RightBooth Release Notes

This page lists the complete feature release history of RightBooth
7.9.14 - 12/1/23

• Add File Load and Save buttons on the Video enhancements --> Video segments panel
• Add 'Photo' and 'Flash photo' effects in Video segments
• Add 'White' and 'Flash' colors in Video segments
• Video segment durations are now more accurate when applied to very short video recordings
• Add Action tabs on the Screen Editor Properties toolbox. This replaces the Action radio buttons
• Add 'Start another instance' option in Settings --> Start/Stop
• Optimise the RB GoPro routines for the Camera Tools App v1.5.0 or later
• Reduce the video enhancement time in some situations where the overlay video duration is longer than the video recording duration
  
• Fix: Prevent RB from asking to save the event file when nothing has changed
• Fix: Ensure the 'Busy' screen is always shown immediately after the 'Record video' screen. Before this fix, any User defined screen that was placed immediately after the 'Record video' screen (in the Screen list) would be shown prior to the Busy screen, leading to an error in the event flow
• Fix: Prevent the WhatsApp Country code from having a '+' character

7.9.11 - 30/12/22

• Block all actions on the 'Busy' screen that would cause RB to navigate away from the screen
• Block the 'Back' action if there is no action history
• Fix: Allow QR codes to be correctly edited via the 'Content' button on the Screen editor Properties toolbox

7.9.9 - 22/12/22

• When the User input mode is set to 'Single keyboard key', only show the event selection arrows if there are 2 or more label items on the event screen that have click actions
• Allow the keyboard item to be removed from all event screens
• Fix: Ensure the first event screen has the keyboard input focus immediately after starting to play the event
• Fix: When playing the event, on the User input event screen, pulse flash any text objects that require text input prior to moving onto the next event screen
• Fix: Allow the main RB panel to be shown after escaping out of a playing event that was automatically played when the app starts

7.9.8 - 19/12/22

• Add 'Make animation GIF' option for video recording events
• Add 'Convert video to GIF' option in Settings --> Miscellaneous
• Items can now be grouped in the Screen Editor
• New 'Highlight' property added to items in the Screen Editor
• Button items can now have Border properties
• Increase the number of buttons and labels that can be added onto event screens
• Option to Save/Load items to/from library files
• Add options to the 'Auto hide taskbar' setting
• The app now remembers the most recently used folder for loading and saving event files
• Increase the maximum allowed video transfer wait time from 500 to 1000
• Increase the wait time between successive GoPro commands
• Add DSLR live view ISO and Tv settings
• Fix: Original webcam video recordings now saved in all scenarios
• Fix: Video processing percentage time is now more accurate for webcam video recordings​

7.9.7 - 1/12/22

• Add option to use SendGrid for emailing files
• Remove redundant setting: 'Process videos in background'
• If an overlay video is included, it is now repeated for the duration of the enhanced video
• Improvements to image load speed and image memory usage
• Improve the clarity of buttons in the Screen Editor
• Fix: Prevent random crash when including photo printing and animated gif creation
• Fix: Camera items no longer block the user input to a screen click action
• Fix: Video emails would fail to be sent if video resizing was selected in 'Media size' settings
• Fix: Allow the 'After creating' photo copy action to work in Watch folder events

7.9.0 to 7.9.4 - 14/11/22

• Add 'Send to WhatsApp' feature
• Add latest integrated Chrome web browser
• Add Crop properties to web browser items
• Add the option to make RightBooth use a newer SDK for all its webcam functionality
• Web browser items now respond to drag/drop operations
• Add the 'Live view Bulb' option to DSLR camera settings. This sets the camera live view into Tv-Bulb mode to allow live view visibility in low light conditions
• Add the event specific option to not copy files from the DSLR/GoPro to the PC, for situations where you are requiring files to be only saved on the camera
• Add the option to use the photoscissors.com web service in the photo event workflow.  This provides automatic AI photo background replacement without the need for a greenscreen background
• The 'Key press' action now allows up to 4 keys to be defined for each action. This allows generating keypress combinations such as Ctrl-Alt-F4
• Add the 'random name' option in Settings --> Folders/Files to allow saving event files with random alphanumeric filenames
• Add Romanian and Portuguese app language options in Settings
• Add French, German, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese user manuals
• Remove support for SWF files, due to the Adobe Flash Player being discontinued
• Suppress all 'Leave page' warnings in web browser items
• Modifications made to update video and video sequence items playing on extended monitors
• Add new setting: 'Additional displays use main screen renderer'
• Fix: Prevent crash on various Windows language OS (e.g. French) when using video enhancements
• Fix: Prevent video processing crashes in evaluation mode
• Fix: PIP webcam fixes
• Fix: Reduce image grid memory usage
• Fix: Removing a webcam from settings is now permanent
• Fix: RB no longer warns about saving an event if it is opened in a newer version

