ScreenToGif 2.6

What's new?

• Updated Spanish (Argentina) translation.
• With this update, you'll notice that older projects can no longer be loaded. That's because I had to change how the projects "work" and how they can be read for future updates.
• Option to enable triple-click selection for text boxes.
• More options to encode as Avi video using the system encoder.

Bug fixes:

♦ The bug that happens when the pc sleeps with the Editor window opened.

More info:

Known issues

ScreenToGif 2.5

What's new?

• Keystrokes recording.
• Option to remove X frames after Y frames, also known as reduce framerate.
• Save directly to clipboard option for gifs.
• 64 bits executable (will run as 32 bits when 64 bits not available).

Bug fixes:

♦ The frame viewer now adjusts its scale based on the screen dpi.
♦ The shortcuts for the recording are no longer raised when using key modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt and Windows keys).
♦ The focus is set to the selected frame after loading the list of frames. (for example, when applying an overlay).
♦ The font size of the Title Frame is now saved every time you change the value, as expected.
♦ The legacy (1.0) encoder was failing to find the transparent color of frames with small changes.
♦ Improved the selection of frames while using the Shift key.
♦ When applying the Progress overlay, a heavy load could freeze the window and crash the app.
♦ The feedback tool now searches for the log files correctly.

More info:

Known issues

ScreenToGif 2.4

What's new?

• Drag and drop files from the encoder.
• Context menu for each completed encoding, providing some clipboard operations.
• License information available in the "About page".
• Error messages are now more user-friendly.
• You can now configure the location of the logs folder.
• The playback buttons are now disabled during the opening of a side panel.
• Now it remembers the clipboard paste behavior (Clipboard > Paste behavior).
• Updated Danish, Chinese (simplified) and Russian translations.

Bug fixes:

♦ If an action (from a panel such as "Save as") failed because of some validation or when closing with the top-right X button, the playback buttons would stay disabled.
♦ Undoing a transition left a frame that should be deleted.
♦ PageDown and PageUp jumps among various frames instead of one by one.
♦ Clipboard list was not being cleared after deleting the recording.
♦ Color picker: While returning to the initial color, the numbers were not replaced with the selected color.
♦ Wrong validation of negative numbers for numeric inputs.
♦ Error while pasting and undoing the pasting of frames (quickly).

Known bugs:

♠ OutOfMemory exception when importing videos.
♠ The crop feature fails when cropping a board recording (with high DPI);

Experimental features

• Full screen recording is now possible. Use carefully, it's not polished yet.
• There's a new encoder called "ScreenToGif", great for recordings with less than 256 colors, but it's slower.

ScreenToGif 2.3.2

What's new?

• Changed the output of the error logs to the Documents folder.
• Added a "Scale" option to resize your webcam video feed.

Bug fixes:

♦ Bugs with the management of localization resources.
♦ Check for updates was reporting a new release (even when it shouldn't).
♦ Cursor capture was causing a memory leak.
♦ Error when opening the save dialog when the last selected folder did not exist.
♦ It was impossible to import a project using drag and drop.

Known bugs:

♠ OutOfMemory exception when importing giant videos.
♠ The crop feature fails when cropping a board recording (with high DPI);

Experimental features

• Full screen recording is now possible. Use carefully, it's not polished yet.
• There's a new encoder called "ScreenToGif", great for recordings with less than 256 colors, but it's slower.

ScreenToGif 2.3.1

What's new?

• Now there is a warning about the lack of .Net Framework 4.6.1 when using >4.0 <4.6.1
• Transitions effects have keyboard shortcuts. The panels "Apply/Cancel" buttons now have keyboard shortcuts as well.

