RightBooth Release Notes

This page lists the complete feature release history of RightBooth
7.7.8 - 28/11/21

• Use the latest Canon DSLR SDK
• Improvements made to event screen transitions.  Details
• Fix: The Package Installer correctly installs any 'Copy Files' settings
• Fix: Prevent an app crash when it is running with a non English language and the event does not include the 'Thank you' screen
• Fix: The DSLR ISO setting now works for all Canon models

7.7.7 - 22/11/21

• Fix: Allow the app to automatically stop the video recording when the maximum recording time is reached and the maximum recording time is the same as the minimum recording time
• Fix: The app no longer crashes when emailing videos that require video post processing
• Fix: The Package installer now alters the paths to the following external files: overlay images, greenscreen images and video enhancement files

7.7.6 - 18/11/21

• Fix: Allow ipV4 address to appear in Settings
• Fix: Internet check now working

7.7.0 to 7.7.5 - 15/11/21

• Add the 'Sharing station' event type and the new 'Media browser' event screen.  Details
• Add MEDIADATE and MEDIATIME text variables to allow for showing the file date and/or time of the chosen media on the 'Media browser' event screen
• Add Video backgrounds to the Event Wizard
• Add themed video backgrounds to the Media Library
• Add options to allow event screen background video and audio files to continue playing across consecutive screens
• Allow grid items to appear on event screen animations
• Improvements made to the GoPro connectivity and file transfer routines
• Add GoPro setting 'GoPro WiFi Watchdog' to ensure the PC remains connected to the GoPro WiFi network at all times
• Video thumbnails now appear on the Media Library file selector panel
• Shadows now added to buttons if chosen in the Event Wizard
• Grid frames are now drawn on top of the grid items
• Add 'Local web server' settings in RightBooth Settings --> Social Media
• Add WEBSERVERIP text variable to allow you to reference the computer's ipV4 address (from Settings) in QR codes and label items
• Add WEBSERVERROOT text variable to allow you to reference the local web server root folder (recommended: WampServer)
• Add the Print copies text box option to the Print copies event screen
• Text item content can now be justified Top left, Top center or Top right
• Increase the maximum permitted gap between keyboard and keypad buttons to 50
• Add pre-defined example print layouts to the Media Library
• Simplified the Print layout selection process.  All layouts are now presented for selection
• Add 2x6 aspect ratio to the print layout design size choices
• Add the 'Enter' key as an option for the 'Single keyboard key' and 'Multiple keyboard keys' settings
• Allow the 'Enter' key, 'Space' key and any of the function keys F1 to F12 to be used as a keyboard key press option to move on from the Start screen
• Fix: Generate the selected print layout regardless of whether the event screen contains the current print layout image item
• Fix: Include Video Enhancement files in the Event Packager
• Fix: Remove the webcam mic warning when starting to play an event that uses the GoPro camera
• Fix: A RightBooth product code will now be removed from the Licensing Server when removing the code from a computer. This will allow the code to be used on another computer​

​7.7.1

• Screen transitions are now more consistent with showing paused video items on outgoing screens
• Fix: Reset video sequence items prior to reshowing them on event screens in order to prevent briefly seeing their previous content
• Fix: Image and video files selected from outside the Media Library are now added to event screens

7.7.2

• Fix: First number in a Countdown now always animates correctly
• Fix: First voice in a Countdown now always plays at the correct time

7.7.3

• Fix: Allow the Print Tasks screen background to be altered when it is accessed from the 'Reprint photos' click action in the Screen editor
• Fix: Show the Print layout library sub folders when adding print layouts into the Print layout item in the Screen editor

7.7.4

• Fix: Print templates correctly redrawn if swapped with the Print layout item

7.7.5

• Fix: Allow watch folder to be changed from the default
• Fix: Prevent long delay before starting the app when PC is connected to a router but not to the Internet

