Toronto, Canada, July 15, 2011 - High Criteria Inc., the developer of audio and video recording software, today announces the release of Total Recorder Standard Edition, Total Recorder Professional Edition, Total Recorder VideoPro Edition, and Total Recorder Developer Edition, Version 8.3!

New version introduces a set of enhancements, including the ability for Total Recorder to work with media files in MPEG-4, 3GP and MOV formats, keep and display an actual time of the recording (often can be useful while recording a speech), change the playback speed (and optionally preserve a pitch) for a batch of files, and other minor enhancements.

Total Recorder version 8.3 is available free of charge to all those who have purchased a previous version.

What's New in Total Recorder 8.3 (build 4880)

Refer to the table below to review the new features implemented into each edition of Total Recorder Version 8.3: Standard Edition (SE), Professional Edition (PE), VideoPro Edition (VE) and the Developer Edition (DE).

- feature present in this edition, - feature disabled

Feature	SE	PE	VE	DE
Support of audio formats (Windows 7 only)
AAC Audio within MPEG-4 and 3GP containers (*.mp4, *.m4a, *.3gpp, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.3gp2 )
AAC Audio within MOV (Apple QuickTime) container for playback only
Support of video formats (Windows 7 only)
MPEG-4 and 3GP (*.mp4, *.m4v, *.mp4v, *.3gpp, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.3gp2)(1)
MOV (Apple QuickTime) for playback only(1)
Tag Support
Work with the following tag fields within all file types: "Album Artist", "ISRC", "beats per minute"
Add the recording's start time to the file tag
Display the time that a particular position in a recording was recorded based on a timestamp tag
Batch Processing
Use batch processing to change the audio speed in files
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1. With AAC audio streams and AVC/H.264 or MPEG-4 part 2 video streams

Refer to a full version history for additional information.

Information for users of previous versions of Total Recorder

To update to the latest version of Total Recorder you can download download it using the links above and install it on the top of your current installation. If you install Total Recorder version 8.3 over version 6.x, 7.x, or 8.x, all of Total Recorder's settings and registration information are preserved. Otherwise, you will need to obtain a new key using our self-service registration key management system.

All our registered users are eligible to purchase higher editions of Total Recorder for an upgrade fee. For more information, refer to our purchase page.