Version History
Version 3.8.2 - November 2016
iStopMotion 3 requires at least macOS X Lion v10.7.4. macOS X Mountain Lion v10.10 and later is recommended.
- Make DSLR cameras work on macOS 10.12 Sierra.
- Fixed a crash when removing the value from the timelapse time interval input field.
- Fixed a crash when closing a document.
Version 3.8.1 - September 2016
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- Make iStopMotion run on older MacOS versions again.
- Fixed a rare crash.
Version 3.8 - May 2016
- Improvements to connection stability to our companion App iStopMotion Remote Camera.
- fixed a crash when opening the Preferences Window on OS 10.10
Version 3.7 - October 2015
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- Fixed a problem on OS X El Capitan (10.11) where the live view was upside down.
Version 3.6 - February 2014
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- Live View is now available for specifically white listed DSLR cameras by Canon or Nikon. Please refer to
http://boinx.com/connect/istopmotion/supportedcameras for a complete
list of supported models. If you think your Canon or Nikon DSLR should be supported, please let us know using the Provide Feedback command in the iStopMotion menu.
- If your DSLR camera is set to auto mode a warning will appear that you will get a flickering movie.
- Screen Capture Source can now be set to full screen size via popup menu.
- Fixed crash when multiple images were imported at once.
- Fixed crash when using iStopCamera (remote iStopMotion camera app for iOS devices)
- The Canon 700D isn't recognized under OS-X 10.7.5. Please update your MacOS.
- Opening certain QuickTime movies with iStopMotion fails due to a sandbox violation. Please use iStopMotion project files only.
- If you are using iGlasses, please install version 3.2.1 or later in combination with iStopMotion 3.
Version 3.5 - 10. December 2013
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4.
OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- iStopMotion now supports live
view with certain models of Canon DSLR cameras. Please refer to
http://boinx.com/connect/istopmotion/supportedcameras for a complete
list of supported models.
- Small bugfixes.
Version 3.2.2 - 18. Oktober 2013
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- Fixed crash during software update.
Version 3.2.1 - 16. September 2013
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- Fixed issue with iStopMotion Remote Camera ("iStopCamera") when iOS device camera orientation was face down.
Version 3.2 - 27. August 2013
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- iStopMotion now exports your clip or selected frames as animated GIF.
- And some smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 3.1.1 - 1. August 2013
iStopMotion 3 requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.4 and later is recommended.
- iStopMotion now optionally sends usage and diagnostic data to Boinx Software, to help improve its products and services.
- Compatibility with an upcomming OS X release.
- Fixed strange behaviour when displaying the new document sheet.
- A rare crash on closing a document was fixed.
- And many more smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 3.1 - March 2013
- Added screen capture source. This new way to insert frames into your movie can be used to capture a portion of your computers screen. We are curious what you will to with this.
- Added export presets using Apple’s ProRes codec, if installed.
- Advanced chroma keyer settings now again show the correct source preview.
- Improved handling and displaying of rotoscope movie.
- Updated help to reflect all new features.
- Updated localizations.
- Fixed a rare crash after iMovie export.
- Fixed a rare crash during Final Cut export.
- Improved stability of software update process.
- Lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 3.0.2 - November 2012
- Enhanced compatibility with third party QuickTime components. iStopMotion automatically unloads certain QuickTime components that we have identified as incompatible with the app sandbox environment. However, it is strongly recommended that you uninstall the components that are listed in the warning message on startup as they affect stability in many apps. Click the help icon in that warning dialog for more details.
- Export as 'Image Sequence' functionality provided by QuickTime once again works.
- Exported QuickTime movies with the 'Prepare for Internet Streaming' option set are now exported correctly.
- Keyboard shortcuts for 'Movie > Go to' submenu work again.
- Keyboard shortcut for 'Send to iMovie' added.