Bug fixes:

♦ Reworked cursor capture. Now it works better with different cursors (not only the default, but the dark, inverted or I-Beam cursors).
♦ The Ctrl+Z (Undo) action after applying an overlay or overriding the delay.
♦ The Snapshot mode and Fullscreen mode options were switched on the Options window.
♦ It was impossible to apply a Slide transition effect.
♦ It was impossible to import a gif.
♦ It was impossible to export a single frame (right click on the frame list).
♦ Incorrect size values of the recorder when using high dpi displays.
♦ Undoing 2x an action that altered only the delay of frames causes a crash.

Known bugs:

♠ OutOfMemory exception when importing giant videos.
♠ The crop feature fails when cropping a board recording (with high DPI);

Experimental features

• Full screen recording is now possible. Use carefully, it's not polished yet.
• There's a new encoder called "ScreenToGif", great for recordings with less than 256 colors, but it's slower.

ScreenToGif 2.3

What's new?

• UI overhaul based on usability tests with users. This reflects to the recorders, the editor and other windows.
• True portable mode is now possible. Head over Options > Temporary files and create a local Settings.xaml file to enable the portability.
• New ActionStack (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y, etc), now it will eat less of your disk space.
• Option to change the theme colors of the Recorder UI.
• Option to show the total values of the Progress feature.
• Added a Transition option to fade to a specific color.
• Added a Statistics tab with some info about the current recording.
• Ukrainian translation added.

Experimental features

• Full screen recording is now possible. Use carefully, it's not polished yet.
• There's a new encoder called "ScreenToGif", great for recordings with less than 256 colors, but it's slower.

Bug fixes:

♦ The notorious bug with multi DPI set of screens. Finally.
♦ A lot of bugs related to the ActionStack (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y, etc)
♦ A recording bug that was causing an error while saving the file.
♦ Overwriten files had a wrong filesize.
♦ After importing a gif, it was impossible to save as video.

Known bugs:

♠ OutOfMemory exception when importing giant videos.
♠ Updated: 30/10/2016 A small bug causes a crash when you select the "ScreenToGif" encoder, close the app and open the editor again. To void this bug, go to Options > Temporary files and clear your settings. As a better solution, you can simply find the key called "GifEncoder" and type the value "Legacy".
♠ Exception when saving a recording to video with the FFmpeg option. To avoid this bug, download this version from here.
♠ Exception when sending a feedback. :/

ScreenToGif 2.2

What's new?

• Option to reduce the thickness of the recorder UI. (Thin mode)
• Added Korean translation.
• Updated the Russian translation.

Bug fixes:

♦ ActionStack (Undo/Redo) was causing a loss of frames because of wrong location of the images.
♦ Unchecking "Detect unchanged pixels" resulted in a 32B file (corrupted).
♦ Cancelling the import of media caused a lockdown.
♦ When opening the "SaveAs", it could crash the app if there was a strange Path variable present.
♦ Wrong location of the cache files (board recorder).

Known issues:

♣ The feedback tool won't work. Sorry :/
♣ "File already exists" exception when trying to save the recording.
♣ Multi-dpi set of screens are not supported. This app will only work on your primary screen.

ScreenToGif 2.1

What's new?

• Progress indicator overlay.
• Asynchronous recording (optional).
• New localizations: Arabic, Italian and Japanese.
• Multiple images import enabled.
• Option to change the recording cache location.
• New "Save as" panel.
• The app will remember the latest used destination folder and filename.
• Increase or decrease filename number.
• FFmpeg initial support.

Bug fixes:

♦ Snap to window on Windows 10.
♦ Encoding bug with a low quantity of unchanged pixels.
♦ Tab-index order of the bottom controls on the screen recorder.
♦ Frame selection using the keyboard on the editor.
♦ Fit to image.
♦ When deleting frames, the focus should stay on the frame list.
♦ Send feedback.
♦ Project import bug that prevented importing from a zip file.
♦ Gif import bug when the gif had only 1 frame.
♦ Captured images were saved incorrectly with the extension "bmp" instead of "png".

Patch August 5th

♦ Incorrect startup location when using more than one monitor.

Patch August 6th

♦ When exporting the project a second time, there was a chance to fail.