Changelog

Creavit Studio 3.8.1 — Release Notes

Glass lenses, more flexible camera editing and an AI agent that runs on your Mac. Version 3.8.1 adds Liquid Zoom, Liquid Camera, timed camera cutouts, local Ollama models, a redesigned recorder and a broader set of Motion Studio design tools, alongside improvements to timeline editing, project saving and iPhone recording.

🔍 Liquid Zoom

• Choose Standard Zoom for the full canvas or Liquid Zoom for a circular glass lens that magnifies one area while the surrounding canvas stays at its normal size.
• Adjust Lens size, zoom level and an optional CRT effect, with its own pixel density control. Set CRT to zero for a clear lens.
• Fine-tune Edge width, Refraction, Chromatic aberration, Ripple, Turbulence and Glass shine in Liquid advanced, or reset them together.
• The lens reveals and conceals around its center, with movement that stretches and settles as it travels. Refraction bends the image near the glass edge.
• Connected Liquid Zoom segments blend their lens size, CRT and glass settings instead of switching abruptly. Cursor and click ripple rendering also work inside the lens.
• Apply to all now copies the zoom style, zoom level, transition settings and Liquid lens settings to every zoom segment.

🫧 Liquid Camera

• Enable Liquid under camera Effects to give the camera overlay a glass edge and a soft stretch-and-settle motion as it moves.
• Camera Liquid has the same six advanced glass controls as Liquid Zoom, including a turbulence control for a moving edge.
• The effect follows the camera's shape and roundness, and its animated content mask preserves the camera shadow.
• Liquid is off by default; turn it on for the camera look you want.

✂️ Camera Cutout, only where you need it

• Camera background removal is now presented as Cutout, with a dedicated timeline track. Apply it to selected parts of the recording.
• Add a part at the playhead from the camera settings or click an empty area of the Cutout track. Drag, resize, select multiple parts or delete them on the timeline.
• Choose Transparent, Color, Original or Image backgrounds from cards that preview your camera image. Pick a color or upload a replacement background image.
• Cutout starts with the Best quality and Detail model, with a fallback when that model cannot load. Quality and model choices no longer crowd the panel.
• Preview preparation and export use the Cutout intervals and map them to the camera's source time, including edited clips. Export masks use the actual camera frame being rendered.
• Cutout parts are saved with the project and participate in undo and redo. Older projects with background removal enabled retain a full-duration cutout.

📐 Camera layouts and placement

• Camera layout cards have clearer labels and previews, plus a Fill switch for layouts without gaps.
• Picking another layout while the playhead is inside a camera layout updates that segment immediately and keeps its timing.
• New camera layouts fill the available interval within the current video clip, bounded by neighboring layouts. Device mockup insertion keeps its separate short-segment behavior.
• Layout segments store their own camera appearance. Adjusting the active layout's camera no longer has to change its appearance throughout the project.
• Fill and full-camera layouts remove unwanted roundness and shadows; turning Fill off restores the earlier roundness and shadow settings.
• A Position pad lets you move the camera with a live canvas preview. The crop preview, visible-area zoom and border controls are grouped under Advanced camera settings.
• Standard zoom works again with a stationary camera layout. Camera corners keep their proportions during zoom, and layout size changes respect the active camera settings.

🎛️ A redesigned recorder

• Screen, window, area and iPhone sources share one illustrated source menu; camera and microphone controls also have new device artwork and clearer selected states.
• The recorder remembers the last source type you successfully recorded. If an iPhone source is unavailable when restored, it falls back to screen recording.
• Microphone and System Audio switches now live together in the microphone menu, alongside device selection.
• Microphone input has an animated, sound-responsive indicator around its control, with the compact level meter retained in the collapsed recorder.
• Record options sit beside the Record button in a split control, with more consistent menu opening and closing behavior.
• Source changes animate smoothly, and the recorder adjusts its width to the controls. Fixed the expanded notch gradually growing wider by itself.

📱 More reliable iPhone recording

• iPhone clip duration is based on the video track, so a longer audio track no longer leaves the editor playing past the captured picture.
• Startup timing uses the first iPhone video frame. An optional camera warms up before recording begins, improving the alignment of the recording timer, camera and microphone.
• Stopping waits for delayed USB video frames to reach the requested stop time before finalizing the movie.
• If the iPhone stops sending video or cannot reach the requested stop time, the captured portion is saved and the app shows an interruption warning.

🤖 Local AI with Ollama

• Choose Local AI in the Agent panel to use an Ollama model running on your Mac. Install and open Ollama, then download or choose a supported local model.
• The model panel shows download size, memory requirements, available disk space and a recommendation for your Mac, with download progress and cancellation.
• Local models with tool-calling support can inspect and edit the open project: change editor settings and backgrounds, manage zooms and sensitive areas, seek the timeline, and work with Motion Studio elements and animations.
• Local inference connects to Ollama on this Mac. Model downloads need an internet connection; screenshot tools are offered to vision-capable models.
• Model selection is clearer, and the Codex model list can use the installed CLI's local model catalog. Local model memory is released after the active conversations finish.

💬 More expressive Motion Studio text

• Text supports multiline content, vertical alignment, line height, letter spacing, uppercase/lowercase conversion and a wider font-size range.
• Choose Auto W (fluid width), Auto H (fluid height) or Fixed for text boxes. Automatic sizing responds to content and font changes while preserving alignment.
• Animate by Letters, Words, Lines or the entire Layer, with per-animation delay, order and smoothing controls.
• Text presets include Appear, directional Slide and Mask, Grow, Shrink, Blur, and Blur & Slide, with matching exit treatments.
• Custom text animations add Change Text, Letter Spacing, Line Height and Counter, including number formatting options.
• The easing menu adds Smooth, Natural, Slow down, Accelerate, Elastic, Bounce, Overshoot, Impulse and Swing curves.

🎨 More Motion Studio design tools

• Draw open paths and closed shapes with Pen. Hold Shift to snap direction; click the first point to close a shape, or finish an open path with Enter or a double-click.
• Add Star shapes and adjust their spikes and thickness; star geometry can also be animated. Ellipses gain Donut, Sweep and Start controls for rings and arcs.
• More shapes support gradient fills. Text, shapes and groups gain shared style controls for strokes, shadows, layer blur and background blur.
• Place strokes Inside, Center or Outside on supported shapes, and adjust shadow color, offset, blur and opacity.
• Layer Glass controls adjust refraction, depth, dispersion, frost and lighting using the content behind the layer. Choose layer blend modes such as Multiply, Screen and Overlay.
• Groups support Clip content to keep their children inside the group shape. Shared multi-selection controls make it easier to style several layers.
• An eyedropper, editable hex values and opacity controls improve color editing.
• Scene formats now include video, social and device sizes. Custom scene dimensions can go down to 100 px, and canvas view zoom ranges from 5% to 3200%.

🧩 A better Motion Studio workflow

• Create reusable components, create linked instances, and detach an instance when it needs to become independent. Master edits update the linked instances within the scene.
• Add local comments pinned to the canvas to keep notes with the scene.
• The canvas context menu includes Paste and replace, Copy as PNG, Copy as CSS, arrangement, grouping, renaming and component actions.
• Keyboard controls support layer nudging, sibling selection and navigation into and out of groups.
• Search the Layers panel, see the layer count and add layers directly from its menu. The Design, Animate and Saved panels have a clearer layout.
• The Animate panel lists the selected layer's animations with their timing, selection and removal controls.
• Number fields support drag adjustment, arrow-key stepping and expressions such as `100*2`, `+20` and `/2`. A drag or continuous color change becomes one undo step.
• Copy and paste preserve group references, target the selected layers more reliably and replay copied animation sequences independently. Rapid copy-then-paste no longer races the clipboard write.
• Motion import and HTML export handle more of the new text, shape, clipping and style settings. Complex repeat, distortion and blur effects do less redundant rendering work.
• The Motion Studio header shows the project name and provides a direct route back to the video editor.

🧭 More predictable timeline and zoom editing

• The timeline follows the pointer at its edge while dragging or resizing, including when several selected items move together.
• Extra timeline space opens during edge dragging. Ordinary scrolling no longer keeps extending empty space; unused extra space shrinks away as you scroll back.
• Editing keeps the current timeline zoom and positioning more stable. The ruler remains visible and seekable when the track area is collapsed.
• Cut points between adjacent clips have scissors markers and a small visual separation that leaves their timing unchanged.
• Duplicate on a zoom puts the copy immediately after its source, preserving the duration when possible and shortening it to fit the available gap and source clip.
• Zoom and title segments can settle next to a nearby segment when a small overlap occurs during dragging.
• Duplicated 3D animation segments restart their own motion instead of inheriting the source segment's final pose.
• Set zoom Entry duration and Exit duration independently. Manual zoom Motion now travels from Start to Target over the full segment, with smoother handoffs between connected segments.
• Zoom timeline labels distinguish Liquid, Static and Motion. Position pads also keep off-canvas Start and Target handles visible.
• Timeline duration includes the later ends of shortcut, sensitive-area, Cutout, Motion and manual-cursor tracks.