7.6.36 & 37 - 06/10/21

• Add the 'Access code' feature. Details
• Include error reporting for the primary printer. Depends on the manufacturer's printer driver implementation
• Fix: Event Wizard now shows the correct steps in all circumstances

7.6.34 & 35 - 26/09/21

• Modify the event flow to allow User defined screens to be shown during play mode when the screens have been positioned after the Video and Photo Show/Options screens and before the Thank you screen in the Screen Editor screen list. Previously, user defined screens in this position could be ignored in certain event flow scenarios.  In this situation, when photo events require more than one photo per user, any user defined screens will be shown after all the photos have been taken.
• When defining a 'Show screen' action, prevent typing a screen name that doesn't exist in the Event Screen List
• Change the 'when to perform file copy actions' default setting from 'Show screen' to 'After creating'
• Fix: File copy actions are now performed consistently in all event flow scenarios
• Fix: 'Capture screen' feature now working correctly​

7.6.33 - 17/09/21

• Fix: When video file copying is required and the video file copy action is set to 'After completion', files are now copied at the end of the user event flow
• Fix: Allow reference images to be captured for webcam green screen

7.6.32 - 12/09/21

• Allow Video enhancement segments text box to accept the comma character as a decimal point
• Add a warning in DSLR settings when camera is set to take overly large photos

7.6.31 - 01/09/21

• Fix: Allow the Countdown screen to show for every photo when the 'Get ready' screen is not included in the event flow

7.6.28 thru 30 - 27/08/21

• Add the option to include RightBooth Settings when creating an event package
• The Voice Recognition Test (in Settings) now shows rejected words that do not match any in the word list.
• Multi-line label objects on event screens can now be used to hold a list of alternatively recognised words for spoken commands.  Details
• Fix: Include any optional print layout files in an Event Package
• Fix: Prevent duplication of rows in the Folders table in Settings --> Folders/Files
• Fix: Allow the print layout to be copied to other folders in all event design configurations

7.6.27 - 15/08/21

• Add the 'Record audio' checkbox in RightBooth Settings --> Cameras --> Webcam audio
• Allow .wav files to be used as the audio track in Video Enhancements
• Add the QR code item to the 'Add items' panel in the Screen Editor
• Add the 'Choose when to perform file copy actions' options in Event Designer --> Event files/folders
• Fix: Prevent the outro video being clipped when the video recording length is less than the outro video length
• Fix: Allow the Event Wizard to complete when choosing the GoPro camera in the final step of the Wizard

7.6.25 & 26 - 14/07/21

• Add support for GoPro cameras (wireless connection): recording videos and taking photos
• Add the GOPROBATTERY text variable to show GoPro battery percentage on event screens
• Modifications to the on-screen keyboard:

  - Shift key now acts as a permanent toggle between upper and lower case characters
  - Backspace key moved to the top row
  - Swap positions of '@' and '.' keys
  - Move the Enter key up one button row
  - Add '.com' button on bottom row
  - Add extra characters to alternate keyboards: ° ® ©

• Add the MP4 Conversion Speed setting to help reduce the time to convert videos
• Add ◄ and ► keys to the list of keys available to be used as action keys
• Canon and Nikon cameras will now reconnect to the app if they lose/regain power while the app is running
• Improvements made to all DSLR video crop, rotate and resize functions to provide more consistency between camera models
• Video enhancement processing time has been reduced
• Numerous improvements made to the 'Watch folder' event mode, especially when combined with the 'Video enhancement' features
• The maximum video recording time can now be set to 2 secs or greater (previously it was 5 secs or greater)

Fixed:

• Add various event screens to the Screen Designer list that were previously missing when editing a 'Watch folder' event
• Email Tasks now reference the correct video file names if videos are set to be converted to MP4 or MOV
• Video enhancements no longer crash the app when used in certain combinations
• The 'Current print count' value is now retained between sessions
• Videos could occasionally appear pixellated when playing on a second monitor
• Event screens could appear incorrectly with a slight X-Y offset
• Various fixes when using Nikon cameras with greenscreen, overlays and props​