- Support for using computer-wide licenses. License files placed in '/Library/Application Support/Boinx/Licenses/' will be used for all users on a computer. This enables administrators to deploy multi-seat licenses easily. This of course only works on the Boinx download version.
- Automatically updating to newer versions of iStopMotion will once again work once version 3.0.2 is running. This last time you still need to update manually. This applies only to the Boinx download version, Mac App Store customers continue to use the App Store app for updating.
- A crash caused when importing certain audio or video files into iStopMotion has been fixed.
- Lots of other fixes.
Version 3.0.1 - August 2012
iStopMotion 3 and later requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4.
- A warning message is shown if third party QuickTime components are installed which can crash iStopMotion.
- Capability to set a default path for movie presets has been removed, as it is incompatible with sandboxing.
- Fixing a crash while choosing the Image Sequence export.
- Minor fixes for Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Version 3.0 - August 2012
iStopMotion 3 and later requires at least OS X Lion v10.7.4. Version 3 is a major update that modernizes certain parts of the app and introduces great new features like the iStopMotion Remote Camera.
- iStopMotion Remote Camera. iStopMotion can now wirelessly capture from an iOS device with the aid of iStopMotion Remote Camera app that was introduced with iStopMotion for iPad. Use your iPhone / iPod touch or iPad to capture in up to 1080p resolution by using your local WiFi connection. (iPhone 4S and The new iPad can capture up to 1080p, iPhone 4, iPod touch and iPad 2 can handle up to 720p.)
- Ready for Mountain Lion. iStopMotion 3 fully supports OS X Mountain Lion.
- Redesign user interface. The look and feel of iStopMotion has been modernized and unified with iStopMotion for iPad.
- Retina compatibility. iStopMotion 3 is fully ready for the latest generation MacBook Pro with Retina display.
- Fullscreen mode. Put your document into fullscreen for perfect focus and maximum real estate.
- Enhanced Security. iStopMotion now runs in app sandbox mode. According to Apple this provides greater security for our users.
- Integration with Final Cut Pro X. You can seamlessly integrate stop-motion and time lapse clips with your Final Cut Pro X project. Just select File > Send to Final Cut and your clip will appear as a new event in Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.1 or later is required.
- Lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 2.8.4 - August 29, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.8.2 and later requires at least Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 with Quicktime 7.6.3, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion is highly recommended.
- Flip book printing has a new option to print crop masks instead of full borders.
- Printing a flip book on Mac OS X Lion failed.
- Updated iMovie sharing to use iMovie'11 Drop Box. For more information see: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2151
Version 2.8.3 - August 8, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.8.2 and later requires at least Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 with Quicktime 7.6.3, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion is highly recommended.
- Starting again on OS X Leopard v10.5.8.
- Smaller changes in underlying frameworks.
Version 2.8.2 - August 3, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
While we continue to work on major news for iStopMotion we once more had to go back and fix the whole still camera functionality for both Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6.8) and OS X Lion due to drastic changes in the Apple frameworks in those versions. Good news is that our completely new implementation seems to be far more stable and versatile, serving us as a great foundation for future enhancements.
This update is strongly recommended for all users of Boinx iStopMotion 2.x and required if you need still camera functionality on Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion.
- Completely new implementation for still cameras on Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 and OS X Lion. This affects the Test Still Camera Assistant, importing from a still camera and capturing with still cameras.
- A few more fixes, some of them cosmetic changes for OS X Lion.
- Smaller changes in underlying frameworks.
Version 2.8.1 - July 6, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.5 and later require at least Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.7 or later is highly recommended.
- Fixed an issue with the app silently quitting when capturing with a demo license installed. Sorry for the inconvenience!>
- Wording improvement in the General prefs. Thanks to Craig Lauridsen for spotting the inconsistency.
- A few minor fixes for Mac OS X Lion.
Version 2.8 - May 26, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
- Russian localization! Thanks to the great work of Борис Матвеев (Boris Matveev) we now have iStopMotion fully localized into Russian.