⌨️ Clearer shortcut overlays

• The new Keyboard theme draws physical-style keycaps with modifier names. It is the default theme at 140% size; Light, Dark and Black remain available in the same theme row.
• Hover the selected shortcut preview and choose Change shortcut to capture a replacement. Escape cancels without changing the segment.
• Changing a shortcut refreshes the overlay and timeline selection immediately.
• Shortcut segments, appearance settings, track visibility and recorded keyboard data are preserved when saving and reopening a project.

🖱️ A cleaner click ripple

• The click Ripple effect has a softer, more natural displacement profile.
• Fixed color-channel handling and rendering artifacts, and improved repeated ripple animation.
• Ripple stays visible when the Liquid Zoom lens redraws the video underneath.

☁️ A narrower Google Drive connection

• Exports always go to the app-created Creavit Studio folder in My Drive. The Base Drive library lists files from that folder.
• The connection no longer requests metadata access across your Drive. File details, thumbnails and opening actions are restricted to the app folder.
• Existing connections using the earlier permissions need to reconnect to use the narrower access. Choosing an arbitrary upload folder is no longer part of the workflow.

💾 Project, export and reliability improvements

• Project saves now retain sensitive-area segments and settings, alongside the new camera Cutout data and repaired shortcut persistence.
• The Export window has a more compact layout, a frame-rate dropdown and an Export to control beside the export actions.
• Camera Cutout masks stay aligned with the rendered camera frames during export, including at edited timeline boundaries.
• Setting the background CRT intensity to zero now fully disables its pixel grid and distortion as well.
• Packaged app integrity checks have been strengthened as part of the licensing protection.

Creavit Studio 3.8.0 — Release Notes

Real devices, vertical layouts and a quieter recorder. Version 3.8.0 introduces 3D MacBook and Studio Display mockups, stacked camera layouts for 9:16 video, cleaner camera background removal, subtitle fonts, colored library folders, a guided permissions step in setup and new Motion Studio animations.

💻 Put your recording on a real 3D device

The layout picker now includes 3D device mockups. Each is a real 3D model with perspective and studio lighting, and your recording plays live on its display.

• MacBook Pro 16″ in Silver or Space Black.
• MacBook Air 13″ in Midnight, Silver, Sky Blue or Starlight.
• Studio Display 27″ in Silver or a custom Dark finish.
• Each finish appears as its own preset with a rendered preview, a finish color dot and a 3D badge.
• Window recordings sit cleanly inside the screen: the rounded corners macOS bakes into window captures are detected and clipped away.

📱 Layouts made for vertical video

Two new layouts stack the camera and the screen for 9:16 Reels, Shorts and TikTok videos:

• Camera Top + Screen — camera above, screen below.
• Screen + Camera Bottom — screen above, camera below.

The screen fits the full width and the camera fills the remaining space.

Camera placement is also more predictable:

• Changing the canvas aspect ratio (for example 16:9 → 9:16) keeps the camera where you placed it. A camera anchored to an edge keeps its margin, and a centered camera stays centered.
• Layouts adapt to a new canvas size immediately, even while playback is paused.
• The camera no longer jumps when a layout segment ends or while a zoom is active.
• While a layout controls the camera, clicking it selects the camera and opens its settings without moving it.
• Larger camera shadows are no longer cut off at the edges.

🧍 Cleaner camera background removal

• The camera image keeps its aspect ratio instead of being squeezed into a small square, so people are detected in more detail.
• Hair and soft edges keep their natural transparency instead of being cut into a hard mask.
• Background objects that are not connected to you, such as shelves or lamps, are removed from the result.
• The fallback segmentation model now uses its higher-quality general mode.

💬 Subtitles in your own style

• Choose a subtitle Font from the same font library used in Motion Studio. Fonts are loaded before preview and export.
• Text size now goes up to 256 px and outline weight up to 80 px.
• The selected font is saved with the project.

🎛️ A quieter recorder

• The floating toolbar is more compact. Control labels are replaced by a single tooltip that glides between controls as you hover.
• Camera, microphone and Options menus open on click and stay open until you click again, click outside, press Escape or choose an action. Submenus such as the timer and recent files still open on hover.
• New display and window source icons, and the close button now sits on the far left.
• In Dark mode, the ready, countdown, recording and Preparing states share one deeper background, and the recorder has a soft shadow.

🚀 A guided first launch

• Setup now starts with permissions. Screen Recording, Accessibility, Camera and Microphone each have their own Allow button and live status. The wizard checks again when you return from System Settings.
• Accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in the same step before continuing.
• The Base library opens once setup is complete, including when the app is reopened from the Dock. Returning users keep the fast launch.

🗂️ Colored folders in Base

• Projects in the library are now folders. Choose from ten colors when you create a folder.
• Rename a folder or change its color later from Folder settings.
• Deleting a folder still keeps its recordings in All projects.

🎬 New Motion Studio animations

• The animation picker has curated preset groups: Essentials, Text reveals, Gentle exits, Text exits and Draw attention.
• Draw attention adds Pulse, Float, Sway and Shake gestures. They return to rest, so you can place them anywhere on the timeline.
• Search animations, preview presets and choose a speed: Slow, Natural or Quick.
• Animate text as a whole, by word or by letter, choose the order and set the delay between units.

🔔 See what's new before updating

When an update is available, the update card in the sidebar shows a What's new link. It opens the release notes inside the app, so you can see what changes before you install.

🔐 More reliable licensing

• License activation, validation and export credit responses are now signed by the server and verified by the app.
• A verified license keeps exports available offline for up to 24 hours.
• The export button shows Checking access… while verification is in progress. If the check cannot complete, you are asked to reconnect instead of being sent to the license window.
• Exporting Motion Studio Pro templates requires an active license.

✨ A more consistent workspace

• The Dark editor and Base use a deeper background that matches the recorder, and the timeline card follows the same tone.
• The canvas is centered in the editor window instead of only in the workspace beside the settings panel.
• Transparent backgrounds now show the editor background directly behind the canvas instead of a checkerboard. Exports keep their transparency.
• Gradient direction and color stop controls have been refreshed.
• Master volume and mute are saved with the project.
• Clip thumbnails dim while editing audio so the waveform stays readable.
• The export window layout has been tidied.

🐛 Reliability fixes

• The click ripple effect is much lighter: only the area around each click is processed instead of the whole frame, and long recordings no longer scan every mouse event on each frame. Duplicate click events are merged.
• Fixed playback stopping at the end of a source clip while the edited timeline continues.
• Perspective transitions progress correctly when playback crosses a clip boundary.

Creavit Studio 3.7.0 — Release Notes

A home for your recordings, a recorder that fits your workspace and more ways to share the finished result. Version 3.7.0 introduces the Base project library, Google Drive integration, a movable recording toolbar, GIF and transparent exports, and a new collection of Perspective presets.

🗂️ Your recordings have a home

Creavit Studio now opens in Base, a dedicated library for finding your work and starting the next recording. Returning from the editor brings you back to the library.

• Organize by project — create named projects, move recordings between them and save new recordings directly into the selected project. Removing a project keeps its recordings in All projects.
• Keep favorites close — star recordings and find them together in Favorites.
• Browse your way — switch between cards and lists, group by date, search by name, and sort by last edit, creation date, name or file size.
• Manage files in place — rename, duplicate, reveal in Finder or move a recording to the Trash from its menu.
• Start from one button — Record opens the recorder; the arrow beside it offers Open project, Create from video, Blank editor and Motion Studio.
• Available updates appear in the sidebar with download progress and an explicit install-and-restart action.

☁️ Export straight to your Google Drive

Connect your own Google account from Settings → Upload, the library's Google Drive tab or the export window. Choose a destination folder once and reuse it for later exports.

• Upload the finished export automatically while keeping a local copy.
• Follow upload progress, cancel a transfer or retry without rendering the video again.
• Browse Drive folders from Base with search, sorting, cards, lists and date groups. Open a file in Google Drive in your browser.
• Change the destination, switch accounts or disconnect from the same shared connection controls.

Drive browsing opens remote files in the browser; local `.crvt` projects continue to open in the editor. Uploading does not automatically make a file public.

🎛️ Choose where your recorder lives

The new setup experience lets you choose Notch or Floating toolbar, then pick a Light or Dark appearance. Live previews show the recorder and editor before you finish setup, and both choices remain available in Settings.

• Keep the recorder tucked at the top of the screen or drag the floating toolbar to a comfortable position.
• See clearer preparation feedback before the recorder is ready.
• Keep pause, stop and elapsed-time controls together during a recording.
• Use the desktop iPhone preview to follow the connected device while preparing and recording.

