iStopmotion 2 Final Candidate
August 1, 2007
After more than two years of development, the team is eager to get iStopMotion 2 into your hands. At this stage, iStopMotion 2 is fully functional and has completed intensive beta testing. All major problems reported during beta testing have been resolved, so it should be ready for production work. But please perform your own intensive testing before betting your business on it and report any problems you find.
The team is hard at work to give the product the final touches, but since the remaining tasks are not critical for using the product, we wanted to start getting it into your hands. This is the list of open tasks:
- Clean up the artwork and UI
- Create a comprehensive help
- Localise into German, French, Japanese (maybe more)
- Create a new website
- Update the retail package
Based on Apple�s QuickTime Technology, iStopMotion can be used in professional environments. The captured frames are stored uncompressed so that the raw material has the highest possible resolution. Professional Tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut can be used for further editing.
What’s new in iStopMotion 2?
In two years of development, Boinx have tried to make iStopMotion more powerful for the professional users yet retain the ease of use that enables even young kids to have fun using the product at school. Not an easy task as we had to look at the needs of the various users and get them all covered.
New Workflow
The number one problem with iStopMotion 1 was that if it quit unexpectedly, all the work was lost. As it was capturing frames, those were written to an invisible temp file from where they could be recovered and from where they had to be copied to the final destination when you saved your work. This took a lot of time and caused a lot of anxiety at the end of your work.
In iStopMotion 2, the workflow is turned around. First, you need to give your file a name and a location, so that iStopMotion can save the images directly to that file. That way, there is no waiting at the end of the work when you save your movie and if iStopMotion should crash, the file is in most cases recoverable.
If you are a professional you will save time by saving your standard project settings as a custom preset. For Teachers, projects with students become easier because the student can only choose from presets defined by the teacher.
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