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The quality release
A major pass across recording, editing, captions, smart zooms, screenshots, export, and account safety.
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Highlights
- Smart zoom motion is smoother and more reliable.
- Preview and export now share more of the same rendering path.
- Captions have a simpler editing flow and stronger live previews.
- The screenshot editor has better crop, text, border, shadow, and export tools.
- Timeline and export work use less unnecessary memory and processing.
- Recording permissions and source choices are clearer and more dependable.
- Security checks were tightened across sign-in, billing, stored tokens, project paths, and web content.
Smart zoom and camera motion
- Unified smart zoom timing and motion controls.
- Fixed camera jumps when a new zoom starts far from the current focus.
- Fixed late zoom-out movement at the end of a segment.
- Kept the current zoom when there is not enough time for a clean release.
- Preserved camera plans when a clip is split or cropped.
- Improved cursor-follow movement for long and fast pointer travel.
- Reduced preview drift, camera snaps, and rebuild churn.
- Made manual edits and regenerated zooms stay in sync.
- Added clearer zoom segment spacing and controls.
Captions and transcription
- Added a clearer split between caption style editing and caption review.
- Made Classic Box the default caption style.
- Simplified the caption style gallery and removed weak or unused choices.
- Added saved caption templates with safe snapshots and storage.
- Improved caption previews, word timing, animation playback, and hover behavior.
- Kept caption fonts stable while resizing.
- Improved caption drag, resize, selection, and rotation behavior.
- Added more useful context to the caption properties panel.
- Fixed live transcription packet ordering.
- Reduced caption render work during playback.
- Kept animated captions consistent between preview and export.
- Redesigned caption empty states and regeneration sheets.
Recording and capture
- Made capture permissions follow the source the user picked.
- Removed unrelated permission prompts from capture setup.
- Showed every real blocker when a recording cannot start.
- Restored source pickers after capture setup is cancelled.
- Improved the first area-selection guide.
- Kept capture mode changes disabled during an active recording.
- Fixed recording pause timing and webcam capture state.
- Fixed recording stop shortcuts so they work without window focus.
- Reduced recording hangs caused by capture actions.
- Made audio-only source handling and empty recording messages more truthful.
- Improved meeting detection status and capture toolbar ownership.
Screenshot editor
- Added a vertical settings rail and a cleaner post-capture flow.
- Added better canvas zoom, pan, crop, and undo behavior.
- Improved text selection, editing, resize handles, and direct canvas controls.
- Kept image selection aligned with the pixels shown on screen.
- Preserved real edge pixels in window captures.
- Made screenshot previews adapt to wide and tall images.
- Added clearer border colors and stronger border and shadow controls.
- Improved Liquid Glass borders, edge lighting, refraction, and thumbnails.
- Kept screenshot rendering responsive while dragging or changing controls.
- Fixed clipboard export, saved file quality, scale settings, and output timing.
- Blocked export during an unfinished crop.
Timeline and editor
- Made the timeline render only the visible content where possible.
- Reduced work for waveforms, thumbnails, stripes, captions, and selection changes.
- Fixed the timeline scrollbar overlapping tracks.
- Fixed the 100 percent scroll limit and zoom-to-fit clamping.
- Simplified timeline track controls.
- Moved track visibility into the timeline toolbar.
- Removed unused track labels and old editor paths.
- Improved external media selection, recovery, shortcuts, and waveform handling.
- Protected active editor work when closing a project.
- Suspended hidden editors to reduce background CPU and memory use.
- Unified common selection controls across the video and screenshot editors.
Export and performance
- Unified more of the preview and export rendering engine.
- Moved export frame work through Metal where possible.
- Improved export writer scheduling and removed unused frame retention.
- Reduced copied buffers and unnecessary screenshot export waits.
- Fixed exported frame bounds and stale background frames.
- Fixed export names, dimensions, and resolution descriptions.
- Fixed audio-only watermark rules and removed export choices that were not supported.
- Improved cursor motion blur performance.
- Disabled code coverage work in production builds.
- Added release checks that reject coverage-instrumented binaries.
Audio
- Added automatic enhancement for new microphone recordings.
- Fixed external audio import routing.
- Removed unused transcription and audio-mixing work.
- Made audio shortcut assignment state clear and accurate.
- Kept audio-only capture and export paths separate from video-only work.
Design and usability
- Unified empty states across major app areas.
- Matched sheets to the export sheet structure.
- Simplified custom sheets and kept them inside their owning app windows.
- Improved command palette behavior and contrast.
- Added a full shortcut reference.
- Improved app menus, About window behavior, and toolbar actions.
- Added Saryu wallpapers and improved wallpaper ordering.
- Refined bundle icons and added a Saryu macOS wallpaper.
Security and account safety
- Stopped the Deepgram key from being exposed in app traffic.
- Tightened stored token protection.
- Bound native sign-in callbacks to the correct app flow.
- Restricted unsafe project paths and web navigation.
- Bound Stripe checkout to signed-in accounts.
- Verified Stripe events before changing access rights.
- Trusted verified identity claims instead of user-provided identity fields.
- Added stronger website response headers.
- Updated the website framework to a security-patched release.
Website and help
- Added a full documentation centre for capture, editing, export, accounts, and common problems.
- Unified feedback and issue reporting.
- Improved download, pricing, account, privacy, terms, and support content.
- Added product review links and clearer public product copy.
Product scope
- This release ships the Saryu recorder and editor. Director remains in development and disabled in the shipping app.