April 23rd, 2012· Fix: merging frames did not work correctly in movies recorded with MPEG mode
· Fix: webcam track could be removed instead of being hidden on saving
March 31st, 2012· Fix: merging frames did not work correctly in movies recorded with MPEG mode
· Fix: adjusting the duration of some (long duration) objects by dragging the end of the object in the object bar did not work
· Fix: recordings of more than 3-4 hours could be missing sound when saved
· Fix: there was a problem in "Save Frames as new movie" that resulted in Arrow objects not being saved
· Fix: possible access violation during movie opening
· Added option to save sound tracks in MP3 format instead of MP2
· Fix: textbox content in inserted movies was corrupted
· Fix: added message to warn users that interactive content is not possible when exporting Flash-FLV with the screenvideo codec
December 20th, 2011· Fix: ‘Show volume control’ setting in Flash export options could become incorrectly enabled
· Fix: problem drawing textboxes with gradients
· Fix: export form could appear partly off screen
· Fix: Youtube Flash export settings could become incorrect
· Fix: improves AVI import for some codecs
· Fix: sound sources in dropdown could become duplicated on XP
· Fix: mailto: URLs in buttons were not working
· Fix: webcam not disabled when the webcam option was turned off on Recorder main window
· Fix: playback controls were partly visible when Flash export was displayed fullscreen
· Fix: inserted AVIs were not centered in the cropping region
· Fix: autoscroll area could be wrongly positioned in EXE export
· Fix: copying and pasting a textbox could create pause objects
· Fix: accented characters composed using ctrl,shift and alt keys were not displayed
· Fix: changing the volume for a clip could cause shortcut keys to not work
· Fix: help link for MPEG4 format was incorrect
· Fix: message about upgrading sound format displayed on new recordings
· Fix: recursive calls to undo checkpoint code could produce file corruption
· Fix: incorrect watermark positioning when cropping movie
· Fix: sound could become ‘choppy’ on lower spec PCs when CPU load increased
· Fix: audio fades were not included in exports
· Fix: sound quality degraded after merge clips operation
November 10th, 2011· Fix: incorrect drawing of some gradient fills in textboxes
· Fix: Button object - a certain combination of actions and pause settings caused an error
· Fix: checking for file corruption during editing
· Fix: text could become transparent
· Fix: inserting a movie into a movie with a crop region could produce incorrect results
· Fix: on restoring Recorder from the tray it sometimes did not create a taskbar icon
· Fix: divide by zero error on drawing certain textbox gradients
· Fix: improved audio-video sync
· Fix: webcam video could stop before the end of the recording
· Fix: divide by zero error in the export to MP4
· Improves inserting a movie at frame zero, i.e. appending a movie to the start of a movie.
· Fix: rare problem inserting an MP3 file containing an image larger than 100kb before audio starts
· Fix: exporting long movies to WMV could result in no sound track
November 10th, 2011· Fix: problem in EXE exports in v3.0.1
October 31st, 2011· Fix: abnormal program termination errors caused by PC crash during recording
· Improved legibility of Recorder main window on high contrast themes
· Fixes to various problems caused by entering large values for object positions, sizes, border widths etc.
· Now includes keyframes in FLV-screenvideo exports
· Fix: incorrect ellipse highlight position in EXE exports
· Fix: problem recording layered windows on multi monitor systems
· Fix: movie could be saved via hotkey during undo checkpoint creation, corrupting the movie
· Fix: When 2 successive scheduled recordings were made, the recording time on the floating toolbar was not reset for the second recording
· Fix: a problem with textbox display caused by zero length text
· Now hides floating controls when the ‘hide Bb FlashBack during recording’ option is selected
· Fix: font could change on selecting text in textbox properties dialog
· Enables unattended recording on scheduled recordings
· Fix: problem in cursor positioning when inserting a movie into a movie of different dimensions
· Fix: division by zero error in MP4 exports due to incorrect AAC bitrate
· Fix: Video could lag audio in the webcam stream
· Fix: sometimes FB could not move the temp file created by quicktime, resulting in export failure
· Fix: trying to export a small dimensions (e.g. 24x24) movie to Flash-FLV resulted in an invalid FLV file
· Adds ability to set padding colour used when inserting a flashback movie into a moie of different dimensions
· Fix: Correctly sets date on SWF toolbar file in Flash export
· Fix: Improves textbox rendering
October 31st, 2011· Fix: localised support information could be displayed wrongly in About and Support windows
· Fix: localised versions of windows in the auto-update process could display incorrectly
· Fix: cursor positioning in an inserted movie of different dimensions than current movie could be incorrect
· Adds: unattended file saving for scheduled recording
· Fix: FB was not detecting some versions of VLC player correctly, and so was not displaying a warning about possible video hardware acceleration
· Fix: font changes could be undone by selecting text in the textbox properties window
· Fix: large values of textbox shadow width could produce odd effects
October 31st, 2011· Fix: problems in changing record mode setting and then cancelling.