7.6.20 thru 24 - 11/06/21

• Relaxed the tolerance on corner touches for escaping the playing event

Fix: ISO and white balance settings are now applied to the DSLR camera when using the 'Play current event' Start setting
Fix: Using a DSLR to record video answers in a Question event now working consistently
7.6.16 thru 19 - 04/06/21

• Allow arrow selectors to appear on more event screens when the User Input mode is set to 'Single key' or 'USB button'
• Improvements made to the voice recognition system:

1. Use Single mode rather than Multiple mode recognition
2. Add background noise filtering
3. Ignore more 'false positive' recognitions
4. Improve single word recognition
5. Improve the recognition of phrases comprising the same or similar words

• Bug fix: Video questions now allow users to record video answers
• Bug fix: Prevent crash when using the 'Process videos in background' setting while recording video answers
• Bug fix: All video answers are now post processed
• Bug fix: Prevent the package report showing erroneous 'Missing file' warning messages when packing a Question event

7.6.15 - 15/05/21

• The new 'Watch folder' event type is now fully implemented

7.6.14 - 12/05/21

• RightBooth Standard and Professional products are now merged into the single product: RightBooth

7.6.12 - 08/05/21

• Bug fix: Move the camera item off the top of the 'Get ready' and 'Countdown' screens when creating Mirror booth events
• Bug fix: Prevent app crash if negative values are applied to any screen item width or height properties

7.6.10 - 28/04/21

• Add the Watch folder event type ( W.I.P. )
• On the Screen properties toolbox, ensure that the default timeout screen is displayed in the Timeout section
• Bug fix: Allow the 'Show with' screen properties to appear on the Screen Properties Toolbox when editing the 'Get ready' and 'Countdown' event screens in the Screen Editor

7.6.9 - 24/04/21

• Add the 'Video enhancements' feature.  Details
• Minor improvements to the design of the 'Tasks --> Print photos' screen
• Choosing to redo a recorded video now also allows reselection of a green screen file and/or overlay file if they are included in the event design

7.6.7 & 7.6.8 - 15/04/21

• Add new video conversion settings in Tasks --> Convert videos.  These are now independent from the post process conversion values in RightBooth Settings.
• Bug fix: Videos and photos now correctly deleted from Canon DSLR camera storage after downloading files to PC
• Bug fix: Overlay image correctly added to DSLR video recordings
• Bug fix: Tasks --> Convert videos was converting to the wrong file format
• Bug fix: Allow the Video Tester to complete converting video recordings to MP4 format
• Bug fix: App crash when trying to select overlay images in Event structure

7.6.6 - 08/04/21

• Add the latest Canon SDK to provide support for more Canon cameras, including the Canon M50 Mark II
  • See the list of supported camera models here
• Reduce the MP4 video conversion time