- Lots of work to re-enable capturing with Canon DSLRs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard v.10.6.5 and higher. We tested on many different configurations, especially with Canon 5D MKII and found it working every single time. However, we heard that older firmware versions of the camera prevented interaction with computers. We tested with version 2.0.8 available from Canon.
- Filter effects such as Color Correction and Tilt Shift are now also applied when importing images via menu or drag & drop. Please make sure that a source is selected before importing.
- Using the 'Edit in Image Editor…' command and copy & paste of image contents will not apply the effects when re-importing the edited frame.
- Detecting bus overload when connecting too may devices (cameras, hard drives, …) to USB or Firewire ports.
- Major efforts to improve color fidelity:
- Preview and captured frame would sometimes not match exactly.
- Copy & Paste used to deteriorate colors and brightness in previous versions.
- There were noticeable differences between captured frames via continuous recording and single frame recording.
- Still camera images were not always imported at the highest quality possible.
- The world is just a better place when colors look alike.
- Keyboard shortcuts now support non-ASCII languages and keyboards like Cyrillic and Greek.
- Fixed a crash with foreground objects.
- Changing values in the Color Correction module will now immediately update the still camera preview.
- The recorded material would get blurry when switching between continuous and single frame recording.
- Corrected a few typos, mostly in the built-in help.
- Miscellaneous other fixes to both app and frameworks.
- When editing frames with a non-square pixel aspect ratio, make sure that your editor correctly supports that sort of image, otherwise the result after editing will look distorted. We know that Photoshop and Preview handle it correctly while most common photo editors don't.
- We would like to get your feedback if you need a switch to capture interlaced instead of de-interlaced frames from interlaced cameras.
Version 2.7 - February 1, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.5 and later require at least Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.4 or later is highly recommended.
- Japanse localization is back. Big thanks to Hayashi-san! If you need a great localizer, you should consider Eita Hayashi.
- French localization is back. Thanks to Hervé Steyer and Matthieu Renault. Also highly recommended localizers.
- Resolved a crash that sometimes occurred when a camera was getting connected or disconnected.
- Unfortunately most Canon DSLR cameras are no longer working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and 10.6.6.
Support had been added by Apple in 10.6.4 but once again dropped in 10.6.5. We don't know the reason for this but can confirm that
Image Capture and Aperture also no longer work with those cameras. Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about this right now.
We will continue to investigate and keep you updated…
- Various other fixes.
Version 2.6.1 - January 18, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
- Resolved a crash on startup on all Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 systems. Sorry about that! Supporting legacy systems is getting harder and harder and may soon vanish.
- Resolved an issue that would destroy the Mac App Store version after using the "Send to iMovie" command.
- Many other impovements and fixes for all versions, but even more so for the Mac App Store build.
Version 2.6 - January 7, 2011 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.6 is the first version to appear on the Mac App Store.
- This is the first version to fully support the Mac App Store.
- Added an awesome Getting Started movie that can be accessed via Help > Getting Started.
- Camera preview had wrong aspect ratio when capturing with a NTSC 4:3 video camera.
- Improved the circumstances for showing the warning about missing HDV Codec.
- Fixed quite a few rather esoteric crashes that still occurred after 2.5.1 was released. No animals were harmed when performing the necessary voodoo.
- As usual, many other small fixes and improvements.
Version 2.5.1 - November 23, 2010 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.5.1 fixes almost all crashes that have been reported since the 2.5 release.
- Improved handling of Tilt Shift configuration interface.
- Some third party video sources caused crashes. We tried to work around that.
- Crash that occurred sometimes when exporting to iMovie with multiple documents open.
- Many of smaller fixes and improvements, too many to name.