· Fix: running Recorder direct from installer could cause an error message about UsageTracking.xml file to be shown.
· Adds crash tracking file to LogSys report.
· Adds option for checking and correcting corruption to Player Options
· Fix: problem when recorder would run with no UI on detecting an update on startup
· Fix: zero length text in textboxes could cause crash
· Fix: option to hide Recorder when recording now works correctly when minimised to floating controls
October 31st, 2011· Fix: large textbox dimensions and arrow widths could cause crash
· Fix: copying and pasting arrows could cause an error
· Fix: the sound interface was not acting correctly on Windows XP
· Addition: facility to fix movies where keyframes have become corrupted
October 31st, 2011· Fix: The window/region/fullscreen setting was not read correctly from the user interface
· Adds facility for administrators to hide licence from users
· Fix: incorrect email address used in report sending if direct sending fails
· Fix: Recorder would show no UI when starting recording from Player
· Fix: problem in pasting objects
· Adds the ability to paste an object from the right-click menu on the Objects area
· Fix: a problem in keystroke recording could crash player
· Fix: problem with hotkeys
October 31st, 2011· Fix: Help files were not displayed from Player or Recorder
· Fix: Common files used by v3 and v2 could be remove when deinstalling v2
· Fix: recording non-default sound sources on XP could result in no sound recorded
October 31st, 2011· New recorder window to show most used options and enable faster recording.
· Enhanced Player framebar interface to make it easier to work with presentation objects.
· Add arrows to movies
· Add watermark images to movies.
· Sound processing: noise removal and options to compress and normalize volume in movies.
· Add 'titles' to the start and end of the movie.
· Insert video files into movie.
· In-movie pauses handled by pause objects rather than inserting frames.
· Flash-FLV exports can contain interactive objects such as 'click to continue' buttons.
· Scheduled recording.
· Apple device (iPod, iPad, iPhone) compatible exports with MPEG4 format.
· Rich text in textboxes.
· Automatically display invisible keystrokes.
· Fade sound in and out.
February 17th, 2011· Fix: Pasted sound was faded out and muted
· Fix: some exports missing first 40 seconds of sound.
· Fix: Problems with sound quality for 8 bit sounds.
· Added: function to extract FBR file from EXE exports.
· Fix: when upgrading, after the deinstall, the installer window would fall to the background.
· Fix: running the installer in silent mode still showed dialogs.
· Fix: installer did not create shortcuts for limited/normal user accounts.
· Fix: incorrect positioning of recorded region when recording on multi monitor systems, with the secondary monitor on the left.
· Fix: Button object could not be copied and pasted.
January 25th, 2011· Fix: problem loading movies with WAV sound tracks.
· Fix: LogSys was kept running on FB close, which could foul up upgrades.
· Fix: hang in Record Sound function.
· Fix: if recording was paused and then a screensaver appeared, the duration counter started again, though recording was still paused.
· Fix: incorrect region could be recorded when recording a region with Vista/7 at 125% scaling mode.
· Fix: problem adding some variable bit rate MP3 files.
· Fix: saving frames from a movie with webcam could produce a movie without webcam that could not be exported to SWF.
· Fix: recording clock on deskband could continue when recording had stopped, while sound was being compressed.
December 23rd, 2010· Improved recovery of files corrupted due to Player crash while editing.
· Adds HD Youtube upload option.
· Adds Javascript actions to buttons.
· Fix: Windows and Region recording in Vista/7 when Windows set to 150% size.
· Removed limitation to record only even FPS in GDI mode.
· Fix: when recording multiple monitors, recording could stop after a few seconds. Added 'desktop dc only' option to Recorder which decreases performance but fixes bug.
· Fix: repeated editing will now not cause degredation in quality of sound tracks.
· Fix: prevents user from saving FBR file to FB temp folder.
· Fix: Fixed cursor redraw after frames delete.
July 15th, 2010· Fix: 'list index out of bounds' error on recording.
· Fix: now records sound if you have multiple sound cards installed.
· Fix: Imported webcam video was invisible in 'embedded' mode until the movie was saved.
· Fix: selecting frames and saving them to a new movie resulted in audio sync problems when the first frame was not included.
