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Version History
| 1.10.3 - January 24th, 2007 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
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| New | Slight visual refresh of the main window. Less pixels waisted on textured window background. |
| Fix | Fixed a few issues in the registration process. If you previously registered iStopMotion and did not receive an email reply from Boinx Software please try registering again. |
| Fix | Fixed an encoding issue with some localized strings. |
| 1.10.2 - December 13th, 2006 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| Fix | Works again on Mac OS X Panther (tested down to 10.3.3) |
| Fix | Maintenance fixes. |
| Note | Added support for the US retail version. |
| 1.10.1 - May 29th, 2006 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| New | Apple Remote Support (Tiger only) The Apple Remote shipping with the fairly recent Macs can now be used to navigate the movie (Left and Right key of the remote, hold keys to jump to beginning and end), toggle play (Play/Pause) and to capture images (Menu button). |
| New | PowerUser feature: Quickly capture any number of frames using the numeric keypad (HR version only) You can now use the keys 1 to 9 and 0 on the numeric keypad to capture any number of frames from 1 to 10 directly in one go. Use the "*" key on the keypad to bring up a small floating window that allows you to enter any number of frames (up to 1000) to be inserted into the movie. |
| Fix | Opening an empty movie on Intel based Macs would cause a crash. |
| 1.9.2 - April 7th, 2006 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| New | RAW image support (Tiger only) The Still Camera Plugin (Capture and Import), Import from Disk and Drag & Drop now also support common RAW formats. Notes: RAW formats are only supported on Mac OS X Tiger. Only those formats supported by Mac OS X Tiger are supported by iStopMotion. In doubt please test with a demo license before buying a license. |
| New | Family License In addition to the single user license, iStopMotion can now also be licensed for a family on up to five computers in a single private household. |
| New | New menu item "Import Images from Disk" was added. Many users did not recognize the ability to Drag & Drop images directly from other applications (e.g. Finder) into the timeline. |
| Fix | Fixed another Still Camera problem on Panther. |
| Fix | More small fixes and improvements. |
| 1.9.1 - January 31st, 2006 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| Fix | Fixed crash with Still Camera capture. |
| Fix | Other small improvements. |
| Note | Tested on and qualified for Intel-based iMac. |
| 1.9 - January 10th, 2006 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| New | Flipbook printing. Did you ever want to see your movies on paper? iStopMotion now lets you print Flipbooks containing the frames of your movie. |
| New | Universal Application. iStopMotion works natively on the brand new Intel-based Macs and continues to support PowerPC-based Macs. |
| 1.8.4 - December 15th, 2005 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| Fix | Corrections to the French localisation and help. |
| Fix | some more bugs related to importing and exporting of frames as well as licensing. |
| 1.8.3 - November 19th, 2005 iStopMotion DV, Plus, HR and Still Camera Plugin (not released as download) | |
| New | Includes complete French localisation. |
| New | Integrated Help in English, French and German. |
| Fix | When running on a new version of QuickTime for the first time, some preferences will be reset to their defaults. With 1.8.1 and QuickTime 7 playback would no longer work if you were using custom preview movie settings. |
| Fix | Fixed a couple of memory leaks related to importing and exporting of images. |
| Fix | Further small fixes and tons of improvements under the hood. |
| 1.8.1 - April 27th, 2005 iStopMotion DV, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| Fix | Compatibility with Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". |
| Change | The default preview movie settings deliver much better quality playback. |
| Enh | When importing multiple photos via drag and drop, the files are now ordered by filename. |
| Fix | Fixed rare crashing problem related to switching off still cameras. |
| Fix | More consistent capture menu entry. |
| Fix | Under very rare circumstances audio would not be played back correctly. |
| Fix | Fixed OpenGL issue that surfaced only with certain input device/graphics card combinations. |
| 1.8.0 - March 16th, 2005 iStopMotion DV, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| New | Sound Support for the HR version Given a HR license you can now import a soundtrack into iStopMotion. A graphical waveform will help you match your animation to the sound. Sound can be played alone by clicking and holding the mouse button somewhere on the waveform, and of course along with the movie in playback. A context menu gives access to some common soundtrack operations like muting, moving and replacing the sound. |
| New | Major Timeline Improvements