Version 2.5 - November 18, 2010 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.5 is a major milestone. Lots of things under the hood have been completely rewritten and old technologies replaced with modern ones. Immediate improvements are the ability to use multiple video cameras at the same time, use HDV cameras, interface with more DSLRs or enhance your image with effects like Tilt Shift and Color Correction. As a side effect it is no longer possible to support Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.x). iStopMotion now requires at least Mac OS X Leopard v 10.5.8, Mac OS X Snow Leopard v 10.6.4 or later are highly recommended to full functionality and best performance.
- Complete move to modern QuickTime capture API for video cameras.
- iStopMotion can now work with multiple video cameras at the same time,
- does no longer block cameras from use in other (modern) apps like iChat.
- Given that either Final Cut Studio or Logic Studio is installed you can now use HDV cameras in full HD resolution.
- Tilt Shift Filter. Use this popular optical effect to make you scene look like a miniature. Especially appealing with time lapse movies. A convenient preset functionality lets you store your favorite settings for future use. Please note that Tilt Shift is not available on older MacBook and Mac mini computers with onboard Intel GMA graphics.
- Color Correction filter. Easily change tint, brightness and contrast of images to either correct lighting deficiencies or achieve a special atmosphere. Also with added preset gorgeousness.
- Send to iMovie. Direct one click transfer of your clip to iMovie ('08 or newer required). This allows you to very quickly add cool intros, transitions, effects, sounds and share your work through YouTube, MobileMe, …
- Support for more recent Canon DSLR models (Mac OS X v 10.6.4 or later required).
- New document and export presets matching sharing presets in iMovie.
- Improved Apple Remote support. Both the old white as well as the new aluminum Apple Remote are supported in iStopMotion 2.5. Button assignments are:
- MENU: Capture a frame
- PLAY hold: Capture a preview frame (with still cameras)
- PLAY/PAUSE tap: Start/stop playback
- LEFT/RIGHT tap: move the timeline left by one frame
- LEFT/RIGHT hold: move timeline to beginning of movie
- The select button on the aluminum remote has the same function as PLAY/PAUSE.
- Dynamic preview quality adjustment. This enableds users with older computers/graphics cards to work with high resolution cameras and effects like Tilt Shift. The resolution and frame rate of the camera previewed in iStopMotion will be dynamically adjusted so that your computer remains usable. Please note that capturing always uses the full quality of your camera.
- Various user interface improvements.
- Using "Save as" to overwrite your original document does no longer fail immediately. Nevertheless, please use "Save" to save your document and "Save As" only for saving it to a NEW file.
- Edit in … would sometimes not reimport the saved frame correctly.
- Lots of smaller fixes and improvements, way too many to name.
Version 2.1.2 - March 11th, 2010 - Home, Express and Pro
- On 10.5 and later files on HFS+ volumes can be externally renamed again.
- Some systems send rename events even if file is not renamed externaly. Handling this correctly now.
Version 2.1.1 - December 8th, 2009 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.1.1 fixes a few issues discovered in 2.1 and also improves details in French and Japanese localizations. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users of the Home, Express and Pro versions.
- Some still cameras (like Nikon D60) would deliver wrong images in preview.
- Several small improvements to German, French and Japanese localization. The ReadMe included on the disk image is now also localized in Japanese.
- Work around crashing issues with rotoscope and background movies.
- Background and foreground movies would sometimes not get updated on screen properly.
- Still Camera test results can once again be submitted.
- Several fixes, lots of them for improved Snow Leopard compatibility.
Version 2.1 - October 29th, 2009 - Home, Express and Pro
iStopMotion 2.1 is the first Boinx Software product to provide a full Japanese localization! Apart from that it features all new markers and provides bugfixes improving support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and fixing user reported issues. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users of the Home, Express and Pro versions.
- Full Japanese localization included.
- Markers. Markers are a convenient way to structure your timeline and to aid your animation, e.g. in timing motion. Give us feebdack how you like the current feature, so we can adopt it even better to your needs.
- A marker is defined by a starting and an ending frame. Each marker has it's own name, color and description.
- Create a new marker either via Movie > Marker > Add… or via context menu on the time ruler in the timeline.
