Camo
release notes

Today's update for Camo brings a couple of minor bug fixes. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix: We've fixed a rare crash that some users were seeing when getting set up with Camo Studio on their Mac for the first time.
• Fix: We've fixed a bug which led to us showing the wrong zoom level for some telephoto lenses.

Today's update brings Camo's high quality audio support to Camo Studio for Windows, and also makes it easier to use the open beta of Camo on Android which we launched last week. If you'd like to try Camo on Android then click here to install it!

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Camo Studio now supports audio from iOS devices, and lets you can choose between the different microphones on your devices. (Audio is not yet available for Android devices, we're working on it and it will be added to the Android beta soon.)

• Improvement It's now easier to use Camo Studio with the Android Camo beta. If you're on the Android beta you'll no longer need to activate Camo Studio in order to use all our pro features.

• Fix This release also includes an experimental fix for a rare issue which was causing other video applications to crash when streaming video from Camo Studio.

Today's update for Camo Studio fixes a couple of important bugs and also includes some changes behind the scenes in preparation for our next major update. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed a bug when using Camo with Teams or Skype which sometimes meant that Camo would not appear in the list of cameras.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which occasionally led to Camo disconnecting when panning the video or changing settings quickly.

Today's update brings some substantial performance improvements to Camo Studio, and a wide variety of bug fixes. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We've overhauled how Camo Studio handles video from the phone in order to significantly improve Camo Studio's performance. This means that if you have a graphics card Camo Studio will now make better use of it, and we've also fixed a bug which meant that a Camo Studio ran slowly for some users with powerful computers.

• Improvement If Camo Studio does briefly get behind processing video it should now catch up again within seconds.

• Improvement Whenever Camo Studio shows a popup window the text in the window should now be available to screen reading software.

• Improvement To communicate with Apple devices Camo Studio relies on a service provided by Apple, Camo is now able to start that service if it is not running.

• Improvement We've simplified what Camo Studio adds to the start menu.

• Improvement We've added an option in the "Advanced" menu to let you select Camo Studio's log level.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that video from Camo Studio would appear upside down in OBS Studio.

• Fix We've made a couple of changes to the DirectShow filter Camo Studio uses to communicate with video apps to ensure Studio supports as many apps as possible. (This involves giving the filter a DevicePath and properly implementing the GetPages method.)

• Fix We've fixed a bug which led to video being played in fast-forward after Camo Studio's video was paused by another app.

• Fix We've fixed a crash which happened when Camo Studio had difficulty downloading the service it needs to communicate with Apple devices.

• Fix We've fixed a minor UI bug which led to a couple of buttons in Camo Studio being the wrong colour.

• Fix We've fixed a rare crash which happened when Camo Studio attempted to communicate with video apps.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that if you changed the resolution for one device it would change the saved resolution for all other devices.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which led to Camo Studio leaving a file in your "Downloads" folder after installing the service it needs to communicate with Apple devices.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which occasionally led an error being shown when updating Camo Studio.

• Fix We've fixed a rare crash when updating Camo Studio.

• Fix We've fixed a rare crash when opening Camo Studio.

• Fix We've fixed a rare crash which happens when Camo Studio looks for Android devices.

Today's update to Camo Studio fixes a few minor bugs related to licensing and using Camo with Android devices. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement If your Camo license expires we'll now show you a popup in Camo Studio to let you know.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which prevented Camo Studio from going back to the default settings after your license expired.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which was causing video to stutter when an additional device was connected to your Mac.

Today's update to Camo Studio bring a few minor bug fixes to support the latest version of the Camo for Android beta. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant that the exposure and white balance controls would be disabled when using the latest version of the Camo Android beta.
• Fix Some HP devices were being detected as possible Android phones, we've fixed that.
• Fix We've fixed a minor UI issue with the create preset window.

