Dragon Stop Motion 2.0.1

Dragon Stop Motion 2.0.1 gives you a useful tool which can create stop frame animation, motion design and special effects using a digital still camera or HD/SD video camera. Dragon Stop Motion controls digital still and video cameras for shooting single frame animation and effects. It provides a comprehensive set of animation and cinematography tools to help you get the shot right. And it keeps your scenes, takes and frames well-organized for post production. Every Dragon Stop Motion purchase includes the new Dragon Controller, a USB keypad that controls the most important functions.

Major Features :

1. Nav-Line: Quickly navigate your animation sequence, as well as select frames for playback or editing.
2. High-res playback: Play back either your video assist frames or proxies of your full-resolution captures.
3. Frame editing: Full-featured frame editing through the X-Sheet and a new Nav-Line.
4. HDV support: Requires OS X 10.6 (or 10.5 with FCP), or Windows.
5. Folder watching: Use Dragon with many unsupported DSLRs, such as Sony and Minolta.
6. New test shot features: Drag and drop into test shots, open in external application.
7. 64-bit processing: Improved overall performance and greater access to RAM on 64-bit Intel Macs.
8. Motion control integration: From Arduino to Kuper, integrate with Dragon in new ways.
9. Improved time-lapse: Separate time-lapse window with improved timing.
10. Project Management
    • Production/scene/take naming: Name your project based on the classic clapboard naming convention.
    • Manage multiple takes for a scene: Create multiple takes within the same scene project. This carries over all of your camera settings, exposures, camera moves, notes, etc.
    • Customizable, printable X-Sheet (dope sheet): Manage the project from a dynamic exposure sheet that updates automatically as you add exposures, audio phonemes, camera moves, and change scene length.
    • Pop-up notes: Enter notes that pop up when it's time to capture a frame.
    • Copy and rename scenes and takes: Duplicate a scene or take from within Dragon.
11. Cinematography and Composition
    • Multiple exposures (sub-frames): Shoot multiple passes for each frame for effects like front light/backlight or stereo pairs.
    • Graphical camera control: Adjust your still camera's shutter speed, aperture, ISO with visual sliders.
    • Depth of field slider: Adjust shutter speed and aperture together to affect depth of field without adjusting exposure.
    • Save camera settings in scene :Dragon saves your camera's settings and restores them when you re-open the scene.
    • ISO lock: Quality control measure.
    • Exposure lock: Adjust camera settings separately for each exposure.
    • Integrated test shot system: Save test shots separately and view them during any take of a scene.
    • Compare images from other scenes: Import any images and view them at full resolution.
    • Clipping view: Quickly see if you are clipping in the highlights or bottoming in the blacks.
    • Digital densitometer: Compare and match areas of exposure despite monitor inconsistencies.
    • Adjustable background gray value: Adjust the area around images in Cine widow to give your eyes a rest—or to suit the imagery.
    • Aspect ratio mask: Add a standard or custom aspect ratio mask and adjust opacity.
    • Separate mask and TV-safe overlay: Frame for both 16:9 and 4:3 in one view.
    • Push-in mask: Add an adjustable push-in mask for checking TV-safe and framing for pre-planned push-ins.
    • Grid layer: Add a custom grid to help with horizon line-up and composition.
12. Capture
    • Camera support: Full integration with the most cameras. Canon, Nikon, Olympus, HDV, HDMI and more.
    • Capture black-out: Darken your monitor while capturing to keep its glow from interfering with your lighting.
    • Auto-detect cameras: Automatically connect to cameras.
    • Automatic live view rest: Pause live view after configurable period of inactivity to avoid overheating.
    • Video frame averaging: Average 2-60 frames to reduce video noise.
    • External shutter control option:Capture live view and then wait for external shutter release (for timing motion control shots).
13. Animation and Pre-Visualization Tools
    • Step to live: Step directly from captured frames to your live view.
    • Auto toggle: Toggle between live view and captured frames with adjustable speed.
    • Toggle: One keypress toggles between live and captured frames; then back again when released.
    • Short play: Play back the last twelve frames (configurable).
    • Grease pencil: Draw paths and lines on screen to assist with animation.
    • Onionskin: Blend the live view over any frame in your animation.
    • Difference mode :Useful for re-lining up a shot if camera or set is bumped.
    • Lights prominent / darks prominent: Useful when character is dark and background is light, or visa versa.
    • Rotoscope layer : Import an image, Dragon Scene, or QuickTime movie as a line-up layer for easy double-pass line-ups, chroma key, or onion-skin.
    • Chromakey / greenscreen : Use basic chroma key (green screen) pull for line up of effects shots.
    • Layer position/size/orientation : Adjust rotoscope layer orientation, scale and position.
    • Play/loop markers: Mark in and out points for playback, looping, editing using Nav-Line.
    • User-assigned hot keys: Simple interface for re-mapping the default keyboard commands.
14. Audio Tools
    • Edit audio: Useful for precise line-up of dialogue, possibly with rotoscope events.
    • Scrub audio: Scrub audio, hear audio while stepping.
    • Track readings: Edit track reading phonetics and dialogue while stepping.
    • On-screen display of audio phonetics: Highlights the phonetics for the current frame, as well as the preceding and upcoming frames.
15. Editing
    • Cut/copy/paste frames: Use the Nav-Line or X-Sheet to mark and edit frames.
    • Insert/overwrite frames   Paste frames over existing frames or between them.
    • Reverse paste: Paste frames in reverse order.
    • Undo edit: Undo your frame edits.
16. Motion Control and Automation
    • Two-way remote: Use Arduino to create a two-way remote control. Control a 3D Stereo slider.
    • Scripting: Automate local processes with integrated scripting.
    • External camera triggering: Create special-effects passes with external camera triggering.
    • Camera move calculator: Calculate hand-cranked camera moves with ease in and ease out.
17. Time-lapse
    • Interval: Set interval in hours, minutes, seconds.
    • Start time: Start time-lapse at a future date/time.
    • End time: End time-lapse at a future date/time.
    • Total frames: End time-lapse after specified number of frames are captured.
    • High precision: Capture within 0.1 second of interval with most cameras.
18. Export
    • Direct access to source RAW/JPG/TIFF files: Your camera's high-res source files are saved in an easily-accessible directory at all times.
    • Export to QuickTime: Create a reference or self-contained movies with many export options.
    • After Effects: Import image sequence directly from scene source location.
    • Final Cut Pro: Create a reference QuickTime and import into your project.

• Mac OS X 10.4.7 - 10.6
• ( Read about OS X 10.5.6 )
• QuickTime 7.2 or newer
• 1.33 GHz CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• A supported camera