Recordly v1.3.0 Beta (may be unstable)

Hi everyone,

We’re really excited to share Recordly v1.3.0 Beta. Huge leaps have been made!

The biggest work in this build is a drastic revamp of the motion engine, a much more polished and responsive launch menu / HUD experience, and a lot of work across export performance, editor feel, and overall usability.

As always, thank you for trying beta builds and helping shape where Recordly goes next.

Highlights

Motion engine overhaul

This beta includes a major rework of the motion system across the editor and export pipeline.

• New motion preset direction centered around Focused and Smooth
• Better cursor motion behavior and improved motion defaults
• Refined zoom motion blur and temporal blur behavior
• More consistent motion handling between preview and export
• Cleaner fallback behavior as we continue migrating older settings into the newer motion system

Launch menu and HUD performance improvements

A lot of work went into making the launch experience feel faster, cleaner, and more stable.

• Significant launch window / source selector UI improvements
• Better responsiveness and reduced jitter in the source picker
• Improved popover behavior and reduced mouse passthrough issues
• Cleaner recording bar / HUD interactions
• Better theming support and more consistent system color behavior
• General structure cleanups to keep the launch flow snappy and easier to maintain

Faster Lightning exports

We’ve been pushing hard on export speed in this cycle, especially for Windows.

• Large Lightning export performance improvements
• Better native/export pipeline tuning
• Reduced local media overhead in export flows
• Improved frame pacing and renderer stability
• Better handling around duration mismatches in some export scenarios
• Cleaner error surfacing and follow-up polish around export reliability

Editor and recording improvements

There’s a lot of smaller-but-important quality work in here too.

• Webcam crop preview/export improvements
• Inline subtitle / caption editing work
• Better timeline interactions and zoom placement behavior
• Improved clip-first editing flow
• Updated defaults like Tahoe cursor and refined cursor sway
• System-language default when no app language has been manually chosen
• Update prompts are quieter now: failed update checks no longer show UI unless there’s an actual update to show

Beta notes

This is still a pre-release, so a few rough edges are expected. If anything feels off, especially around motion behavior, launch UI, or Lightning exports, we’d love the feedback.

Thank you

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@webadderall
@ExtraBinoss
@wizardAEI
@meiiie
@wiiiii123
@hongvbhp2003
@crbender
@sharkcreep87
@kingfive
@shuwn
@dexisback
@texamaan86

Please note: Since this is a manual install, Mac users will have to re-assign permissions to Recordly.