HyperCam Version History

A cute program to capture screen, videos and sound being played back and a microphone input. Allows to record, edit by means of the buil-in video editor and upload videos to Youtube and other popular resources.

File info: 14.06 Mb, 2012 May 14

3.4.1205.14, 2012-05-14

Skype session capturing for Windows Vista and higher ( Recording an audio capture device along with system audio )
Sound level indicator
Displaying multiple microphones in audio popup menu
HyperCam Media Editor: updated interface
HyperCam Media Editor: thumbnails generation feature and time format switching(time / time and frames)

Deleted hotkeys F2, F3, F4 haven’t been saved after application restart
Error after restart recording when mouse clicks recording is enabled

3.3.1111.16, 2011-11-16

Localization to Italian language

3.3.1110.19, 2011-10-19

Help file was updated

3.3.1109.27, 2011-09-27

HyperCam hangs when trying to stop WMV/ASF files recording.
Possible crash when trying to choose the WMV9 video encoder.

3.3.1109.19, 2011-09-19

Display of duration of the recorded file
Recording audio-only files in WAV/WMA/MP3 formats
Display of filetype of the recorded file in the recent files window (for video, screenshots, a sound)
Portable installation
Upload to YouTube
Option of editing WMV files with frame accuracy in HyperCam Media Editor
Context menu on recent records was added
To each message box a characteristic icon was added

Incorrect display of HyperCam panel if Windows Aero is enabled
Wrong mapping coordinates in the Start X, Start Y, Width, Height fields when selecting the region to be recorded
Assigning hot key if it is already assigned to another action
Open the last records folder and log files, even if these folders are empty yet
Add a macro screen labels after the language switching
Creating a backup copy of the HyperCam license key
Translation of "Uncompressed video" and "Uncompressed audio" strings
Sometimes wrong size of the region to be recorded was shown

3.2.1107.8, 2011-07-08

German language support

Recording didn't operate sometimes after pause/resume actions

3.1.1104.15, 2011-04-15

Crash during some video codecs initialization

3.1.1104.5, 2011-04-05

Localization into Russian language
Possibility to set the speed of recording and playback
Support Windows Media audio codecs that helps to improve sound recording
Support HuffYUV and Lagarith codec that helps to get more high quality records

Red frame, indicating the area to screen capture, falls in record
Problems with sound recording with some codecs settings. Fixed, now in the list of available codecs only those that should work
The size of red frame could be changed. Was fixed
The deleted records remove without placing to the basket
Errors with recording from two screens

3.1.1012.03, 2010-12-03

Some fixes to satisfy Compatible with Windows 7 program

3.1.1011.23, 2010-11-23

Ability to use Microsoft Screen Codec and write WMV files with further editing
Ability to use some other third party codecs to be pre-setup at PC like MPEG-2, ACV/H264, etc. and put them to ASF files.
Implemented adjustable audio time shift feature, to fix 'out of sync' problem
Now a border follows a moving window in 'Select Window' mode
Implemented drag and drop feature for 'Recent Records' window
Detection of necessary DirectX and Windows Media runtime while installing

Recent record sorting sometimes did not work well
Artifact were produced if to drag some application at overlay video to be recorded
Artifact were produced if grabbed video window was resized
Win 7 DPI changing to 150% caused grabbing region troubles
Some fixes about incorrect border and notices behavior

Some settings in Extras in Interface tabs are now unlocked in Run/Pause mode

3.0.1006.10, 2010-06-10

Added command line interface recording and managing

HyperCam was unable to operate under non-administrative account, upon recording stop an error message was delivered
Fixed memory leaks arisen with multiple start/stop recordings
Upon F1 help file was not opened

Installation and binaries signed by Comodo certificate
Screen notes menu added to HyperCam task bar context menu
Increased frame rate and K-frame distance thresholds. Now the values unrestricted
Added ability to log HyperCam actions (for debugging purposes)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Solveig Multimedia\HyperCam 3\ use_logger should be set to 1

3.0.1003.12, 2010-03-12

Minor component updates and installer improvements

3.0.912.18, 2009-12-18

Minor components updates

3.0.912.7, 2009-12-07

Some more major and minor bugs have been fixed.

