0.5.4

Fixed

• Windows recordings keep existing media after capture or encoder failures, bound native startup and shutdown waits, clean up capture that starts after a timeout, and report the actual failure without leaving a recording indicator over stopped tracks.
• Windows region capture stays on the GPU with bounded reusable frame surfaces; frame pacing preserves the requested rate across monitor refresh rates, and transient overload drops frames while a progressing encoder keeps recording.
• Windows window recordings preserve the whole image when resized, follow window movements with the cursor, and retain static screen content through the end of the recording.
• Pause and resume preserve the full Windows and macOS cursor and shortcut history. Long recordings publish interaction sidecars with bounded memory, and recovery preserves finalized cursor files and valid journal records.
• Recording pause/resume failures finalize the remaining tracks consistently, with translated messages in all fifteen languages. Long interaction journals can finish saving without a queued status request terminating capture.
• Popovers no longer show a spare scrollbar or transparent strip beside short menus. Their blurred backdrop stays fixed while only overflowing content scrolls.
• Switching screenshot presets preserves zooms, custom layer names, image cropping, rotation and visibility, and restores enabled background and watermark layers without invalid composition errors. Selecting the current preset keeps unsaved edits intact.
• Windows screen recordings copy captured frames on the GPU before asynchronous encoding, preventing reuse of the capture surface from overwriting queued video frames.
• Slider reset and direct-value editing hints follow the selected language in all fifteen locales.
• Typing directly on the canvas responds immediately, with native text sizing and local drafts that avoid rebuilding the project on every keystroke.
• Webcam shadows keep a consistent size during zoom and zoom-out animations, including high-density editor previews.
• Renaming an open video project keeps its media available for playback and export, including through undo and redo.
• Default export filenames follow project renames in Video and Screenshot, while keeping any filename you entered yourself.
• Restored a visible green completion aura around export and Quick Snip notifications in light and dark themes.
• Fixed brief freezes and jumps in new Linux screen recordings with Intel graphics.
• Finished Video and Screenshot export notifications stay visible for five full seconds after the result appears, including when rendering is busy. Interaction pauses the countdown, and export errors stay visible.
• New Linux recordings keep the cursor synchronized with the video during fast movements and text selection, including with cursor smoothing turned off.
• Dropdown borders blur the content behind them consistently, so sharp text no longer shows through their edges.
• Export size estimates now include audio that becomes enabled through an animation.
• Aligned the filename and format controls in the video and Screenshot export dialogs, and made the Export button easier to see in both editor titlebars.
• Export folders appear only once in the recent-folder list, including when the chosen folder matches the last used folder.
• Dropdowns inside dialogs appear above the dialog and remain clickable.
• New recordings recognize custom resize cursors from design tools such as Figma on Linux, Windows and macOS, so the chosen cursor style keeps horizontal, vertical and diagonal resize handles.
• Improved HUD stability while dragging on Windows, including after recording or taking a screenshot.
• Screenshot fills the editor window with the same subtle blurred background as Studio, with consistent opacity in light and dark themes.
• Restarting a recording repeats your selected countdown every time and resets the recording timer for the new take.
• Fixed thick recording-region borders on Windows appearing over the selected area and in recorded videos.
• Alignment guides follow the visible cropped bounds in Video and Screenshot, while keeping the original image dimensions available for further crop edits and resets.
• Studio's Default option remembers your latest editing and export settings, including changes made while using a named preset. Named presets change only when you explicitly save them.
• Text inside shapes remembers its font, color, size and other typography settings for new recordings.
• Windows keeps the Recorder ready in the background, avoiding an unresponsive HUD after returning from the editor or system tray.
• Clicking an empty space in a text track adds the caption to that track. Add text still creates a new track.
• Pasted text captions appear at the playhead on their original track instead of creating a new track automatically; existing text is trimmed where the paste overlaps it.
• Screenshot effect panels avoid unnecessary scrollbars and keep scrollbar thumbs visible while content fades at the edges.
• Screenshot grouping actions explain how many more elements to select and identify locked or already grouped selections, in all fifteen languages.

