Changelog
Everything new since we first set sail.
Instruments on Deck v0.19.0
- Added Your camera and microphone, on the main screen.
- Changed Devices & Audio comes first in Settings.
- Changed Simplified the curses button.
- Changed A slimmer scrollbar in Settings, centred in the margin.
- Changed The Webcam Appearance previews show your camera when your camera is on.
- Fixed The title bar changes theme with the rest of the window.
Full-Size Recordings, Every Time v0.18.1
- Fixed Race condition that could result in full screen recordings coming out low res and choppy
A Change of Scenery v0.18.0
- Added Camera backgrounds - swap out your camera background, or remove it entirely.
- Added Reframe your camera, to keep you in the centre.
- Added Cancelling an area selection plays a lovely animation
- Changed Hovering on Active Window in Quick Record shows a border around the window.
- Changed Settings that open under a switch are marked by a wavy line.
- Changed Background blur keeps your hands, as well as your body.
- Fixed Using Quick Record from the bubble still lets you select Active Window.
- Fixed Improved video playback.
- Fixed Changing the background blur mid-take now changes it in the recording too.
- Fixed A thrown bubble touches the edge before it bounces.
Set Sail from the Bubble v0.17.0
- Added Quick Record from the camera bubble.
- Fixed The camera bubble's ⛶ button now hides while you resize the bubble, like its other buttons.
- Fixed Set Sail works over fullscreen apps on Mac.
- Fixed The camera bubble no longer blinks going into or out of Spotlight.
- Fixed Resizing the camera bubble no longer makes it jump in certain edge cases.
- Fixed The smallest camera bubble's resize handles no longer run into its buttons.
- Fixed Growing the camera bubble from a corner keeps that corner still.
Spotlight Stays in Line v0.16.1
- Fixed Restarting a take doesn't affect Spotlight's state.
- Fixed Spotlight no longer covers the recording controls.
All Eyes on Deck v0.16.0
- Added Spotlight: full-screen your camera
- Added A warning on Set sail when Set Sail's UI will be recorded.
- Changed The camera bubble's × and gear have swapped places.
- Fixed Quick Record's keys work in the area overlay too.
- Fixed The camera bubble should feel smoother on windows.
- Fixed Turning on the webcam from the Quick Record bar no longer opens the main window.
A Sea Witch Has Cursed You! v0.15.0
- Added The Curse of the Skimming Stone: skim your camera across the screen, with SDF skim-shadows
- Added The Curse of the Cannonball: drag & throw your camera across the screen
- Added The Curse of the Barnacle: attach your camera to your cursor
- Added The Curse of the Jellyfish: watch your camera turn to jelly as your drag it
- Added A settings button on the camera bubble.
- Added Webcam Appearance has two tabs - look & curses.
- Added Enable/Disable the camera bubble from the Webcam Appearance screen.
- Added Quick Record's keys work in the main window too.
- Changed The default bubble movement mode is now The Curse of the Anchor
- Changed Webcam Appearance leads Settings.
- Changed The "New Release" message closes itself.
- Changed The transcript panel drops its "Transcribed locally" note.
- Removed Intel Macs are no longer supported on the Mac App Store.
- Fixed Invisible overlay windows no longer show up in the window picker on Windows.
- Fixed Set Sail no longer freezes for a couple of seconds on Windows when the screen preview refreshes
- Fixed Mission Control no longer shows the recording border as a window of its own.
- Fixed Land Ahoy! screen notices when a take is deleted in Finder or Explorer.
- Fixed Invisible windows no longer show up in the window picker.
Keeping Itself Shipshape v0.14.0
- Added Set Sail keeps itself up to date on Windows.
A Voyage While You Wait v0.13.0
- Added The screen you see while a recording is being processed now has a loading %, a 'log' of what is happening behind the scenes, and a little boat floating along
- Fixed Tooltips no longer come up behind the window buttons.
