FrameOS

What’s new
in FrameOS.

New features and improvements to recording, editing and sharing with FrameOS.

1.19Feature updateFrameOS for macOS

Build your scene with less guesswork.

A redesigned Scene sidebar makes it easier to find what you need, see how your recording will look and make it your own. Move your camera and device freely, add a looping video background and export with clearer choices.

Find your way around Scene.

Choose your canvas, arrange your device and camera, then add artwork in a clearer order. Larger illustrated layout choices, grouped settings and clearer Back buttons help you see what each option does. A live scene preview brings your sources and styling together.

Place your device and camera anywhere.

Choose a layout or switch to Free on canvas. Drag and resize your device and camera, overlap them, choose which sits in front or extend them beyond the canvas edges. Your placement carries through to the exported video.

Bring your background to life.

Pick a colour directly in Canvas, or choose an image or video from your Mac. Video backgrounds fill the canvas, play silently and loop throughout your recording. Use the + button for the full colour palette, custom colours and the eyedropper.

Give logos and artwork a place.

Let an image follow your layout, move it freely or pin it to a corner, edge or the centre. Add borders and rounded corners, place it in front of or behind your content, and use a shared gap to keep the spacing consistent.

Clearer controls from setup to export.

Video and screenshot editing now share clearer headings, larger clickable controls and consistent buttons. Export starts with your current canvas dimensions, with other sizes up to 4K and easier access to quality, codec and frame rate settings.

Navigate busy edits more easily.

A roomier filmstrip, clearer colours for different edits and smoother pinch-to-zoom make short scenes, zooms and overlays easier to work with. Mute the preview while editing without changing the sound in your export.

Trim with a clear reference.

Keep the blue playhead visible while adjusting your trim, or move either trim edge straight to it. When trimming removes scenes, privacy masks or zooms, FrameOS explains which edits will be removed or shortened before you apply the change.

Also improved

  • Add a connected device to a camera-only scene without rebuilding your canvas, background, camera or microphone setup.
  • Canvas formats now include destination hints, including YouTube and Twitch for landscape, and Reels, TikTok and Shorts for vertical video.
  • Camera shadows and glow now go up to 300%, with denser shadows and a brighter halo. Camera-only size previews show the camera without an unrelated device silhouette.
  • Reopening Scene returns you to the panel you were using, making it easier to pick up where you left off.
  • Canvas previews more closely match the main canvas, including rounded corners and camera styling.
  • Clear rectangular selection outlines, square corner handles and more reliable cursors make moving and resizing sources easier.
  • Video backgrounds stay separate from microphone and device audio. Saved recordings keep their own copy of the background movie, so moving the original file won’t break the saved recording.
  • Filmstrip thumbnails now include the composed scene and video background, including camera-only recordings.
  • Saving a trim immediately updates the filmstrip, ruler and playhead to the video you kept, even while thumbnails refresh. Reopen Trim to readjust the original footage.
  • Scrubbing no longer starts a new sidebar preview decode for every pointer movement. Preview requests cancel when they are no longer needed, and interrupted trims release the scrub controls.
  • Cancelling a take keeps a healthy camera preview running. If the feed stalls, FrameOS makes bounded reconnect attempts to the same selected camera, including Continuity Camera and external cameras.
  • Taller Zoom and overlay transition choices give their preview stills and labels more room, keeping the complete scene visible.
  • More reliable microphone level monitoring when switching an input off and back on, with safer cleanup between sessions.
  • Tighter preview buffering and image-cache limits reduce unnecessary memory retention during long sessions. Device-frame artwork loads as needed.
  • Save Diagnostic Logs includes current and peak memory use alongside a rolling history of up to 30 minutes covering recording, editing, imports, playback and export.
  • Expanded interaction analytics cover app controls, sidebar navigation, recording actions and device models to help us improve FrameOS.
1.18Feature updateFrameOS for macOS

More control over every scene.

Choreograph your camera and device, give your camera a look of its own, and keep recording through the pauses. This update brings more control to both the take and the edit.

Scene transitions, your way.

Start with a motion preset, preview it on your own footage and scrub through the movement before applying it. Set the camera and device’s direction, path, fade, scale, timing and easing independently, with a reset when you want to start again. Familiar effects such as Pixel Reveal are still there, too.

Make your camera part of the design.

Style circle, square and rectangular camera feeds with a border, adjustable thickness, shadow and glow. New camera scenes keep your recorded camera style by default, and circle and square sizes now stay proportional to the space on your canvas.

Preview privacy effects on your actual canvas.

Blur, pixelate and solid masks now use a snapshot of your canvas in their previews. Clearer style and strength controls, alongside a larger animation preview with pause and replay, make it easier to see what you’re choosing.

Pause a take. Pick up where you left off.

Pause and resume into one recording, with the timer frozen while you’re paused. Resume prepares your capture sources before the countdown starts. Afterwards, trim or remove individual recorded sections in the filmstrip, with edge grips and a single Undo step for each trim.

Choose your microphone in FrameOS.

Select a connected microphone or follow your system default directly from Setup. FrameOS remembers your choice, shows when an input is unavailable and warns if a recording didn’t save the requested microphone audio, while keeping your video.

Also improved

  • Smoother playback and export across short gaps between recorded sections, keeping the last camera or device picture visible.
  • Last-frame previews stay visible when you reopen a recording or seek to the end.
  • Resizing scenes and overlays keeps their settings sidebar open, and scene selection places the playhead at the scene’s first visible frame.
  • More compact scene labels and transition buttons, with options to fill the surrounding gap or keep a scene’s start and extend only its end.
  • Device bezel selection uses a consistent design in Setup and the video editor.
  • Better matching for iPhone Duo screens and bezels, plus more reliable camera placement in Device Native recordings.
1.17ImprovementsFrameOS for macOS

A steadier recording preview.

A focused update to preview proportions and connected-device selection.

Improvements and fixes

  • The incoming screen keeps its aspect ratio when recording begins, fixing a preview crop that could persist throughout an iPhone Duo take.
  • Cached iPhone entries are checked against current USB connections, so disconnected devices don’t reappear in the device list.
  • The preview recovery notice can be dismissed without changing your scene, and a new failure can still show a fresh notice.

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