Release Notes
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2.4.1
Nov 3, 2025
Improvements:
- Fixed an edge case where editing project name will enter the project
- Added all the proper file operation menu items for the home page window
2.4.0
Nov 3, 2025
New Features:
- Introduced Starter vs Pro pricing tiers, Starter tier is for users who do not need AI features
Improvements:
- Improvemented UI for segments and timeline sections
- Improved how the system handles cursor rendering
2.3.0
Oct 27, 2025
New Features:
- Added a new home page for easier project management
Improvements:
- Improved video canvas rendering with more accurate dimension calculations for better visual quality
- Improved camera shape and default settings for better appearance
- Improved playback performance for imported video clips
- Improved stability and robustness of recording
- Enhanced video timeline display with better layering and visual organization
- Enhanced video editing precision with improved drag thresholds for more accurate segment resizing
- Stablized automatic credit top-up functionality to ensure credit is topped up on time
- Implemented emergency auto-save feature to protect your work against unexpected crashes or data loss
- Better error tracking and reporting to help us fix issues faster
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed mask crop tool minimum dimensions to prevent unusably small selections
- Fixed mask creation timing to use paused display time for more precise positioning
2.2.0
Oct 23, 2025
Greatly improved performance for video preview and editing across the board.
2.1.6
Oct 21, 2025
New Features:
- Added advanced AI voice generation controls
2.1.5
Oct 20, 2025
New Features:
- Keyboard shortcuts panel for faster editing workflow
- "Apply to all" zoom settings for multiple segments
- Segment splitting tool with X key shortcut
- Round camera shape option with improved rendering
Improvements:
- Enhanced camera settings and zoom controls
- Better timeline navigation and hover previews
- Enhanced AI voice settings and controls
2.1.4
Oct 17, 2025
Bug fixes:
- Fixed exported AI voice quality issue due to audio frequency mismatch
2.1.2
Oct 13, 2025
Improvement:
- Improved compatibility for older Mac systems
2.1.1
Oct 9, 2025
New Feature:
- In app subscription management: open any video editor window -> log in -> click on user profile -> Manage Subscription
2.1.0
Oct 8, 2025
Improvements:
- Smarter Auto-Zoom
- Streamlined video thumbnail generation and extraction for faster timeline scrubbing and more responsive editing
- Improved timeline cursor positioning for more precise video editing
- Updated the default settings panel to open directly to the Zoom tab for quicker access to zoom controls
- Improved AI Caption Synchronization
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2.0.7
Oct 8, 2025
Improvements:
- Enhanced timeline scrolling performance with optimized video thumbnail extraction for smoother navigation through your projects
- Improved AI voice regeneration with better error handling and clearer notifications when voice generation succeeds or fails
- Better timeline interaction with refined layout and more responsive controls for easier editing
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed AI caption synchronization issues when moving AI voice segments in the timeline
2.0.6
Oct 7, 2025
New Features:
- Mask Image Overlay: Add custom mask images to cover original recording
- Variable Speed Controls: Adjust video playback speed with expanded speed options for more creative control over your content
- Auto-Regenerate AI Voice: Automatically regenerate AI voice segments when captions are edited, with instant feedback and success indicators
Improvements:
- Improved caption timing accuracy for AI voice to avoid lagging captions
- Improved caption management with more efficient segment retrieval, and reliability for rendering and exporting in different situations
- Improved rendering performance for music segments
- Improved text positioning with stable calculations and enhanced overlay rendering
Bug Fixes:
- Audio device now includes Bluetooth devices
2.0.5
Oct 6, 2025
Improvements:
- Enhanced AI voice regeneration with success feedback - you now see a checkmark when voice regeneration completes successfully
- Improved AI voice preview playback
- Enhanced zoom segment management with better organization
- Improved zoom settings interface with gap detection to help you place new zoom segments more precisely
- Quick navigation to zoom segments - click on a zoom segment to instantly jump to its start time
- Streamlined zoom settings layout for clearer manual zoom mode controls
- Added "New Recording" option to File menu with Command+N keyboard shortcut for quick access to start new recordings
