Screen To GIF - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor

Screen To GIF v2.24 Released (May 8, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.24

What's new?
• Added the option to run the FFmpeg encoding with two-pass.
• [Installer] Added the option to install the shortcut to all users.
• [Installer] When installing, the UAC prompt will only appear if necessary (for example, when installing the shortcut to all users).
• Added the option to force the update to run with elevated privileges.
• Updated the default parameters for exporting with FFmpeg (click on the reset button to load the new ones).

Bug fixes:
♦ When trying to insert an image with a different DPI than the project, it would import it with the incorrect size.
♦ Added a warning when trying to import multiple images with different DPIs.
♦ The app could crash when rendering a character which had a broken glyph (while using the caption feature).
♦ The app was crashing when applying the 'Reduce Frame Count' while selecting the last frames.
♦ It was not allowed to add a preset with a name already in use in a preset from another video type.
♦ (Experimental) Added a workaround for the 'Not enough quota...' crash. It can be disabled on Options > Application.

 

Screen To GIF v2.24.1 Released (May 14, 2020)
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Screen To GIF v2.24.2 Released (May 17, 2020)
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Screen To GIF v2.25 Released (June 7, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.25

What's new?
• You can disable tasks without having to remove them.
• Added the option to upload APNGs too.
• Added a new parameter to the post encoding commands (URL).
• Updated the Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Dutch and Russian localizations.
• The options window will adjust its width to its contents when opening.

Bug fixes:
♦ The screen capture (BitBlt + cursor) over a remote desktop connection was not working properly (thanks to Luis for the help).
♦ The editor window chrome (title bar) was not getting extended when needed.
♦ The app could crash before warning of the missing .Net 4.8 when having .Net 4.6.2 or older versions.
♦ If the project was too big (too many frames or frames too big), the PSD exporter could fail (thanks to Jakob for the help).
♦ Several texts where not translatable (thanks to László for the help).
♦ Copy and pasting a frame, then doing it again multiple times, could exceed the filename limit (thanks to Riku for the help).
♦ The 'duplicated filename' warning was not getting hidden when unticking the option to save the file to a selected folder.

 

Screen To GIF v2.26 Released (July 6, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.26

What's new?
• Time-lapse recording!
• The built-in encoders got re-designed from scratch!
• Now you can select the color quantization method (Neural, Octree, MedianCut, Grayscale, and MostUsed) and understand the differences.
• You can select the the amount of colors used for the Neural, Octree, MedianCut, Grayscale, and MostUsed quantization methods.
• Added support for transparency in the built-in encoder (works with all quantization methods).
• You can now switch between capture frequency modes from the recorder window (when paused or stopped, and even change the framerate).
• The encodings are now displayed in a popup attached to the editor (but you can still use the older alternative, a separated window).
• You can now see the total elapsed time of the encoding process.
• The 'Quality' slider of the Neural quantization method is now called 'Sampling', and it's properly explained what it means.
• Updated the Hungarian, Dutch, and Russian localizations.

Bug fixes:
♦ The built-in encoders were giving green artifacts when the color used as chroma key was present in the frame.
♦ When opening the recorders while on snapshot mode and pressing the stop button, the app would crash (thanks to Naoki for finding that).
♦ The eye dropper of the color selector window was changing size when the drag started.
♦ It was impossible to capture the screen in manual mode with the DirectX capture method.
♦ The context menu items (undo, redo, and delete) were not being enabled (thanks to László for the help).

 

Screen To GIF v2.26.1 Released (July 7, 2020)
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Screen To GIF v2.27 Released (September 8, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.27

