NEW iStopMotion 2 Home Edition - Now Available at Software4Students!
Boinx's iStopMotion is the leading solution for stop motion animation and time-lapse capture for Mac users. It contains many exciting tools to help you express your creativity, yet it remains very easy to use.
Making your own movie on a shoestring budget with is easy with stop motion animation (also known as claymation). There is no need for a script, talented actors, a crew or a huge movie set. Just bring your toys and your fantasy, hook up your camera to your Mac and have a go. It is so easy, your kids can do it. You might even realize that you have the next generation of Tim Burtons at home!
Key Features:
- Time Lapse: iStopMotion can be set to capture frames automatically on time intervals, letting you create true time-lapse movies. Speed up slow processes, like a flower blooming or the sun setting, so that it appears to happen quickly.
- Flipbook Printing: Remember the animated flip books from your childhood? They’re back with a high-tech twist! iStopMotion allows you to print your animations in a format that easily folds into a flip book. Your kids can print out their creations and then show them off to classmates or proud grandparents. Flip books are a great way to share creativity.
- NEW Tilt Shift Filter: Use this popular optical effect to make you scene look like a miniature. Especially appealing with time lapse movies. (Not with Intel GMA graphics).
- NEW Camera Support: Added support for more recent Canon DSLR models and HDV cameras (when Logic Studio or Final Cut Studio is installed).
- NEW Send to iMovie: Directly transfer your clips to iMovie '08 (or newer) and add cool intros, transitions, effects, sounds and more.
- NEW Improved Apple Remote support: Directly transfer your clips to iMovie '08 (or newer) and add cool intros, transitions, effects, sounds and more.
- NEW Dynamic Preview Quality Adjustment: This enables 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.
What is Stop Motion Animation?
If you have ever watched films like Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or you are familiar with "Wallace and Gromit", you have actually been watching stop motion in action. Stop motion consists on creating a sequence of still images paraded before your eye at high speed. The movement you see happens because there are small differences from one still image to the next.