We're excited to be releasing a new update for Camo Studio which brings full support for macOS 12 Shortcuts, preparation for our Camo on Android beta, and a number of important bug fixes.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature Camo Studio now supports macOS 12 Shortcuts! We've added Shortcuts for getting and setting the current device, lens, resolution, mode, brightness, and all the other effects and adjustments offered by Camo. Let us know what you think, we're really excited to see what you'll come up with!
• Feature Added support for connecting to Android devices. To connect to an Android device you'll need version 0.9.2 of Camo for Android, which we'll be releasing in the next few days. If you've not been added to the beta yet, don't worry, sign ups are still open!
• Feature We've completed work on VoiceOver support, every part of Camo Studio should now be fully accessible with Apple's VoiceOver screen reader. We're always keen to make Camo Studio as accessible as possible, please let us know if you have any feedback and if there's any way Studio's accessibility can be improved.
• Improvement If we detect any potential problems with Camo Studio such as your phone being connected via a USB hub we'll now show you a warning and guide you in fixing it.
• Improvement We've tweaked Camo Studio's installation process to give you the option of deferring installation of our audio plugin to prevent interrupting your audio.
• Improvement Camo Studio now detects when it's uninstalled, and can automatically remove its own plugin.
• Improvement After updating to a new version of Camo Studio we'll now let you know if you need to restart any video apps to complete the installation.
• Improvement We've made it easier to ensure you're running the right version of our audio and video plugins after updating Camo Studio.
• Fix Added our friends at Clipchamp to our list of supported apps.
• Fix We've fixed a bug which meant you had to enter your password twice when updating Camo Studio.
• Fix We've fixed a problem with installing Camo Studio on macOS 12 beta 3. We're aware of some issues remaining with uninstalling Camo Studio on macOS 12 beta 3, and we're optimistic that they'll be fixed in beta 4.
• Fix We've fixed a couple of rare crashes which a couple of our users saw when updating or opening Camo Studio.
• Fix Fixed a minor UI bug in the toolbar on macOS High Sierra.

We're excited today to be releasing a new update for Camo Studio which brings fresh new look for the app, a couple of important bug fixes, and a brand new icon! If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We've given the entire app a fresh lick of paint, making the interface bolder and clearer. We hope you love it!
• Improvement Camo Studio now has a new icon, designed by our incredibly talented friend, Gavin Nelson.
• Fix We've fixed an issue which was causing Camo Studio to use a little more CPU than it should do on certain devices.
• Fix We've fixed a couple more rare crashes involved in looking for Android devices running Camo.

We're excited today to be releasing a new update for Camo Studio which not only brings a number of bugfixes but also a brand new icon for the app!

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature From today's release, both Camo and Camo Studio share a new icon, designed by our incredibly talented friend, Gavin Nelson. We hope you love it!
• Feature We now change Camo's status bar icon in order to show whether the video from Camo is currently being used in a video app.
• Feature Portrait mode can now be added to your custom presets.
• Feature Always stay on top. Camo Studio now sports an option to ensure its window remains on top of your desktop.
• Feature Window transparency. You can now put make Studio partially transparent, making it more powerful when reading to camera with speaking notes behind the main window.
• Improvement We made some changes to the menus to ensure that all of Camo's features are always at your fingertips. This includes adding camera and video controls to the advanced menu.
• Improvement Added support for many more video apps.
• Fix We've fixed an issue with audio recording on M1 Macs.
• Fix Fixed a crash when opening links from the help window.
• Fix Fixed an issue which was preventing the trackpad from being used to zoom, and made general improvements to zoom and panning.
• Fix Fixed an issue which led to Camo's menu bar sometimes being unresponsive.
• Fix Fixed a rare crash for users with particularly unusual machines!

Today's update fixes a rare crash we saw in 1.0.3.4791. If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix Fixed a rare crash which occurs when looking for Android devices running Camo.

Today's update to Camo brings the first of some significant performance improvements planned for the next few versions of Camo and support for the new version of our Android beta!

• Feature Added support for connecting to Android devices over USB. If you've not been added to the beta yet, don't worry, sign ups are still open! (This update brings significant changes to how we communicate with Android devices, you'll need to update Camo Android to version 0.9.0 to continue testing.)
• Feature Added screen curtain controls to the "Advanced" menu.
• Feature Added the option in the "Advanced" menu to disable hardware video decoding.
• Improvement We've made a change to improve the performance of Camo on certain computers. This is only the first step in a significant number of performance improvements coming to Camo, if you experience any issues please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com.