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| New | Major improvements to image scaling. If input and movie results differ in size, iStopMotion will now use a MUCH better scaling algorithm. This is most obvious with HR movies and when using still cameras. On the downside, scaling is now a bit slower, again most noticeable with huge images. |
| New | Multiple Still Camera Import More than one shot can be imported from a still camera into iStopMotion in one go. Also watch for some new appearance configuration inside the import window. |
| New | Playback Improvements There are new menu options to only playback the current selection and to loop the playback. |
| New | Completely Redesigned and Improved Preferences |
| Enh | Blinking Improvements
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| Enh | Still Camera files that cannot be imported by iStopMotion (RAW, movies) are no longer displayed in the import window. |
| Fix | Major improvements to memory management, resulting in better performance and a lot less problems. |
| Fix | Exporting a movie would not replace previously exported ones by the same name resulting in garbage data. |
| Fix | Fixed several less and more serious bugs related to document closing and still camera support. |
| New | All necessary files are now distributed inside the application package, there is no longer the need for an installer. |
| Fix | Fix known bugs of version 1.5 |
| 1.5.1-1.7 - internal versions, never released to public | |
| 1.5.0 - Sep 23th, 2004 iStopMotion DV, HR and Still Camera Plugin | |
| New | With the adequate license key iStopMotion can now capture high resolution movies. Movies of almost any size can be created, depending on your input device. You might need a fast machine with a good graphics card to enjoy working with high resolutions. |
| New | Various degrees of noise reduction, also known as Frame Averaging, can be applied with the HR version of iStopMotion. See the Movie menu. |
| New | The movie can now be zoomed and moved inside the window. See the new Zoom sub menu in the View menu. |
| New | iStopMotion creates a preview movie on-the-fly for playback and plays that instead of the original movie. The disadvantage of this technique is that you have to wait for the preview to compute. The big advantage however is that movies of any size should now play back in realtime. Note that the playback is compressed and will therefor look not as good as the original. Your original data is not touched and will remain high quality. |
| New | Multiple image sources can be used with iStopMotion. There's a new source sub menu in the Movie menu and a popup menu in the main window. |
| New | There is now a Still Camera Plugin for iStopMotion. Given the adequate license you can import still images from your camera or - if your camera supports it - capture images directly from within iStopMotion. Importing is done via the Edit menu. Capturing is done by selecting the camera as source. Please note that still camera support requires Mac OS X v10.3. A "still camera assistant" that helps you in deciding whether your camera works with the new iStopMotion Still Camera Plugin is available from the Help menu. |
| New | Licensing has been merged into its own window and should be even easier to use. |
| New | Rotating the video input and muting the time-lapse sound is no longer hidden. Rotating is actually quite visible ;-) The time-lapse sound can be switched off via the preferences. |
| New | All aspects of time lapse recording can now be controlled via AppleScript. |
| New | There's a new option in the preferences to release the video hardware (camera) when iStopMotion is stopped and in background. This makes it possible to work with two applications that use a single camera at the same time. Please note that switching to iStopMotion takes longer in that case, so only use this setting if you really need it. |
| Fix | It should now always be possible to open old movies and continue working on them. |
| Fix | The application should no longer crash or behave strange when a portable goes to sleep due to low battery conditions. |
| Fix | The temp folder set in the preferences will now also be used for the temporary movie data. Some users were reporting problems of full boot partitions before. |
| Fix | Lots of minor and not so minor bug fixes, improved stability and memory management. |
| Note | Version 1.5.0 is an English only release. Localizations will follow ASAP. |
| 1.3.1 - July 22nd, 2004 | |
| New | iStopMotion includes a Swedish localization, kindly provided by Jerker Nilsson. Please note that we can only provide support in English and German language. |
| Fix | A few small fixes. |
| 1.3 - Mar. 11th, 2004 | |
| New | iStopMotion is now fully localizable and a German localization is included. |
| New | There are two new hidden options, one to disable the Time Lapse sound and one to rotate the video input by 180¡. |
| New | Copy and Paste between movies with different resolutions now works. |
| Fix | The license tab of the preferences has been greatly improved to make it even less error prone. |
