Select a location on your external hard drive or on the computer’s scratch drive.ĭragonframe should automatically recognize the Sony camera and show a live feed. You’ll be prompted to choose a location to save your project (and captured images) to. Name your project in the Production field and set the frame rate to 24. Launch Dragonframe from your applications folder.Ĭreate a new Dragonframe project by clicking the New Scene button. Balance will cycle through white balance options.
Press W to zoom out (wide) or T to zoom in (telephoto). Press this button to cycle through the different lighting options: The camera has electronic controls for lighting, zoom, exposure, focus, etc. By default, the camera should point at the center of a 12 field sheet of animation paper. The camera can be rotated towards or away from you, but does not move left or right. This will help extend the life of the camera and lights. Take test shots and get your shot right, before you start.When finished working – please turn the power off. Check and adjust focus with Canon, Nikon, Olympus or Fujifilm cameras. Set camera settings such as shutter speed, ISO and white balance directly from the program. Perfect your exposure, focus and composition. Use live view magnification to punch-in on a section of video assist image. Add reminders, sketch motion paths and adjusting timingĬonfigure all of your composition guides, drawing layers and reference material from the Guide Layers side panel. Plan your scene and track your progress in the X-Sheet side panel. Plot and preview motion paths with the increment editor. Mark the screen to guide your animation with vector-based drawing tools. Adjust timing, reshoot sequences, and even restore deleted frames. And the hotkeys are fully configurable, so if you really like a feature that is not on the keypad, you can move it there.įrame-based editing as simple as drag and drop.
With the Dragonframe keypad, you can stay focused on animating instead of hunting around with the mouse.
Pop out reference videos into a synchronized player if you want it off to the side. Blend them with opacity, pull a chromakey (blue screen), and even assign a garbage matte to see just the part you want. Load multiple reference stills or videos and view them with your animation. The playback and stepping functions are fully customizable for your needs. Loop playback to get the sense of movement you’re aiming for. Step directly between live view and captured frames or switch to auto-toggle. Create beautiful animation, one frame at a time.
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