· Fix: adding a movie with webcam or mpeg could result in object start frames being changed.
· Fix: Information shown in File->Properties->More Details not complete for movies created by saving selected frames.
· Fix: " " in file name could cause it to be flagged as corrupt.
· Fix: uploading a movie, then closing it and opening another movie and uploading that, resulted in the first movie being uploaded again.
· Fix: GDI mode FPS was restricted to a max of 20.
· Fix: Exporting a range of frames not including the first frame to AVi/WMV/MOV resulted in audio sync problems.
· Fix: Selecting more than a certain number of frames at the end of the movie and saving to a new movie could result in a static frame in the new movie.
· Fix: selecting the same sound device twice on the sound step in the Record wizard could change the sample rate to 11khz.
· Fix: cancelling the More Options window (accessed from Record wizard) did not cancel all changes to settings.
July 1st, 2010· Fix: fixes problem with 'limit by size' function and mpeg mode movies.
· Fix: incorrect auto selection of mpeg mode on lower powered PCs.
· Recorder restores previous sound recording source on Windows XP when recording complete.
· Warns user that capture driver mode cannot record Aero and secondary monitors.
· Shows suggestion that slower PCs turn off hw video accel when recording.
· Fix: possible crash on saving movie.
· Added: function to change duration of selected frames.
· Added: shows selection duration in thumbnail.
· First step removed from record wizard.
· Fix: crash on exporting from Recorder.
· Added: ability to turn off undo function, to improve performance in very large movies.
· Removes sound track lock selection button from FB Std and Express.
· Fix: could not export to QT with scaling > 100%.
· Fix: recorder could crash when Windows turned the monitor off while recording with driver mode.
June 11th, 2010· New feature: inverted cursor highlight.
· Fix: Bad final frame or second to last frame in mpeg recordings.
· Fix: Cropping mpeg recording to final frame produced access violation.
· Fix: Saving the final frame of an mpeg recording as a new FBR produced a corrupt file.
· Fix: Saving a single frame could produce an FBR containing a number of frames.
· Fix: Exe exports would not autoscroll correctly on some PCs - they would be displayed scaled instead.
· Fix: Improvements to deskband on windows 7 and addition of deskband for 64bit operating systems.
· Fix: When inserting an mpeg movie into an mpeg movie, blank frames were added to the end of the movie.
· Fix: Duplicate markers could be produced by deleteing all frames after a marker and saving the movie.
· Fix: Static frames produced by using mpeg recording with the limit by time function.
· Fix: EXE export. Message about missing entry point in dll when running EXE exported from some movies.
· Fix: Media player detection not working for some players.
· Fix: Capture driver initialisation error on some Windows 7 PCs.
· Flash exports: Improved handling of pre v9 Flash players.
· Now disables video hardware acceleration by default on lower powered PCs.
May 18th, 2010· Adds: FBCMD command line controls to recorder.
· Adds: Option to have Flash exports that require Player v9 and above show a message.
· Adds: size of webcam video adjustable in Player and EXE exports.
· Adds: when recording a window, the window is tracked if its position changes, when using GDI or MPEG mode.
· Adds: webcam test window in Recorder can be resized.
· Adds: can now insert mousewheel and middle button click events.
· Fix: Recorder on Windows 7 could produce excess logging which could affect performance.
· Fix: Recorder could crash on starting recording with PC sounds on Vista/7.
· Fix: blank frames could be added to the end of an inserted movie.
· Fix: when cropping a movie down, if markers were on the final frame of the new movie, they end up duplicated.
· Fix: hides deskband mode for Recorder on Windows 7 due to delays in moving to taskbar that could cause Explorer to become unresponsive.
· Fix: prevents logsysserver and batch export utility from appearing in the Windows New & recent program list after installing on Windows 7.
April 15th, 2010· Fix: crash in batch export.
· Fix: closing a page in Internet Explorer that contained an SWF export could produce script errors in some situations.
· Fix: Sound sync test dialog could get stuck behind the Options dialog when accessed via the Record wizard.
· Fix: final frames of mpeg movie could be corrupted.
· Fix: saving mpeg movies did not reduce file size.
· Fix: inserting one mpeg movie into another at the final frame produced bad frame at the join.
· Fix: saving selected frames from an mpeg movie resulted in a static movie.
· Fix: pause graphic always shown in Flash and EXE exports when a highlight object paused the movie, regardless of whether the 'show paused graphic' setting is on.
· Fix: delete operation followed quickly by playback could result in image corruption.
April 15th, 2010· Fix: capture driver not deinstalled correctly on FB deinstall.
· Fix: EXE exports of movies of multiple large desktops would crash.
