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v0.1.3
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A polish release of WizRec, the free, open-source screen recorder and
video editor for the Mac by Devs Wizard. It opens your Camtasia projects.

Download

Download WizRec-0.1.3.dmg below. Nothing else to install: FFmpeg and everything
WizRec needs are inside the app.

You need: a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

  1. Open the DMG and drag WizRec into Applications. If you have an older WizRec,
    quit it first and choose Replace: your projects and settings stay as they are.
  2. First launch only: in Applications, right-click (or Control-click) WizRec and
    choose Open, then click Open in the dialog. macOS asks this once because
    WizRec is not notarized by Apple.
  3. If macOS only offers Move to Trash or Done: open System Settings ▸ Privacy &
    Security    , scroll down to the message about WizRec and click Open Anyway, then
    confirm with your password or Touch ID.

To record, allow WizRec under System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security for
Screen & System Audio Recording, Camera and Microphone when macOS asks.

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of the DMG. To check your download:
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt in the folder that holds both files.

What's new

Getting started

  • An empty project explains itself. The canvas offers Record Screen and
    Import Media…, the media bin and the timeline say what goes there, and the
    properties panel tells you to select a clip. Play and step buttons stay off until
    there is something to play.
  • Drop files anywhere. Drag videos, images or audio from Finder onto the start
    screen, the canvas, the timeline or the media bin. The canvas shows where the drop
    goes; several files are placed one after another. A dropped project opens in its
    own window, and files WizRec can't use get a plain explanation instead of nothing.

Editor

  • Timeline toolbar. Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Split, Delete, Ripple Delete,
    Add Track, Snapping and zoom now sit right above the timeline. Each tooltip shows
    its keyboard shortcut, and buttons are greyed out when they can't act.
  • Smarter placement. Media dropped on the canvas, double-clicked in the media bin
    or imported goes in at the playhead, on the lowest track with room for the whole
    clip, or on a new track on top. Dropping on a busy spot in the timeline inserts at
    a clip's start (and moves the later clips right) when you drop near it, otherwise
    uses a free track above. While you drag, the timeline shows where the clip will land.
  • Clip speed by duration. In the properties panel, type a new Duration for a
    clip and WizRec sets the speed to match; Speed shows the actual value to two
    decimals.

Keyboard and accessibility

  • Tab moves between panes: media/library → canvas → properties → timeline and
    back (Shift-Tab the other way), and walks the properties fields top to bottom.
    Media bin tiles can be focused, and Space or Return adds the focused one at the
    playhead.

Fixes

  • The timeline no longer paints over the area above it after a resize.
  • Empty-state text can no longer make the window taller than the screen.
  • Importing a file that probes but isn't media no longer adds it.
  • Fixed a rare crash when video frames were released while the decoder that made
    them was shutting down.

See the 0.1.2 release for the
previous changes (start screen with recent projects, editor toolbar, opening projects when
Camtasia is installed, opening a video directly).

Known limits

  • Not notarized. WizRec is signed ad hoc, not with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS
    asks before the first launch (see above).
  • No automatic updates yet. The built-in updater is still switched off; it turns on
    in a later release. Watch Releases
    for new versions.
  • Backgrounds in Camtasia. Camtasia does not show WizRec's own animated backgrounds
    when it opens a project saved by WizRec (it accepts only its own). WizRec warns when
    you save such a project. Everything else in the project opens in Camtasia.
  • Look may differ slightly from Camtasia. Effects, transitions, callouts, cursor
    effects and easing are built from the project files and observation, but have not yet
    been compared frame by frame with Camtasia's own exports. Expect small differences in
    how some effects look or move.
  • Apple silicon only. There is no Intel build.
  • Camtasia-only features (quizzes, hotspots, Smart Player, TechSmith cloud sharing) are
    kept in your project files but not supported.

Source code and licences

WizRec is free software under the
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
Its source code for this release is the v0.1.3 tag of
devswizard/wizrec.
The bundled libraries (FFmpeg and its codecs, Sparkle) are listed with their licences in
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
and, with exact versions, in WizRec.app/Contents/Resources/Licenses/MANIFEST.txt; their
source code is available from each project at those versions and from the Homebrew
formulae that built them.

WizRec is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by TechSmith. Camtasia
is a trademark of TechSmith Corporation, used only to describe file compatibility.

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