🎞️ GIFs and transparent exports

Export short demos and looping clips as GIF, with size choices from 360p to 720p. GIF-specific controls keep the selected dimensions and frame rate appropriate for the format.

Choose None in Background → Custom to remove the canvas background. The editor displays a checkerboard preview and offers formats that preserve transparency:

• MOV with ProRes 4444 for further editing and compositing.
• WebM with VP9 alpha for compatible web players.
• GIF for simple transparent loops. GIF uses fully opaque or fully transparent pixels, so it cannot preserve soft, partially transparent edges.

🎥 Build a shot with Perspective presets

The Perspective panel now groups ready-made shots into Close-ups, Reveals, Pans and Statics. Choose a preset to apply its framing and motion, preview it, then fine-tune the angle and composition below.

• Browse visual preset tiles instead of building every move from scratch.
• Apply the start and end poses together for animated shots.
• Remove a preset to return to the default perspective.
• Add camera layouts and device mockup layouts directly from their settings panels at the playhead, with clearer feedback when a layout already occupies that range.

✨ A more consistent workspace

• Base, recorder controls, setup screens and editor popovers receive more consistent Light and Dark styling.
• Timeline cuts and gap-closing transitions are easier to follow.
• Timeline keyboard actions better respect text fields and active editing controls.
• The Mac app package is smaller after removing duplicated libraries and unused files while retaining the recording and export tools it needs.

🐛 Reliability fixes

• Improved iPhone capture discovery, interrupted starts and screen/audio synchronization.
• Improved camera and microphone cleanup when leaving or closing the recorder, including device requests that finish after the window has closed.
• Fixed recording selection overlays remaining visible when returning to Base.
• Fixed export waits that could stall after the final queued write, and improved cancellation cleanup.
• Reduced unnecessary media caching while switching between clips and preparing large video files.
• Improved cursor motion, sound-effect playback and layout transitions across timeline edits and seeking.

_Images were rendered from the Creavit Studio 3.7.0 interface with sample project content. The blue backdrop matches earlier release artwork._

Creavit Studio 3.6.0 — Release Notes

Pause a take without losing your flow, choose the right transcription model for every project and manage your license in one place. Version 3.6.0 makes recording more flexible, subtitles more dependable and the editor easier to shape around the way you work.

⏸️ Pause and resume a recording

You can now pause an active recording and continue when you are ready. The recording overlay keeps the control close at hand and clearly shows whether the take is running or paused.

• Pause for interruptions, setup changes or a moment to collect your thoughts.
• Resume into the same take instead of stitching separate recordings together.
• Keep screen, camera, microphone, system audio, cursor and keyboard data on the same timeline.
• Leave paused time out of the finished recording so the edit starts clean.

💬 Choose how subtitles are generated

Subtitle generation now offers three on-device Whisper models, so you can pick the balance of speed, download size and accuracy that suits the project.

• Fast creates quick drafts with the smallest download.
• Balanced is the recommended default for everyday work.
• Accurate uses the larger model when transcription quality matters most.
• Download progress, model size and ready status are visible before you start.
• Models are downloaded once and reused locally; incomplete cache files are detected and repaired automatically.

The selected model and spoken language are remembered for the next project, while generated captions still open directly in the Edit workflow.

🔑 License management in Settings

The new License section brings activation and device management into Creavit Studio Settings.

• Activate Creavit Studio without leaving the app.
• See the active plan, validity and device usage at a glance.
• Refresh verification details whenever you need them.
• Deactivate the current Mac when moving a license to another device.
• Keep the full license key private with a masked summary.

🎛️ A workspace that stays out of the way

• The settings panel control now lives beside the panel edge and follows it when you switch between the left and right sides.
• One compact menu handles Left side, Right side and Hide. When the panel is hidden, the same control brings it straight back.
• The control stays subtle until you point to it, keeping attention on the canvas.
• The Agent control now sits beside the Video/Motion switch and matches its height, corner radius and selected-state styling.
• Export, undo and redo actions use more consistent alignment across the Video and Motion editors.

✨ Motion and interface refinements

• An empty Motion library now offers a direct Switch to Motion Studio action instead of showing an unused search field.
• Saved motions use a clearer, more compact list layout.
• Motion Studio places undo and redo beside the export actions, matching the Video editor workflow.
• Settings tabs, dividers, sliders and control radii have been tightened into a more consistent visual system.
• The Video editor opens with a wider default aspect that gives the canvas, settings and timeline a more natural balance.

🐛 Reliability fixes

• Fixed the recorder toolbar shifting the camera preview when a countdown was added to the Record button.
• Fixed the camera source menu extending beyond the left side of the recorder.
• Fixed license activation feedback inside the Settings window.
• Improved subtitle runtime packaging and local model cache validation.
• Strengthened pause/resume transitions and cleanup across interrupted or rapidly changing recording states.

_The recorder images were captured from the production Creavit Studio 3.6.0 app._

Creavit Studio 3.5.0 — Release Notes

Cut pauses, refine dialogue and keep every layer in sync. Version 3.5.0 adds a new audio editing workflow, transcript-driven timeline actions and ripple deletion that closes gaps without leaving the rest of the edit behind.

🎧 Edit Audio, your way

Open Edit Audio from a clip and switch between Auto and Manual without leaving the editor.

• Find silence automatically — Creavit Studio analyzes the clip waveform and presents quiet regions for review. Choose a sensitivity preset and adjust minimum silence, retained padding and tiny-gap joining.
• Tune while you listen — changing an Auto control refreshes the results automatically. Preview each region, exclude the pauses you want to keep, then mute or remove the remaining selections together.
• Select precisely by waveform — in Manual mode, drag across the waveform, resize either edge and preview the exact range before making a change.
• Choose the right edit — mute or unmute a selection, split at its edges, or remove it from the timeline.
• Stay in context — audio selections appear directly on the timeline and opening an audio range from the timeline returns to the Auto workflow.

✍️ Edit video from the transcript

The transcript is now an editing surface, not just a caption list. Select text or click a phrase to reveal controls for the matching video range.

• Preview, mute, split or delete the selected spoken section.
• Refine selection boundaries with editable In and Out times.
• Follow the active selection with clearer primary-color highlighting and a visible text caret.
• Move between transcript and timeline selections without losing the range you are working on.

✂️ Ripple deletion that keeps the edit together

Removing a clip or transcript selection now closes the resulting timeline gap. Following clips move into place while their original media coordinates remain intact.

Creavit Studio also reconciles timed content across the edit: captions, zooms, layouts, perspective, titles, Blur overlays, cursor actions, motion, steps, sound effects and other overlays stay aligned after one or multiple ranges are removed. A short cut-and-collapse animation makes the change easy to follow.

↔️ A clearer, more useful timeline

• More room by default — the timeline opens in its full-width layout.
• Visibility and order together — the timeline popover now groups track visibility and ordering controls in one clearly named place.
• Arrange layers in context — bring an item to front, move it forward or backward, or send it to the back from the timeline menu.
• Better source names — imported clips show their video filename or source `.crvt` project name instead of a generic clip label.
• More dependable editing — drag auto-scroll, clip/zoom synchronization and selection cleanup are more consistent across split, trim, delete and reopen flows.

✨ Interface refinements

• Settings panels use a consistent tab and rail system with shared controls and primary colors.
• Sensitive Content is now named Blur overlay throughout the editor.
• The Add menu uses subtle dividers to group effects, content and tools.
• The recorder action is now called Record and uses a six-part circular capture mark that better communicates video recording.
• The Edit Audio panel sheds unnecessary containers, borders and shadows for a lighter interface that matches the rest of the editor.

🐛 Reliability fixes

• Fixed the first clip remaining selected and looping after an Edit Audio action.
• Fixed audio selections remaining visible after leaving the Edit Audio panel.
• Fixed clip zoom ranges drifting, duplicating or retaining stale ownership after timeline edits.
• Fixed projects being treated as modified because of playback-only state; closing now prompts only when genuine project changes are present.
• Improved screen and camera timestamp alignment to keep recorded media in lip sync.
• Strengthened native recorder crash guards and cleanup around interrupted recording sessions.

Creavit Studio 3.4.0 — Release Notes

Turn an iPhone recording into a scene that feels filmed, not framed. Version 3.4.0 introduces a fully rendered hand mockup with timeline-driven finger motion, deeper camera and 3D compositions, a complete light theme, redesigned app settings, and a timeline that adapts to the way you edit.

✋ A hand that belongs in the scene

The new Hand & motion panel adds a locally rendered hand to iPhone recordings. The phone and hand remain separate 3D layers, so the recording stays sharp while fingers wrap naturally around the device. It works with bare iPhone captures, 2D frames, 3D device mockups, Zoom, Perspective and camera layouts.