7.6.2 to 7.6.5 - 27/03/21

• Add the new 'Send to Phone SMS' feature. This adds new app settings, new event settings and new event screens.  Details
• A new numeric Keypad item is added to the Add Items Toolbox in the Screen Designer. The Keypad is automatically added to the new event screen: 'Phone number' but it can also be added to any other event screen and is suitable for screens requiring text input. e.g. The 'User Details' screen
• Add a 'Gap' property to the Keyboard/Keypad Property Toolbox to allow altering the distance between all keyboard/keypad buttons
• Add the 'Default copies' property to the Print layout designer.  If set, this overrides the 'Copies' value specified in the Event Designer --> Event structure --> Print photos
• Changes to the Screen Editor Toolbox:
  • Add a Monitor icon and a Monitor selection combo box
  • Add a sizer button at the bottom right corner to allow altering the width and height of the toolbox
  • Screen name tooltips automatically appear when hovering over screen list names that are wider than the width of the screen list
  • Add 'Move item forward' and 'Move item back' buttons.  These have now been removed from the Properties Toolbox
  • An opacity value can be applied to all toolboxes using a new Opacity tool (identified by a 'Sun' icon).  This allows the event screen to be fully visible through all toolboxes
  • The Event Screen Zoom tool is now identified by a 'Magnifier' icon
• Changes to all Screen Editor Toolboxes:
  • When the new Opacity tool value is less than 1, each toolbox will automatically fade in/out when the mouse enters/leaves the toolbox
  • Reduce the size of tools and the spacing between tools on various Toolboxes to reduce their overall size
  • Add the new app setting checkbox: Start/Stop --> Toolboxes to front. When ticked, any lower toolbox that is positioned behind another overlapping toolbox is automatically brought to the front when the mouse is moved over an unobscured part of the lower toolbox
• Prevent the following event screens appearing during each user session when they are no longer required: Video Options, Photo Options, Message options
• Show the video conversion progress as a percentage on various event screens when the app is converting or resizing recorded videos
• Remove redundant digicamControl routines
• Allow multi-choice answers to be chosen using the default keyboard function keys F1 - F10 when the User Input Setting is: 'Multiple keyboard keys'
• Allow any screen item that has a click action to be assigned an optional function Key property in order to activate the item's action from the keyboard when the event is playing.  Note that this Key property will take priority over any Action Key definitions in Settings --> User input

Bug fixes:

• The text variable {EMAILADDRESS} is now correctly applied and replaces the older text variable {EMAIL}
• When creating time lapse videos, the 'Image dispay time' option is now available in Tasks --> Create video from photos --> Conversion settings
• Webcam videos are now being resized with the following video post processing settings: Resize - Ticked, MP4 - Unticked, MOV - Unticked
• DSLR video recordings not happening when the 'Get ready' and Countdown screens are not included in the event

7.6.1 - 01/03/21

• Add the 'Print layouts' item to the 'Add items' toolbox in the Screen Editor.  This allows a set of print layout templates to be shown on any of the event screens. Users may then choose a template for photo printing.  Details
• Improve the clarity of photo placeholder edges when designing print layouts
• Bug fix: New items not being added to image grids
• Bug fix: Allow all event file information to be written to the User Details file
• Bug fix: The marquee selection process occasionally fails and leaves the selection rectangle on-screen after releasing the mouse button
• Bug fix: In the Screen Editor, allow any item on the screen to be accessible with the mouse when the item is located behind a transparent area of a covering image

7.6.0 - 22/02/21

• Add new photo filters: Frost and Mosaic
• RightBooth now uses translated folder names in the Media Library to contain event screens that are saved out from the Screen Editor
• OS language detection is now used when the app is first run to automatically pre-select the matching app language (if available)
• Redundant code removed and code optimisations made to provide speed improvements in the app
• Improvements in supporting app languages other than English
• New code signing certificate for the installer and the uninstaller

7.5.31 - 03/02/21

• Add the new click action 'Reorder photos'. This lets the user change the order of the photos in the print layout when used on the Photo options screen.  Details

7.5.30 - 27/01/21

• Newly created information events can now contain the screens 'Terms and Conditions' and 'User Details'
• Event screen files are now saved in UTF-8 format to cater for languages such as Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic
• The 'Right to Left' option is now detected on the OS and all text boxes are now set accordingly
• Bug fixes relating to UI colours, event screen grid items, event window tracking and settings that require an app restart

7.5.28 & 29 - 18/01/21

• It is now possible to copy images from other apps and paste them onto any event screen in the Screen Editor.   The 'Create/Paste clipboard image' menu item now appears on the right click popup menu in the Screen Editor whenever a valid image is available on the Windows clipboard
• If the frame rate is set to 'Unchanged' (in Miscellaneous Settings) then videos are now converted to MP4 (or MOV) using the same frame rate value as the recorded video.  This also fixes a problem where videos were sometimes failing with the 'Unchanged' frame rate setting
• Bug fix: Prevent unexpected progression to the next event screen when using the drawing tools on a live camera feed

7.5.27 - 10/01/21

• Add the option to make either green or black background colours transparent in Video items on event screens.  Typical use: maintaining the background transparency on MP4 videos that have been obtained from various third party SWF to MP4 Converter utilities.