Added

• Saved video and screenshot capture presets show a labelled sample of their appearance on hover or keyboard focus, without changing the selected preset. Previews use Beam’s shared renderer and remain inside the menu window.
• Beam CLI installs, checks and updates ten Beam agent skills from the repository's .skills/Beam-cli pack, with project-local installation by default, optional global destinations, pinned revisions, checksum validation and protection/backups for local edits. The skills cover design briefs, compositions, animation, capture, screenshot/video editing, assets, audio and export; CLI help and bundled documentation explain how to start.
• The Windows installer lets you choose where Beam is installed, including another drive. In-app updates still install silently and restart Beam.
• Assign separate global shortcuts to record a screen, region or window with Quick Snip, using your saved countdown. The new actions are available in all 15 languages and start unassigned.
• Open the same Settings window from the Recorder, video editor, Screenshot and Quick Snip, with shared Appearance controls.
• Customize editing, capture, tool and property shortcuts, including selection, duplication and drag modifiers, in a simpler searchable shortcuts page.
• New project lets you choose Video or Screenshot with Beam's capture icons and remembers your last choice.
• Instant, video editor and screenshot editor preset selectors show still previews with the preset's background, framing, shadows, borders and watermark. Screenshot previews use the open image; animated backgrounds show a still frame.
• Full-screen, region, window, Quick Snip and canvas screenshots play a short CC0 camera shutter at full application volume after success. Recorder finishes the sound before handing off to the editor; Quick Snip confirms after the image is copied or opened for editing.
• Screenshot layers support adjustable Dithering, ASCII, Grain and Cyanotype effects, with matching thumbnails and exports and preserved transparency. Ordered dithering, ASCII, grain and cyanotype run on the GPU; exact Jarvis–Judice–Ninke dithering runs in a cancellable background worker.

Changed

• Screenshot export uses Studio’s animated PNG/WebP format group and the same remembered-folder chooser, with settings disabled while an image is being published.
• Disabled automatic zoom explains whether the recording, cursor data or recorded clicks are missing, in all 15 languages.
• Video and Screenshot export dialogs shrink into a small progress pill at the bottom right, using the same appearance and hover actions as Quick Snip. Cancel from the pill, then watch the finished video or open its folder with larger buttons.
• Export and Quick Snip completion use a simple green checkmark with the subtle green outline, replacing the liquid mascot animation. File actions are available immediately.
• Settings navigation, preference pages, search results and export dialogs use the same scroll fades as the editor properties panel to show when more content is available. The navigation scrollbar stays at the sidebar's right edge.
• Shortcuts are organized into clear subcategories, including separate Quick Snip and Recorder controls, with search on the left and the category filter on the right. All headings are translated into 15 languages.
• Export size estimates explain that still scenes can produce much smaller files than the displayed approximation, in all 15 languages.
• Export directly to your chosen folder, with clear actions to watch the video or open its folder when finished. FFmpeg GPU export remains available in the export dialog on Linux.
• Export destinations show the folder path directly and keep recent folders available in the dropdown. Empty recent-folder lists explain how to choose the first folder, in all 15 languages.
• Video and Screenshot exports open in a wider dialog organized from file and destination to output settings, with the main choices visible together. Video exports the entire timeline by default, with accent-colored audio and playhead switches, simpler quality labels and the Original resolution. MP4 is the initial format, existing choices are remembered, and format hints explain MP4 and WebM. Video shows an estimated file size before exporting, and completed exports offer Watch or View image alongside Open folder. All new labels are translated into 15 languages.
• Settings separates shared Application preferences from tool-specific options, with Updates and About at the bottom of the navigation. Group headings are translated into all 15 languages.
• Shortcuts keep Beam's familiar keycaps in a lighter list, with a restore-default action shown only for customized bindings. Reassigning a shortcut already in use asks for confirmation and names the affected actions.
• Dithering uses the gradient editor's freely editable two-to-eight-color palette, full-width algorithm and color-mapping choices, and organized inspector sections with effect opacity and removal actions below the controls.