Jeffrey Marder have had quite enough of trainers who
were breaking on his premises to hunt rare Pokemon. American is entering the judicial
path with Niantic, Nintendo, and the Pokemon Company.
Prosecutor states that the authors of the game put
PokeStops and gyms in the area of private property or in public places. Let's
agree that in churches or museums it is simply not proper to hunt Charizard. Of
course, it is not difficult to guess that the authors have not received consent
from any of the owners of such places.
The author of lawsuit complained also for Pokemon
trainers who come to his house and ask if they could catch a pokemon in his
yard. Some are not so cultured and do it without permission. Jefrey Marder is
fed up with the situation, and the lawsuit seems to be the ultimate, but also
the only possible solution to this problem. Below you can read the contents of
the document:
Have you ever had a really interesting moment in a game that you wanted
quickly share with your friends? Creators of the Action! screen and game recording
software - Mirillis is now working on a
new application for instant screenshots and short gameplay videos sharing. With
GameSnap app taking instant snapshots
and recording snaps will be easier than you think.
We've been very busy since we wrote something here, but I think it was worth waiting for new blog entry. We are proud to say that we are the world's first screen recording software that allow it users to record their Full HD 60p videos directly into mp4 format in real-time. This is a huge thing for us. Read below to find out more about this totally new feature and other stuff that happened last month.
The world’s first HD video recording into .mp4 format in real time.
As we mentioned. Action! Screen Recorder is the world's first screen recording software that allow it users to record their videos directly to .mp4 format (even Full HD 60p with Intel® Quick Sync technology) in real time. What does that mean in practice? First of all you get from 10 to 20 smaller recording file size. Lowest CPU usage while recording, that means more free computer resources for other applications. See the image below for more details. Ignore the "Coming soon". This is already happening! You can download Action! Screen Recorder 1.11.0 now and try it for 30 days free with full functionality.
Will it run on my computer?
Some of you asked us this question on our facebook page. As you can see on the image above. This feature has been designed for Inte®l Quick Sync Video, because no one else provide similar technology that would allow us to support another producers such as AMD® or NVIDIA®, but that doesn't mean it won't happen someday. Most of 2nd and 3rd generation of Intel® Core™ processor family support Intel® Quick Sync Video technology. But "Will it run?"
To check that you have to do two step check.
Step First. Go to Intel® Desktop Processors and choose your current processor. Then go to Graphic Specifications and see if there is a "Yes" near Inte®l Quick Sync Video.
Step Two. Go to Intel® Desktop Chipsets and choose your current chipset. Go to Graphic Specifications and see if there is a "Yes" near Integrated Graphics.
If you received two "Yeses" then the MP4 (Inte®l Quick Sync Video) function should be available for you. If somehow it still is not available. Check out these two tutorials:
We released 4 Action! Screen Recorder versions since last entry. Two minor and two major ones. 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.10.0 and 1.11.0.
Action! 1.9.1
With 1.9.1 there's not much to talk about. After we released 1.9.0 we found out that we made a small mistake cancel export pop-up window. Luckily for us we noticed this bug very quickly and fixed it afterwards. Here's the full update list:
Improved performance of Windows 8 desktop and Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications recording
Important GUI improvements (fixed problem with cancel export popup window buttons)
Translations improvements
Action! 1.9.2
1.9.2 was a minor update but included few fixes that were bothering us for a long time. Finally we added support for graphics mod such as FXAA or TES. You were asking for this many times, now it's on. We also fixed a bug with Flash Player and Firefox browser that were causing Action! to crash. And we changed our installer to multi-language one. Full list of 1.9.2 updates below:
Fixed recording of games with FXAA mode installed. In example: Alan Wake, Battlefield 3, Skyrim
Fixed desktop region recording with region width set to 1280 and with video size set 720p (shifted video problem)
Fixed Flash player stability problem (Firefox browser) with Action! Screen Recorder running
Fixed problem with Skype stability with Action! Screen Recorder running
User Manuals updated
Small GUI improvements
Multi-language installer added
Action! 1.10.0
1.10.0 was all about the audio. We added few things that professionals and amateurs too should appreciate. First of all we added an option to record microphone to separate audio track. From version 1.10.0 if you tick "Record microphone to separate audio track" box you will have an .avi file with video path, system sounds audio path and microphone path. We also added settings that allow you to select microphone input audio device and system sound input audio device. Full change-log here:
Important fix for recording Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications
Added option to record microphone into separate audio track (for video recordings)
Added settings to select microphone input audio device
Added settings to select system sound input audio device
Fixed audio recording at 192kHz sampling frequency
Small GUI improvements
Stability improvements
Few more things about second audio path.