2.0.4
Oct 5, 2025
Improvements:
- AI voice: includes more voices from ElevenLabs, add loading indicator when voice is loading
- Better UI wording for timeline visibility controls
- Recording stability improvements
2.0.3
Sep 29, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed caption rendering over imported media
2.0.2
Sep 28, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed audio device issue to filter out unnecessary ones
2.0.1
Sep 26, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed export frame precision issues
- Fixed audio codec for exporting to support X better
2.0.0
Sep 25, 2025
New Features:
- Add ability to regenerate AI voiceovers for a single caption segment with consistent results
Improvements:
- Enhanced media rendering pipeline for more reliable video processing
- Updated AI voice components with cleaner AudioLines icons
- Improved video track timeline with simplified scrolling and styling
- Better timeline navigation with enhanced zoom controls
- More intuitive AI voice segment management and controls
- Copy all text and media segments to clipboard for easy sharing and backup
- Added undo-redo support for caption style changes and font family adjustments
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed export issues in the canvas rendering service for reliable video output
- Corrected caption rendering logic for better text display accuracy
- Fixed zoom functionality in export service for consistent video scaling
1.5.0
Sep 23, 2025
New Features:
- Exit animations for text and image segments with smooth fade and slide effects
- Enhanced background settings with solid color options alongside wallpapers
Improvements:
- Improved caption synchronization with source timing support
1.4.3
Sep 22, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed original video track element insertion / resizing issues
- Fixed camera playback syncing issues
1.4.2
Sep 22, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed camera recording synchornization issue
- Fixed text overlay on top of camera streams
1.4.1
Sep 19, 2025
New Features:
- Save projects with different names using "Save Project As" for better project organization
Improvements:
- Enhanced video playback performance with improved media handling and controls
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed cropper tool default settings for more consistent behavior
- Resolved zoom timing synchronization issues for smoother zoom animations
1.4.0
Sep 19, 2025
New Features:
- Copy and paste text segments with keyboard shortcuts for faster editing
- Added magnetic snap assistance lines for alignment of different elements
Improvements:
- Improved text elements editing
- Enhanced video rendering performance with optimized texture management
- Improved scrollbar experience in timeline section
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed zoom export edge case that affected the first frame of exported videos
1.3.3
Sep 18, 2025
Improvements:
- Improved timeline scrolling with always-visible scrollbars for better navigation
- More flexible timeline sizing with expanded height range for different workflows
- Improved caption editing experience
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed audio export to be more robust
- Corrected click sound volume during export for consistent audio experience
1.3.2
Sep 16, 2025
Improvements:
- Confirmation dialog when deleting caption segments
- Standardized export frame rate to 30 FPS for better compatibility
- Improved recording stability with updated core components
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed incorrect time calculations for split video segments in timeline
1.3.1
Sep 13, 2025
New Features:
* Dynamic Camera Layout
- Move and resize your camera anywhere on screen while recording
- Drag camera to perfect position with smooth controls
- Switch between circle and square camera shapes
- Camera position saves with your project for consistent editing
* Enhanced Undo/Redo
- Undo and redo now work with camera position changes
- Better history tracking for crop adjustments
- More reliable undo for all editing actions
Improvements:
* Better Caption Editing
- Improved caption selection in timeline
- More accurate caption timing when inserting new segments
- Fixed caption visibility issues in timeline
* Cleaner Interface
- Consistent controls across all settings panels
- Helpful descriptions for all settings
- Empty state messages guide you when features aren't available
- Improved button and slider designs throughout
* Smoother Zoom Experience
- Better handling of zoom settings during export
- Improved zoom transitions in fullscreen mode
- More accurate aspect ratio calculations
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed caption track display issues
