VideoScribe Changelog

What's new in VideoScribe 3.12

May 3, 2023

Introducing… Canvas Sizes!
You can now choose between three different canvas sizes when creating your project. This is perfect for customizing your videos and uploading them to social media.
Choose between:
16:9 ratio- standard
1:1 ratio- square
9:16 ratio- portrait
Image library:
We’ve updated our base library folders to include some of our most popular and new images! These are the first six image folders in the image library (they can be accessed offline).
General performance and stability fixes:
There are always lots of little improvements in every update to make the experience smoother, the most significant bug fixes in this update are...
Offline mode not working in some versions

New in VideoScribe 3.11 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.10 (Apr 27, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.9.7 (Feb 3, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.9.5 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.8 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.7 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.6.2 (Jun 26, 2020)

In version 3.6.2, you will be able to use pre-installed Google fonts which are listed in the add text element menu. Please use version 3.5.2 if you wish to use your own imported fonts
You can still edit the contents of any fonts that already exist in your scribes, prior to 3.6.2
Version 3.6.2 is compatible with 64-bit desktop machines. From version 3.6.2 onwards we will only support 64-bit machines on VideoScribe. If you have a 32-bit machine, please install version 3.5.2
Saving a scribe file in version 3.6.2 will upgrade your existing scribe files to the new font system. This means that you cannot use 3.6.2 scribe files in previous versions
Multiple language support:
Version 3.6.2 is a significant improvement to VideoScribe. We are now able to support multiple languages!
VideoScribe can now support the following languages:
Arabic
Chinese Simplified
Cyrillic
Hebrew
Hindi
Japanese
Korean
Google Fonts now available:
We have over 60 new fonts available from the get-go in VideoScribe with a range of styles and weights that make personalising your scribes so much easier.
What you see is what you get:
When you create a text element, you can now see how your font and style will look in the editor view, before you see it on canvas. You can now have text elements of varying colours. Highlight sections of text and then select your colour.
Improved text resolution:
We have made wholesale changes to the way fonts work and operate within VideoScribe, including improving the resolution to vector graphics grade so the text that is written is sharp.
Kerning fixed:
The kerning of our fonts has been improved from previous versions
Timer in preview playback:
We have added a timer in the preview play section to assist you with getting the timing and synchronisation of your scribes just right.
Fade-in option on PNG JPEG imports:
We have made the fade-in option available when importing PNG and JPEG images, giving you more control over your animation options.
Removal of YouTube render option:
We have removed the option to directly upload to YouTube. We are looking to reintroduce a new and improved YouTube upload feature in the future. You can still render your scribes to Video locally or via sho.co for MP4 and upload to YouTube manually.
Bug fixed:
We fixed a bug where on occasion, users were unable to select elements as the previous one became sticky.

New in VideoScribe 3.5.218 (Mar 17, 2020)

New look scribe music library:
We’ve redesigned the layout of the scribe music library and there is now more information available about each track, plus extra filters and sorting options:
The genre of each track is now displayed and this is also a filter option
A new ‘loop friendly’ icon so you can see if a track starts and ends in a manner that blends together well, again you can filter the tracks by this too.
The colour dots used to represent the tempo of the track have been replaced by a more simple ‘Slow’, ‘Medium’ & ‘Fast’ labels. These are still available in the sort-by options.
The add a soundtrack help page has been updated to include details of how to use all the new options.
New first-time user hints for trial customers:
Customers starting their free-trial and using VideoScribe for the first time will now be guided through the 4 steps needed to create a new project, add images to the canvas, previewing your work and accessing help and support.
Bug fixes:
We’ve also squashed some pesky bugs in v3.5 of VideoScribe, all of the below will not happen after you upgrade:
The hand would sometimes remain on the screen after an image was drawn when previewing your project
When published to video some text elements would miss a letter in a word when being drawn, it would instead appear once the whole sentence was finished.
Text elements moved slightly on the canvas when you changed one of their properties
If you cancelled publishing to YouTube or Vimeo the first item on your timeline would become unresponsive.
If you cancelled publishing to Vimeo you could not retry without exiting the publishing screen and going back in.
Locking an element or setting the camera was not triggering VideoScribe to ask if you want to save your changes if you exited your scribe.
Some changes to GIF properties, like rotation and opacity, were not being reflected in the image preview.
Cutting part of your text within the text editor would cause the element to be removed when you confirm the changes.
The right-click menu was available during playback.
User Interface Improvements:
We are constantly looking at ways of improving the User Interfaces in ways to make them more intuitive and more easily understood.
VideoScribe can take an emergency back-up of your work every at regular intervals, so if your computer crashes you can restore most of the work you were doing. We use to call this Auto-Save but have renamed it to better reflect it’s purpose.
You can also still change the frequency of the Emergency Back-up and even turn it off completely from your VideoScribe user preferences.