Sony Vegas users. If cannot import your .avi file into Sony Vegas check if your video audio is not 5.1. SV does not accept this type of audio path. To avoid this situation untick "Allow multi-channel audio recording" for games/videos that you think they may be 5.1.
Adobe Premiere users Somehow AP does not see our second audio path with microphone. Well a quick workaround for this is to export your second audio path from the original file. To do that you can use a free software such as Virtual Dub.
Action! 1.11.0
At this point of this entry you are probably know that 1.11.0 is a revolutionary version for us. Besides .mp4 recording we added few more options. One from the list is possibility to block Action! from monitoring selected applications. How to do that? Read the tutorial that we prepared for excluding applications. Second thing that is worth mentioning is YouTube file splitting. Many of you are verified YouTube users and were disappointed when Action! splitted your videos into parts. Now you can either decide how many parts do you want or if you don't want parts at all. Here's full change list:
NEW FEATURE: Direct video recording to MP4 (H.264/AVC) format using Intel® Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration technology (max FullHD 60p!)
NEW FEATURE: Direct video recording to MP4 (H.264/AVC) format using software encoding (max 480p)
Improved MP4 muxing performance
Maximum YouTube HD profile bitrate increased to 14Mbps
Added option to enable/disable file splitting when exporting to YouTube (with parts duration settings)
Added exclude list (possibility to block Action! Screen Recorder from monitoring selected applications)
Read tutorial.
"Hide HUD on Action! Screen Recorder startup" option added
Stability improvements
Dedicated tutorial and FAQ tabs.
Currently they are only available for Action! but we are going to expand them for our other products. You can find our tutorials for Action! here and the new redefined FAQ here.
We reached 3000 fans on our Facebook page.
From here we would like to thank you for being with us.We are really grateful for having such a dedicated fans. Our community is rising and that is mostly your work. THANK YOU!
If you want to be the first one to know about Mirillis latest information, updates and many more visit and like our official facebook page where we post everything earlier than elsewhere. We also tweet newest information on our twitter so be sure you are following us @MirillisTeam. If you would like to see some video footage visit our YouTube channel - MirillisTeam.
Few things happened since last entry and we thought that we owe you some words about them. In short we are after two major releases for Action (current version 1.9.1) and after a long awaited Splash players update (PRO and PRO EX). Read below to find out more about these updates and what changed.
Two major Action! updates - 1.8.0 and 1.9.0
In our last blog entry you were able to read that Action! 1.7.0 now fully support Windows 8. Next major update numbered 1.8.0 was also a huge feature step for our software. We added a cool function that allows you to pause and resume your recordings. So now if you want to get a cup of coffee to spend another few hours playing your favorite game you don't have to end your recordings, now you can just pause it with key combination shift + f9 (set by default) and resume it with the same combination when you get back to your computer.
What was also cool about 1.8.0? Logitech multimedia keyboards LCD displays support (Logitech G13/G15/G19 etc.). Now you can see lots of information on your Logitech LCD. Watch the video below and see what we are talking about.
Logitech G19 keyboard LCD display support
Logitech G13/G15 keyboard LCD display support
These two features were the main cause of 1.8.0 major update. Here's the full change log:
NEW FEATURE: Pause/resume for video recordings added
NEW FEATURE: Support for Logitech multimedia keyboards LCD displays (Logitech G13/G15/G19 etc.)
Changed default recordings folder on Windows 8 (fixes problems with desktop video recording)
Translations improvements
Stability fixes (closing Action! application)
Small GUI improvements
Let's talk about 1.9.0 now. Lots of you create amazing content and place it on YouTube. Recently you were asking about adding a customized watermark to your videos so people can recognize your brand. So we made it. From version 1.9.0 you are able to add images to your videos. See video below how exactly this works.
Action! 1.9.0 - Overlay graphics feature preview
Overlay graphics feature allows you to put your logo, company name, channel name and any graphic you want in 7 positions: top left, top centered, top right, bottom right, bottom centered, bottom left and centered. Followed image formats are supported: .jpg, .jpeg, .png and .bmp. Transparency is fully supported by the way.
We also made stability fixes for closing Action! application. In some cases Action! were freezing after closing. Good news, after updating to 1.9.0 this bug is no longer happening. Here's the full change log list:
NEW FEATURE: Adding custom logo and other overlay graphics for video recordings
Windows Media Player (and other players using EVR) recording fixed
Windows multi-user improvements for desktop recording
Stability fixes (closing Action! application)
Small GUI improvements (tray mode improvements)
And don't forget about one minor update.
We also made a little update for version 1.9.0. Here's the change log list for Action! 1.9.1
Improved performance of Windows 8 desktop and Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications recording
Important GUI improvements (fixed problem with cancel export popup window buttons)
Translations improvements
Small Clarification
One of our customers was confused about Action! updates. Since we reach 1.9.0 version he asked about Action! 2.0 and upgrade to this version.
