Bring back partial screen record recording
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Joe Rinaldi Johnson
Screen recording is a huge part of my day job. I used to be able to select part of the screen to record. You've just removed that. Why? It's a bizarre decision. I don't want to record only the full screen or a tab. I have two tabs open and I want to switch between them, but I don't want to show on my whole menu bar - you're forcing me to show visual mess or worse have to go and edit the whole thing afterwards. What a waste of time.
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Bradley Taylor
I deeply miss this ability from the old screen recorder, and removing this feature in the new screen recorder hurts my workflow greatly. I use an extra-wide monitor. I used to be able to customise the screen recording area to just use the portion of the screen that was relevant to the recording, and had supporting applications that I could drag in to that recording space during a recording as needed and move them out of the recording space when not needed. The added benefit is that sensitive info or other irrelevant content is moved out of the recording space on the monitor saving annoying editing or blurring later.
Recording a whole wide screen window is very hard for the end-user and viewer of the video to see things at that resolution. It's basically unusable.
This was a really strong point of difference provided by Descript to other screen recorders and it's a great shame it's been removed. Loom offers this feature in the desktop app and I'm reluctantly considering moving over there at this point.
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Marketing Team
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Thank you so much for the feedback. We're currently scoping this work.
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Willis Aybar
Its not only Partial screen recording, I just attempted to move my face around, and couldn't. That feature is also gone now. My face was on my first monitor while the screen recording was on the second monitor. Man revert this push. this is not it.
Canny AI
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New Screen Recording feature is not intuitive and makes me hate this app
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Willis Aybar
Before I could just select the Descript logo on the top of the screen, select quick recording, drag the mouse over the area, press record and in less than 5 seconds I was off to the races... now this new look has launched, without having the screen area selection (WHY?!) and there so much more options to choose from vs the ease that already existed. WHY was this updated?! WHO asked for this?! This is literally the ONLY reason I use on this app!!!