What's new?
• Redesigned the newer recorder UI (you can still use the compact mode if you wish).
• Added better support for multi-scale set of screens.
• The new recorder UI performs better, it's less laggy when selecting a screen region.
• You can now drag the screen region selection after selecting it or during recording with the new recorder UI.
• Displays the recording time (hover with the cursor on top to see the captured frame count) and shows a counter for manually captured frames.
• Added a capture mode to capture frames only when the user clicks and types (it ignores input while focused within the recorder itself).
• Added a capture mode option, to capture only when something changes within the capture region (it can be activated with PerSecond, PerMinute and PerHour modes).
• You can now display guidelines (customizable rule of thirds and/or crosshair) in the screen recorder.
• New obfuscation methods: Darken and lighten parts of your frames.
• You can set the obfuscation to be applied to the inverse of the selection, with or without smoothened edges.
• Replaced the old folder selector dialogs with a modern variant.
• When saving a project, the button near the folder path now lets you select a folder by default. To select a folder and filename, press Shift while clicking on that button.
• Improved mouse input capture system.
• Added an optional (but default) confirmation dialog when discarding a recording.
• Added the option to display the discard button during the recording (not just when the capture is paused).
• Added scaling quality options for the resize feature.
• Added the option to download updates as a Zip to replace the executable manually (for those users who can't execute installers).
• The screen recorder now displays the recording status over the taskbar icon.
• Added the option to opt-out from the recorder remembering the previous recording region (size and/or position).
• Updated Gifski to version 1.2.0 (if using portable version, erase the old DLL and download it again to update).
• Updated the Hungarian, Ukrainian and Italian translations.

Bug fixes:
♦ The update could fail if the update window was opened before the download of the update finished.
♦ The recorder (newer UI) was not detecting some windows (those without the system title bar).
♦ When capturing with the DirectX, the capture was crashing if the recording area was outside of the screen.
♦ When selecting a small screen region with the newer recorder, near the side edges, the capture controls would be displayed outside of the screen.
♦ The newer recorder was crashing in selection mode when the selection was occupying the more than 90% of vertical space, while tucked to the right side of the screen.
♦ When exporting a file with a name with emojis and selecting to copy the filename after encoding, the emojis were not being copied correctly.
♦ The cinemagraph feature was not working correctly when the frame image had a different DPI than the screen.
♦ When capturing using the older recorder and moving the window could result in a long pause (while the window was still being moved) in the recording.
♦ Added missing f, z, g, t, and K date and time formats to the automatic file naming feature.
♦ When the "Single instance only" mode was enabled, dragging and dropping a media file into the executable or into the shortcut of ScreenToGif would show the app window but it would not load the file.
♦ When applying a feature multiple times, the image quality would start to degrade (the image would become blurry).
♦ The troubleshooter is now correctly displaying the position of the windows in multi-DPI systems (also it can now detect screen settings changes while opened).
♦ Removed the indefinite taskbar button animation when importing media.

 

Screen To GIF v2.27.1 Released (September 14, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.27.1

What's new?
• Updated the Korean, Russian, Hungarian, French, Dutch, and Chinese (Simplified) translations.
Bug fixes:
♦ Using non-supported shortcut keys (Shift + [non-function key] or just [non-function key]) as the recorder shortcuts (record, pause, stop) was crashing the app.
♦ The 'interaction' capture frequency was not working with clicks on fullscreen mode.
♦ After opening and closing the options window while on fullscreen mode, the recorder was displaying the guidelines.
♦ The 'Pause' button on the taskbar preview was using the 'Stop' icon (also, two Stop buttons were being displayed).
♦ The window icons (minimize and close) were not being updated to match the selected theme (dark vs light).
♦ The updater window was clipping outside of the screen (when the text inside was too big).
♦ The screen recorders were not working on Windows 7.
♦ Some texts were not translatable.

 

Screen To GIF v2.27.2 Released (September 20, 2020)
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The ONLY problem or maybe lack of feature is when after doing a moving capture and ALL frames displayed horizontally, that if a user preferred to DELETE several adjoining FRAMES with (if possible) a simple move such as dragging the MOUSE across say 12 FRAMES.

You have to delete them one by one by one by one..................

 

You want to delete fames 30-100:

a) Select frame 30
b) Hold SHIFT before clicking on frame 100
c) now click on frame 100
d) Frames 30-100 are selected
e) *Delete frames* "This action will delete 71 frame(s)."

 

Thank You @mood Brilliant!

That one (apparently overlooked by me) option is been bugging me for a long time.

 

Screen To GIF v2.27.3 Released (October 1, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.27.3

What's new?
• Updated the German, Dutch and Hungarian localizations.