• Choose the grip — use a left- or right-hand composition without changing the source recording.
• Match the scene — choose from five skin tones and fine-tune hand size and vertical placement.
• Keep the framing balanced — Fit hand in canvas reserves room for the grip and forearm without changing the project's aspect ratio.
• Use 2D or 3D — the same hand settings follow the phone when you switch between flat and 3D device rendering.
• Available where it makes sense — hand controls appear for iPhone recording clips and stay out of regular desktop screen recordings.

☝️ Finger motion, authored on the timeline

Add taps and swipes, choose their start time and duration, and position them in the reachable area of the screen. The thumb approaches the glass, performs the motion once, then returns to its grip. Hold still pauses motion without removing the sequence; Preview plays the hand without moving the project playhead.

Finger motion is evaluated directly from timeline time. Preview, scrubbing and export therefore show the same pose, and the hand remains stable when a project is reopened. The device and hand also keep their own depth, so the thumb can pass over the screen while the supporting fingers remain behind the phone.

🎥 Built for camera and 3D compositions

Combine the iPhone with a camera layer, Zoom and Perspective to move from a clean product shot to a close cinematic angle. The hand follows the phone's transform while the camera layer keeps its layout and depth order.

Perspective works across the whole composition: the real 3D device, screen, hand, nails and contact shadows rotate together. The phone remains readable through close passes and returns to its authored framing after the movement.

🌓 Light, dark, or automatic

• Choose your appearance — use Light, Dark or Automatic from Settings. Automatic follows the Mac appearance, and open Video and Motion editors update without restarting.
• A coordinated light interface — editor panels, menus, crop and export dialogs, permission prompts, controls and icons now support light mode.
• Your work keeps its colors — changing the interface theme does not alter project colors or exported video. Motion's default workspace adapts to the theme while custom workspace colors remain untouched.

⚙️ Your preferences, in one place

The redesigned Settings window brings General, Recording, Editor, Shortcuts, Storage and Updates together. Open it from the app menu, press ⌘,, or use the recorder menu.

• Set countdown, 30 or 60 fps, capture quality and the recording border.
• Choose whether a finished recording opens the editor or stays in the recorder.
• Preview default canvas padding, corner radius and shadow for new recordings.
• Configure a global start/stop shortcut, launch at login and reduced motion.
• Choose the storage folder, check free space and open it in Finder.
• Review permissions and manage updates with download progress and install confirmation.

↔️ A more flexible timeline

• Keep the sidebar full height — the timeline now sits beneath the canvas, allowing the active settings panel to extend to the bottom of the window.
• Switch widths with one click — the control beside Visible timelines slides between Full width and Half width and clearly shows the available action.
• Make more room for the canvas — dragging the handle moves the timeline away as one surface. Tracks no longer shrink before collapsing, and a fully collapsed timeline leaves no empty strip behind.
• Keep Layout ready — removing the final Layout segment no longer disables or hides its timeline automatically.

🚀 Improvements

• Clearer sliders in light mode, with white fills on slightly darker tracks.
• Stronger rounded icons for aspect ratios, timeline controls and Settings.
• Cleaner Text, Motion, Perspective and Layout segments with unnecessary borders removed and improved light-mode contrast.
• Timeline controls adapt to narrower workspaces, and transitions respect the reduced-motion preference.
• More reliable cleanup for screen, window, camera, microphone and USB iPhone recording sources, including failed starts and delayed stop callbacks.
• The new hand asset is bundled locally. Skin tones, gestures, project loading and export do not depend on a model service or network connection.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed white icons, faint labels, search placeholders and dark selection backgrounds that were difficult to read in light mode.
• Fixed Motion's workspace control showing the dark default while the workspace itself appeared white in light mode.
• Fixed Layout visibility being lost after deleting its last segment, reopening a project, or restoring undo and redo history.
• Fixed a crash when a recording was stopped before its first video frame.
• Fixed overlapping start and stop requests, late callbacks from an earlier recording, and incomplete cleanup after file-writing errors.
• Fixed an iPhone retry incorrectly starting screen capture after an audio startup failure.
• Fixed hand and nail surfaces drifting into the phone during animated gestures or separating in Perspective and export.

_Editor screenshots were captured from `v3.4.0-demo.crvt`; the Settings image shows the production Creavit Studio 3.4.0 preferences window._

Creavit Studio 3.3.3 — Release Notes

iPhone recordings now have layouts that adapt to your canvas. Combine your camera and phone recording in landscape, portrait or square compositions, with zoom and perspective that follow the phone's placement.

✨ What's New

Dynamic layouts for iPhone recordings

• Layouts that fit your format — camera and iPhone placement now adapt to the selected aspect ratio. Side-by-side compositions on wide canvases can become stacked arrangements on tall canvases, keeping both views usable.
• Choose how you present — use side-by-side and reversed arrangements, corner-camera layouts, a full-camera view with the phone overlaid, or a phone-only view.
• With or without a mockup — adaptive layouts support the bare iPhone recording, 2D device frames and 3D device mockups.
• Make the layout your own — move and resize the phone within a layout, including when Perspective is active. Adjustments are stored per clip and remain relative to the layout when the canvas changes.
• Built for mixed projects — the adaptive behavior applies to iPhone recording clips; regular screen recordings keep their existing layout behavior.

🚀 Improvements

Zoom and perspective work together

• Zoom the whole phone — zoom now scales the iPhone recording and its device mockup together inside dynamic layouts.
• Perspective follows the layout — rotation and origin positioning use the phone's current placement, rather than the old centered canvas position.
• More consistent framing — perspective scale adapts to portrait and square canvases, avoiding an unexpected size jump when changing format.
• Smoother transitions — static and moving Perspective segments preserve the layout position and active zoom through their entrance and exit.
• More predictable positioning — moving a phone with Perspective applied keeps its pose attached to the phone. Camera and phone layers retain their intended order, including full-camera compositions.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed iPhone recordings and mockups ignoring zoom inside dynamic layouts.
• Fixed perspective pivots and skew drifting away from the phone's layout position.
• Fixed 3D mockup screens becoming squeezed or cropped when switching between flat rendering and Perspective.
• Fixed layout changes not updating after timeline ranges were replaced.
• Fixed an editor error when selecting or group-dragging Motion segments.
• Fixed ZoomBlur occasionally trying to draw a canvas that had been released while still in use. Blur buffers now track recent use correctly, and empty canvas outputs are skipped safely.

Creavit Studio 3.3.2 — Release Notes

A more capable zoom editor, multi-selection across the timeline, direct media drop from Finder, better 3D device rendering, and a faster preview when zoomed deep into the canvas.

✨ What's New

Zoom Motion

• Move while you zoom — Manual Zoom now has Static and Motion modes. Motion lets the zoom travel from a Start point to a Target point instead of holding on one fixed origin.
• A different scale at each end — Start and Target can each have their own zoom level. When no point-specific value is set, the segment inherits the shared Zoom level.
• Choose how long the move takes — Motion duration is independent from the full zoom segment, so the camera can finish its move and remain settled for the rest of the segment.
• Use the space outside the video — the position pad now reaches far beyond the video bounds. You can push the video partly or completely out of frame and deliberately leave empty canvas in view.
• One clear transition system — Zoom level, easing, transition controls and Apply to all now work consistently across Auto, Manual Static and Manual Motion instead of exposing competing controls.

Multi-select on the timeline

• Move several clips together — select multiple video clips and drag them as a group while their spacing is preserved.
• Select multiple items in one row — zooms, perspective moves, masks, titles, shortcuts, code snippets, GIFs, sounds and other timeline items can be selected together and moved in one operation.
• Group media overlays — images and GIF overlays can be selected and repositioned together.
• Safe group movement — grouped items respect timeline bounds and nearby unselected segments, preventing accidental overlap or negative start times.

Drop media straight into the editor

• Drag from Finder — drop common image, GIF and video formats directly into Creavit Studio.
• Drop where you need it — visual media can become canvas overlays, while video can be inserted at the intended timeline position. Existing clip timing is adjusted around the insertion.
• Clearer feedback — unsupported or empty files are rejected cleanly instead of creating broken timeline items.

🚀 Improvements

Timeline & editor

• Drag beyond the visible timeline — the timeline now auto-scrolls while you drag near either edge, making long moves possible without stopping.
• More deliberate interactions — drag thresholds prevent a simple click from accidentally moving an item, and selection states are clearer across timeline segment types.
• Improved GIF editing — GIF timeline previews and segment interactions were reworked for more predictable placement and selection.
• Resizable settings panel — drag the settings rail wider when a control, preview or long label needs more room.
• Cleaner settings structure — shared tab groups and refreshed controls make Zoom, Perspective, Video, Camera, Subtitle and related panels easier to scan.