7.5.26 - 07/01/21

• Prevent duplication of video files in the events folder if videos are set to be converted to MP4 or MOV format after recording
• Bug fix: Video files recorded with a DSLR camera now play correctly on the 'Show video' screen if videos are set to start recording on the 'Get ready' screen (in the Event Designer)

7.5.25 - 02/01/21

• Add independent ISO and White Balance settings for both video recording and photo capture modes when using a Canon Camera
• Add the option to provide a Correct answer to 'Multi Answer' event questions
• Introduce the new text variables: CURRENTSCORE and QUESTIONSASKEDCOUNT which provide the ability to show ongoing scores to 'Multi Answer' event questions 
• The order in which the event questions are shown can now be optionally randomised for each user
• Add the option to specify a question amount, allowing each user to be shown a subset of the questions in the questions table
• Allow both the 'Skip' and the 'Next' buttons to progress to the next question in a Question event
• The default screen layout for event questions has been altered so that the question label is now positioned above the video placeholder and multi-choice answer buttons/labels
• A question screen that times out due to a Countdown item will now progress to the next question in a Question event
• Bug fix: Prevent crashes when deleting answers in the 'Multi Answers' grid
• Bug fix: Inclusion of the 'Next' button on a 'Multi Answer' question screen now allows the user to alter their answer prior to pressing the 'Next' button to progress to the next question
• Bug fix: The Canon White Balance property was not always being set correctly

7.5.23 & 24 - 10/12/20

• Add the RightBooth White Label Editor to allow naming, branding and customisation of the RightBooth main window. Details

7.5.22 - 07/12/20

• Bug fix: Don't include the 'Choose recording' screen when it is not required in the event

7.5.21 - 03/12/20

• Add the 'Game' button to the 'Add items' toolbox. This allows adding an interactive game onto any event screen, chosen from  16 new games included in the Media Library

7.5.20 - 01/12/20

• Add the option to display icon buttons on the 'Add items' toolbox

7.5.19 - 06/11/20

• Add option to use Greenscreen backgrounds for DSLR photo capture
• Bug fix: Camera feeds that are aligned within overlay images are no longer corrupted

7.5.17 & 18 - 27/10/20

• Add the 'Key' property to screen items that have a user defined Click action. This allows you to assign any keyboard function key (F1 - F12) to the item so that its click action is always performed when pressing the key
• Newly created information events are now Interruptible by default
• Bug fix: Allow language translated screen names to be correctly used with the Show screen action
• Bug fix: Prevent crash on French OS

7.5.15 & 16 - 22/10/20

• Add the 'Number format' property to the Countdown item
• Bug fix: Show webcams for selection at the end of the Wizard
• Bug fix: Allow updating the app when it is in evaluation mode

7.5.14 - 18/10/20

• In the Screen Editor, add the right click menu option 'Create more screens'
• Add the button 'User group' to the main RightBooth screen
• Add 'Table and chairs' images to the RightBooth Media Library

7.5.13 - 17/10/20

• In the Screen Editor, add the right click menu option 'Create more labels'.  Details

7.5.12 - 11/10/20

• Add the option to capture an event screen as an image and store in the Media Library as a JPG or PNG file.  Details
• Bug fix: Prevent crash when Voice input is enabled but no voice commands are being used on an event

7.5.10 & 7.5.11 - 07/10/20

• Added 'Voice Input' as a User Input option.  This allows you to control the event session by speaking commands into a microphone and therefore requiring no physical interaction with the equipment.  Details

7.5.9 - 01/10/20

• Inter-screen animations now work on a broader range of hardware
• Bug fix for the problem where the current screen is seen to animate off the display in a very small rectangle while the new screen is animating onto the display