- Markers can be moved in the timeline by dragging them. Drag the small handles at start or end to just adjust that edge. Double click a marker bar to edit that marker.
- Hovering over a marker will show it's descriptions in a help tag.
- Support for long file names including no-latin characters on Mac OS X Leopard and later when working on modern file systems. This excludes FAT-32 formatted USB sticks.
- Your "Hide Extension" choice in the "Save As" dialog is now honoured.
- Several fixes, lots of them for improved Snow Leopard compatibility.
- Lots of fixes and improvements to the underlying frameworks.
Version 2.0.8 - July 11th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.8 is another small bugfix release. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.
- Keyboard shortcuts should now work again. Version 2.0.5 introduced a couple of new shortcuts. If you customized your shortcuts, please click reset so see those new ones and customize shortcuts again to your needs.
- Fixed a strange export movie length issue when using very low frame rates.
- An issue with keyboard navigation and background tracks has been resolved.
- A few more minor changes and improvements to the underlying frameworks.
Version 2.0.7 - May 9th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.7 outlines Canon DSLR still camera support in Mac OS X Leopard fixes a major issue introduced with QuickTime 7.4.5. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.
- Some Canon DSLRs like the 20D work with iStopMotion (only on Mac OS X Lepard)! You need to set the camera to "normal", not into PTP mode as suggested before. All cameras that are supported for tethered shooting in Aperture should also work with iStopMotion. See this Apple Support article for details.
- With QuickTime 7.4.5 installed, the Home and Express versions would sometimes either display a garbled image or even crash on machines with new (high resolution) built-in iSight cameras, such as recent iMac and MacBook Pro computers. We were able to work around this issue with a trade-off of a somewhat reduced performance on these machines.
- Improved handling when running out of disk space.
- The insert point now is always at the last frame when opning a movie.
- More consistent transport behaviour. Jump to beginning now moves to the front of frame 1 so that you can insert frames at the beginning of the movie. Note that in this case there is no frame to display for the overlay.
- The time unit is now saved into and loaded from the document.
- Entering data in the time lapse interval and continuous recording fields works a lot more reliable.
- Worked around another QuickTime issue with long file names. Please note that due to some QuickTime limitations file names can not be longer than 27 characters.
- A few more minor changes and improvements. Also, some lurking memory issues have been resolved.
Version 2.0.6 - March 25th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.6 fixes the brocken feedback assistant. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.
- Repaired broken feedback assistant.
Version 2.0.5 - March 20th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.5 once more contains a few important fixes. Amongst others were able to work around the conflict with Final Cut Pro/Express installations. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.
- The menu item "Send to Final Cut Pro" now has a configurable shortcut.
- Implemented a new way to calclulate the minimum timelapse interval. The time now adapts itself according to previous measurements. This should result in overal shorter intervals, especially with still cameras.
- Worked around a rounding issue that could result in stuttering movies when recording continuously.
- Re-implemented parts of the still camera code control after discovering major memory problems due to changes in Mac OS X Leopard.
- Removed the DVCPROHDMuxer alert on startup as we managed to find a workaround.
- At least one more obscure possible crashing issue has been resolved.
- Improvements to the underlying frameworks and localizations.
- Again, other work in preparation of the next major feature release.
Version 2.0.4 - February 18th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.4 is a bugfix release and works around some changes in Mac OS X 10.5.2. This update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.
- Some background objects would draw with wrong aspect ratio in version 2.0.3.
- Another try to really fix the Copy32ARGB32ARGB crash on Intel based Macs.
- Prevented a potential crash related to opening/creating new documents.
- Adjusted drawing of certain buttons for Mac OS X 10.5.2.
- In certain situations the preview movie could be wrong in one frame.
- Thumbnail rendering now works in background for continuous recording sessions.
- A memory leak related to continuous recording and image import.
- Startup and swiching video source is faster with a DV camera connected and FinalCut Pro installed.
