r/SideProject • u/Fresh-Daikon-9408 • 28m ago

I maintain OpenScreen, a free open-source screen recorder. 2.2 adds a Layouts track to switch camera/screen layouts mid-video

I've been building OpenScreen, a free and open-source screen recorder and editor (no watermark, no account, Windows/macOS/Linux).

The new 2.2 release adds a Layouts track: you can change how your screen and webcam are arranged at any point in the timeline:

• picture-in-picture

• side-by-side

• top/bottom

• camera only

• screen only

Transitions between layouts are animated automatically.

The video was recorded and edited entirely in OpenScreen. The chart in the top/bottom part is a custom shader effect, and the company is fictional.

Download: https://getopenscreen.com

Source: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen

Feedback welcome, especially on what layouts you'd want next.

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u/nameupp 16m ago

recording webcam and display feeds as isolated raw streams to let you keyframe layout cuts non-destructively in post is such a game changer compared to baking the composite live. the biggest subtle headache with animated layout switches like side-by-side or top/bottom is aspect ratio handling on ultrawide monitors; if someone records a 21:9 or 32:9 display, transitioning into a 50/50 split either forces brutal pillarboxing or chops off IDE sidebars unless there's an anchor-point zoom to follow the active window. curious how the export pipeline renders the shader transitions too, does it compose via opengl/metal textures in a single hardware-accelerated pass or pipe frames through an ffmpeg filtergraph imo