Cursor & zoom

• The custom cursor grows with the picture — cursor size now follows the active canvas zoom, including Manual Zoom and Zoom Motion, so it stays visually attached to the magnified recording.
• Smoother scale changes — point-specific Zoom Motion scales no longer fight the segment's zoom-in and zoom-out envelope at the boundaries.
• More stable zoom handoff — switching between static and moving manual zooms preserves the intended origin, scale and transition state.

Perspective and 3D device mockups

• A better origin path editor — the Perspective origin pad has improved coordinate handling and a larger practical movement range.
• More accurate iPhone composition — screen texture, device, camera and overlay layers now stay in the correct order through perspective moves.
• Sharper, more consistent rendering — 3D render sizing and device-screen texture handling were refined for preview and export.

Performance

• Faster high-zoom preview — shadows are cached and clipped to the visible viewport instead of rendering a huge off-screen surface at deep zoom levels.
• Lighter perspective playback — 3D scene updates, preview density and playback paths do less unnecessary work per frame.
• Smoother timeline work — selection, dragging and long-timeline movement avoid repeated calculations that previously caused hitches.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed custom cursors appearing smaller, or failing to grow, as zoom level increased.
• Fixed stepped scale changes at the entrance and exit of Zoom Motion.
• Fixed Manual Zoom position handles becoming too sensitive at extended ranges.
• Fixed Manual Zoom origins being constrained before the video could leave the canvas completely.
• Fixed Perspective origins and iPhone mockup layers shifting between preview and export.
• Fixed camera placement around iPhone 3D mockups and perspective segments.
• Fixed high zoom levels creating oversized shadow work and preview slowdowns.
• Fixed several timeline selection, group dragging, insertion and auto-scroll edge cases.

Creavit Studio 3.3.1 — Release Notes

Some bugs have been fixed.

Creavit Studio 3.3.0 — Release Notes

Record your iPhone straight over the cable and drop it into a real 3D device mockup, pick what you're recording with a completely rebuilt screen, window and area picker, shape your zoom transitions with the curve you want, and get a faster editor that stops quietly filling up your disk.

✨ What's New

Record your iPhone

• Plug it in and record — connect your iPhone with a USB cable, unlock it and tap Trust, and it shows up as a recording source right next to your screens and windows. No extra app, no AirPlay, no cloud.
• The phone's own audio comes with it — whatever the phone is playing is captured in the recording.
• Your camera and microphone still work — record yourself talking over the phone screen exactly like you would with a screen recording.
• It's a normal project — the result lands on the timeline with everything else: zooms, masks, subtitles, camera overlay, export.

3D device mockups

• Your recording, running on a real phone — put the video inside an actual 3D iPhone model instead of a flat frame. The screen content is mapped onto the model, so it catches the light and the angle like the real thing.
• Every generation from iPhone 11 to iPhone 17 — Pro, Pro Max, Plus, mini, Air and the e models, in the finishes you'd expect.
• 2D or 3D, your call — a simple switch in the mockup settings. The flat SVG frames you already had are still there when you want something cleaner.
• Favorites — star the models you keep coming back to so they're at the top next time.
• Plays well with perspective — the mockup stays with the video through 3D perspective moves instead of flattening out.

A completely rebuilt picker for screens, windows and areas

All three selection overlays were rewritten from scratch and now share one design language and one set of shortcuts.

• Window selection — hover a window and it's washed in blue, with a badge in the middle showing the app icon, the window name and its size. Click to record. Empty desktop tells you there's nothing to pick.
• Screen selection — the display under your cursor lights up as a whole, with its name, resolution and a Main display marker.
• Area selection — a pixel magnifier so you can land the edge exactly where you want it, ready-made size presets, an aspect ratio menu, and live width and height boxes you can type into.
• Keyboard everywhere — arrow keys nudge by 1px (hold Shift for 10), ⌥ + arrows resize, Tab and the arrow keys cycle between windows and displays, Enter starts recording, Esc backs out.
• Opens instantly — the overlay no longer waits on anything to boot.

Zoom transition easing

• Choose how a zoom moves — every zoom segment now has its own easing: Natural, Ease in, Ease out, Smooth, Balanced or Linear.
• Or draw your own — a custom cubic-bezier curve if none of the presets is quite it.
• Same in preview and export — the curve you see while scrubbing is the curve that gets written to the file.

🚀 Improvements

Editor

• Settings panels come alive — switching tabs in the settings panel now cascades the sections in instead of swapping them out flatly. The same motion runs inside the panels that have their own tabs, like perspective and zoom.
• Reworked timeline segments — clip, zoom and effect segments were redesigned, and they animate as you add, move and trim them.
• Smoother scrubbing — dragging the playhead across long recordings is noticeably steadier.
• New buttons across the app — the primary buttons were rebuilt with a layered face, so export, record and license actions read as the main thing on screen.
• Refreshed icons throughout the editor and timeline.
• Agent panel — a reworked busy animation while the agent is editing, and the header buttons now slide into place when you move the panel to the other side instead of jumping.
• Multiple editor windows are properly separate — open two projects at once and each window keeps its own state; changes in one no longer leak into the other.

Perspective (3D)

• Cleaner settings — transform, material and transition controls were split into their own sections instead of one long panel.
• Better starting values — new perspective moves open with a sensible range and depth, so you're adjusting rather than rescuing.
• Origin picking is accurate — the point you set on the canvas is the point the move actually pivots around.

Performance & disk

• A faster editor — canvas rendering, the timeline and the export panels were reworked to do less work per frame.
• The app stops filling your disk — the project media cache is now cleaned up automatically on a 14-day, 20 GB budget. It had no limit before and could grow into tens of gigabytes without you ever seeing it.

The agent

• More it can do for you — new canvas and timeline actions, so the agent can reach further into the editor from the chat panel or any MCP tool.

🐛 Fixes

• Zoom motion blur no longer spikes to full blur and then flickers frame to frame during a transition — the blur now follows the transition curve itself, identically in preview and export.
• Fixed the macOS "would like to record your screen" reminder appearing while you were only picking a window or a screen. The app no longer touches screen capture APIs when it isn't about to record.
• Fixed shadow rendering on the canvas.
• Fixed perspective corner radius and configuration being lost.
• Fixed iPhone recordings not saving correctly into the project.
• Fixed timeline range lookups missing in-place updates, which made some perspective changes appear not to apply.
• Export and license check fixes.
• Build and packaging fixes.

Creavit Studio 3.2.0 — Release Notes

An AI agent that edits your project for you, masks for anything you need to hide on screen, a new video effects section, perspective transitions, subtitles you can place anywhere on the canvas, and full control over your export resolution.

✨ What's New

AI agent chat panel

• Let an agent do the editing — a new Agent panel (⌘I) sits next to your timeline. Ask for what you want in plain language and it does the work in the open project.
• Works with the CLI you already use — pick Claude Code or Codex, choose the model and how hard it should think, all from the panel. The agent runs locally on your Mac under your own CLI account — your video files stay on your machine, and only what the agent sends goes to whichever model provider that CLI is already signed in to.
• Nothing to install or configure — the agent connection ships inside the app and runs on the app's own runtime, so you don't need a separate Node.js setup. A setup hint walks you through it if a CLI is missing.
• Prompt ideas when you're stuck — every chat opens with its own set of suggestions drawn from a pool of 50, so you can see what the agent can do.
• Chats are remembered — conversations are kept per project, in tabs.
• Put the panel on either side — the agent panel can live on the right or the left; ⌘⇧D moves it across and your choice is remembered. The same panel opens in Motion Studio.
• See what the agent is doing — while the agent works on your project, a live overlay appears over the editor and clears itself when the work is done.

Creavit MCP — the whole app, driveable by an agent

Under the hood the panel talks to Creavit Studio through MCP (Model Context Protocol), and the app exposes nearly a hundred typed actions over it. That means the agent isn't limited to a few canned tricks — it can genuinely operate the app. The same connection works from any MCP-capable tool on your Mac, not just the built-in panel.

Record for me

• "Record this website" — give it a URL and it opens the page in a clean, frameless capture window at the aspect ratio you want (16:9, 9:16, 1:1 …), waits for the page to actually finish loading, then records a walkthrough: scrolling, clicking, hovering, typing, pausing on the parts that matter. It moves the real macOS mouse, so you get Creavit's native cursor data — smooth cursor motion and automatic click zooms, exactly as if you had done it by hand. It can then save the project, export it and open the finished video, all from one request.
• "Record this window" or "record my screen" — the agent can list your displays, windows and capture devices, check macOS permissions, pick the source, decide whether the camera, microphone and system audio are on, and start and stop the recording. Area recordings take exact coordinates.
• "Record me clicking through this app" — a walkthrough recording runs the whole interaction in a single step, so the video is exactly as long as the steps take, with no dead time from the agent thinking between clicks.