First of all, currently we are not planning to release Action! 2.0 anytime soon. Next major Action! update will be marked as 1.10.0 and so on, unless Action! is 100% done. Then we will find a way to make it better so we can mark it as 2.0.0. Until then you don't have to worry for any additional update charges. After product purchase you are entitled to a free updates within purchased product version.
Here's a quote from our Terms of Sale about this matter:
"7.4 After product purchase you are entitled to a free updates within purchased product version. In example after purchase of Splash PRO (version 1.x.x) you are entitled to free updates to Splash PRO 1.x.x versions. Upgrades to next product versions (in example from Splash PRO 1.x.x to Splash PRO 2.x.x version) or other product versions (in example from Splash PRO to Splash PRO EX) are not free."
Long awaited Splash players updates
Lots of you had to wait almost 8 months for an solid update for Splash player. Recently you were asking if we dropped this project. The answer is "no", Splash is still something that we are proud off and we are not planning to drop it. The main reason you guys had to wait this long for an update is Splash baby brother Action! who needed a lot of care, definitely more than Splash which was a solid and stable HD player. During this time we precisely wrote down every single suggestion that has been sent to us.
We can call 1.13.0 update a small introduction to Splash update. New version of Splash PRO and Splash PRO EX is now ready to download. Here are the changelogs for these two versions of our player.
Splash PRO EX 1.13.0
IMPORTANT: Full support for Windows 8 added
Playback of AVI files with FICV video added (support for Mirillis Action! video recordings playback in AVI file format)
Fixed problem with cut/corrupted exported MP4 videos (low disk space protection)
Not starting export (showing 0% progress) problem fixed
H.264/AVC software video decoding improvements
LPCM audio decoding improvements
MKV stability improvements
Srt subtitles improvements
Stability improvements
Multi-language installer added
Splash PRO 1.13.0
IMPORTANT: Full support for Windows 8 added
Playback of AVI files with FICV video added (support for Mirillis Action! video recordings playback in AVI file format)
H.264/AVC software video decoding improvements
LPCM audio decoding improvements
MKV stability improvements
Srt subtitles improvements
Stability improvements
Multi-language installer added
Splash Lite
Coming soon!
End words
As you can see everything is on a good track. If you want to be the first one to know about Mirillis latest information, updates and many more visit and like our official facebook page where we post everything earlier than elsewhere. We also tweet newest information on our twitter so be sure you are following us @MirillisTeam. If you would like to see some video footage visit our YouTube channel - MirillisTeam
We are after next major update for Action!. We added a support for Windows 8. So from version 1.7.0 Action! supports three Windows OS versions: Vista, 7 and 8. We also have to make a official statement since after releasing 1.6.0 with recording directly to .avi format lots of Action! illegal versions is going around on the internet which offers cracks and patches that are infected with malware and computer viruses so be aware and read the statement below.
MIRILLIS OFFICIAL STATEMENT ABOUT ILLEGAL ACTION! VERSIONS.
Mirillis Ltd. company is not responsible for the quality and performance of our products NOT downloaded from our official website or our affiliate partners websites.
If you want to use latest, correctly working, virus free versions of Mirillis products please visit our downloads section.
Mirillis Action! 1.7.0 with Windows 8 support.
We are happy to announce that from version 1.7.0 Action! supports new Microsoft Windows 8 system with world's best Windows 8 screen recording performance! See the video below:
We also added few more fixes and improvements to the new version including cursor recording and lower fps recording. Here's the full update list for Action! 1.7.0:
NEW FEATURE: Windows 8 desktop recording added! Enjoy the world's best Windows 8 screen recording performance!
Cursor recording fixed in some games and applications (i.e. Adobe Photoshop, League of Legends)
30p and lower fps gameplay recording improvements
Capture screenshot improvements for multi-display setups
Stability fixes
Small GUI improvements
That would be all...
Basically that's all what happened since last entry. Don't forget to visit our official facebook page where we post info about new updates, giveaways and everything else earlier then elsewhere. We also tweet newest information on our twitter so be sure you are following us @MirillisTeam
Great things happened since last entry. The most interesting thing from the list is that we released a new Action! version 1.6.0 with recording directly to .avi format. Before the .avi there was also 1.5.0 version with .fic decoder that was a little step towards the .avi recording. But that doesn't matter anymore. From now you can record your amazing gameplays, video tutorial and everything you wan't in super HD quality in .avi format.
The short history of .fic decoder.