7.5.8 - 30/09/20

• Add the 'Create an information event' option to the 'Create event' selector panel
• Allow a wider range of applications to be started correctly from all 'Run program' event actions
• In 'Information' events, allow the user defined event screen that appears last in the Screen list to time out to the event that is defined in the 'On completion' section of the Event flow

7.5.6 & 7.5.7 - 27/09/20

• RightBooth now internally creates the print layout image immediately after the last photo is taken. This fixes the problem where the print layout was not being shown on any user defined screen containing a print layout image placeholder, when the screen had been set to appear immediately after the 'Take photo' screen in the event flow.
• You may now transfer ownership of your product codes to a third party. See Terms of Use for more details.

7.5.5 - 08/09/20

• Add setting: Allow transparent event screens
• Bug fix: Improve 'Bring to front' and 'Send to back' editing features

7.5.4 - 22/07/20

• Allow the 'Auto hide Taskbar' setting to re-show the Taskbar when RightBooth closes if the Taskbar was showing when RightBooth was started

7.5.3 - 19/07/20

• Add support for using an iPhone, iPad or Android phone as a webcam feed into RightBooth when connected to the PC via a USB data cable or wireless
• Add the 'Default' option to the Webcam Video Settings --> Video Size list.
• Add the 'Default' option to the Webcam Photo Settings --> Photo Size list.

​7.5.2 - 09/07/20

• Allow the video transfer wait time percentage to be set to less than 100

7.5.1 - 02/07/20

• Bug fix. Sequence items can now be populated with files on the Screen Editor

7.5.0 - New Major Features

• Adds fully integrated support for Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras.
• DSLR Live View is available for both video and photo event recording sessions and can be included in all event screen designs.
• DSLR videos and photos can be optionally:

1.  Landscape or Portrait (Rotated 90 or -90 degrees)
2.  Resized smaller
3.  Mirrored in X and/or Y
4.  Cropped in W and/or H

• DSLR videos can be optionally converted to MOV or MP4 format as a video post-processing task.
• DSLR video live view and the video recordings support the following features:

1. Image overlays
2. Image logo
3. Note: These are added to video recordings as a video post-processing task.

• The DSLR live view and the captured photos now support the following features:

1. Overlays
2. Logos
3. Filters
4. Stamps (both static and video)
5. Inking
6. Face detection
7. Face props

• Option to capture photos from the DSLR Live View feed or from the actual camera photos.
• Event screens have a Camera item, (previously the webcam item). This has a new 'Camera' property which can be set to:

1. Default
2. Webcam 1-4
3. DSLR

• Event screens can include both webcam and DSLR camera live feeds at the same time.
• Replace a captured photo with a fake/joke image.
• Option to force the user to partake in a sequence of event types when there is more than one event type in the event file.
• New item properties:

1. Show with Video
2. Show with Photo
3. Show with Message
4. Show with Question
5. Show with Karaoke.

• Image items can display user defined QR codes.
• SFTP option added for uploading files using the Secure File Transfer Protocol.

7.5.0 - New Minor Features

• Added new text variables:  CURRENTVIDEONAME, CURRENTMONTHNAME
• Photo print layouts can target a specified Printer Paper size 
• More face props added to the Media Library
• Improved the DSLR photo capture quality
• Improved the video conversion to MP4 and MOV formats
• Allow adding MKV format video files into event screen video items
• Improved Screen Editor features:

1. More item sizer pickups boxes
2. Size from item top left
3. Size from item center

• Application is optimised for use on Windows 10
• Numerous application improvements and bug fixes
• Built with the latest Visual Studio 2019 compiler and third party tools
• Moved the product to a continual rolling Update release model
• Added computer specific Product Codes (node lock licensing)
• Added renewable 'Update and support' periods

Release notes for version 7

Release notes for version 6

Release notes for version 5

Notes for earlier versions