New in VideoScribe 3.4.0016 (Jul 31, 2019)

What's included...:
Template projects:
When you open VideoScribe you will see a new folder called 'Template Scribes'. Within this folder is an exciting new range of templates, making it quick and easy to create a personalised and engaging video. There will be 6 templates to choose from at first but we will be building on this and adding more. To find out more about these new templates visit the How to use templates help page.
Publish to Vimeo :
You can already publish your videos directly to YouTube and Powerpoint, well now we've teamed up with Vimeo so you can publish your VideoScribe projects directly to their platform as well. In just a few clicks you can choose your privacy settings and start the upload, find out more on our Publish and share scribes help page.
Previously purchased images:
Have you ever purchased a premium image? These are a great range of illustrations sold by private illustrators directly in VideoScribe. We've made it a lot easier for you to find and re-use images you have already purchased by adding a 'My Purchased Images' folder to the options on the add image window. Find out more about premium images and this new feature on the Buying and using premium images help page.
American English language support:
You say organization, I say organisation! We have a lot of friends across the pond that use VideoScribe so in this update we have added American English to the supported languages and you can update this in your user preferences.
User interface improvements :
We've made some great changes and additions to the way the timeline quick menu works.
There is a new 'Lock Image' option to stop you accidentally moving or amending an element
There is a new 'View an element's camera position' button too
View Properties, Delete and Hide and all still available
Back by popular demand! Double-clicking on the image will now show the images camera position. We had changed this to opening the properties box but we've listened to your feedback and switched this back.
It's now a lot easier to resize, move and rotate elements that are hidden behind others. Once selected on the timeline all of those handles will take precedence over any elements in front of them.
Ever accidentally moved an element on your canvas? We've got that covered as move has been added to the actions covered by Undo (Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z)
Bug Fixes:
We’ve also squashed some pesky bugs in v3.4 of VideoScribe, all of the below will not happen after you upgrade:
Published videos were slightly out of time compared with the preview, this was more noticeable in longer videos
You can set the amount of time VideoScribe takes to 'Zoom at End' again, this is controlled by the transition time of the final element of your project
Some projects were ending prematurely when published as a .mov file
Images were moving slightly on the canvas when you changed and saved a property
If you replaced an image that you were using to 'Morph from' the application would change the image but start morphing from the first element of your project instead
Fade in was not as crisp since we changed to using pure SVGs within VideoScribe, it's now nice and sharp again.

New in VideoScribe 3.3.0016 (Mar 11, 2019)