| Fix | The compression settings are now excluded from the "Video Settings" panel, as they made no sense in iStopMotion. Video data coming from the camera is decompressed and always saved uncompressed inside the iStopMotion movie. |
| Fix | Selection is always correctly displayed in the status line. |
| Fix | Exporting images and movies always exports exactly the selected frames. |
| Fix | Delete from the Edit menu now uses the standard Finder shortcut Command-Backspace. |
| Fix | There's a new shortcut for Play. Present has been re-mapped to Command-Shift-F be in line with QuickTime Player. |
| Fix | Lots of cosmetic and usability improvements. |
| 1.2.1 - Dec. 16th, 2003 | |
| Fix | When working with DV cameras, a wrong Codec was used in iStopMotion 1.2 to capture images. This resulted in less than optimal quality when using full DV resolution. |
| 1.2 - Dec. 12th, 2003 | |
| Mod | iStopMotion 1.2 requires a DV license key (for version 1.0 and up). The Lite License has been discontinued. |
| New | Really huge speed improvements when capturing images. We're talking about factor 3-6 here. Even on moderately equipped machines (iMac G3) you should now be able to capture Time Lapse with intervals of one second. |
| New | Divided capture click sound into two parts for better feedback. Now you can hear when capturing starts and when it is finished. |
| New | Different and shorter capture sound for Time Lapse. Again different sound that alerts you when a Time Lapse shot fails (e.g. when camera goes into sleep). |
| New | Divided capture click sound into two parts for better feedback. Now you can hear when capturing starts and when it is finished. |
| New | Switching between multiple input devices is supported. You can use iStopMotion with, e.g., a DV camera and an iSight without problems. |
| New | Export Settings will be remembered in the preferences file. |
| Fix | New Progress Bar for better feedback during long operations like Save and Export. |
| Fix | When buying licenses for iRecordNow and iStopMotion at the same time, the Kagi email can be pasted in and the application will recognise the proper license key. |
| Fix | iStopMotion no longer locks up if either your Mac or your DV camera goes to sleep while running. |
| Fix | This time really sorted out all Panther and QuickTime 6.4 related problems. Hopefully. |
| Fix | Time Lapse counter now correctly counts down to 00:00:00. |
| Fix | Tons of other bug fixes. |
| 1.1.1 - Nov. 6th, 2003 | |
| Fix | Fixed a permission problem with the installer. |
| Fix | Fixed a problem where the version checking window would just disappear instead of notifying that a new version is available. |
| Fix | Some other small fixes. |
| 1.1 - Oct. 29th, 2003 | |
| New | The blinking slider has found its way into the menu, including keyboard shortcuts - by popular demand. Look under "View > Blinking" for a list of choices. |
| New | There are new options to show areas like a specific aspect ratio, the action and title save areas as overlay in the movie window. See the new button "Frame OverlayÃ" in the options drawer for details. These options should really help people targeting material for image formats like 16:9 and TV screens. |
| New | Huge speed improvements when using IIDC devices like, e.g., Apple iSight. Smaller improvements for all cameras. |
| New | The Options Drawer always opens on the right side of the window. |
| New | Integrated Online Version Check window. |
| Fix | Tried to sort out all Panther related problems. Please report if we missed one. |
| Fix | Compiled using the latest tools. Should bring slight speed improvements in all areas and provide basic G5 support. |
| Fix | Usual bug fixes. |
| 1.0 - Jun. 19th, 2003 | |
| New | The timeline now features a cool aqua look. |
| New | Internet version checking now has an option to check for beta versions in addition to release versions. |
| Fix | Lots of bug fixes. |
| 1.0 Preview - Jun. 6th, 2003 | |
| New | Editing of movie frames in an external editor. File format and the editor application can be selected in the Preferences. Editing itself is very simple: Select frame(s) to edit in iStopMotion. Chose "Edit In ..." menu entry. After working on the files in the editor, just save the file(s) by hitting Command+S. The frames in iStopMotion will update automatically. |
| New | Blinking. Camera Preview and last captured image are displayed in rapid alteration in the preview window. This stroboscopic effect helps your brain to imagine the sequence a lot better. |
| New | Context menus in the timeline. Check them out. |
| New | Licensing model is implemented, details see above (Getting a license). |
| New | Many new useful menu entries with convenient shortcuts. |
| New | Export of frames as Images or Quicktime movie, accessible from Edit and Context menus. |
| New | Video Settings and the settings of more window controls are stored in the preferences file. |
| New | Basic AppleScript support. You can capture frames from AppleScript. At some point there will be a full featured dictionary. |
| Fix | Time Lapse should no longer stop unless you click the Stop button or choose the *new* Stop menu entry. |
| Fix | Export to DV should work reliable. |
