Upcoming iStopMotion update to take advantage of Leopard features
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 31, 2007 at 12:09pm
The folks at Boinx Software say that iStopMotion 2 customers will benefit soon from new features introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) when version 2.1 of the stop motion and time lapse tool is released.
Features in Leopard will purportedly enable users to capture frames from multiple video sources simultaneously, connect HD cameras using Firewire, manipulate frames as they are captured, for example to adjust the color and create more interesting movies with Quartz compositions as background and foreground for the animation.
“New features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will directly benefit our customers in the immediate future,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx Software. “iStopMotion 2.1 will be the first of our applications to be optimized to take advantage of Leopard improvements.”
The application update is scheduled to ship in late 2007. iStopMotion 2 comes in three flavors, targeting different users. The US$49 Home edition is for the family. The $99 Express version is for the serious hobbyist animator, and the $499 Pro edition is for the animator who makes money (or plans to) with stop motion animation. A special education edition with a multi-user license key is available for educational institutions. Updates from iStopMotion 1 DV to iStopMotion 2 Home are available for $10, to iStopMotion 2 Express for $60.
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