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RightBooth version 1.0.18 Released

23/12/2013

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  • Memory usage improvements when capturing images during the recording session.
  • Bug fix. Prevent program crash if a photo size has not been not entered in the Wizard or Settings.
  • Bug fix. Made the 'Stop RightBooth' feature work consistently.
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Improving Video Recording Performance

18/12/2013

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One of the main causes of poor video recording performance is the speed at which your system writes data to the hard disk and very often this is caused by the hard disk itself.  There are a number of things you can try in order to improve hard disk write performance and hence improve the RightBooth video recording performance

De-clutter.  Remove unwanted files and free up some space on the drive. Run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to remove unwanted files.

De-fragment.  Older hard disks can end up having lots of fragmented files.  Try de-fragmenting the disk. Run the Windows Disk De-fragmenter utility or better still, try a free de-fragment utility like Disk Defrag from Auslogics

Write caching.  Run the Windows Device Manager. Open the Disk Drives branch. Right click on your hard disk drive name and select Properties from the popup menu.  On the next panel click on the Policies tab.  Tick the box 'Enable write caching on the disk'.  

To improve performance further also tick 'Enable advanced performance' or 'Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing'.  But please note that whilst these settings will improve disk performance, you will be at risk of data loss should the computer lose power, so in this situation you might need to consider a separate power supply.

If you still find that video recording is struggling to keep up you may need to reduce the recording size and/or reduce the recording frame rate within the RightBooth Settings, which in turn will reduce the amount of data that is written to disk during the recording.

Finally, try turning off any virus scanner applications and also close any other applications that may be running at the same time during the RightBooth recording session.
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RightBooth version 1.0.16 Released

18/12/2013

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The RightBooth software installation now checks to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 4 is installed on the users computer.  If the installation program finds that the .Net Framework is not installed, the user is prompted to download and install it before RightBooth itself can be installed.
  • Bug fix.  Prevented a small memory leak.
  • Bug fix.  Improved the text layout when the system is set to large font mode.

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RightBooth version 1.0.15 Released

16/12/2013

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  • Added the ability to alter all text prompts shown during the session.  This allows for modifying the instructions or for presenting all the instructions in a different language.  Also provides support for right to left languages such as Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
  • Bug fix.  Dont show the video/photo selection buttons when the input mode is set to either 'Spacebar' or 'Button'.

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RightBooth version 1.0.14 Released

12/12/2013

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  • Improved the 'countdown to recording' numbers.
  • Added the option to turn off the 'countdown to recording' beeps
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RightBooth version 1.0.12 Released

10/12/2013

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  • Added the option to begin video recording at the start or end of the 3 second countdown.
  • Added options to change the foreground and background colour of the countdown text prompts.
  • Added the option to show video/photo selection buttons during the recording session when in Mouse or Touchscreen input mode.

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Hiding Your Windows Taskbar

1/12/2013

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We recently received some customer feedback informing us that the RightBooth recording session was not completely filling their screen and that they were seeing a "mysterious grey bar along the bottom".

This was due to their taskbar settings.

To ensure that your Windows Taskbar does not cause you the same issue you need to modify some of your taskbar properties to force it to hide, as follows:

  • Right click on your taskbar.
  • Select Properties from the popup menu
  • Untick 'Lock the taskbar'
  • Tick 'Auto-hide the taskbar'  
  • Untick 'Keep the taskbar on top of other windows'  

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RightBooth version 1.0.11 Released

1/12/2013

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This version now allows you to select two recording sizes in the Setup Wizard, one for videos and one for photos.
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