7.8.3 - 11/10/22

• The webcam 'Alpha channel' option must now be selected if the green screen video background feature is included in an event
• Video emailing files in Tasks now works with Sharing Station events
• Allow 'Next' and 'OK' buttons to work correctly on 'Choose recording' screen
• Screen video backgrounds now play correctly on extended monitors

7.8.2 - 6/10/22

• Allow video sequence items to work as video stamps on webcam video recordings

7.8.1 - 4/10/22

• Add the 'Get WiFi signal strength' option in Miscellaneous settings and the 'WIFISTRENGTH' text variable, which allows for showing the current WiFi signal strength on event screens
• Fix: Force 'stamp items' to have Scale property=1 to prevent them being added at the wrong position and size
• Fix: Prevent 'video stamp items' being added twice on the 'Take photo' screen

7.8.0 - 22/9/22

• Add support for Canon wireless cameras. Tested with the EOS M50 Mark II
• Add option to automatically apply photo filters to the captured photo without requiring any user selection
• Add new optional data collection fields: 'Phone' and 'Date of birth', for use on the 'User details' event screen
• Newly created videos and photos that are added to a sequence item's watch folder will now cause the new file to be shown next in the sequence if the 'Reset list to start' option is ticked
• Fix: Prevent crash when redoing a webcam photo if 'Keep originals' is ticked
• Fix: RGB image filters are now applied correctly on images that have an odd numbered width
• Fix: Any stamp items that are placed over the webcam camera item prior to recording a video are now added into the recorded video file
• Fix: Stamp items are now placed in the correct positions on video recordings when the webcam video size setting is different to the webcam photo size setting

7.7.35 & 36 - 23/8/22

• Add checks when closing one app instance when multiple instances are running​

7.7.34 - 20/8/22

• Allow DSLR cameras to perform more consistently when choosing to remove files off the SD card after taking photos and recording videos
• The Canon M50 Mark II now works fully when connected by USB
• DSLR camera live view is now turned off on the Start event screen if the screen does not include a DSLR camera item, this has been introduced to reduce risk of camera overheating
• Use an internal text editor for editing html files in Settings
• Fix: Prevent crash when deleting content from grid items
• Fix: Video sequence items no longer to play audio from previous videos in the sequence

7.7.33 - 14/8/22

• Add the option: 'Current karaoke' to the video item Content property.  Allows you to play the currently selected karaoke video file on any event screen
• Allow individual command line parameters to be enclosed in quotes if required, within the parameters of the 'Run program' actions
• Change the file numbering character to '='. Previously it was '#'
• Fix: When using a Nikon camera, Overlay/Props settings are now accessible
• Fix: Prevent crashes when using the Video Background removal property
• Fix: Video stamp items now working correctly
• Fix: Stamp items are now positioned correctly on the webcam camera feed when it is set to Portrait orientation

7.7.32 - 2/8/22

• Add the {GIFFILENAME} text variable
• Add an updated Watchdog app
• Turn off the DSLR live view when the camera is not being used on an event screen

