HyperCam Home Edition version history

31 August 2022 6.2.2208.31

Fixes:

  • Crash on closing the application when there are notices created
  • Random video frame drops
  • Random audio / video synchronization issues
  • Freezes on some time-consuming functions
  • Decreased duration of the MP4 recording stop
  • Updates in activation system

Features:

  • Added Turkish localization

05 June 2020 6.1.2006.05

Features:

  • Added settings export and import (Business Edition only)

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue when Windows Media codecs settings did not save

15 April 2020 6.0.2004.15

Features:

  • 'Voiceover' in Media editor that allows you to overlay any sound or voice comments to your video.

13 April 2020 6.0.2004.13

Features:

  • 'Voiceover' in Media editor that allows you to overlay any sound or voice comments to your video.

06 March 2020 5.5.2003.06

Fixes:

  • Fixes in activation system

06 February 2020 5.5.2002.06

Features:

  • Activation system reports that the key is in use rather than the key is invalid when the key is correct but already activated

Fixes:

  • Minor fixes in activation system

21 November 2019 5.5.1911.21

Features:

  • Added MXF plugin activation (Business Edition)

15 November 2019 5.5.1911.15

Fixes:

  • Out of sync in a recoding for XDCAM when output resolution resizing is enabled (Business Edition)
  • Issues with HyperCam recordings import into Sony Vegas

11 November 2019 5.5.1911.11

Features:

  • Added XDCAM file support in Business Edition, it's available as MXF plugin

08 October 2019 5.5.1910.08

Fixes:

  • Crash on making a screen shot
  • Issue when the main interface was not visible after launch

02 August 2019 5.5.1908.02

Features:

  • "MP4 Safe Recording Mode" allows for recording recovery after an unexpected system crash
  • The "Use Desktop Duplication API" (in the business edition only) delivers 2x higher FPS in recordings (requires Windows 8 and higher)
  • Ability to reset a previous activation by deleting the license
  • Update to HyperCam Media Editor with revamped timeline that blends easy-to-use controls from ver. 5 and ver. 6

Improvements:

  • Optimization for capturing with resolution upscale up to 40%
  • No activation required after update with next minor version
  • Recent capture frame sizes popup menu near to "Custom" region selection mode button
  • Optimization of HyperСam's launch duration

Fixes:

  • Crash when selecting screen note's background color
  • Unable to login with Twitch account for streaming
  • Unable to login with YouTube account for streaming
  • Recent capture frame sizes are not applied when selected
  • HyperCam does not save WMV file when export size is set

01 February 2019 5.1.1902.01

Fixes:

  • Fixed a chrash at the end of a recording

21 August 2018 5.1.1808.21

Features:

  • Facebook's "Continuous Live Streaming" option which allows an unlimited streaming

Changes:

  • Separate compressors options for streaming and recording
  • Applying recommended video compressor's settings based on the capture resolution and famerate

Fixes:

  • Inability to stream to Facebook
  • Inability to stream to Twitch
  • Crash after 20 minutes of a FullHD 60 fps video streaming using a camera device
  • Unable to start recording when any video compressor's binary is missing
  • Record area type selection buttons were visible if the screen capture device was not selected
  • Fixed an issue preventing the mouse clicks capture when recording "audio only"

02 February 2018 5.0.1802.09

Features:

  • WebCam recording and streaming.
  • Twitch, Facebook and Youtube streaming of game session or video blogging
  • WebCam and Screen combination with adjustable size, position and preview
  • Revamped user interface with a modern look
  • Recording to pre-set export size (resizing)
  • Modernized good looking screen notes
  • Detaching and extension of Recent records
  • MP3 audio codec
  • Custom DPI support
  • Media Editor: Automatic preview of recorded video. After recording Media Editor is opened.
  • Media Editor: New flexible timeline. Ability to create projects with a multitude of input files by dragging them into any part of the timeline
  • Media Editor: "Media” control for easy access to project source files
  • Media Editor: Two editing modes for comfortable use: remove unwanted fragments - with "Cut”, and save desired fragments only - with "Keep”
  • Media Editor: New UI controls for easy selection of fragments by placing "Begin” and "End” markers

20 December 2017 5.0.1712.20

Features:

  • New Modern UI design

28 July 2017 4.0.1707.28

Fixes:

  • Fixed the issue when HyperCam recorded empty files if Kaspersky Antivirus is installed
  • Fixed possible crash when opening video options
  • Fixed crash when trying to choose Uncompressed Video as a Video Compressor
  • Fixed "Encountered an improper argument" error when the selected audio device removed from the system
  • The selected Audio Device is not saved between launches
  • Selecting a maximized window for recording results in restoring the window down