Change the colour of our library images:
We’ve been working hard and we’re delighted to bring you the ability to change the colour of the images in the VideoScribe Library!
More than a thousand images have been updated to support this new feature which is over 20% of our library. Look out for icon below in the top left of a thumbnail to see which images can change colour.
New images:
We have added colour versions of our technology images giving you an extra 31 images to choose from… of course, these all change colour too! We’ve also added the extremely popular tap dancer from our website homepage video. Find him in the ‘People’ folder in VideoScribe in both full colour and highlight styles.
Extended tooltips:
Not sure what a button does? Wonder no more! We have added a ‘more info’ option whenever you hover over key buttons in VideoScribe. Click ‘more info’ to see a short explanation of what the button does or hit ‘read more…’ to see the help page covering that feature in detail.
Download videos during the trial:
Up to now, free-trial customers have only been able to publish their VideoScribe projects to YouTube or PowerPoint. This restriction has been lifted in v3.3 and you now have access to the local download function as well.
Free-trial projects will still carry a watermark but you can now export locally to your machine in MOV and WMV video formats.
We’ve made VideoScribe easier to use:
We’ve also tweaked a number of other areas to make it easier to use:
We’ve improved the way you select elements on the canvas. You can now click anywhere within an image to select or move it. Previously, you couldn’t click on transparent parts of an image.
The rotate and resize handles have been updated. We’ve moved the rotate handle to just above the image. This makes it harder to accidentally select it when you’re trying to move an image.
We have changed the way you browse through screens when you have multiple pages. We’ve removed the pagination dots instead giving you much clearer page number options with next and previous page arrows.
If you change the font you are using, VideoScribe will remember this for the rest of the project rather than defaulting back to basic each time you add a new text element.
If you use the Next/Previous element buttons within the image properties screen it will remember the tab you’re using rather than defaulting back to the drawing options tab.
To support recent updates we have added 2 extra options to the ‘user preferences’ section. You can now decide if you would like to View Extended Tooltips and also Remember the Timeline bar quick menu state as you move between timeline items. By default, both will be set to on.
We have added DPI Scaling Support for those of you with devices that use this.
Bug fixes:
We’ve also squashed some pesky bugs in v3.3 of VideoScribe:
We’ve made some big improvements to the animation engine which has fixed a number of issues you might have had with animation timings, particularly for elements with a 0.0 sec animate time.
If you paused the preview of your scribe that would sometimes cause pause and transition times to be ignored in your future previews. Which was annoying, but fear not we’ve fixed it!
Large amounts of text with short animation times would run out of time to draw and the last part would just suddenly appear. We’ve now increased the speed of the drawing hand to stop this happening.
Move-in and Fade-in, sometimes previewed slower than they should, especially with high-resolution images. They’re real time now.
Pausing an audio preview that was longer than your animation would disable the pause button. Not anymore!
Auto-save sometimes stopped working if you had dismissed the What’s New screen. Sorry about that, it’s all fixed now.
Morph animation now works for images in silhouette mode too.
Using the previous/next element buttons to scroll through and edit text elements wouldn’t save your changes. Now it does.

New in VideoScribe 3.2.0003 (Sep 26, 2018)

New timeline quick menu and additional options:
We’ve introduced a new timeline quick menu which allows you to easily set element timings and control camera position directly from the timeline. This replaces the previous menu which popped up above the timeline.
When you have an element selected you can click the small arrow on the right of the timeline item (outlined orange in the image above) to open and close the new menu. The menu will slide out to the right of the selected timeline item.
From this menu you can select the icons along the top to change the following settings (outlined blue in the image below):
‘Animate’ – adjust the animate time for the element
‘Pause’ – adjust the pause time for the element
‘Transition’ – adjust the transition time for the element
‘Camera Settings’ – this provides options to set, clear and view the element’s camera position
The timing controls in this menu operate in the same way as they do in the properties screen. You can click the ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons to increase or decrease the time by 0.5 seconds or click on the time to input a new value to the nearest 0.1 seconds.
By default, VideoScribe will remember the current state of this menu so that when you select a new element it will either stay open with the same option, or it will stay closed. This allows you to perform a series of similar tasks quickly, for example adjusting pause times.
We have also introduced new icons to the timeline item tile for the selected element. You still have the ‘Hide’ / ‘Unhide’ (outlined green in the image above) option in the same place, but we have added new icons for ‘Properties’ (outlined yellow in the image above) and ‘Delete’ (outlined red in the image above) to make it easier to access these options.
Double-clicking timeline item opens properties:
You can now double-click the timeline item to quickly open the properties screen for the element. Previously this was not possible as clicking the timeline item twice was used for the ‘View camera’ option. We found that users did not find this very obvious, which is why we added ‘View camera’ as an option on the new timeline quick menu (as well as on the canvas right-click menu).
Adjust greyscale contrast:
As well as these changes to the Outline and Silhouette modes we’ve added more control to the Greyscale mode as well! In Greyscale mode, you can now adjust the greyscale contrast level (outlined pink in the image below) from the ‘Drawing Options’ tab on the ‘Image Properties’ screen.
A ‘What’s New’ screen
We have introduced a ‘What’s New’ screen to provide in-app details of all the new features, improvements and bug fixes introduced in each new release. This will be shown at login after installing an update.
You can disable the automatic appearance of this screen by selecting the ‘Don’t show this update again’ tick option, at the very bottom of this page. If you would like to view this page again, at any point, you can do this by clicking the ‘Show Feature Screen’ button which is found in the ‘About and Help’ page.
Minor improvements and bug fixes:
VideoScribe images use what is known as a reveal stroke on colour images to make them appear like they are being coloured in by hand… neat right! In some modes and animate methods these reveal strokes do not work as well, so in v3.2 we’ve made some changes to allow for that. In Outline mode, VideoScribe will now ignore this stroke as there is nothing to colour in. These fill lines will also be hidden during morph transformations. The opposite is true in Silhouette mode, VideoScribe will no longer draw the lines for an image – it will only reveal the silhouette block of colour.
This release also includes improvements to timeline scrolling. We have fixed an issue where images were brought in at the wrong scale when replacing an image from the image properties screen. We also had some reports of the Import Image icons disappearing from the bottom of the Add Image screen, so we have fixed this.

