v1.2 — Saving feedback

Pressing the hotkey now tells you so.

Writing a clip takes several seconds on a long buffer, and until now nothing
appeared on screen until it was finished. The moment you press, a banner comes
up with a short rising chime, and when the work ends it says how it ended.

• A banner and a rising chime the moment you press.
• "Clip saved", with the clip's real length, when the file is written.
• "Not enough footage yet" when you press too soon after launch or a settings
  change, told apart from a clip that was genuinely lost.
• "Clip not saved", with a falling chime, when a save fails. Until now a lost
  clip looked exactly like a saved one: no sound, no banner, nothing at all.

Fixes

• A failing save could delete a finished clip belonging to another save started
  in the same second.
• A save whose muxing never ran could report success on that other save's file.
• The banner is sized from its own text, so its longest label no longer runs off
  the end on a display at 125% or above.

Clip Recorder v1.1

New

Start with Windows. Setup now offers to launch Clip Recorder at sign-in, and
Settings carries the same switch so you can change your mind without
reinstalling. A replay recorder is no use if it is not already running when the
moment happens.

A redesigned settings window. It now opens with what is actually going on —
recording state, encoder, capture method and frame rate — and tells you plainly
what the hotkey does: "Ctrl+Alt+R saves the last 60 seconds", updated as you
change it. Encoder and capture method have left the form; they are facts about
your hardware, not settings you can change.

A save sound of its own. The old chime was the alias Windows also uses for
error dialogs. The new one is lower and shorter, so it registers without cutting
through a game.

A quieter notification. The "Clip saved" banner is now a rounded pill in the
app's own colours, and shows how long the clip is.

Fixed

Orphaned ffmpeg processes could stop capture working entirely. A crashed or
force-killed instance left its ffmpeg alive, holding an NVENC session that
consumer GPUs allow only a handful of. After a few, the app would record nothing
at all, with no error on screen to explain it. Clip Recorder now takes its
capture processes down with it whenever it exits, by any means.

The wrong sound card could be captured. Device matching preferred a loose
name match, so a system output named "Headphones" could select a different
"USB Headphones" card and record the wrong audio, silently.

Uninstall now removes the desktop and startup shortcuts along with the app,
its settings and its log.

Notes

Requires Windows 10 or 11. ClipRecorderSetup.exe is the only download — run
it, pick a folder, and it installs and starts the app.

Clip Recorder v1.0

Replay screen recorder for Windows. It records continuously in the background — press Ctrl+Alt+R to save the last seconds as an MP4.

Features

• Instant replay from 15 to 120 seconds, with system audio and microphone
• GPU-accelerated capture (NVENC + DXGI) up to 240 FPS
• Configurable monitor, FPS, clip length, audio devices and hotkey
• Lives in the system tray: no overlay, no impact on game performance
• Portable: no admin rights, nothing written to the registry
• Uninstall directly from the settings window

Install

Download ClipRecorderSetup.exe below and run it. Pick an install folder, and optionally create a desktop shortcut. Clips are saved to Videos\ClipRecorder by default.

Requires Windows 10 or 11. FFmpeg is bundled — nothing else to install.

Notes

Audio is reconstructed on a real wall-clock timeline, so the sound stays aligned with the picture even when the system audio goes quiet or the capture is restarted. Changing a setting no longer requires waiting for the buffer to refill before saving a clean clip.