Steadier Transcript Progress v0.12.1
- Fixed The transcript progress bar no longer stalls at 95% on a long take.
Transcripts + New Player v0.12.0
- Added Transcripts - transcribe your video after recording and export the transcription as a txt file. This all happens locally, using whisper.
- Changed The recording preview has its own player controls.
- Changed The window on macOS now wears Set Sail's own title bar, the way it already did on Windows: a plain band in the app's colour, no title, and the traffic lights where they have always been.
- Changed The window can no longer be resized by dragging it.
- Fixed Flipping the camera, microphone, or system audio chip mid-recording did not persist after the take ended.
Quick Record Fix v0.11.1
- Fixed Turning the camera, microphone, or system audio on from the Quick Record bar could get left out of the recording it started.
Feedback + Audio Levels v0.11.0
- Added Send a bug report or a feature request without leaving the app.
- Added Optional crash reports and usage stats, to help fix and improve Set Sail.
- Added Set your microphone and system audio levels before you record.
- Removed The Enhance microphone switch, and the processing behind it.
- Fixed Slider values in Settings are readable in dark mode when the bar fills in behind them.
- Fixed Dragging the volume slider on a finished recording's preview no longer starts dragging the file out of the app.
- Fixed With background blur on, your webcam no longer appears before the blur does.
Quick Toggles, Copy + Drag Videos, Overhauled Settings v0.10.0
- Added Copy or drag a finished recording straight off the Land ahoy screen.
- Added Turn the webcam, microphone and system audio on or off from the Quick Record bar.
- Changed Settings is no longer one long list.
- Changed Light, dark and system now sit in the Settings header, as three small icons in the top right, instead of as a row in the list.
- Changed The webcam's shadow controls only appear when the shadow is on.
- Changed Clearer wording on the "Show Set Sail UI while recording" setting.
- Changed The recording bar's mic and system-audio meters are easier to read.
- Changed The Quick Record bar shows that your recording is getting ready.
- Removed The hint under Launch at startup on Windows, which only repeated the label.
- Fixed The preview of what you're about to record stays up to date.
- Fixed Clicking Set Sail's icon in the Windows notification area now opens the app.
- Fixed Double-clicking the recording bar no longer flings it to the bottom of the screen.
- Fixed The start controls no longer jump the last stretch when you leave Area mode.
- Fixed Choosing Area from Quick Record no longer brings up the Set Sail window.
- Fixed Quick Record starts sooner on Windows.
A New Look v0.9.0
- Changed Set Sail has a new look: the warm cream and beige are replaced by a cleaner, quieter palette in both light and dark.
Quiet Windows Startup v0.8.1
- Changed On Windows startup, Set Sail opens to the taskbar, and doesn't show its window.
Quick Record, Taskbar Icons, And Smaller Recordings v0.8.0
- Added Quick Record: start a take from anywhere, without going to Set Sail.
- Added A menu bar icon on macOS, and a taskbar icon on Windows.
- Added On Windows, Set Sail can now launch automatically at login and run like a proper background service.
- Added A confirmed region can now be moved and edge-resized, not just corner-resized.
- Added Messages worth interrupting a recording for now appear on the status bar.
- Changed MP4 recordings are much smaller.
- Changed Improved the webcam bubble's grow/shrink animation performance on Windows.
- Changed The Quality setting is now High / Medium / Low, was High / Balanced / Small, with a line under it saying what each one caps the picture at.
- Changed The Region capture mode is now called Area, matching the "Select area…" / "Record area" language already used throughout that flow.
- Changed Deleting a take on Land ahoy now says so in words, not just in colour.
- Removed Colour correction, the Settings screen that let you dial in a levels correction for recordings coming out washed out on an HDR display, added in 0.6.0.
- Fixed On Windows, switching modes or leaving a recording's preview no longer stalls the cursor for a moment.
- Fixed Turning the webcam off during a recording now shows it shrinking away in the recorded file, not just on your own screen.