Before we head to 1.6.0 it's worth mentioning the 1.5.0 version which was a minor step towards the .avi recording. We were really satisfied about our own video format that you all know - .fic. but it was not supported by other applications so you always had to export your files to .mp4 format. Some of you did this correctly, some of you find difficulties while exporting your videos and wasn't fully satisfied with the exported video file. In 1.5.0 we created a .fic decoder that allowed Action! users to open .fic files in every application that uses DirectShow. After 1.5.0 release we received a lot of feedback from you. Kudos to you for that! But most of you had lots of problems with opening the .fic files in video editing software. That's was unacceptable and lead us to the .avi format. The .fic decoder dies its own natural way, but it's job will not be forgotten.
Here's a full list of the changes in 1.5.0:
NEW FEATURE: FIC decoding support added for applications supporting DirectShow decoders
Thumbnails for FIC recordings added for Windows Explorer
Improved Action! application closing stability
Fixed problem with cut videos when exporting with audio disabled (Audio track set to "Disabled" in export settings)
Action! records now directly to .avi
So here's the Action! moon step. In 1.6.0 version we added a .avi recording. This was long awaited Action! feature that you were asked. And here it is - Action! 1.6.0 with recording directly to .avi format which can be opened in every application that support this format i.e. Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere PRO, Sony Vegas and many many more. Except the container nothing has changed. Action! still records your footage in superb HD quality, CPU usage stays low as before. Action! is still Action!
Here's a full list of the changes in 1.6.0:
NEW FEATURE: Video recording in AVI 2.0 file format (with Mirillis FICV video compression)
NEW FEATURE: Editing of raw video recordings (in AVI format) is now possible in 3rd party software like:
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Camtasia Studio
Cyberlink Power Director
MAGIX Video Pro
Sony Vegas PRO
VirtualDub
Windows Live Movie Maker
Fixed problem with cut/corrupted exported MP4 videos (low disk space protection)
Improved raw FICV video quality in 3rd party software
Fixed ultra HD resolution recordings playback in Action! player
Small GUI improvements
Splash PRO EX Giveaway
It may be late to tell but it's never late to join! As you probably know, on our facebook wall we are doing from time to time giveaways where you can win activation keys for Mirillis products. Now you can win one of the three activation keys for Splash PRO EX. Care to join? Then stop reading now and go to our facebook app (click) and fill out the entry form. Be quick because it ends tomorrow (Tuesday 17 July at 11:59:59 PM GMT+1).
If you are reading this entry and the giveaway ended, don't worry. Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook and next time be the first one to know about our giveaway.
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Only great news in this entry! In short, we reached 2000 fans on facebook, released a major update for Action! with great new features, especially useful for tutorial makers and we reorganized our Splash developers team so be patient, new updates are coming soon for our player! Below you can find more reading, enjoy.
Action!
We are after three releases since last entry. Chronologically in 1.3.3 we did some improvements that may affect people who do video tutorials with Action!, we fixed exporting where after export process audio was slowed and we added more keys available for hot keys. Here's the full update list:
Mouse cursor synchronization improvement for desktop recordings
"Slow motion" audio problem in exported MP4 files fixed (experienced for recordings with 192kHz audio)
More keyboard buttons are available as Hotkeys
Video recording improvements for low framerate recordings
Not starting export (showing 0% progress) problem fixed
Small UI improvements
Action! 1.3.4 is a bow for the 1.3.3. We found some more performance available to make your desktop recorder work smoother. We improved mouse movement so now it looks almost perfect. Here's the full list of changes in 1.3.4:
Mouse cursor synchronization improvements
Fix for numeric keyboard hotkeys
Small UI improvements
Action! 1.4.0 is a huge thing for us, it takes Action! to another level of making video tutorials. We added a feature that allows you to visualize your mouse clicks. Here a sneek peek that we released on Mirillis Fanpage before 1.4.0 was launched:
Since lots of people asked for this small, but practical feature, we have added a Capture Screenshot button to Active Desktop Region mode so now you can make your particular area screenshot directly from this mode. Green Camera button is waiting!
We also improved multi-display setups, so you should no longer meet any issues while using more than one monitor, but remember to always change you active desktop while recording with Action! to the one you want to record - F8 set by default.
.fic available for another applications?
Yes! We are working on our own codec that will allow you to open .fic files in every application that uses DirectShow. It will be ready soon, so be patient and stay close to our facebook page where we post information earlier than elsewhere.
Splash player
Since we received a lot of questions about Splash players and some people mention that we given up. We have great news. We reorganized our developers responsible for Splash player and they are working on next update. If you have any suggestions that you think we should include in next Splash versions let us know at support@mirillis.com
Sweepstakes
We ended the cycle with our weekly giveaways. Last winner was Travis Elkin from Canada. We are planning new giveaways with another cool prizes (including free licenses) so stay close to our facebook page for newest info.
We often mention about our facebook page, but if you find Twitter more useful follow us or lurk our official website for more information.