Bug fixes:
♦ The FFmpeg video importer was ignoring a 270° rotation of videos.
♦ When trying to download SharpDX to a folder in which you have no write permissions, the app was crashing. Now it asks if you want to elevate the process.
♦ The troubleshooter was not able to reposition correctly the windows when the primary monitor had a scale different than x1.
♦ The recorders where not able to be moved sideways (via arrow keys) correctly when the primary monitor had a scale different than x1 and while having other monitors with different scales.
♦ The older recorder was not opening in the correct position after being closed when in a secondary monitor to the right, while the primary monitor had a scale different than x1.
♦ By using the scroll wheel in the width and height number boxes, while having a screen scale different than 1, it was not moving the cursor to the correct position.
♦ When switching from a smaller screen resolution to a bigger one, the screen selection was not updating and limiting itself to the new available size.
♦ The selection mode of the new recorder was not displaying correctly in the secondary monitor to the left of the main monitor, if it had different scale.
♦ It was possible to start updating the app while encodings were running. Now a warning appears explaining that there is an active encoding being processed.

 

Hi, you can also use your arrow keys to select the frames.

https://i.imgur.com/OhCpMlZ.gifv

 

Screen To GIF 2.28 Released (April 21, 2021)
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Spoiler: Changes v2.28

What's new?
• Reworked and redesigned exporter and uploader.
• You can now create presets for each file type and encoder.
• You can also create presets for the upload services.
• It's now possible to upload media to your Gfycat profile.
• Added option to partially export a project (by selection, frame range, time range and expression).
• You can now export as Webp, Bmp, Jpg and Mov.
• Redesigned export options for FFmpeg (you can still manually type the parameters if you want to).
• Added option to ignore simulated keystrokes (thanks to @cuiliang).
• Added option to purge the cache when leaving the app (option to ask for it).
• New settings system: It should give you less issues when persisting to disk.
• The free text can now receive text decorations, shadow and it can be aligned (thanks to @mabakay).
• Added Greek localization.
• Updated the Italian, Korean, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Turkish and Japanese localizations.

Bug fixes:
♦ Pressing the record hotkey while the old recorder was minimized was causing a crash.
♦ The border auto-task was not working if the border was not set to grow outwards.
♦ Slow playback in editor previewer (thanks to @mabakay).
♦ Recorder: A crash was happening if the monitor scheme was changed while the recorder was minimized.
♦ DirectX recorder: Recording on a non-primary screen was resulting in a project with transparent frames.
♦ New recorder: Dragging to select a screen region near the borders close to another display was slow.
♦ Cinemagraph: This feature was not working as expected in high DPI environments.
♦ The option to save gifs with transparency was not working if you didn't also select the option to detect unchanged pixels.
♦ Some gifs from Gfycat where not being correctly loaded.
♦ When the frame capture was too slow, some key presses could be not recorded (thanks to @bbuerger).

 

Screen To GIF 2.28.1 Released (April 21, 2021)
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@mood Appreciate the buggy boo fixes version update notice. Your awesome.

 

More bug fixes:

Screen To GIF 2.28.2 Released (April 22, 2021)
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Screen To GIF 2.29 Released (April 30, 2021)
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Spoiler: Changes 2.29

What's new?
• Performance improvements in capturing the screen.
• Added option to improve the performance of the region selection in the new recorder UI (enabled by default).
• Improved performance of the duplicate frame remover (thanks to @DarkOoze).

Bug fixes:
♦ Delete all previous/next frames: Now multiple frame selection is considered when deleting frames (thanks to @pawlos).
♦ DirectX capture: The cursor was not being correctly captured in non-primary monitors.
♦ DirectX capture: A crash message was not displaying its details when capturing in async mode.
♦ DirectX capture: Adjusted message when trying to capture in a screen rendered by another graphics adapter.
♦ DirectX capture: The legacy recorder was not able to capture using the option to just capture when something changes on screen.
♦ Screen/window selector: Reduced lag when displaying the screen/window selector for the new recorder UI.
♦ Remove duplicates: The last frame was not being compared, so it was not being removed when needed (thanks to @DarkOoze).
♦ Save as project too: Filename was getting ignored (saving as ".stg") and the export could fail depending on the configuration of the default preset.
♦ Export as images: Files were being overwritten without confirmation.
♦ Export as images: The notification of the encoder was not correctly displaying the encoding of multiple files.
♦ New recorder: The new sizing values input in the text boxes were not being saved when closing the window.
♦ Transparency: The transparency options and unchanged pixel detection were not working well together.
♦ Cache purge: Fixed the message not appearing correctly when closing the app.
♦ Yandex: Link to get token was not working.

 

Screen To GIF 2.29.1 Released (May 2, 2021)
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Understood. Thanks @mood

 

You're welcome

 

Screen To GIF 2.30 Released (May 10, 2021)
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