- More improvements to the underlying frameworks.
- Other work in preparation of the next major feature release.
Version 2.0.3 - January 28th, 2008 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.3 fixes all known bugs and hopefully even most of the extremely strange crash logs we received. Thanks to everybody for sending us crash reports, this really helps us tracking problems.
- When importing a bunch of files, e.g. via using Import Images from Disk..., the import order of files is now the Finder sort order.
- Updated to latest version of the great Remote Control Wrapper from Martin Kahr. Amongst other improvements this includes support for the Keyspan RF Remote for FrontRow if anybody happens to use that.
- Includes one background and foreground set from the Boinx Winter Theme, previously only available as a separate installer.
- Added an alert on startup when an old version of DVCPROHDMuxer is installed. This component comes with Final Cut Pro and old versions of it cause major problems on Leopard. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307092 for details of Final Cut Pro compatibility with Leopard.
- Opening a movie with dimensions larger than the current license allows could lead to a crash.
- Added hidden preference setting ("Delete Image After Download When Capturing") to leave a captured image on a still camera instead of removing it immediately.
- Replacing rotoscope tracks could lead to an exception that prevented further saving of movies.
- Rotoscope and soundtrack offsets were sometimes handled poorly.
- Hopefully fixed a strange crash deep in QuickTime (Copy32ARGB32ARGB) that only appeared on Leopard and later QuickTime versions.
- A memory leak that probably caused alls sorts of problems is gone.
- Various performance improvements.
- Small improvements to German localization.
- Lots of improvements to the underlying frameworks.
- Other small fixes in preparation of the next major feature release.
Version 2.0.2 - November 25th, 2007 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.2 fixes a nasty crash recently introduced in 2.0.1. Sorry for the inconvenience and the long delay. As a small excuse there's a rather useless new background image featuring the rather remarkable carpet of the Cypress Hotel in Cupertino, where this text is being written.
- A crashing issue related to opening movies has been fixed. Thank you very much for all the submitted crash reports!
- When you try to move or rename the document file while it is open in iStopMotion, we will try to move it back to it's old location and alert you that this currently cannot be done without destroying the movie.
- Improved opening of documents saved with versions 2.0 FC2 to FC6.
- A few more improvements regarding changes in QuickTime and Leopard.
Version 2.0.1 - November 20th, 2007 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0.1 fixes a few issues discovered after 2.0 shipped and also adds some additional Leopard-related changes. The update is strongly recommended for all users of iStopMotion 2.
- First few useful animations on Leopard.
- A Quartz Extreme enabled graphics card is now officially required as we had a few crashes with very old graphics cards.
- Flipbook printing works again on Leopard.
- Contains updated version of the Kagi built-in store. The old version could crash in some situations on Leopard.
- Major problems with saving after a 'Save As' operation have been resolved.
- Fixed a rare crash when opening a movie.
- Fixed another rare crash on Save As.
- Propper document type display in Finder.
- Various QuickTime fixes for Leopard.
- Hopefully even more stable device switching.
- Removed an incompatibilty in the built-in help with Safari 2 installed.
- Worked around changes to crash reporting on Leopard. Please submit reports in case iStopMotion crashes! It's the only way we can locate and fix your issues...
- Quite a few more stability and performance related changes.
Version 2.0 - October 16th, 2007 - Home, Express and Pro
Version 2.0 is a major new release offering lots of new features as well as improvement throughout the application. See the ReadMe for a quick overview. Please note that some of the features are only available in iStopMotion Express and/or Pro.
- Completely new Workflow
- Workflow based on convenient presets that keep the complexity from the user
- Ships with common presets that cover most needs.
- Power users can customize all details to their needs.
- Presets also include export and playback settings.
- Playback movies are now rendered in background, so you don't have to wait long when pressing play.
- Saving is now instantaneous as files are captured directly to the right movie.
- Option to auto-save your work, so you never need to lose any frames in case of a crash.