7.7.31 - 5/7/22

• Add 'Mouse hook' to User Input settings to allow the mouse to be returned to the primary monitor when secondary monitor touch input 'steals' the mouse
• Provide a set of 'Filename include' naming options in Settings --> Folders/Files
• Add {PCBATTERY} text variable to allow showing the laptop battery percentage on event screens
• Allow 'Show' actions to be added to all non stock screen items
• Allow screen items to be designed so that they are initially hidden when the screen is shown in the playing event
• Allow screen items to be named with the Name property
• Allow the display time to be altered on video enhancement outro images
• Add new actions:  Show item, Hide item, Next sequence item
• Add the 'Lip sync adjustment' option in Webcam audio settings
• Modifications to the video item and video sequence item to improve playback
• Add support for more USB HID relay boards
• Fix: Sequence items now work correctly on extended monitor event screens
• Fix: Prevent crash when video enhancement is attempted on a failed video recording
• Fix: Prevent crash if 'start up' messages appear while a DSLR camera is attached
• Fix: Prevent occasional video file transfer failures with Canon cameras
• Fix: Items can sometimes be shown in the wrong position on the 'Show photo' screen

7.7.28 to 30 - 6/6/22

• RB no longer requires a GoPro camera to be set to the correct date and time
• When using a GoPro, the default is now to connect to the GoPro WiFi when RightBooth starts
• Fix: Prevent crash editing an extended monitor event screen when the extended monitor is not attached to the PC 

7.7.26 & 27 - 1/6/22

• Add the 'Sizeable' option in Event Design --> Event structure --> Multiple monitors, to allow the main event screen to be positioned and sized on the Windows desktop
• Add the 'Keyboard hook' option in Settings --> User input, to allow a playing event to respond to keyboard input when it does not have the input focus
• Allow the 'Add placeholder' button to be used on the video item selector panel
• Correctly process videos that include the rotated metadata option e.g. portrait orientation videos
• Improve the reliability of the GoPro command interface and file transfer routines
• Add the app reliability acceptance message
• Improve reliability of the Nikon DSLR file transfer routine
• Fix: Include the Video enhancement intro video in an event package
• Fix: Your specified banner image will now be uploaded to your FTP site together with your photos and videos when using the FTP upload feature
• Fix: The email/phone 'Later' options will no longer force the Email address/Phone number screens to appear in the workflow when you have also chosen to 'Ask the user'

7.7.24 & 25 - 4/5/22

• Can now save preferred colors in the Screen Editor Color Palette by right clicking the mouse on any color box to allow storing the currently selected palette color within it
• Updated the DLLs used for creating video and image thumbnails
• Can now add multiple questions at the same time to the Event Designer Question grid
• Can now add all stamp items into webcam video recordings when they are used on any of the Record video/karaoke/answer screens. e.g. text, image, button stamp items. Prior to this, only video stamp items could be added to webcam recordings
• Stamp items will now be applied if they are placed lower in the Z order than the camera item
• Option to show a 'Wait' screen when switching between playing events that take a significant amount of time to open
• Option to define the 'behind event screen' color. This color might be shown during screen animations
• Allow multiple question rows to be selected in the event question grid, for moving or deleting the rows
• Fix: Prevent mouse clicks or touches from being accepted until an event is fully open and playing
• Fix: Ensure all event questions have a unique ID
• Fix: Event packages now correctly include all question and answer event screens
• Fix: Prevent a video enhancement segment from having the same start and stop value
• Fix: Prevent crash when building the media view item in sharing station events where thumbnails do not exist for video files
• Fix: Unable to register the RightBooth product code on some systems
• Fix: Crash when installing packages that include Question events
• Fix: Crash when the last question Branch is set to Next in a Question event
• Fix: Crash when printing to UNC defined networked printers on some computers

7.7.23 - 23/4/22

• Add the option to use your own HTML template files for downloading files from the Sharing Station using QR codes
• Allow the selected image to be included within the Video Enhancement process when including the 'Overlay image' feature in the event workflow
• Hide the product code on the main RightBooth window.   The code can still be found in the Product code section
• Add the option: 'Play minimised' for Watch folder event types
• Fix: Some MP3 files can crash the Video Enhancement process

