"Select area or window" in the source menu opens a picker over every
display. Hovering highlights the window under the cursor, or the whole
screen over the desktop, and a click picks it. Dragging draws an area,
and moving or resizing any pick turns it into an area. Record, Enter or
a double-click starts recording, Select only picks, Escape cancels.
The window-list helper gains a --z-order mode that lists windows front
to back with their owner process, so the picker hits the frontmost
window and skips Recordly's own. A picked window or screen becomes the
same source the lists offer. An area becomes an area:<displayId> source
that the capture helper crops like a window that never moves, cursor
telemetry normalizes to, and a dashed outline marks while recording.
The main process validates every pick: a window must be one the picker
offered. Picker windows stay hidden until they have painted, so opening
the picker does not flash the app background.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record captured frames with BT.709 conversion and explicit limited-range metadata. Share the Windows conversion code between capture engines and apply matching colour metadata on macOS and FFmpeg fallbacks.