06 November 2015 4.0.1511.06

Fixes:

  • Upgrade policy notification while checking the upgrades is not displayed
  • Thumbnails constructing in Recent records window does not work sometimes for MP4 files
  • The maximized recorded window is minimized after the recording start
  • Pop up sound menu is enabled while the recording
  • The window name is not displaying when window mode recording is selected

21 October 2015 4.0.1510.21

Features:

  • Recording screen actions to MP4 files (with AVC video and AAC audio)
  • Edit recorded MP4, AVI and WMV files with frame accuracy in HyperCam Media Editor

20 November 2013 3.6.1311.20

Features:

  • Localization to Portuguese (Brazil) language

Fixes:

  • Fixed sound loss while recording

06 October 2013 3.5.1310.06

Fixes:

  • System hang-ups while running HyperCam

29 November 2012 3.5.1211.29

Features:

  • Certified for Windows 8 compatibility

30 October 2012 3.5.1210.30

Features:

  • Optimized startup speed
  • Updated HyperCam Media Editor

Fixes:

  • Hang-ups on the startup
  • Copy version info button in the "About” dialog
  • Wrong HуperCam Bar location in the vertical task bar
  • Crashes when choose "System Audio + Microphone” if no headphones or speakers are plugged in
  • Portable installation deleted the ordinary version if it was installed before
  • "Encountered an improper argument" message if the SRS Audio Essentials installed with the multichannel output configuration
  • "Line in” or "Stereo mix” selecting caused error
  • HyperCam 3 didn’t save video settings for Windows Video 1 decoder
  • Impossible to delete text in screen notes with "Delete” key
  • New language is applied right away rather than after clicking "OK” button
  • Unable to start recording to a network path
  • Some applications crashed when closing HyperCam 3
  • Optimized thumbnails generation
  • HyperCam didn’t capture video from Overlay
  • Bugs with buttons inscriptions in the Russian translation
  • Skinned Activation dialog

04 June 2012 3.4.1206.04

Fixes:

  • "Encountered an improper argument" message preventing the further work
  • Crash if choosing WMAudio Encoder DMO when mouse clicks recording is enabled
  • Inability to record the System Audio when no microphones enabled

23 May 2012 3.4.1205.23

Features:

  • Automatic check updates feature

Fixes:

  • Fixed web-links

14 May 2012 3.4.1205.14

Features:

  • 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)

Fixes:

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

16 November 2011 3.3.1111.16

Features:

  • Localization to Italian language

19 October 2011 3.3.1110.19

Fixes:

  • Help file was updated

27 September 2011 3.3.1109.27

Fixes:

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

19 September 2011 3.3.1109.19

Features:

  • 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

Fixes:

  • 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

08 July 2011 3.2.1107.8

Features:

  • German language support

Fixes:

  • Recording didn't operate sometimes after pause/resume actions

15 April 2011 3.1.1104.15

Fixes:

  • Crash during some video codecs initialization

05 April 2011 3.1.1104.5

Features:

  • 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

Fixes:

  • 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

03 December 2010 3.1.1012.03

Fix:

  • Some fixes to satisfy Compatible with Windows 7 program

23 November 2010 3.1.1011.23

Feature:

  • 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

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

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

10 June 2010 3.0.1006.10

Feature:

  • Added command line interface recording and managing

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

  • 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

12 March 2010 3.0.1003.12

Feature:

  • Minor component updates and installer improvements

18 December 2009 3.0.912.18

Change:

  • Minor components updates

07 December 2009 3.0.912.7

Feature:

  • Some more major and minor bugs have been fixed.

Fix:

  • 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

17 August 2009 3.0.908.17

Feature:

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

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

  • 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

04 August 2009 3.0.908.4

Feature:

  • Added delete keyboard button handler to "Recent Records" section

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

  • Enhanced windows choosing behavior in multi-monitors configuration

14 July 2009 3.0.907.14

Feature:

  • Non-integer time of Screen Notes update.

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

  • Red frame behavior changed.

03 July 2009 3.0.907.3

Fix:

  • 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.

08 June 2009 3.0.906.8

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

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

11 May 2009 3.0.905.11

Change:

  • 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

04 May 2009 3.0.905.4

Feature:

  • Recording state is indicated 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

Fix:

  • 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

Change:

  • 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

20 April 2009 3.0.904.20

Change:

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

Fix:

  • 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