7.7.21 & 22 - 13/3/22

• Allow the webcam 'Auto exposure' and 'Auto white' balance settings (accessed within the specific manufacturers webcam settings app) to be maintained and applied on the RightBooth webcam camera feed
• Add the 'Show in live camera feed' option in Green screen settings
• Add the option to use the www.remove.bg service in the photo event workflow.  This provides automatic AI photo background removal
• Add the text variable {CANONBATTERY} to provide the option of showing the Canon battery percentage in a label item on any event screen
• Improvements made to the GoPro file monitoring and transfer process
• Add the setting 'Use GoPro WiFi periodically' to reduce the chance of the GoPro WiFi being deactivated after a period of no use
• The app now remembers and returns to the most recently visited folders when applying various video enhancements
• Fix: Prevent crash when converting videos to MP4 with certain post processing effect combinations
• Fix: Prevent crash when trying to annotate on the live camera feed when the camera is not initialised
• Fix: QR codes generated for videos and photos in recording events now also generate and reference the associated HTML download wrapper files
• Fix: Prevent crash when trying to generate a QR code for DSLR video files that are recorded in .MOV format but are not subsequently converted to the MP4 format
• Fix: Prevent the app from locking up on start up when a previously used webcam is no longer connected to the computer

7.7.19 & 20 - 4/4/22

• Improvements made to the GoPro control interface:
  • Optional WiFi connection at startup
  • Improved the optional watchdog to help keep the GoPro WiFi connected
  • Selectable video and photo submodes in GoPro settings
  • Improved file transfer monitoring
• Add the Start/Stop Performance setting: 'Hardware rendering when using extended desktop'  Turning this off will fix the problem of mp4 videos freezing when played on event screens shown on extended desktop monitors
• The app now continues working in Evaluation mode while the timout nag screen is showing
• The Sharing Station event now creates a copy of any video or photo that is chosen for QR code scanning. This removes the potential for RightBooth freezing due to simultaneous file accesses by multiple devices
• Save all HTML files with UTF8 encoding (previously Unicode encoding)
• Add warning about DSLR and GoPro photo aspect ratios
• Stop resizing the live view image if the aspect ratio does not match the camera's photo and video aspect ratios
• Fix: Reset the cached print layout image when switching between event files
• Fix: Prevent file read locks on the Sharing Station
• Fix: Stop the crash when using 'Fast mode' video enhancement in certain combinations
• Fix: Allow the 'Stop sooner' video label item to be edited on the 'Record video' screen and to prevent it from being removed from the screen
• Fix: PNG thumbnails now appear in the Media Library viewer panel
• Fix: The Spacebar now works on the on-screen keyboard
• Fix: Videos emailed from the Sharing Station are now the ones chosen by the users
• Fix: 'Send files to phone' now works if 'Send files by email' is not included in the event
• Fix: Reset any previous mobile service provider details prior to loading RightBooth settings
• Fix: FTP file uploads for images and videos now include uploading the associated HTML web page for QR code file downloading

7.7.18 - 13/3/22

• Add the 'Fast mode' option to Video enhancements. This reduces the enhancement processing time by up to 50%
• Add 'Keep original files' option in Settings --> Cameras --> Webcam video and Webcam photo
• Add 'Create thumbnails' option in Settings --> Miscellaneous --> Video post processing to create more relevant thumbnails for a Sharing Station event
• Improve the accuracy of the video transfer and enhancement progress percentage indicator
• Move 'Webpage for file download' options to Settings --> Social media --> Local web server
• Re-introduce 'GoPro WiFi watchdog' option in Settings --> Cameras --> GoPro
• Fix: Various fixes applied to the video enhancement process
• Fix: Copy videos 'After creating' feature is now applied consistently
• Fix: Prevent all event screen buttons with the same action from being highlighted when an associated label item is selected

7.7.17 - 6/3/22

• Add 'Web page for file download customisation' feature to the Sharing Station event design
• Add the character 'Y shift' property to Keyboard and KeyPad item design properties
• Prevent any specified Sharing Station Watch folder from containing space characters
• Create video thumbnails in the Sharing Station Watch folder, taken from the mid-way point in the video file in the Watch folder. Useful when the video have been enhanced with the same Intro
• Include the new WatchCopy utility to assist with copying videos and photos from one folder to another. Example: watching and copying files from a DropBox or Google Drive Client folder into a Sharing Station Watch folder
• Video enhancement improvements:
  • Add the 'Report' feature to the video enhancement test
  • Allow access to video conversion settings directly from the video enhancements panel
  • Better support for more audio file formats
  • Speed optimisations
  • Prevent video enhancements crashing when the included MP3 file does not contain a valid track length or it is corrupt in some way
  • The video enhancement progress percentage is now more consistent
  • Allow the Intro enhancement to be applied with all enhancement combinations
• Fix: Video sequences now continue playing on additional monitor event screens
• Fix: Videos are now copied to other folders if the copy action is 'After create' and the videos do not require post processing

