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Screen Studio

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Velocity5.0

Screen recording app for creating polished product demos and tutorial videos on macOS.

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Screen Studio is in pure maintenance — three months of fixes and billing copy, no new capability

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◆Current state
The 3.7.x line has taken five point releases since May and none of them add a feature. The content is audio correctness (volume per audio type, channel muting, scrubber behaviour, microphone enhancement applied on export), then billing and account surfaces (clearer dashboard status, renewal reminder wording), and most recently unspecified reliability work across recording, export and captions. The one substantial batch was 3.7.1 in May, which cleared a backlog of audio defects.
◆Where it's heading
Everything visible points at consolidation rather than development. The recurring theme across releases is audio — repeatedly revisited, which usually means the subsystem was reworked and is still settling — and the billing-copy changes suggest attention has moved to the commercial side of the product. Nothing in this window indicates where the feature roadmap is heading.
◆Prediction
The pattern suggests continued 3.7.x patches focused on export and captions reliability. Whether a larger release is being prepared behind this is not something the current entries support a claim about.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    3.7.5: reliability work in recording, export and captions

    Unspecified reliability work across recording, export and caption workflows. No user-visible change described — routine patching on the 3.7 line.

  2. 23d ago

    3.7.4: clearer account and billing status

    Account and billing status is presented more clearly in the dashboard. A commercial-surface tweak rather than product work.

  3. 1mo ago

    3.7.3: renewal reminder wording and timing

    Renewal reminder wording and timing get minor polish. Copy changes on the subscription flow.

  4. 2mo ago

    3.7.2: fixes background audio during scrubber export

    Fixes audio continuing to play in the background during export with the scrubber enabled. One defect, in the audio area this release line keeps returning to.

  5. 2mo ago

    3.7.1: broad audio correctness fixes across capture and export

    The substantial release of the window: volume handling per audio type, channel muting, scrubber issues, microphone enhancement applied to exports, and stereo mode all corrected together. It reads as a rework settling rather than scattered bug-fixing, and the smaller audio patches since follow from it.

  6. 6mo ago

    3.6.0: microphone selection fixes, apply-to-all slice speeds

    Microphone selection and short-export fixes, plus an apply-to-all option for slice speed changes. Minor maintenance from earlier in the year.