- iStopMotion project is a fully compatible QuickTime movie, so it can be used directly in other applications
- Convenient export based on presets.
- Aspect ratio support for documents.
- Support for frame-based count in addition to timecode display.
- Integration with Final Cut Pro (5.1 or later required)
- Live video recording
- You can now record real-time events directly into your stop motion project.
- Frame rates will be automatically converted so you can record from a PAL video camera into a 15 FPS project.
- Advanced animation features
- Rotoscope/Lip-Sync
- You can now load movies as a reference. This is helpful for combining real-world movies with animated parts. It can also be used to do lip-synching.
- As you usually need this reference when working on the next frame there's an option to look one frame ahead in the rotoscope track
- See the rotoscope movie in the way most useful to you. In the main window, splitting the display in two, in a separate window or blended with your captured frames.
- Choose to also have the sound of that movie playing.
- Offset the movie to match your scene.
- Foreground objects
- Use supplied objects that will be composited on top of your frames.
- Use your own still images or movies.
- Background objects
- Use supplied obejcts that will be composited in the back your frames.
- Use your own still images or movies.
- Chroma-key your frames right inside iStopMotion.
- Convenient automatic detection of chroma-key color.
- Easily reverse a selection of images for quicker animation.
- Decent device support
- Mutliple video devices are now supported in iStopMotion. Please note that due to a limitation in the underlying system software architecture only one video device can be used at the same time.
- Adjust settings of video devices if device supports it. Some cameras like the external iSight support adjusting lots of image related parameters. There's now a window to fine-tune all those settings.
- Settings for each device are stored. If you make changes to, e.g., the hue setting of you external iSight, switch to some other device and back to the external iSight later on, that setting will be restored.
- Aspect ratio support for all devices. For the sake of simplicity we assume an 1:1 aspect ratio for still cameras. iStopMotion tries to automatically read the aspect ratios from video cameras. In case a camera fails to report the correct ratio you can manually set it in the Device Settings window.
- Overhauled User Interface
- Completely new and modern window look, no more brushed metal.
- Removed the old drawer in favor of a flexible sidebar.
- Clear distinction in three tasks: recording, view and compositing.
- Slightly darker look for the Pro version to better accomodate studio situations.
- Separate inspector for current timecode/frame number. Click on the icon next to the time display in the lower left corner of the main window to open it.
- Re-designed timeline
- Completely redesigned to improve orientation in your project.
- Scales with your need. Stays very easy if you don't use any of the advanced options.
- Separate tracks for foreground, background, rotoscope and soundtrack media.
- Import images by dragging them into the timeline.
- Customizable shortcuts
- There are now customizable shortcuts for many functions of iStopMotion.
- Use them with any key combination.
- Configure custom speech shortcuts for all of them.
- Use AppleScript shortcuts to drive iStopMotion.
- Re-engineered for speed, quality and stability
- Capturing is now much faster.
- As a result of the speed improvements you can now go as low as 0.1 sec for time lapse given good hardware. This is about factor 10 to 20 compared to version 1.x.
- When scaling is necessary to insert a captured image into the movie, this is now done in much better quality. It might be a little slower, though.
- Resolutions up to PAL/NTSC (720 x 576).
- Resolutions up to theoretical limit of 10,000 x 10,000.
- Affordable high-quality HD solution by using HDMI. Use HDMI hardware, e.g., Blackmagic Intensity card to capture HD content directly into iStopMotion.
- Play now behaves more intelligent. If only one frame is selected and "play selection only" is enabled, iStopMotion will play back 0.5 seconds around that frame. This can also combined with loop.
- Worked on still camera protocols for better stability.
- Improved progress that can be cancelled whenever reasonable and technically possible.
If you find issues, bugs or limitations please report them by selecting "Provide Feedback" from the iStopMotion. A big thank you to all beta testers for helping to make iStopMotion 2 the best release possible!