Edit for me

• Zooms, perspective and masks — add, update, list or remove zoom segments, 3D perspective moves and sensitive-content masks anywhere on the timeline.
• Look and feel — set the background, pick a wallpaper from the library, change camera settings (including turning camera background removal on and off — the same switch as the settings panel), adjust audio, or read and write any player setting.
• Reframe it — ask to "make it vertical" or "get it ready for mobile" and one call changes the aspect ratio, refits padding and radius so the content stays as large as possible, enlarges the camera and anchors it bottom-center so it reads on a narrow frame, and scales the cursor. Your existing zooms are left untouched.
• Ready-made perspective poses — the agent no longer guesses raw angles; it picks a balanced pose (`desk`, `hero`, `iso-left`, `float-right` …), sets how strong it should be, and points at the spot on the canvas it should focus on.
• Timeline and playback — inspect or replace segments, seek, play and pause, grab a screenshot or a single video frame to check the result, and undo or redo.
• Projects — list, open, save, summarize and reveal your projects.
• Export — start an export with the resolution, frame rate and quality you asked for, in the background, and get told when it's done.
• Motion Studio too — open scenes, add and arrange elements, build and edit animations, use templates and presets, and export the result.

Nothing is off limits — if a request needs something the typed actions don't cover, the agent can ask the app for its full command list and call it directly, so the panel keeps up with the app instead of lagging behind it.

Sensitive content masks

• Hide anything you don't want on screen — draw a region over a password, an email address or a customer name and mask it with Blur, Pixel or a Solid color.
• The mask stays put — regions are anchored to the video itself, so they follow along through zooms and 3D perspective moves instead of drifting.
• Timeline control — each mask gets its own timeline row you can move, trim or delete, so you can reveal something later in the recording.
• Tune the look — intensity, corner radius and solid color are all adjustable.

New video effects

• Effects section — Blur, Pixelate and Dither now live together at the bottom of the video settings.
• Pixelate — choose Pixel for clean blocks or CRT for the retro tube look, with Density, Intensity and Sharpness dials. Pixels are anchored to the content, so they grow and shrink with your zooms.
• Dither — a new retro/print-style effect with Intensity, Color levels and Pattern size.

Perspective transitions

• Angle to angle, smoothly — perspective (3D) segments now blend into each other and back to flat instead of snapping, with easing options and depth settings you control.
• Pick the start and target point while you can see it — the preview for the origin points now jumps to the moment the transition has finished, so you set the pivot on the tilted image instead of on a flat canvas.

Subtitles on the canvas

• Place them anywhere — subtitles render on the top layer and can be dragged straight on the canvas; click one to jump to its style settings.
• Tied to your steps — subtitles follow the step they belong to, and their position is saved with the project.

Export

• Pick your output resolution — export at 720p, 1080p, 2K or 4K. The size shown in the export window is exactly what gets written to the file.

Timeline & editor

• New Add menu — one place to add zooms, perspective moves, masks and more to your timeline. Perspective, sensitive content and code snippets are now added with a single click instead of opening a submenu.
• Sync zooms with a clip — a Sync zooms switch in the clip popover keeps zooms locked to their clip when you move or trim it.

Recording

• Clearer start — the recording island now shows a proper starting state and countdown, plus a live timer while you record.

🚀 Improvements

Editor

• Settings moved to the left — the settings panel is now on the left side of the editor, keeping your canvas and timeline together on the right.
• One-handed shortcuts — ⌘B switches between Video Editor and Motion Studio, ⌘I opens the agent panel and ⌘⇧D flips it to the other side.
• Better tooltips — tooltips open exactly where they belong instead of sliding into place, and they show the keyboard shortcut for the button.
• Clearer clip segments — waveforms are more visible in the media strip, and zoom, clip and other segments were reworked for easier editing.
• Smoother timeline thumbnails — clip thumbnails are cached as a filmstrip, so scrolling and trimming stay responsive on long recordings.
• Smoother preview — preview rendering was reworked, reducing hitches while you scrub and play.
• Timeline fit and click-outside handling for popovers were fixed.
• A more readable settings panel — headings and labels in the settings panel are set at a larger size.
• Refreshed iconography and accent color across the app.

Cursor & camera

• Cursor lands on the right frame — the cursor is now sampled from real video frames, so it matches the picture exactly instead of running a fraction of a frame ahead or behind. Retina coordinate handling was fixed as well.
• Cursor motion blur strength is now adjustable.
• A new cursor style joins the cursor library, and the modern cursor set now ships in white, blue, purple, pink and orange.
• Cursor resting angle — hold the cursor at the angle you want; motion rotation, tilt, blur and click effects all ride on top of it, and the setting is saved with the project.
• Camera size behaves predictably — the camera size slider is linear, so the same drag gives the same change everywhere on the scale.

Recording

• Recording starts faster — screen capture is warmed up in advance.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed stuttering at the start and end of zoom transitions.
• Zoom motion blur now fades out smoothly before the move ends, instead of being cut off abruptly at the end of a zoom out.
• Fixed agent exports opening the license screen even when free credits were available, and overwriting the file name and folder the agent had set.
• Fixed a background-removal bug on the camera layer.
• Fixed the wrong cursor being shown in clamshell (lid-closed) setups.
• Fixed zoom syncing problems when clips were moved.
• Fixed the playhead height and the Add popover position in the timeline.
• Motion Studio performance fixes.
• Export quality fixes, and a cleaner installer that no longer leaves stray mounted volumes behind.

Creavit Studio 3.0.4 — Release Notes

Our biggest update yet: keyboard shortcut overlays, a retro CRT screen effect, multi-clip projects, smarter compression presets, one-click updates, and a redesigned home screen.

✨ What's New

Keyboard shortcuts on screen

• Shortcuts appear automatically — every ⌘ / ⌃ / ⌥ shortcut you press while recording is captured and turned into a keycap overlay on your video, so viewers can follow along. Only shortcut combinations are recorded — plain typing is never captured.
• Full control in the timeline — each shortcut becomes its own timeline segment you can move, trim, or delete.
• Style it your way — pick dark or light keycaps, choose from nine on-screen positions, adjust the size, or hide shortcuts entirely.

CRT monitor effect

• Retro screen look — a new CRT monitor effect turns your recording into a vintage tube display, complete with barrel curve, LCD subpixel grid and subtle color fringing.
• Three simple dials — Density, Intensity and Sharpness let you go from a light pixel texture to a full retro monitor, and the preview matches your export exactly.

Multi-clip projects

• Add another project to the timeline — open a project, then add any other `.crvt` file from the Add panel to append it to the end of your timeline. Each clip keeps its own cursor, camera and effects.

Camera

• Visible area control — choose exactly which part of your camera frame stays visible, so you can frame yourself perfectly without re-recording.
• Replace camera video — swap the camera track in an existing project for a new take.
• Natural motion blur — the camera layer now blurs smoothly as it moves and scales, for a much softer, more professional feel.
• Faster background removal — background removal is precomputed and cached in the background, so scrubbing and playback stay smooth instead of stuttering.

Cursor

• Touch cursor — a new touch-style cursor for demoing mobile and tablet interfaces, with its own tap states.
• Smoother cursor motion — the cursor engine was rebuilt with better easing, motion blur and rotation, plus an Auto hide option that fades the cursor out when it sits idle.
• More control — new sliders for cursor size, smoothness, max rotation angle and click effect intensity.

🚀 Improvements

Export

• Compression presets — pick the profile that matches where your video is going:
• Studio — maximum detail, no extra compression pass. Best for editing, archiving and professional delivery.
• Social — high quality tuned for social platforms, keeping details crisp before the platform recompresses.
• Web — balanced quality and size for embedding online.
• Compact — the smallest practical file using quality-aware HEVC (H.265). Ideal for sharing and messaging, and it plays natively in QuickTime, Safari and on iOS.
• Performance Mode — on by default for fast exports with small files at the same visual quality. Turn it off for absolute maximum fidelity (sharper text and edges, larger file, slower export).
• Faster exports — video frames are now decoded through a much faster pipeline, cutting export times on long recordings.
• Sharper zoom — exports hold their target bitrate on every frame, so zoomed-in moments no longer soften or show blockiness.
• Better Motion exports — motion videos are encoded at high profile with a far higher bitrate and saved as MP4 instead of WebM.

Editor

• Preview Resolution — pick 360p, 720p, 1080p or 2K for the preview canvas right in the player bar. Lower it for smooth playback on heavy projects; your export quality is untouched.
• Compact aspect ratio picker — the long row of ratio buttons is now a single dropdown showing your current ratio.
• Redesigned timeline segments — zoom, layout, step, code snippet and clip previews were all reworked for clearer, easier editing.
• Refined controls throughout — new sliding selectors and reworked sliders across the camera, mouse, zoom, title and background panels.

