What's new in AnimaShooter Junior 3.9.0.2
Jul 26, 2022
- Export to MKV. In Capture and Pioneer, you can now export video in the Matroska multimedia container, which is a free and open container format, a file format that can contain an unlimited number of video, audio, images, or subtitle tracks in one file. It is a universal format for storing common multimedia content, such as movies or TV shows. When saving to MKV, the WEBM video codec will be applied for data compression.
- Added WEBP export with settings. Now even the free Junior version has the ability to create a finished animation in WEBP. WebP is a modern image format that provides excellent lossless compression for images on the web. Using WebP you can create smaller and richer images that make the web faster. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller than PNG images. Lossy WebP images are 25-34% smaller than similar JPEG images at the equivalent SSIM quality index. When exporting, you can specify the number of cycles to play the animation (set 0 so that it spins infinitely), quality, method (affects the quality and speed of file creation), and sharpness.
- You can now easily shoot in AnimaShooter Capture even if the camera's Image Quality setting is set to something other than L (S and others). Earlier versions of AnimaShooter Capture did not allow you to do this because there was a discrepancy between the live image from the camera (called Live View) and the captured frame. Canon cameras have one problematic feature. They don't report the actual size of the captured image in pixels, hiding it behind a letter code. Thus, different models of cameras have different pixel sizes of the L-format frame - the more expensive the camera, the larger the size of the output frame in pixels. This peculiarity makes it impossible for AnimaShooter to understand how the frame received from the camera should be scaled before the frame is shot and received via USB. Although you still can't get information about the incoming frame from the camera (this is not what the Japanese developers intended), we decided that this is inconvenient for animators, and now you can shoot even in modes other than L - but only after the first shot (when AnimaShooter understands what size the frame de-facto came in).
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.18.8 (Sep 5, 2021)
- New free feature — import of video:
- AnimaShooter, regardless of version, has stop-motion features that you can use for free at all times — uploading 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.16.2 (Nov 14, 2020)
- This version introduces a small but quite handy UI improvement - now you can zoom inout with scroll, pan with a middle mouse button.
- Added support for EOS R5, EOS R6 and EOS Kiss M2 / EOS M50 Mark II cameras.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.15.7 (Jul 19, 2020)
- We just released AnimaShooter 3.8.15 with several great improvements over the previous version. Now you can collapse the right panel to free room for the main view. The new tool simplifies adding new path nodes.
- AnimaShooter Capture now has a new feature: new device type 'Video Capture' which should ease connection to the Video Capturing Devices. When On, AnimaShooter will prefer any available Video Capturing Device over webcams. AnimaShooter will do it's best to distinguish Video Capturing Devices from web-cameras, but even if it fails to, it will connect and make shots properly.
- Added support for the EOS 850D and EOS Ra cameras. This version brings some bug fixes as well.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.12.2 (Nov 16, 2019)
- This version introduces a new and long-awaited feature – initial support for vector paths that could be used as motion paths or guides. AnimaShooter Capture 3.8.12 also brings broader support for the latest Canon cameras such as EOS 90D, EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M200, PowerShot G5 X Mark II / PowerShot G7 X Mark III.
- Since this version, AnimaShooter has a new Layers panel, useful to control the appearance of overlays. New option to import frames by drag-n-drop from a file browser window or by normal copy and paste operations.
- Recent Projects dialog now has a small thumbnail preview image, which represents project contents. Another new option – first crop and then scale images on export – should help you with your crop and scale routine.
- Now AnimaShooter have even more useful improvements: an option to set any color for your Lightbox window, an option to set up the FPS with a slider and an option to undo frame deletion with normal Ctrl + Z. Plus, more control over the Timeline with normal Copy, Paste, Cut, Undo, Redo actions.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.9.27 (May 11, 2019)
- The 3.8.9.27 hotfix release addresses a performance/stability issues.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.9.26 (May 5, 2019)
- With this version you can apply a non-integer frame rates for your video output.
- Option to crop captured RAW image. Version 3.8.9 delivers new long awaited feature — an option to crop captured RAW image if it is larger than it should be.
