Vidlark for Windows 0.2 beta

This is a beta. Vidlark for Windows is new. It records your face, your voice and your screen, but it has only been tried on a few PCs so far. Tell us what goes wrong, and keep a copy of any take that matters.

New in this version

Fixes found before the first test on a real laptop:

• A camera or microphone plugged in after Vidlark opens now shows up in the lists.
• If the camera stops sending pictures, Record turns off and Vidlark says what to check. It opens the camera again when it comes back.
• If finishing a take goes wrong, Vidlark says so instead of closing. The take's files are kept.
• The recording box has no pop-up hints, and the question asked when you close Vidlark during a take stays out of the video.
• The recording box is the right size when the shared screen is scaled differently from the main one.

Download and open it

1. Download Vidlark-Windows.zip below.
2. Right-click the zip, choose Extract All, then Extract.
3. Open the Vidlark folder and double-click Vidlark.exe.
4. The first time, Windows says "Windows protected your PC". That is because Vidlark is new and not signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

It needs Windows 11, 64-bit. There is nothing else to install.

What works

• Your camera and microphone, recorded as camera.mov, after a 3, 2, 1 countdown.
• More microphones, each recorded to its own file.
• Share screen during a take: the whole screen or one window. Vidlark then shrinks to a small box with Me, Screen, the time and Stop.
• Me puts your camera across the whole screen. Screen shows the screen, with your face in a round bubble in the corner. You can drag the bubble, or take it out.
• The computer's own sound, such as a video you play, if you tick it. It can be switched on and off during the take.
• Vidlark's own windows never show in the video.
• After Stop, Vidlark lines up the camera and the screen and makes the finished video, video.mp4, with chapters and a short report.
• If the PC crashes, everything up to about the last 2 seconds is kept.

Takes are saved in C:\Users\Public\Videos\Vidlark Recordings.

Not in this beta yet

• The transcript: it needs a speech model that this beta does not download yet, so takes finish without one.
• Phones as cameras or microphones, and the live view.
• The prompter, face framing (the bubble shows the middle of the camera picture), and the Recordings and Settings pages.
• Sound from one app only. It is all of the computer's sound, or none.

Vidlark for Windows 0.1 beta

This is a beta. Vidlark for Windows is new. It records your face, your voice and your screen, but it has only been tried on a few PCs so far. Tell us what goes wrong, and keep a copy of any take that matters.

Download and open it

1. Download Vidlark-Windows.zip below.
2. Right-click the zip, choose Extract All, then Extract.
3. Open the Vidlark folder and double-click Vidlark.exe.
4. The first time, Windows says "Windows protected your PC". That is because Vidlark is new and not signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

It needs Windows 11, 64-bit. There is nothing else to install.

What works

• Your camera and microphone, recorded as camera.mov, after a 3, 2, 1 countdown.
• More microphones, each recorded to its own file.
• Share screen during a take: the whole screen or one window. Vidlark then shrinks to a small box with Me, Screen, the time and Stop.
• Me puts your camera across the whole screen. Screen shows the screen, with your face in a round bubble in the corner. You can drag the bubble, or take it out.
• The computer's own sound, such as a video you play, if you tick it. It can be switched on and off during the take.
• Vidlark's own windows never show in the video.
• After Stop, Vidlark lines up the camera and the screen and makes the finished video, video.mp4, with chapters and a short report.
• If the PC crashes, everything up to about the last 2 seconds is kept.

Takes are saved in C:\Users\Public\Videos\Vidlark Recordings.

Not in this beta yet

• The transcript: it needs a speech model that this beta does not download yet, so takes finish without one.
• Phones as cameras or microphones, and the live view.
• The prompter, face framing (the bubble shows the middle of the camera picture), and the Recordings and Settings pages.
• Sound from one app only. It is all of the computer's sound, or none.