· Fix: updates version in installer.
· Fix: Player could AV when using DirectX graphics, when PC woke up from standby.
· Fix: Non default mouseover highlight colour caused incorrect button mouseover behavior.
· Fix: reseller builds would sometimes not accept customer details
· Fix: usage tracking xml file not being created because already being accessed.
· Added: status bar now shows total frames selected.
· Fix: the FB upgrade process could cause the capture driver to become disabled.
April 15th, 2010· Added: mpeg recording mode to improve performance and lower FBR file size when recording moving video and animation.
· Added: record wizard UI changed to enable easier recording of media player applications that use overlays.
· Added: multiple monitors can now be recorded at once. Windows and regions that span monitors can be recorded.
· Added: password protection and expiry dates added to Flash exports.
· Fix: Flash-FLV exports could not be played back from local drives in folders that they were not exported to.
· Fix: Problem in EXE exports with pause image always being displayed by pause object even if set not to.
· Fix: incorrect behavior of Flash exports, when playback starts while movie is still downloading.
· Fix: movies displayed incorrectly, showing just the top left corner unscaled, when it should have been scaled.
· Fix: failure to save movie in Recorder, shows "MoveFileEx" error message.
· Fix: EXE exports set to display in fullscreen mode could crash on startup.
· Fix: occasionaly problem running direct from installer on Windows 7.
· Improvement to logging (stack trace) and logging now on by default.
· Various other fixes and improvements.
December 6th, 2009· Simple upload to selected video hosting services
November 3rd, 2009· Fix: Textboxes not displayed correctly by XP PCs running dual monitors.
· Improvement to typing of accented characters when keystroke logging is on.
· Fix: webcam video could not be put in own window.
· Fix: unfilled highlights with opacity=100% were not rendered correctly in EXE exports.
· Textbox styles no longer include duration.
November 3rd, 2009· Fix: Images objects not displayed correctly in FLV and AVI exports in Windows XP when using DirectX acceleration in BB FlashBack Player.
· Fix: Flash single-swf exports not autostarting playback correctly while downloading.
· Fix: Flash-FLV exports could be scaled incorrectly, stretching image vertically by 1%
· Detects when there has been an audio sync problem during recording, and disables sample rate used.
· Improvement to appearance and behavior of 'loading' indicator in Flash exports.
October 2nd, 2009· Includes one-click uploading of movies to YouTube, Blip.tv and Revver
July 16th, 2009· Simple upload to selected video hosting services
June 3rd, 2009· Various stability and file corruption fixes
· Fix: autscroll turned off on export if autoscroll frame size is same as movie clip rect
· Fix: corruption on Flash-SWF exports
· Fix: user was allowed to select single SWF and download-on-demand
· Fix: problem with cursor highlights on vista with second monitor
· Fix: problem with cursors on 16 bit colour displays
· Fix: problem recording non-standard display resolutions
· Fix: recorder floating control bar could become hidden behind taskbar
· Fix: problem with cursor leaving 'trails' and other issues for
April 27th, 2009· Fix: QuickTime exports could lose bottom rows of pixels
· Fix: Some FBRs could caused access violation on export to SWF
· Fix: EXE exports set to open full screen still showed the Windows taskbar
· Fix: Installing Express, then Pro, then deinstalling Express could cause Pro to crash on startup
· Fix: acces violation on resize of large image
· Fix: could not enter some pixel widths on QuickTime and AVI export
· Fix: Flash export width could not be changed via the control on the export options dialog
· No watermark on unlicensed Express exports
April 15th, 2009· Addition of upload feature
· Movies can be exported as single SWF file
· Fixes to performance and stability of Undo and Redo functions
November 7th, 2008· Quicktime (H264) exporting
· Flash Video (FLV) exporting
· Improved Flash export playback controls
· Undo and Redo functions for easier editing
April 4th, 2008· Extensive sound editing functions to allow precision audio manipuation.
· Record from screen and webcam simultaneously to produce picture-in-picture video.
· Recording wizard for easy step-by-step setup of recording.
· Highlight tool for drawing attention to particular areas of your movie.
· Improved Vista compatibility.
· Easy smoothing of mouse movements.
November 22nd, 2007· Improved message shown when opening FB2.0 movies.
· Improved message shown when given FB2.0 licence key.
July 14th, 2006· FBR file format updated, delivering faster performance and smaller file sizes
· Big reductions in Flash export file sizes
· Improved dual-monitor support
· Full control over layering of textboxes and images
· New crop frames feature
· Convert AVI files to FlashBack movies with a new AVI import tool
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