1. New free feature — import of video
AnimaShooter, regardless of version, has stop-motion features that you can use for free at all times — loading and saving projects, shooting frames with webcam or HDMI devices, editing and exporting sequences, filters including chromakey preview, etc. In other words, you don't need a licence to make these features work. Just download any version of the software and get started.
From version 3.8.18 video import was added to the set of free features. Now using AnimaShooter Capture or AnimaShooter Pioneer you may add video footage (as a sequence of frames) taken from any video file (supported by AnimaShooter) to your project.
2. Exposure Control for imported or captured RAW footage
The new Exposure Control feature, included in all versions, lets you adjust the exposure of your frames at any time — when you shoot (Capture version), when you import frames (any version), or when you wish if a RAW frame is already included in your project (any version). You can work on a single frame or on all the frames included in your project. This gives you the ability to change the exposure setting whenever you want, not just when you shoot.
3. The new Chromakey Preview filter
The new Chromakey preview filter allows you to remove the coloured background in your footage and thus check whether everything is okay in your scene if you shoot with chromakey and plan to further remove the background when editing. You can choose any colour as the background for keying your scene, but the background colour mustn't be present on any part of the foreground object. You will usually get the best results with a green background. You can also add a background image that will appear behind the foreground image that has the coloured background removed.
4. Video Effects
From this version, AnimaShooter has a Video Effects dialogue that allows you to apply one of the suggested effects to the exported video. For frame-by-frame animation, one of the most important effects is Anti-Flicker, an effect that lets you effectively level out jumps in the lightness of a scene or objects in the frame.
Get it: www.animashooter.com
