta.5

Fixes

  • Fixed local transcription set to Auto not carrying the detected spoken language into captions and AI Speech Edit.
  • Fixed the floating recording toolbar being clipped on Windows.

3.1.0-beta.4

Features

  • Added a Loupe tool to the screenshot editor for magnifying areas with adjustable zoom and rectangular or circular shapes.
  • Expanded screenshot text editing with resizable text boxes, font and style controls, alignment, colors, and editable labels for arrows, rectangles, and circles.
  • Added screenshot save destinations, folder controls, and prompts to save unsaved changes before closing or starting a new capture.
  • Added an optional, more efficient screen and region capture method on Windows, available from Recording settings.

Improvements

  • Improved local AI Speech Edit with a new on-device voice model, 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 on demanding capture settings by preserving hardware encoding when possible.
  • Existing projects with camera layouts now show the camera layout timeline row automatically, while projects without layouts keep it hidden.

Fixes

  • Fixed cutting and restoring transcript selections that overlap clip boundaries.
  • Fixed cloud transcripts splitting words around apostrophes or hyphens and dropping punctuation, including spaced punctuation and languages without spaces between words.
  • Fixed deleting or transcript-cutting the final clip causing the editor to crash or leave an empty timeline.
  • 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 invalid rounded-corner geometry causing camera or screen content rendering issues.
  • Fixed a playback cleanup error that could occur after video decoding failed.

3.1.0-beta.3

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the app was trying to load non-existent files

3.1.0-beta.2

Features

  • Added copy and paste for Zoom and Camera Layout timeline segments using keyboard shortcuts or timeline context menus.

Improvements

  • Improved initial app loading performance
  • Improved Account settings so cloud credits and cloud storage options are hidden when they are not available or applicable.
  • Improved localized mixer text so labels, error messages, and progress messages render more consistently across languages.

Fixes

  • Fixed Privacy Areas being unavailable on macOS and non-intel hardware.
  • Fixed the recording UI getting stuck on the stopping screen when a recording session could no longer be finalized.
  • Fixed an issue where labels on disabled timeline items wouldn't hide when collapsed.
  • Fixed a preview stability issue that could cause the editor to crash after the GPU or WebGL context was lost.

3.1.0-beta.1

Features

  • Added Camera Layouts, so you can change camera visibility, placement, size, and full-screen or picture-in-picture behavior across timeline segments.

Improvements

  • Improved camera background processing so AI background removal and replacement stay better aligned in preview and export.
  • Improved transcription error states, including clearer feedback when no speech is detected.
  • Added tooltips to compact crop and aspect ratio controls.

Fixes

  • Fixed a recording crash that could happen when pause, resume, or stop events arrived while recording was still starting.
  • Fixed timeline shortcuts not working while a range settings sheet was open.
  • Fixed Compress Cuts failing when a cut was placed at the very beginning or end of the timeline.
  • Fixed Camera AI background processing being disabled in rare scenarios.
  • Fixed preview stability issues related to resizing and cursor rendering.

3.0.0-beta.15

Features

  • Added an Account page in the settings dialog for a better overview of your account, current plan, cloud credit balance, and cloud storage usage.

Improvements

  • Minor improvements and updates to the AI Speech Edit dialog.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Region capture from starting after selecting an area.
  • Fixed automatic transcription starting after recordings without microphone audio.
  • Fixed adjacent text segments being split incorrectly in transcripts for languages that do not use spaces between words.
  • Fixed the AI Speech Edit selection slider and audio playback position falling out of sync.
  • Fixed existing app settings not being carried forward

3.0.0-beta.14

Improvements

  • Enabled support for non-intel platforms for adding privacy areas
  • Renamed Replace Audio to AI Speech Edit and simplified UX

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where system sound couldn't be enabled when using region recording
  • Fixed an issue where the region selection could be wrong on Mac when using certain monitor configurations
  • Fixed an issue when using local transcription for non-spaced languages (i.e. Thai)

3.0.0-beta.13

Features

  • Added Region capture and Take a Screenshot options directly to the source selection screen.
  • Added a Privacy Filter tool in the screenshot editor, with black, blur, and pixelate styles for hiding sensitive areas.
  • Added the ability to directly record and create a reusable AI webcam template.

Improvements

  • Refreshed the capture source selection UI for display, window, region, and screenshot workflows.
  • AI Webcam now remembers the selected processing mode (Cloud/Local) and the last-used avatar/template tab.
  • Various improvements for privacy areas such as improved auto detection and column detection.

Fixes

  • Fixed issues with cloud based transcription to improve timestamps and avoid hallucinations.
  • Fixed the microphone selector audio visualizer to use the currently selected device.
  • Fixed Compress Cuts for projects that do not contain audio sources.
  • Fixed Region capture and screenshot capture flows so the app hides during selection, restores correctly after selection, and handles canceling cleanly.
  • Fixed the window recording hotkey so it opens the window selection modal.
  • Fixed auto subtitles on record so generated subtitles are applied after recording.
  • Fixed cursor positioning for Region capture on secondary displays.
  • Fixed AI Webcam options not persisting between uses.

3.0.0-beta.12

Fixes

  • Fixed a styling issue with selected text items in the privacy regions dialog

3.0.0-beta.11

Improvements

  • Improved the first run speed for voice generation and transcription on Intel Panther Lake hardware
  • We now prevent recording early if your system doesn't have the necessary codecs (Windows N OS)

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where cut markers could cause the audio wave form to look incorrect
  • Fixed an issue where cut markers could cause words in captions to disappear
  • Fixed an issue where the auto-selection notification could block other UI elements in the privacy area selection dialog