Frameworks Stop Motion
Frameworks controls a webcam to capture frames one by one to create stop-motion animation. It ouputs (PNG format) files like this:
frame_0001.png frame_0002.png... etc.
Frameworks provides an interface to camera brightness and other controls. It captures images as frame_0001.png, frame_0002.png, and so on. Frameworks provides animation assistance in the form of onion skinning: displaying ghost images of previous frames, and continuous preview: continuous playback of the most recent few seconds followed by the live view from the camera. No editing features are provided.
Frameworks is free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Bugs
Probably many. Use at your own risk.
Todo
- Support more digital cameras (IEEE 1394 camcorders, USB still cameras)
- Save preferences
- Reload previous animation sessions
- Proper preview of animation
- Much more
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Releases
- 27 Feb 2007: Frameworks 0.3.7 - added YUV410P support
- 03 Dec 2004: Frameworks 0.3.6
- 12 July 2004: Frameworks 0.3.5
- 19 Dec 2003: Frameworks 0.3.4
- 09 Nov 2003: Frameworks 0.3.3
- 06 Nov 2003: Frameworks 0.3.2
Requirements
(there are no precompiled binaries, so development files are required as well as the shared libraries)
- GTK+ 2.x (including GdkPixbuf, GDK, and GTK)
- Glib 2.x (threaded)
- Libglade 2
- Linux kernel with video4linux (>= 2.2)
- Webcam that uses video4linux
Debian users: libgtk2.0-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libglade2-dev, and libc6-dev
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