- Fixed The window picker's thumbnails no longer flash when you open Pick Window
- Fixed With Show Set Sail while recording on, a screen or area take's first frames no longer catch the countdown's fading "1".
- Fixed The camera and microphone now follow along when the hardware changes, not just at the moment a stream first opens.
- Fixed The screen picker and the idle screen's preview no longer show Set Sail's own window sitting on top of the desktop they're previewing. Both now leave Set Sail's window out of the capture, the same way its actual recordings already did.
- Fixed Improved support for scaled displays on Windows.
- Fixed Windows no longer draws its yellow capture border over your recordings.
- Fixed The webcam bubble's resize handles and close button no longer end up in your recordings.
- Fixed The webcam, microphone and system-audio chips no longer go blank while an area recording is getting ready.
- Fixed Esc now cancels a region selection immediately, without a click first.
This Changelog! v0.7.0
- Added Set Sail can now tell you what's new.
HDR Colour Correction v0.6.0
- Added Colour correction setting, for recordings that come out washed out on an HDR display.
- Added Recording a window now names the file after it.
- Fixed The screen and window pictures in the app are no longer washed out when recording with HDR enabled
- Fixed Windows no longer draws its own yellow capture border over Set Sail's
- Fixed The main window no longer jumps across the screen when you drag it past the webcam bubble.
- Fixed The webcam bubble stays where you put it when you toggle the camera off and on.
- Fixed The webcam button no longer starts spinning forever when the camera is already on.
Audio and Display Fixes v0.5.1
- Fixed A recording on a machine whose sound device runs at 96kHz no longer fails outright, losing the take.
Bubble Animations and Windows Polish v0.5.0
- Added The webcam button now spins when the camera is still opening.
- Changed The camera bubble now grows into place when it appears, and shrinks away when it goes.
- Changed The bubble's handles slide out from its edge rather than fading in where they sit, and tuck back behind it on the way out.
- Changed The taskbar icon no longer sits on a blue square on Windows.
- Fixed Dragging a bubble's corner grip no longer reverses direction part-way through.
- Fixed The microphone no longer boosts the room when nobody is talking.
- Fixed A change in microphone level part-way through a take no longer arrives as a jump.
- Fixed Clicking or dragging Set Sail's window when it wasn't focused no longer hangs for half a second.
Smarter Recording Resolution v0.4.0
- Changed Recording resolution now follows the quality presets: 2160p at High, 1440p at Balanced, 1080p at Small.
- Fixed MP4 no longer falls back to WebM on some Macs driving a large display.
- Fixed Restart now keeps the camera, microphone and system audio exactly as you left them.
- Fixed Full screen on the recording preview now fills the screen, instead of only filling the Set Sail window.
- Fixed The Set sail button now says what it's doing while the app starts up.
A Native Windows Title Bar v0.3.1
- Changed The title bar on Windows is now custom + beautiful :)
- Changed Toasts now sit at the bottom of the window, level with the button below them, instead of floating somewhere above it.
- Fixed MP4 recording now has a final software H.264 fallback.
- Fixed The recording frame around a window now hugs its edges on Windows.
- Fixed Opening About no longer flashes a scrollbar on Windows.
Multi-Monitor Reliability v0.3.0
- Changed The recording status bar now appears on the screen being recorded, rather than always on the main one
- Changed Set Sail's window now opens on the screen you're working on, instead of always on the main display.
- Changed Set Sail now notices monitors being plugged in, unplugged, or rearranged.
- Fixed Dragging the camera bubble between screens no longer jitters or throws it to the wrong side.
- Fixed The camera bubble stays sharp after moving to a screen with different scaling.
- Fixed A region drag that leaves the screen no longer records the wrong area.
- Fixed Unplugging the screen you were recording no longer deletes the recording.
- Fixed The camera bubble no longer swallows clicks after an interrupted drag.