- Resolved camera segment deletion problems
- Fixed fullscreen video aspect ratio stretching
- Corrected UI inconsistencies in settings panels
1.3.0
Sep 12, 2025
New Features:
* Caption Editing
- Edit captions word-by-word with simple double-click
- Insert new words anywhere in your captions
- Add or delete caption segments for perfect timing
* Audio & Media Controls
- Control volume for individual video and audio clips
- Add background music or voiceovers with full audio support
- See real-time audio levels with improved volume meters during recording
Improvements:
* Better Caption Experience
- Captions now fit better on screen with improved text display
- Cleaner layout with better spacing between caption segments
- Smart detection when no speech is found in your recording
- More intuitive caption editing with helpful tooltips
* Smoother Animations
- Zoom transitions are now buttery smooth and consistent
- Better handling when zoom points are close together
- More natural mouse tracking during zooms
- Improved animation timing throughout the app
* Enhanced Reliability
- Audio devices connect more reliably
- Better media panel with cleaner controls
- Improved video playback performance
- Faster and more stable exports
Bug Fixes:
- Resolved camera preview not closing properly
- Fixed problems when no speech was detected in recordings
- Corrected zoom animation stuttering
- Fixed various animation timing issues
1.2.2
Sep 9, 2025
New Features:
- Improved crop area selection with aspect ratio and recent selection
- Improved project opening experience with menu items added
1.2.1
Sep 9, 2025
New Features:
- Model and aspect ratio selection for AI media generation
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed music export functionality
- Various other bug fixes
Improvements:
- Improved video editor performance with optimized state management
- Enhanced music playback reliability
1.2.0
Sep 3, 2025
New Features:
- New mouse click animation effect
Improvements:
- Improved AI caption segmentation for more natural breaks
- various bug fixes
1.1.0
Aug 29, 2025
New Features:
- Added GIF export
- Added customized branded background image
1.0.4
Aug 28, 2025
Fixes:
- Exporting becomes more stable with long recordings
1.0.3
Aug 3, 2025
Improvements:
- Electron system upgrades for stability improvement
1.0.2
Aug 2, 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed video export issue for different mac machines
- Lowered minimal Mac OS version to 13
1.0.1
July 29, 2025
New Features:
- Extended caption font library with 10 new professional fonts
Improvements:
- Enhanced caption styling with better fonts and shadows
- Smarter caption segmentation at natural sentence breaks
- More accurate auto-zoom cursor tracking
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed video preview freezing issues
- Resolved caption timing synchronization
- Fixed auto-zoom behavior at recording end
- Fixed camera preview cleanup on app close
1.0.0
July 28, 2025
We launched for public access!
New Features:
- Intelligent auto-zoom follows mouse movements and clicks
- Cinematic Ken Burns effect for smooth pan and zoom
- Toggle between automatic and manual zoom modes
- Auto-zoom on important areas with dwell zone detection
Improvements:
- Smoother zoom transitions (default 500ms)
- Enhanced cursor tracking and click visuals
- More accurate cropping during zoom
- Improved video player performance
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed timing issues in zoom transitions
- Resolved click detection in cropped areas
- Removed unwanted clipboard notifications
- Corrected preview alignment during frame capture
1.0-beta-2
July 25, 2025
New Features:
- Open projects with double-click on .tightstudio files
- Add camera overlay with live preview
- Create AI-powered captions (ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Gemini)
- Customize backgrounds with macOS themes
- Smart auto-zoom follows the action
- View audio waveforms for precise editing
- Keyboard shortcuts (undo, redo, save, delete)
- Add watermarks to exports
- Remove filler words with one click
- Edit captions word-by-word
Improvements:
- Smoother video playback
- Faster project loading
- Better drag-and-drop feedback
- Clearer permission requests
- Automatic aspect ratio preservation
- ESC to exit full-screen
- More reliable audio export
- Better app stability
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed video click accuracy
- Resolved caption positioning
- Fixed camera sync issues
- Corrected screen selection
- Fixed zoom dragging
- Fixed caption editing saves
- Fixed background display
- Better high-res display support
- Fixed video export failures
- Resolved login issues
1.0-beta-1
July 17, 2025
We launched on LinkedIn for invite-only testing!