Glideo 0.4.0: the camera now reads what you meant

Glideo's premise is a camera that edits for you: it watches what you do on screen and zooms the way a human editor would. Until now it mostly followed clicks. 0.4.0 teaches it everything between the clicks.

It now frames the actual button or field you clicked (read through Accessibility), treats a text selection as one held shot instead of a jump per repaint, frames a menu instead of the tiny X that closes it, zooms where your cursor lingers or where the screen changes on its own, and opens back to the full frame when you scroll, because scrolling means you've moved on. When it still picks the wrong shot, the new reframe tool gives you the wheel: a yellow frame tracks any zoom, you drag or resize it, and every adjustment becomes an editable keyframe. One right-click brings the automatic camera back.

The rest of the release grew around the same goal of finished-feeling videos with no editing: captions that transcribe every take with word-by-word highlighting, a teleprompter that turns its own pages as you read aloud, background music that ducks under your voice, a one-click Clean Up Take, hardware that shows up in the pickers the moment you plug it in, and proper support for recording full-screen windows (no more offset cursors or mystery black bars). Long exports got sturdier too, with flat memory at 4K60 and a steady time-remaining countdown.

Highlights:

- Zooms frame the real UI element you clicked or typed in, not a point under the cursor

- Text selections hold as one calm shot, menus frame as menus, and scrolling releases the zoom

- New reframe tool: drag a live yellow frame to redirect any zoom, every adjustment an editable keyframe

- Captions transcribe every take, with word-by-word highlighting

- The teleprompter turns its own pages as you read aloud

- Background music that ducks under your voice, plus one-click Clean Up Take

- Mics, cameras, and monitors appear in the pickers the moment you plug them in

- Full-screen window recordings fixed: no more offset cursors or mystery black bars

- Sturdier long exports: flat memory at 4K60 and a steady time-remaining countdown

A shoutout to Esteban Saborío for putting the previous 0.3.0 release through real use and surfacing a few bugs that were fixed. The recordings that felt wrong were exactly what this version was built from, so if a camera decision still surprises you, always feel free to shoot an email! I am always looking out for feedback :).

Full notes: glideo.app/blog/glideo-0-4-0. Free to download, updates in place.