1.2.0

Vido 1.2.0

New

• Copy button on clips. Every clip card now has a Copy button next to the favourite star. It puts the video file itself on the clipboard, so you can paste it straight into Discord, a chat or a folder with Ctrl+V.
• Quick actions after editing. When you save an edit, as a new file or with Save & override, the notification now offers Play, Copy and Open folder.
• Update confirmation. After an update installs, Vido opens its window (even if "Start minimized" is on) and tells you the update worked, including which version you came from.

Changed

• "Copy file path" is gone from the clip ⋯ menu. The new Copy button copies the clip itself instead. To copy file paths automatically after a save, use Settings → Saving → "Copy file path to clipboard".

Website

• Vido now has a home at vido.rip, with the trailer, features and download.

1.1.0

What's new

Quick formats

The export pane's shape choice is now Quick formats: Original, Phone (9:16) and GIF.

• Phone (9:16) for Shorts, TikTok and Reels. Pick Crop to drag a vertical window, or Fit to show the whole frame on a soft blurred background.
• GIF turns the selection into an animated GIF: 15 fps, up to 480 px, no sound, at most 30 s. Crop, blur and speed all apply, and each GIF gets its own colour palette for clean colours. GIFs are always saved as a new file.

Speed and fades

• Speed from 0.25× to 4×, and fade in / fade out (0.5, 1 or 2 s), right in the export pane.
• Both are previewed live: the player and every audio track play at the chosen speed, and the picture darkens to show the fades.
• Fades now fade the picture to and from black as well as the sound.

Drag clips out of Vido

Drag a clip straight into Discord, a folder or a browser upload box, with its thumbnail as the drag image. It works from the library cards, the latest-clip tile, the player and the Storage page.

Low disk space protection

With less than 10 GB free on the clips drive (or the buffer's drive), Vido stops the buffer with a popup and won't start it again until there's room. A warning stays on screen meanwhile, so a full disk never breaks a save.

Also

• A 60-second trailer is linked in the README, with everything to rebuild it in trailer/.

Full Changelog: 1.0.0...1.1.0

Official Release - 1.0.0

What's new

Clip library

• Favorites: star any clip and filter the library to just your favorites.
• Rename clips right from the library.
• Search clips by name.
• Select several clips to favorite, export audio from, shrink or delete them together.
• Group by date, by game, or not at all (a dropdown that replaces the "Group by date" checkbox).
• Export audio tracks as WAV: one file per track, in a folder next to the clip. Available from the editor and the clip's ⋯ menu.

Editor

• Privacy blur: drag one or more boxes over names, chat or anything private. You see the blur live in the preview, and it's applied to the export.
• Vertical (9:16) export for Shorts, TikTok and Reels:
  • 9:16 crop: drag a 9:16 window over the part to keep.
  • 9:16 fit: the whole frame in the middle, with a blurred copy filling the top and bottom.

Saving

• Make it longer: missed the end? Save again within 15 seconds and the second save replaces the first with one longer clip. On by default, can be turned off in Saving.
• Only buffer while a game runs (optional, in Capture): the buffer starts when a game starts and stops a minute after it closes. If you stop it by hand mid-game, it stays stopped until that game closes.

New Storage page

• See how full the drive is and how much space your clips take.
• See usage per game (top 5, expandable to the full list).
• See the biggest clips, with play, show in folder and delete.
• Shrink old clips: re-encode clips older than 7 / 30 / 90 / 180 days to HEVC or H.264 at 1080p and replace them (the originals go to the Recycle Bin).
  • Favorites and clips that are already small are skipped.
  • It keeps running while you use the rest of the app, and you can stop it at any time.

Other

• Size limit for the buffer is off by default.
• The detected game is now written to the log, to help track down detection problems.

Full Changelog: 0.3.0...1.0.0

Alpha - 0.3.0

What's new

Easier to use

• Clearer buffer buttons: Pause and Stop in the top bar now use round icons, so Stop no longer looks like the window's Maximize button.
• Pages open at the top instead of where the previous page was scrolled to.
• Tidier clip grid: cards in a row line up, and the latest clip's details stay on one line.
• Video quality: all five quality options fit on one row.
• Settings are easier to read: descriptions use the full width, the selected option is clearly highlighted, and number fields line up.
• Small windows: every sidebar page stays visible.
• Overlay settings: the position picker now shows the real "Clip saved" popup.
• Update dialog: release notes are formatted properly, with a View on GitHub button.
• Player: shows the clip's thumbnail while the video loads.
• Settings → General: Updates now comes before Setup.
• New installs: the replay buffer has no size limit by default.

Safer

• A command set to run after each save now needs your confirmation first.
• The clips and cache folders can't be a whole drive or a system folder.
• Vido only writes saves where you chose with Save as…, and only opens clips from your clips folder or files you saved.
• Updates must be signed for the exact version they claim to be.
• Updating the portable version restarts Vido more reliably.
• Clearing the cache only removes Vido's own buffer files.

More reliable

• A problem in the overlay, game detection, update checks or the folder watcher no longer stops that feature (the overlay could take all of Vido down with it).
• Game detection only runs while the buffer is on.
• Debug logs no longer fill up with network messages.

Full Changelog: 0.2.1...0.3.0

Alpha - 0.2.1

This is testing the updater.

Full Changelog: 0.2.0...0.2.1

Alpha - 0.2.0

This is releasing the software before reaching Version 1 to test Updater from GitHub