- More control over RAW image data that comes from your camera. First, now you can tell AnimaShooter to preserve highlights when it lightening the image. Second, you can choose whether to apply your camera White Balance to your shot.
- Import CRW or CR2 image files as any other images — you can simply add these images to your timeline.
- Live View Scopes window. Now you have more control over the incoming video signal — thanks to new Live View Scopes window containing a professional oscilloscopes. In addition to histogram now AnimaShooter is able to show Y Waveform, RGB Parade and Vectorscope in real time. Live View Scopes work both with Canon
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.9.18 Beta (Apr 13, 2019)
- Now you have more control over the incoming video signal - thanks to new Live View Scopes window containing a professional oscilloscopes.
- In addition to histogram now AnimaShooter is able to show Y Waveform, RGB Parade and Vectorscope in real time.
- Live View Scopes work both with Canon DSLRs and web cameras.
- Greater support for Canon RAW files
- With this Beta you can import CRW or CR2 image files as any other images - you can simply add these images to your timeline. Plus now you have more control over RAW image data that comes from your camera. First, you can tell AnimaShooter to preserve highlights when it lightening the image. Second, you can choose whether to apply your camera White Balance to your shot. Previously AnimaShooter has been performing such operation by default, assuming your camera White Balance is set to meet your scene lighting conditions. Now you free to choose.
- Like the histogram, the waveform shows the intensity of both the luminance (brightness) and chrominance (color) levels of an image, depending on the waveform you choose. Unlike the histogram, however, the waveform displays the levels of each pixel in its location on the image. The vectorscopes display the hue and the amount of color in an image. You can easily choose which type of waveform you’d like to see: the RGB waveform (shows the RGB signals separated); the luma waveform (displays the brightness of shots) and the chrominance (shows you all three red, green, and blue channel levels as a composite).
- Option to crop captured RAW image
- Scale your reference images
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.8 Beta 16 (Feb 15, 2019)
- AnimaShooter gained a major update of its internal media functionality. Now it can produce most up-to-date WebM, WebP, OGV video files.
- Another new option is zoom and pan the main view to capture and control your scene with more precise.
- Now you can use number of presets to rapidly set key project settings such as frame width, height, fps.
- This version also introduces Rule of Thirds grid - the compositional guideline that can improve the balance of your shots.
- AnimaShooter Capture now has floating panel with focus controls to speedup and simplify focusing. Plus, Capture now has support for newest Canon camera - a new DSLR EOS R.
- Now you can use a keypad to control the software with more efficency: press Ins (0) key to start playback (works on Video tab), cance deletion with (-) minus key (works on Capture and Timing tabs).
- All versons (Capture, Pioneer, Junior) gained some performance optimizations, minor UI changes, bugfixes.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.8 Beta 10 (Jan 23, 2019)
- Key new features: zoom and pan the main view, use presets to rapidly set frame width, height, fps
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.7.26 (Aug 16, 2018)
- We are happy to announce that the new release of AnimaShooter is now available for download! Version 3.8.7.26 incorporates one new cool feature and several enhancements. Now web camera settings such as focus, scale, saturation, etc. are easily accesseble from the right panel. Performance optimizations, minor UI changes and bugfixes.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.7.6 (Jun 2, 2018)
- This is a maintenance and bugfix release. Embedded video player autoplay fixed. Minor UI optimizations.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.7.4 (May 25, 2018)
- New simplified activation mechanism, which now requires no email address nor password credentials
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.6.16 (Apr 25, 2018)
- The key feature of version 3.8.6: now you can import video into your project by means of turning it’s frames into a sequence of still images. Note, audio track will not be imported
- Added support for newest Canon DSLRs: EOS Kiss X90 / EOS REBEL T7 / EOS 2000D / EOS REBEL T100 / EOS 4000D.
- Automatic live view rest. Now you can tell AnimaShooter to pause live view after configurable period of inactivity - to save battery or to avoid overheating.
- Hidden frames. Now you can hide any frame instead of deleting it. You can hide any frame using the Hide button (see pic.). Hidden frames are normal frames except they not played nor exported.