| Fix | Scrolling in the timeline is now smoother and should improve control. |
| Fix | Subtle performance improvements for the Live Video, though still not having reached the goal. |
| Fix | Speech Recognition ear is only shown if Speech Recognition is enabled in the Preferences. |
| Fix | Multiple Capture (2, 3 and 4 frames) now always captures identical frames. |
| Change | Keyboard navigation in the timeline was modified. It now behaves as you would expect in a text editor. Cursor keys move single frames. Use Shift+Cursor to select frames, the cursor keys in any combination with Alt/Option to move one second instead of one frame. |
| 0.7 - Apr. 28th, 2003 | |
| New | Time Lapse. Frame capturing can be automated with an adjustable time interval. |
| New | Frame selection. You can now select frames in the timeline. Selected frames are displayed in blue color and can be used for clipboard operations. Just as you would expect, shift-clicking selects a range of frames. |
| New | Multi-Frame Cut/Copy/Paste/Replace. The clipboard operations now work on multiple frames as well. Note: The handling of the clipboard is different for single and multiple frames. Single frames can be pasted into image editors (Adobe Photoshop et al.), multiple frames can be pasted into movie editors (QuickTime Player, ...). Both single and multiple frames can be copied between iStopMotion movies, given that resolution and frame rate are the same. |
| Fix | Better detection of Firewire disconnect/re-connect. The application should no longer hang if a DV cam "falls asleep". |
| Change | Removed Easter Egg. time to add a Xmas thing soon... ;-) |
| 0.6 - Apr. 15th, 2003 - "Easter Egg Release" | |
| New | Timeline. There's a timeline showing all frames in your movie. This is a very early release of this feature and will improve a lot in the near future. You can adjust the zooming. |
| New | Undo/Redo. Unlimited! |
| New | Preferences window. Check it out! |
| New | More Keyboard Shortcuts. The capture shortcuts can be adjusted in the Preferences. |
| New | Speech Recognition. Set up a movie, enable it and say "capture one" to your computer. Cool, eh? |
| New | Speed. The preview update frequency was limited to 1FPS in version 0.3. With version 0.6 you can get at least ten times as much. Expect even more in the next release. |
| New | Movie Playback. You can playback your movie right in the window. We are well aware that DV resolution full-frame movies currently don't play smooth and are working to improve this for the next release. |
| New | Movie Transport. An assortment of buttons offers you to conveniently navigate inside your movie. |
| New | Automatic Version Checking, adjustable in the Preferences. |
| New | You can step through the frames of your movie using the left/right arrow keys. Pressing shift moves a full second instead of one frame. BTW, the same applies to the next/previous transport buttons. |
| New | Licensing Scheme. Starting with version 0.6 you need a valid license in order to fully use iStopMotion. That's not a big deal, as getting one is currently free. Just follow the instructions inside iStopMotion. |
| New | Easter Egg. «nuff said. (No, you don«t win a price if you find it.) |
| Fix | "Present Movie" is improved, but unfortunately still not perfect. |
| 0.3 - Feb. 20th, 2003 | |
| New | Version 0.3 is a complete rewrite! iStopMotion is now a native Cocoa application, completely Mac like. There is the ability to have multiple documents, "Open Recent" and "Save AsÃ" menu entries are available, and much, much more. |
| New | Full support for Cut/Copy/Paste and Replace of frames. |
| New | Hot-Plug: Detection of plug/unplug of DV Cameras while the application is running. |
| New | The "New Movie" dialog defaults to the resolution natively supported by the connected camera. |
| New | Aspect-Ratio capturing (see Cinema-Format as example) |
| New | Live-scrolling of the timeline slider. |
| New | Sound Feedback for "Capture Frame" |
| New | Options are located in a drawer which can be opened/closed by pressing [Option]-"o". |
| New | Menu Entry "Export to DV" with options instead of external AppleScript. |
| Fix | All bugs of older versions are no longer valid, but there's probably new ones! |
| Fix | "Present Movie" now plays all frame of the movie. |
| 0.2 - Dec. 27th, 2002 | |
| New | Keyboard Shortcut [Space] for "Capture Frame" |
| New | Resizing the window now also resizes the capture preview display |
| New | Menu Entry "Present Movie" that presents the captured movie in full-screen mode. |
| New | There is a proper Read Me file! |
| New | Added an AppleScript that converts iStopMotion movies into DV stream format for use with iMovie |
| New | Custom Frame Rate setting is now honored |
| New | Situations where the application would unexpectedly quit have been solved. If you still experience unexpected quits, please let us know (mailto: istopmotion@boinx.com). |
| New | The "Capture Frame" button now captures a frame to the position of the slider, not to the end of the movie as in V0.1 |
| 0.1 - Dec. 18th, 2002 - Initial Release "Last Minute Christmas Preview" | |
