Feature Requests:
- Add the ability to press a hotkey during a recording that flags the current or most recent recording. This way if you do multiple takes, you can already have your good/best takes marked easily. This could be extended to allow a separate hotkey to delete the current/most recent recording (unbound by default).
- Add the option to leave the Action! window exactly where it is even after you go into a fullscreen application. Currently for desktop recording there's an option whether to hide the window or not, however when you have multiple displays and want to keep the window on one of them it ends up getting moved or hidden once you enter a fullscreen app.
- Add the option to hide the HUD in fullscreen apps by default. This option exists for desktop recording, but not for fullscreen.
- Add the option to apply Motion² profiles during export for videos recorded at 24, 25 or 30fps, so the resulting video can aim for a 24->48, 25->50, 30->60fps experience even for video players without Motion² support?
- Currently when you're recording the desktop and you press the "Change active desktop" key, the recording stops. It would be nice to have it cleanly transition to recording the other desktop in the same cut. If that seems worth the effort for whatever roadblocks stand in the way, it would be a nice touch that might further draw attention to Action! when people ask how that was done so cleanly in someone's video.
- Add the option to export to raw AVI or high bitrate MPEG-2 for editing compatability. Recording straight to raw AVI would probably interest some people, but the efficiency of FIC is much more appealing, so at least having the option to export a high quality copy when needed would be appreciated.
- Add the ability to unlock the bitrate targets. Right now the max bitrate you can set is 23.857 Mbps and I understand that perhaps these are decent suggestions for most people, but there should be an advanced checkbox somewhere that lets you pick 40 Mbps (blu-ray standard) and above. The maximum bitrates on the YouTube profiles are ridiculously low (7.954 Mbps), considering it is essential you encode videos at the highest bitrate possible for YouTube since it will just get re-encoded on the server side. That may work for an average desktop recording profile, but not for anything with full motion.
- Currently the framerate is not listed anywhere during export and the suggested bitrates are not increased when a 60fps source is used.
- Add a hotkey to delay or apply/attach the overlay for a fullscreen app. This way you may be able to record certain apps more easily without having to disable overlays or tab out.
- Add an option to choose the size of the mouse cursor used in desktop videos.
- Add an option to animate the mouse cursor with something subtle to denote clicking.
Bugs:
- If Action! is open (or recording) while Aero gets disabled in desktop mode, it may become unstable, unresponsive and consistently crash on exit. Resetting the video driver does not solve this and it only went away after a reboot. To clarify how this came about, I was using Splash Pro EX to view the recorded videos and in Splash I have it configured to force the video overlay, which disables DWM.
- Around the same time that the above bug occurred, desktop recording was acting very oddly. The mouse cursor was being recorded about a second out of sync with the original movement and the cursor being exported in the video was about 5 times the normal size.
- I'm using multiple displays and when I move my mouse off the screen during desktop recording it is recorded as if it just looped back onto the same display rather than being hidden off screen properly.
- If the Steam in-game overlay is enabled for some games, they will display nothing aside from a black screen. Disabling the in-game overlay solved many of these.
- Some games black screen even without a 3rd party overlay (other than Action), such as Nimbus. Closing Action!, starting Nimbus, tabbing out of it, starting Action! and then tabbing back into Nimbus solved the problem. If this can't be solved consistently with all apps, perhaps some sort of manual hotkey for managing the attaching of the overlay is in order?
- Exporting 60fps video resulted in the video being fine, but the audio skipped on occasion. I verified that this was in the actual encoding and not in the playback. Settings: Original (1920x1080), 60FPS, 16-235 Range, Exported at Auto + High + 23.866Mbps + Stereo resulting in a 75MB file. Exporting a 30fps version of the video works properly.
- I also experienced the issue reported here http://www.mirillis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=8238 where video recorded at 60fps is perfectly smooth, but at 30fps the resulting video is fairly jerky while the playing framerate during recording is not jerky. I can provide the FIC video samples if needed, I have 1 at 60 and 1 at 30.
-- Hardware: Q6600 @ 3.0ghz, 4GB RAM, EVGA GTX 275, 2 displays (primary at 120hz, secondary at 60hz)
-- OS: Windows 7 64bit
-- Action: Think I was recording at the Original size with the Low quality setting and an input range of 16-235 at the time.
-- Game: Nimbus at 1920x1080 on Steam with the in-game overlay disabled. Any gameplay.
Thanks for creating great desktop video software. I look forward to more.