Motion Studio

• Export as HTML — turn any motion scene into a ready-to-use web folder. You get a ZIP with `index.html` and all images inside; animations are baked in as real CSS, so it plays anywhere with nothing extra to install.
• Saved motions panel — save scenes you build and reuse them later from your own library.
• Open Motion Studio from the home screen — it's now its own entry point, no need to go through the video editor first.
• Editor ↔ Motion switch — a toggle at the top moves you between Video Editor and Motion Studio with a smooth transition.

Recording & home screen

• Redesigned home screen — a cleaner, more compact recorder with clearer Display, Window and Area selection, a Tools menu, and quick access to your recent projects with thumbnail previews.
• Recording timer and live mic meter — see how long you've been recording and watch your microphone level, right in the overlay.
• Night Flash Border — brighten your face in low light using a glowing screen border, toggled from the actions menu.
• Your last recording area is remembered — the area you selected is restored for your next recording.
• Explicit "do not record" options — clearly turn off camera or microphone from the device pickers.

Updates & licensing

• One-click updates — updates now install themselves. The app closes, swaps in the new version and relaunches on its own, with no manual dragging into Applications. If anything goes wrong it falls back to the old behaviour.
• Clearer plan selection — the license window now shows proper plan cards with pricing, tax notes, trial periods and a highlighted recommended plan.

Wallpapers

• Opens on the right category — the wallpaper panel no longer lands on an empty Favorites list.
• Older projects find their backgrounds — projects saved with the previous built-in wallpapers now match automatically to the online version.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed exports failing when an online wallpaper was used as the background.
• Fixed camera flickering and blank frames when scrubbing the timeline.
• Fixed camera drifting sideways when zooming, and jumping to the wrong spot when a layout ended.
• Fixed stutter during zoom transitions.
• Fixed cursor and zoom drifting at the seam between appended clips.
• Fixed audio failing to play for some imported media files.
• Changing preview quality no longer shifts the position of items on your canvas.
• Fixed selection highlighting in the Background and Title panels so the active item is always clear.
• Fixed the Motion / Editor switch flickering when changing modes.
• Fixes to 3D animation settings (origin, transform, material, depth of field and lighting).
• Smaller installer, plus general stability and performance polish.

Creavit Studio 3.0.3 — Release Notes

✨ What's New

Wallpapers

• Fresh wallpapers, always up to date — backgrounds are now delivered online, so you'll get new wallpapers automatically without updating the app.
• Favorites — tap the star on any wallpaper to save it. Your favorites get their own category for quick access.
• Better organized — wallpaper categories are now sorted more clearly.

🚀 Improvements

• Much smaller download — the installer shrank by about 100 MB, so Creavit Studio downloads faster and takes up far less space on your Mac.
• General stability and performance polish.

Creavit Studio 3.0.2 is ready!

✨ New Features

Motion Editor

• Lottie / dotLottie import — `.lottie` archives and Lottie JSON files can now be imported into the motion scene.
• Google Fonts support — new font catalog lets you use Google Fonts in motion text.
• Move Path overlay — visual motion-path drawing and editing for elements.
• Group selection fixes — multi-element grouping and group selection are now more reliable.
• Clipboard improvements — SVG copy/paste and motion element copy support.
• Motion templates — template sorting and a "save to templates" button added.
• Design panel & toolbar — refreshed inspector number fields, color field, transform handles, and floating toolbar.

Cursor

• Manual cursor — add manual cursors with their own settings and motion animation (including saving).
• Custom cursor motion blur — motion blur applied to the cursor body via the source canvas.
• New cursor sets — updated/expanded `default` and `modern` cursor SVGs.
• Cursor shadow fix — fixed cursor shadow rendering issues.

Editor & UI

• Redesigned Title settings.
• Updated slider/input components and input styles.
• New Google Fonts added to the editor.

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed brightness adjustment.
• Motion render & animation performance improvements.
• Editor welcome overlay updates.

🧪 Tests

• New motion test suites: clipboard, grouping, Lottie import, and move-action tests.

Creavit Studio 3.0.1 is ready!

Creavit Studio 3.0.0 Release Notes

What's New

Brand-New Motion Editor

A completely new Motion mode has been added next to the video editor. You can now design animated motion graphics — text, shapes, images, and video clips — on a dedicated canvas with layers, transform handles, a floating toolbar, and a full properties panel.

Motion Timeline and Animations

Motion mode comes with its own timeline and playback controls. Every element can be animated with enter/exit actions and fine-tuned animation parameters, and the scene duration can be adjusted freely — making it easy to build polished animated sequences.

Motion Templates and Library

Ready-made motion templates help you start quickly, and every motion you create is saved to your personal library. Motions from your library can be added directly onto your screen recordings from the editor, so your animations and recordings work together.

Motion Export and Import

Motions can be exported as GIF, Video, or JSON at 0.5x to 2x resolution. JSON files can be imported back into the Motion editor, making it easy to back up your work or share motions with others.

Easier Canvas Editing with Multi-Select and Snapping

You can now select multiple elements with a marquee selection and move them together. Smart snapping guides help you align elements precisely, and SVG content can be pasted directly onto the canvas.

GPU-Accelerated Zoom and Motion Blur

Zoom transitions and motion blur are now rendered on the GPU. Playback and preview feel noticeably smoother, especially in projects with heavy zooms and fast cursor movement.

Smoother Cursor Motion Blur

The cursor trail has been completely reworked. Fast cursor movement now produces a single soft, continuous smear instead of visible ghost copies, and the cursor keeps a clean, steady drop shadow while moving.

True-to-Source Video Colors

Recordings are now color-tagged end to end, and the slight darkening previously applied in the player has been removed. Your exported video now matches the original screen colors and brightness exactly.

Improvements

• Performance improvements have been made across the app, including faster editor startup.
• 3D perspective mode rendering is now faster and smoother.
• The Export buttons have been redesigned with a new gradient and texture.
• Media player control icons have been refreshed.
• Motion export workflow has been improved.
• Audio playback behavior has been improved.

Fixes

• Fixed videos appearing slightly darker in the editor than the original recording.
• Fixed cursor motion blur showing stepped, repeated cursor copies during fast movement.
• Fixed the cursor shadow appearing as a detached sharp outline behind the motion blur.
• Many bugs have been fixed and general stability has been improved.

Creavit Studio 2.3.0 Release Notes

What's New

New Logo Design

A new logo has been designed for Creavit Studio.

The new logo better reflects the app’s modern, creative, and professional identity.

Step-Based Element Editing

A new step logic has been added to the editor.

Elements can now have different position, size, and rotation values across different steps. This makes it much easier to create more dynamic scenes, transitions, and advanced layouts.

Faster Export Option

A new option has been added for faster exports.

This is useful when you want to quickly generate a video without waiting for the highest-quality export settings.

Redesigned Export Progress Window

The export progress window has been completely redesigned.

The new design provides a cleaner and more enjoyable export experience while making the export process easier to follow.

Updated Dynamic Island

The Dynamic Island experience has been updated and improved.

It now feels smoother, more polished, and better integrated into the recording workflow.

Updated Editor Welcome Screen

The editor welcome screen has been refreshed.

The new version provides a cleaner first impression and improves the onboarding experience inside the editor.

Improved Cursor Animation and Motion Blur

Cursor animations and motion blur have been improved.

Cursor movement now feels smoother and more natural, especially in recordings with zooms, transitions, and fast interactions.

Improved Text Row System

In addition to adding text end-to-end, text can now be added into different rows.

Drag and drop support has also been added between rows, making it easier to organize and manage text elements inside the editor.

Improved Perspective Mode Drag and Drop

Perspective mode now has a much better drag and drop experience.

This makes perspective layouts easier to control, adjust, and fine-tune directly inside the editor.

Video Clip Masking

A new masking feature has been added for video clips.

Video clips can now be displayed inside different shapes, making it possible to create more creative layouts and advanced visual compositions.

Canvas Element Layout Levels

A new layout logic has been added for canvas elements.

Elements can now be displayed in front of or behind each other based on their level, giving you more control over complex canvas layouts.

Improvements

• Performance improvements have been made across the app.
• Export workflow has been improved.
• Cursor animation quality has been improved.
• Motion blur behavior has been improved.
• Perspective mode editing feels smoother and easier to manage.
• Canvas element management is now more flexible.
• Text organization is now easier with row-based editing.

Fixes

• Many bugs have been fixed.
• Fixed a playback issue with GIF overlays.
• General stability improvements have been made.

