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Opal Composer 2.0.0
Released on December 11, 2024 Download
Tadpole Firmware 7.2
Firmware install (web-based)
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Newly Added 🎉
- Decorations! (OPA-3499)
- Revised and expanded menu items for formatting and layout (OPA-3630)
- Larger sidebar module (OPA-3631)
Improvements ✨
- Improvements to Sequoia Onboarding (OPA-3714)
- Clock Decoration (OPA-3642)
- Ticker Decoration (OPA-3677)
- Updated color space reference across the decoration pipeline
- Timer Decoration (OPA-3676)
- Decorations and Backgrounds modules disable when there is no camera connected (OPA-3662)
- Update Opal Yellow accent color used by macOS (OPA-3670)
- Decorations module is now 2 rows with improved spacing (OPA-3661)
- Rename Hello My Name Is to Intro (OPA-3666)
- Add Reset Rotation menu item for all decorations (OPA-3649)
- Add vertical flip option available via menu item or holding the Option key, matches macOS convention (OPA-3601)
Bug Fixes 🐛
- Fix deleting decorations by drag (OPA-3707)
- Auto select preset name field text (OPA-3584)
- Fix for older cameras without error (OPA-3703)
- Fixes Format menu with Decorations (OPA-3704)
- Fixes Intro Preset File
- OPA-3684: Dynamically choose recording codec
- Fixes around a rare crash when connecting to a C1 after a previous connection had failed (OPA-3713) may fix other C1 crash on connect issues also.
- Prevent alert and race conditions when recording stops (OPA-3695)
- Updated help links (OPA-3679)
- Add rotate left/right menu items (OPA-3659)
- Allow flipping decorations during edit (OPA-3686)
- Update the onboarding check for FW per QA find (OPA-3649)
- Fix crash when input devices change during recording setup (OPA-3652)
- Prevent crash when trying to connect to input devices (OPA-3653)
- Properly disable Attach to Face menu item (OPA-3628)
- Prevent a crash when closing a recording session (OPA-3687)
- Remove SF Pro Expanded font choice for text decorations due to kerning issues (OPA-3522)
- Rename mirroring to flip to match macOS conventions (OPA-3656)
- Optimize video performance and memory usage on macOS Sonoma (OPA-3499)
- Address rare crash in the camera extension (OPA-3619)
- Bug fixes when using filters, and performance improvements both with and without them (OPA-3431)
- Fix Sparkle Channel name for Beta (OPA-3730)
- Fix for camera turning back on after being off (OPA-3736)
Known Issues ⚠️
- Resizing some decorations can have problems if done quickly or to odd scales for the decoration.
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Opal Composer 1.4.4
Released on June 26, 2024 Download
This is an important update to ensure macOS compatibility.
Bug Fixes
- Prevent macOS Sonoma camera menu bar extra from showing when video is turned off (OPA-3646)
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Opal Composer 1.4.3
Released on May 20, 2024 Download
This is a quick update to ensure hardware compatibility, along with a dash of polish as always.
Improvements
- Show a connected tooltip for the camera in top bar (OPA-3523)
- Version text is now selectable in the About screen (OPA-3624)
- Add Internet Access Policy for Little Snitch network monitoring (OPA-3538)
Bug Fixes
- Resolve rare issue with macOS and certain hardware not correctly recognizing cameras in Composer (OPA-3621)
- Disable or hide Recording window menu items during onboarding (OPA-3462)
- Fix circle alignment in the recording timer on 1x displays (OPA-3600)
- Update dependencies including Sparkle for security fixes
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Opal Composer 1.4.2
Released on May 20, 2024 Download
We’re going with the tried and true for this one… “bug fixes and improvements”.
Improvements
- Join our Composer beta testing community from the Help menu (OPA-3543)
- When adding or removing a background via the menu the sidebar module updates (OPA-3596)
Bug Fixes
- Improved stability when recording video (OPA-3613, OPA-3614, OPA-3615, OPA-3616)
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Opal Composer 1.4.1
Released on April 29, 2024 Download
While we continue working on new surprises please enjoy a batch of useful bug fixes and performance improvements for both Composer and Tadpole.
Newly Added
- Tadpole Firmware 7.2 (OPA-3554) [also available via web-upgrade with Dr. Opal]
- Improved power usage
- Fixed manual focus
Improvements
- Quickly switch to the Defaults preset with keyboard shortcut Shift + Cmd + D (OPA-3585)
- Sticker trash animates when hovered (OPA-3539)
- When a sidebar module is turned off it collapses automatically (OPA-3582)
- Add link to our privacy policy in onboarding and General settings (OPA-3531)
- Add link to our Help Center in onboarding and menu bar (OPA-3592)
- Send Feedback opens our online support portal instead of using email directly (OPA-3544)
- Opal Composer support for [also available via web-upgrade with Dr. Opal] URLs (OPA-3575)
Bug Fixes
- Reset white balance values when switching back to Auto (OPA-3550)
- Restart video service automatically to prevent frozen video (OPA-3581)
- Ignore errors for loops that are too short (OPA-3563)
- Prevent rare case when a camera might be not detected (OPA-3604)
- Reduced size of download and installed app by cleaning up unused items (OPA-3570)
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Opal Composer 1.4.0
Released on April 1, 2024 Download
With this new release Tadpole is receiving a substantial update that brings improved image and audio quality. In addition we’ve focused on the core video pipeline, adopting the same camera extension technology to power Composer’s camera view for consistency, performance, and stability. Plus you’ll find a healthy dose of polish across the board.
Newly Added
- Tadpole Firmware 7.0 (OPA-3459) - Web Upgrade
- All new auto exposure
- Revised auto white balance
- VisiMic output is now mono center channel
- Show a progress bar on Composer’s Dock icon when updating firmware (OPA-3473)
- Show a warning before quitting when recording or in use by another app (OPA-3471)
- Add a resizing control to the sticker editor’s tray (OPA-3490)
Improvements
- Renovated Video Architecture
- Converted camera view to use AVKit and our camera extension (OPA-3409)
- GPU and CPU performance improvements (OPA-3420)
- Stability improvements (OPA-3498, OPA-3525, OPA-3552, OPA-3537)
- No longer show an alert when switching resolutions if only Composer is active (OPA-3410)
- Zebra Lines hide and show automatically when a sticker is selected (OPA-3466)
- Font names are shown on their sticker editing tooltips (OPA-3482)
- Sticker trash now animates in from the top (OPA-3504)
Bug Fixes
- Sticker resizing now respects the aspect ratio of selected item (OPA-3481)
- Layout improvements for sidebar and Pro controls (OPA-3449, OPA-3497)
- Prevent incorrect update in-progress error dialog (OPA-3480)
- Hero video speeds up on camera connect again (OPA-3485)
- Selected white balance color updates more reliably now (OPA-3488)
- Updated text copy (OPA-3479, OPA-3511, OPA-3512, OPA-3513)
- Screen and video recording improvements on Intel machines (OPA-3511)
- Video no longer freezes on Sonoma due to macOS gestures processing (OPA-3551)
- No longer crash when an audio recording device is disconnected in some circumstances (OPA-3530)
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