Videorc Daily: Vertical Mode Ships, Then Gets Chased by Bugs
Videorc shipped a full Studio orientation split between horizontal and vertical recording modes, then spent the next twenty-four hours and six patch releases fixing the fallout — wire mismatches, letterboxing, stretched previews, and canvas orientation bugs.
Duration: PT2M32S
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- Show: Videorc Daily
- Published: 2026-07-13T11:00:06Z
- Audio duration: PT2M32S
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Good morning. It's July 13th, 2026, and this is Videorc Daily.
The headline: vertical, 9-by-16 recording landed this week, and it landed hard — six patch releases in about a day, each one closing a gap the last one exposed.
The arc started with PR 84's plumbing, then PR 87 shipped a true vertical scene, and PR 88 split the Studio into fully separate horizontal and vertical scene sets. That's a big, cross-cutting change — new presets, new gallery cards, a mode toggle, per-mode scene memory. But shipping a new orientation touches…
First, the backend didn't know the new vertical preset existed — PR 91 fixed a hard crash where switching modes failed outright. Then PR 94 fixed a squashed docked preview, because the preview slot kept a landscape shape while the canvas underneath was portrait. Then PR 97 fixed letterboxing — vertical bands were…
The pattern here is straightforward: orientation isn't one setting, it's a contract that spans the renderer, the Rust backend, the compositor, and the preview surface — and this release cycle found every place that contract wasn't honored.
Two other threads worth flagging. PR 86 and PR 85 hardened Windows recording — timing, audio sync, and…