Creavit Studio 2.2.0

Creavit Studio 2.2.0 is now live 🚀

Creavit Studio 2.1.6

Creavit Studio 2.1.6 is now live 🚀

Improvements & Fixes

• Improved cursor jitter and smoothness
• Added clip thumbnail previews to timeline segments
• Added a new editor layout optimized for 9:16 vertical videos
• Added new background visuals and scenes

Creavit Studio 2.1.5

Creavit Studio 2.1.5 is now live 🚀

Improvements & Fixes

• Most reported bugs have been fixed, with major UI & UX improvements across the app
• Improved the license activation flow for users who experienced UX-related issues
• Completely rebuilt the zoom engine for a more consistent experience, especially in vertical formats like 9:16
• Rewritten custom cursor system from scratch
• Added 4 new click effects to the custom cursor
• Added new cursor styles and pointer types
• Improved camera background removal quality
• Improved export system and reduced visual differences between canvas preview and final exports
• Enhanced `.crvt` file naming logic based on device, window, or recording area
• Added Finder previews for `.crvt` files on macOS
• Added a realistic pixel effect to perspective mode
• Improved dynamic camera layouts and added new device mockups to layout segments
• Fixed long recording issues and the default 10-second visibility bug on certain devices
• Added support for external image uploads as video backgrounds
• Added dynamic background pattern generation for video scenes
• Added a built-in prompter, allowing you to read your script directly from the Dynamic Island while recording

Thanks to everyone using and supporting Creavit Studio 💛

Creavit Studio 2.0.4

Creavit Studio 2.0.4 is now live.

• Zoom tool has been improved, with more stable zooming and cursor tracking added.

Creavit Studio 2.0.3

Creavit Studio 2.0.3 is now live.

• A MacBook Pro mockup has been added, you can now present your screen recordings inside a device.

• Improved 3D transform and perspective experience, delivering more realistic depth and smoother visual transitions.

• Enhanced camera background removal performance and optimized the preprocessing pipeline for faster and more reliable results.

• Strengthened synchronization between layout, camera, and cursor systems for a more cohesive editing and playback experience.

• Updated build and release workflow with improved support for both Apple Silicon and Intel architectures.

Creavit Studio 2.0.2

Creavit Studio 2.0.2 is now live.

• Introduced a new layout system and improved timeline layout segment flow. Updated layout selector, icons, and layout interaction behaviors.

• Major overhaul on the camera system. Refactored the background removal pipeline; added ONNX/TensorFlow processing, caching, and precompute queue. Improved camera rendering and settings experience.

• Significant revisions to the export pipeline. Redesigned export modal, improved FPS options, and applied multiple fixes across Electron, FFmpeg, and export services.

• Improvements to playback and audio. Enhanced playback behavior, clip media handling, and achieved more stable audio sync during export.

• Upgraded zoom system. Added connected zoom transitions, dwell detection, auto zoom timing, transition prediction, and contiguous zoom continuity. Improved zoom in/out transitions and cursor tracking.

• Improved cursor experience. Fixed idle hide behavior, expanded click effect options, and updated mouse settings.

• Cleaned up build/release workflow. Added `generate:clean` script and streamlined build/publish processes.

• Updated dependency: `node-mac-recorder` upgraded from 2.22.10 → 2.22.11.

• Added new regression tests for zoom and cursor behavior: auto zoom timing, cursor idle, zoom cursor tracking, zoom continuity, and transition prediction.

Creavit Studio 2.0.1

Creavit Studio 2.0.1 is now live.

In this version, cursor animations and zoom transitions have been improved, and an issue where large or long-duration recordings would fail to open has been fixed.

A new layout has been added to the dynamic camera system. With this update, when the camera is in full-screen mode, the screen recording can be displayed as an overlay on top of it.

Creavit Studio 2.0.0

Creavit Studio 2.0.0 is now live. This release introduces major improvements in both features and overall stability.

With this update:

• Screen recording module has been improved, enabling higher quality video capture
• Multi-screen recording and area selection issues have been resolved
• A draggable timeline handle has been added, allowing it to expand/collapse and stay in its last position
• `.crvt` is now officially supported as Creavit Studio’s file format
• Issues related to saving and opening `.crvt` files have been fixed
• Most segment types now support reordering and trimming, including clip segments
• In clip segments, camera, audio, and custom cursor are automatically synchronized
• Sync issues between camera, audio, and click actions have been resolved, including improved lip-sync accuracy
• Some segment types can now be duplicated via right-click (clone feature)
• Custom cursor movements are smoother
• Zoom and camera transitions are more refined
• Motion blur effects are improved
• Performance optimizations have been applied
• Low-frequency noise is excluded from recordings
• The export system has been completely redesigned

You can now export exactly what you see on the canvas. Additionally, layout stability has been improved across different aspect ratios (such as 9:16).

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1. Recording Status via Dynamic Island

With the active status window in the MacBook Dynamic Island, you can instantly see:

• Whether your camera is active
• Microphone status
• If system audio is included in the recording

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2. Advanced Recording Controls

When you hover over the Dynamic Island:

• You can access detailed recording settings
• Quickly adjust your recording configuration
• Preview your camera with the expandable panel

This makes the pre-recording process much faster.

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3. New Start (Edit) Screen

Even if you don’t start a recording, opening edit mode now shows a welcome screen.

From here, you can:

• Access recently opened `.crvt` files
• Create content from a video
• Import `.crvt` files
• Start directly with a blank project

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4. Clip Cutting & Trimming

You can now:

• Cut clip segments at any point
• Apply trimming easily

This is especially useful when working with longer recordings.

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5. Clip Transition Effects

When two clip segments touch, a “+” button appears.

With this button, you can:

• Add transition effects between clips
• Create smoother and more professional video flows

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6. Clip Speed Adjustment

By right-clicking on clip segments, you can:

• Adjust playback speed

This automatically synchronizes:

• Custom cursor movement
• Camera position
• Audio

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7. Adding Elements in the Editor

Using the “+” button in the editor, you can add:

• Code animations
• Cinematic (perspective) transitions
• Text boxes

You can also overlay:

• Images
• Videos
• GIFs

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8. Advanced Cinematic Perspective

With the cinematic perspective feature, you can:

• Create smoother and more engaging videos
• Present your product more effectively

It’s easy to use and delivers strong results with minimal configuration.

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9. Code Animation

With code animation:

• Break your code into steps
• Animate each step clearly

This helps viewers understand the flow of your code more easily.

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10. Text & Style Customization

You can now add text directly to the canvas.

Supported features:

• Flexible styling combinations
• Background covers for text
• Colors, gradients, and wallpapers
• External image import

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11. Media Manipulation on Canvas

You can directly:

• Resize
• Rotate
• Reposition

any images, videos, or GIFs added to the canvas.

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12. Auto Subtitle System

For clip segments:

• Automatic subtitle generation is now available

Additionally, you can:

• Edit generated subtitles
• Enhance them with animations

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13. Improved Custom Cursor

Custom cursor improvements include:

• New cursor variations
• Two new click sound effects

This makes interactions feel more natural and clear.

Creavit Studio 1.1.5 – Release Candidate 2

Recording Improvements

• Improved camera high-size recording handling
• Fixed performance and export issues in long-duration recordings

Audio Enhancements

• Included audio in GIF and video overlays
• Added audio waveform to clip segments
• Improved camera and audio lip-sync issues

Editing & Animation

• Improved zoom animations

Playback & Preview Performance

• Added 3 different options for high-performance canvas preview in the media player

Export Improvements

• Improved export pipeline and overall export stability

Timeline & Layer Management

• Added a layer button to the timeline, allowing unwanted segments to be hidden

Design Improvements

• Overall design and UI improvements

Creavit Studio 1.1.4 – Release Candidate

Export and Recording Improvements

• Fixed an issue that caused the application to freeze during export.
• Resolved the problem where audio was heard during export.
• Added the ability to export screen, system audio, and camera video captured via “Record Files.”
• Increased the overlay level for area recording to “screen saver”; the menu bar is now included in recordings.

Project and File Management

• Fixed an issue preventing `.crvt` project files from opening.
• Added the Create from Video feature; you can now import a video and use all editing and zoom tools.

User Data and Update System

• Fixed a bug that caused user data to be cleared when switching between applications.
• Resolved an issue with the automatic update system.

Zoom and Cursor Enhancements

• Added an Apply to All option for zoom settings.
• Improved the custom cursor engine and added a motion blur effect.
• Ensured the custom cursor remains visible within the safe area (canvas) during zoom operations.
• Introduced a new Tahoe background and a new custom cursor, now used as the default appearance.

Interface and Usability

• Implemented various UI improvements and enhanced overall application stability.
• Added quick-jump buttons to navigate to the beginning and end of the video in the player controls.

Creavit Studio 1.0.15 (Beta)

Features

• Screen, window, and region recording
• Custom cursor support
• Dynamic camera layout
• Camera following the custom cursor
• Automatic cursor zoom
• GIF, image, and video overlay
• Background removal for the camera after recording
• Exporting in multiple formats
• Export functionality