- New timing indicator now shows timing info for the current frame. Small yellow marker shows up when you hover your mouse the frame numbers at the bottom of the timeline.
- Improved eyedropper. Now properly works with any layer in both working areas: while you shooting and while you checking your animation with Ram-preview.
- Onionskin feature has been improved. Now you can control opacity of all onionskin layers with a single slider. See pic below.
- Bug fixed: now AnimaShooter jumps to the latest captured frame after each shot. You can switch this behavior off in Settings.
- New activation process. Now you don’t need an email address to evaluate AnimaShooter. Just click ‘Evaluate Now’ button. Much simpler!
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.5.32 (Dec 20, 2017)
- New Digital Exposure compensation control - representing the compensation for brightness applied to captured RAW image. Note, you must switch camera Image Quality setting to RAW in order to enable this feature
- Open frame with an external editor. Now you can designate an application to be used as an external editor. After you choose an application, you can always change to a different application
- New useful button to evoke system default webcam settings dialog
- Use timeline zoom fit more frames on the screen
- Now you can zoom and pane the RAM-preview view
- Drag and drop project file into an application window to open your project
- Bug fixes
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.4.10 (May 15, 2017)
- Significant performance improvements. AnimaShooter has become faster even on a inexpensive computers.
- Ram-preview setting simplified.
- Action safe and title safe overlays.
- Camera uptime counter.
- Capture multiple frames in one click.
- The Info tab shows the meta data obtained at the time of shooting, such as AV, TV, Iso, Digital Exposure, lens name, camera name, focal length, etc. This metadata is a part of the Exif data, stored in a separate file outside of the image and used to retain the actual conditions of shooting.
- Now you can use normal Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste frames.
- Filters - another new cool feature allowing you to adjust some contrast, remove noise and change saturation of your images.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.3.0 (Nov 4, 2016)
- Support for newest Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera.
- UI improvements.
- Fixed some usability issues.
- Now AnimaShooter correctly processes RAW+JPEG images captured by newer cameras or with newer camera firmware.
- Bugfixes.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.8.0.24 (Jul 28, 2016)
- Now AnimaShooter can work with newest Canon EOS cameras - EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS 80D and EOS 1300D.
- Capture and save RAW file (alongside with TIFF and JPG).
- New Focal length indicator to ensure accuracy.
- New Info Panel with YRGB histogram, image type and frame size information.
- Greatly improved PDF export.
- Respecting aspect ratio. Since version 3.8 AnimaShooter will no longer try to stretch images (on sequence export or video export), keeping image aspect ratio, adding black margins if needed. With this feature you can easily avoid either excessive cropping or skewing of the image output.
- Warning beep. AnimaShooter Capture 3.8 will beep when the camera battery is low. It is important if you use a battery to power your camera.
- More control over camera. New battery indicator-icon, showing charge level.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.7.6.5 (Mar 18, 2016)
- Static frames indication has become more compact
- Now AnimaShooter highlights the frame which should be deleted when you hit "Delete" button for the first time
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.6.0.0 (Aug 3, 2015)
- Support for the latest Canon DSLR cameras, such as the Canon EOS 5DS, Canon EOS 5DS R, Canon EOS 750D, Canon EOS 760D.
- Darken interface at the time of shooting, so the light of the monitor screen does not affect the lighting of your scene.
- Now Ram-preview can playback reference frames.
- Save captured frame in a separate folder in TIFF.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.1.0.0 (Oct 3, 2014)
- AnimaShooter is now capable to export uncompressed video ("Raw" option)
- Improved stability
- Several functional elements were renamed to make them more recognizable by users. Now AnimaShooter has Onionskin, Auto-capture and Loop
- Several bugfixes.
New in AnimaShooter Junior 3.0.2.4 (Aug 28, 2014)
- Right click inside camera preview area to disconnect the cam quickly.
- Now frame has new loading indicator. It displays that captured image is being loaded.
- AnimaShooter now can switch between multiple web-cameras successfully.
- A lot of minor bugfixes.
- AnimaShooter got up to 15% faster.