Fixed wrong behavior of a frame which arisen and remained: by pushing ctrl+shift keys (pan lock default key combination); if HC3 was iconized and then restored; by changing options Region/Fullscreen/Windows
HC3 could crash while opening depending on some particular codecs installed. Fixed
Radio buttons – Anchor to the Top/Bottom in Screen Note Setup window could not be switched off
DV Encoder (and some other) settings did not apply. Fixed
Fixed wrong behavior of macros updates in notices
Alt+PrntScrn of HC3 windows did not operate. Fixed
HC3 was unable to grab overlayed video from VLC player. Fixed
Some more major and minor bugs have been fixed

3.0.908.17, 2009-08-20

Added correct workflow of mouse clicks sound insertion. It is mixed to any “Source” channel with volume according to the settings

In two monitor configuration sometimes the coordinates were drawn out of HC3 controls
Turning of “Show recording bounds” feature did not work
Now if some being encoders enumerated delivers any message it should arise after splash hiding
Changed buttons with border sync behavior. Now if the border closed a button should get to unpushed state

Enhanced border width/height multiplicity behavior Now if to minimize HC3, it goes to “HyperCam Bar” if “Minimize to HyperCam Bar mode” is switched in

3.0.908.4, 2009-08-04

Added delete keyboard button handler to "Recent Records" section

Alt + F4 did not close HC3
Upon run, if "Options" or "Screen Notes Setup" windows were open and "Hide" or "Minimize to HyperBar" mode was chosen, the windows mentioned did not hide
Notice text copied/pasted from Notepad sometimes was spoiled
HC3 icon was not shown in Alt + TAB replacement
Audio/Video problems in Pause/Resume mode
Using "Select windows" feature highlighting border did not match to the selected border which sometimes included window headline
Making screenshot from HyperBaR left a border within an output BMP files

Enhanced windows choosing behavior in multi-monitors configuration

3.0.907.14, 2009-07-14

Non-integer time of Screen Notes update.

Fixed problems with HotKeys
"Key Frame Every.." parameter availability check remade.
Full screen screenshots' thumbs are displayed in Recent records section.
HC3 now produces output file with correct frame dimension.
Some registry keys were not removed during uninstallation

Red frame behaviour changed.

3.0.907.3, 2009-07-03

problem with capture video data with incorrect frame rate. Resulted file played back faster than necessary
changing text in edit boxes accompanied by some garbage arising
codec settings managed vie codec properties were not applied correctly to an output file
key frame number parameter applied not to all codecs. Now it can’t be set to some codec it gets disabled.

3.0.906.8, 2009-06-08

crash in Recent Record section caused sometimes by pushing left/right arrows with empty section.
audio capture error. If "Record Sound" was selected sometimes "Video Compressor failure" error message arose
after recording with sound, system volume was muted
file names ware shown truncated in recent records (without resolution info)
some crashes that occurred while overlaid video grabbing
some improvements with audio/video synchronization

added prefixes to screenshot that were rewritten if to make them faster than one per second

3.0.905.11, 2009-05-11

Added a resolution to output file names
A context help hints added Representation of BMP screenshots along with AVI files in the "Recent Records" section added

3.0.905.4, 2009-05-04

Recording state is indicaticated by "Pause" button blinking in Leave Opened and "HyperCam Bar" HC3 modes
A note text may be edited by a double click on this note in HyperCam list.
First version of the command line implementation. HC2 command line format has been kept
Saving "Region", "Fullscreen" or "Window" button states upon HC3 close/open
Ability to close the recording borders by double click on the frame label (left-top gray rectangle)
Ability to close the recording borders (red frame) by pushing out corresponding "Region", "Fullscreen" or "Window" button

In full screen mode borders were not shown despite "Show recording borders" settings
Sometime recording borders were overlapped by some windows, now they should be topmost
Arranged default hot-keys according to be the same as in HyperCam 2
If one selected a recorded file and pushed "browse", the explorer window that opens would not always highlight the same AVI file
Some improvements to video/audio synchronization causing 100% CPU load during recording

Disable the ability to get negative coordinates by dragging a border out of a screen bounds
Disable edit boxes while recording to prevent unpredictable behavior

3.0.904.20, 2009-04-22

automatically uninstall any older version of HC3 before installing a new one

captured screenshot left a red border
record/stop/screenshot Defaults hot keys were not set upon clicking "Defaults"
crash when starting to record with a hot key, if recording area was not selected