Today's update to Camo fixes a few little issues and paves the way for some exciting updates. More on that soon!

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Improvement We've made a lot of changes under the hood to how Camo communicates with your computer.
• Fix We've reduced flickering when changing between lenses and modes.
• Fix We've resolved a bug which led to slower connection times for some users.
• Fix We resolved a really odd issue where enabling portrait mode whilst using 192x144 could cause oddities.

Today’s update fixes an issue where Camo could be slow to connect for some users.

• Fix Camo should now connect much more rapidly. We hope this wasn’t affecting you.

It's important that Camo Studio uses as few resources on your Mac as possible. Camo Studio 1.3.3 resolves some performance issues.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix Resolved an issue where Camo's camera plugin could cause some apps to use more CPU than necessary.

This Camo Studio update fixes a crash that some users on older Macs were experiencing.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

We hope you're enjoying Camo 1.3! Today's update comes with some further performance improvements.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Fix Fixed a rare crash when "Record Logs" is enabled.

After lots of hard work, we're thrilled to be releasing Camo Studio 1.3, which brings with it many more highly-requested features and builds the foundation for even more.

If you run into any problems, please reach out to us at support@reincubate.com. We'd love to help and hear from you.

• Feature We now support 11 languages! We're excited to have translations for speakers of Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
• Feature Introduced in Camo 1.3, we now turn off your device's screen automatically when it is mounted to conserve power. In Camo Studio, you can now adjust this in Advanced settings.
• Feature You can now export the current video frame displayed in Camo! Look in the File menu.
• Improvement We've completely redesigned the screens shown in video apps when your device wasn't connected.
• Improvement We have added more apps to our Integrations section, including Tuple and Facebook Workplace. We've also updated the information for existing apps, such as Webex (which we now support!)
• Improvement We've changed how Camo Studio behaves when you accidentally launch another version, to avoid interruptions to your video.
• Improvement We have been working hard on performance improvements and building out the foundation for some of our most requested features!
• Improvement We've done a minor reorganisation of some of our controls for consistency across the app.
• Improvement Camo Studio should now use even less resources when not in use.
• Fix We've resolved an issue where clicking on the image to focus could fail.
• Fix Camo Studio could crash if another app had already reserved its hotkey. We now handle that better.
• Fix We've resolved an issue where the window title could display incorrectly.
• Fix For some users, Camo Studio might have been shy and hid behind other windows. It will now come to the front, like other apps!
• Fix We've made some changes to better support the upcoming macOS 11.3 update.
• Fix We've fixed an issue where some sliders with manual entry might have rudely given up on you while you were typing.
• Fix We've also made some smaller bug fixes.

It's important to us that Camo doesn't just make you look better than any webcam, but also that it makes the most of your iPhone's amazing cameras. This build includes a small change to how we handle the video from your phone, to ensure that the colours are just right.

• Improvement We've tweaked the settings Camo Studio uses when handling video to ensure the colours are just right. (For all our technical video fans out there, this involved a tweak to the colour space used when decoding video.)
• Improvement Camo Studio is now built to run natively on 64-bit computers.

This is a minor update to fix a couple of issues we saw in 1.0.1.4250.

• Fix We've fixed a couple of rare crashes some users saw when Camo Studio first connects to their phone.
• Fix We found an unusual sequence of events which could prevent "Reset Settings" from working. That's fixed now.

We're excited to be releasing a new update for Camo Studio Windows, which brings support for custom watermarks and a bunch of smaller bug fixes.

• Feature Custom watermarks have come to Windows! 🎉
• Improvement We've tweaked how we display release notes announcing our updates in Camo Studio to make them clearer.
• Improvement Thanks to some helpful feedback from one of our users, we've made a couple of small tweaks to the text used by screen readers.
• Improvement The UI around license activation has been cleaned up a little.
• Fix We've fixed a bug where it could be difficult to read error messages when attempting to log in.
• Fix Camo will no longer crash if you've run out of disk space. Although you've probably got other things to worry about if that happens!
• Fix We've resolved some bugs around license deactivation.
• Fix We've also fixed a couple of unusual crashes seen by a handful of users.
• Fix There was a minor UI issue for users running a very old version of Camo on their iPhone. We've fixed that.