7.7.16 - 15/2/22

• New video enhancement options:
  • In addition to using a video, you can now use an image as the Intro and Outro
  • Customisable Intro and Outro image display times
  • Intro and Outro transitions
  • Video segment effects
  • Video segment colours
  • Video segment transitions
  • Details
• Allow 2 instances of RightBooth to run on the same computer. Each instance has its own independent configuration and settings, allowing multiple event files to run simultaneously, ideally on an extended desktop with multiple touchscreens.  Examples: 2 recording events each with a different camera, or 1 recording event + 1 sharing station
  • Details:  https://youtu.be/5uadCWzOgqc
• New User input setting: 'Mouse as secondary input'. When playing events, this allows the mouse to be used as a User input method in addition to the chosen User input method
• Video conversion settings. Frame rate: Can now select any value up to 60 fps. Or leave the frame rate set at the original recorded value
• QR codes for videos and photos now link to a html wrapper file that includes a Download button for easier download on phones and tablets
• QR code and clock items can now be added to print layout designs
• Confetti overlay videos added to the Media Library
• Fix: Allow the main camera to return to showing the live preview after cancelling a playing event while a video recording is underway
• Fix: The multiple monitor feature now correctly positions event screens when the Windows Display scale is larger than 100%. e.g. as found on Surface tablets
• Fix: Video thumbnails are now displayed at the correct aspect ratio in the Sharing Station Media Browser item
• Fix: Unicode characters causing problems with QR code scanning and video enhancement when RightBooth is run with the French or Spanish language option
• New colour selector in the Screen editor
• Fix: Recording events containing video enhancements were not processing videos after recording countdown completed if the event was played after performing recording tests in settings
• Fix: GoPro recording events were incorrectly warning about the need for a webcam on computers that did not have any webcam connected
• Fix: Video enhancements not working consistently on non english Windows OS's (e.g. Spanish) or when the current Windows user name contains space characters
• Fix: Entering a new product code could incorrectly warn that the code was already in use

7.7.14 - 9/1/22

• Fix: Karaoke video files are now included in the event's email workflow
• Fix: Video file resizing is now correctly applied prior to emailing files

7.7.13 - 29/12/21

• Fix: Video post processing now works on 32 bit Windows
• Fix: Video enhancement testing is now consistent
• Fix: Audio files are now added to video enhancements

7.7.12 - 22/12/21

• dd 60 fps as a frame rate option in Webcam video settings. This will only apply to webcams that offer this rate
• Allow the post processing test photo to be zoomed and panned
• Default the DSLR white balance options to ticked

7.7.10 - 16/12/21

• App now fully tested on Windows 11
• Improvements made for running the app on newer MS Surface graphics tablets
• Add the 'MS touch keyboard' option in Settings --> User input, to allow you to optionally use the MS touch keyboard when Windows is running in tablet mode
• Add the Direct and Indirect webcam integration options to improve webcam compatibility on more laptops and graphics tablets
• Add photo post-processing settings for Brightness, Contrast, Sharpen and Gamma.  Details
• Add DSLR settings: Av and Tv
• Improvements made when running the app with Windows large font scaling in the following areas:
  • User interface
  • Event screen layout created by the Event Wizard
  • Screen editor scroll bars now appear correctly
• If a sequence item (video, image or text) is showing files from a folder, they now watch the folder for file changes and will update the sequence accordingly
• Modifications made to the GoPro control interface to improve the Wifi connection reliability
• Screen editor zooming and screen positioning improved
• Fix: Allow video enhancement chromakey and segment settings to work on OS languages where the ',' character is used to represent the decimal point

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