New in VideoScribe 3.1.1003 (Aug 9, 2018)

Performance enhancements:
VideoScribe for Windows now has a 64-bit option. The Mac installer was already compatible with 64-bit systems.
We’ve changed the way that the ‘Scribe Voiceover’ preview is loaded so that you will no longer get a delay.
To keep up with all our new features and updates, we’ve introduced versioning for your projects. This means that we can give you helpful messages if you try to open a project in an older version which does not support its features.
User interface updates:
We’ve smartened up the ‘Add Text’ screen:
We’ve moved the font options to the top of the screen and extended the drop-down list. If you’ve installed lots of extra fonts, this will make it quicker and easier for you to switch between them.
If you haven’t yet installed extra fonts, clicking the drop-down will now give you a message showing you how to add more fonts.
We’ve also changed the way that newly imported fonts are processed so that you can select them immediately without needing to reload the screen.
You can now find the ‘Delete’ and ‘Play from Here’ options by right-clicking on an element in the timeline.
In the canvas right-click menu, we’ve now added buttons for ‘Delete’ and ‘View Camera’.
We’ve renamed some of our buttons to make them clearer:
‘Preview Play’ is now ‘Play from Start’.
‘Export and Download’ is now ‘Export to File’.
‘Save to MySparkol Cloud’ is now ‘Save Copy to Online Scribes’.
‘Default Drawing Hand’ is now ‘Default Scribe Hand’.
‘Paper Texture and colour’ is now ‘Background Options’.
You can now use the backspace key to delete selected elements on both PC and Mac. You can also still use the delete key on a PC and Fn+Backspace on a Mac.
When you open up the image library, if you don’t yet have any ‘Recently Used’ images, you will now be taken straight into the first image folder.
We’ve switched the language selection box from a +/- spinner to a simple drop-down list.
We’ve tweaked the size and alignment of some of the boxes in the properties screens to keep them neat and tidy.
Bug fixes:
We’ve solved these bugs in v3.1.1 of VideoScribe:
The canvas size was appearing slightly smaller during editing than it was when previewing or rendering the video.
The ‘Add New Image’ button was not working for some users.
Shortcut keys and autosave options sometimes became temporarily disabled after using the properties screen.
Premium image purchases were not being added to your ‘Recently Used’ images.
The voiceover recording was automatically stopping when you reached the length of your scribe. You can now keep recording and then adjust the length of your scribe to match. We’ve also disabled the ‘Import Audio’ and ‘Save Audio’ buttons while you are recording.
‘Recently Used’ was appearing twice on the ‘Scribe Hand’ and ‘Drawing Hand’ screens.
Other minor tweaks:
We’ve adjusted the grayscale option a little. It is now slightly darker to better represent the balance of the original colour image.

VideoScribe Changelog

What's new in VideoScribe 3.12

New in VideoScribe 3.11 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.10 (Apr 27, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.9.7 (Feb 3, 2022)

New in VideoScribe 3.9.5 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.8 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.7 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in VideoScribe 3.6.2 (Jun 26, 2020)

New in VideoScribe 3.5.218 (Mar 17, 2020)

New in VideoScribe 3.4.0016 (Jul 31, 2019)

New in VideoScribe 3.3.0016 (Mar 11, 2019)

New in VideoScribe 3.2.0003 (Sep 26, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.1.1003 (Aug 9, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.1.0004 (Jul 3, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.9003 (Apr 4, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.9002 (Mar 21, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.8004 (Mar 7, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.7004 (Feb 21, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.6003 (Feb 7, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.5004 (Feb 6, 2018)

New in VideoScribe 3.0.2010 (Oct 18, 2017)

New in VideoScribe 2.3.7 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in VideoScribe 2.3.6 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in VideoScribe 2.2.5 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in VideoScribe 2.2 (Jul 21, 2017)