Stopmotion 0.8.6 released

I am pleased to announce Linux-Stopmotion release 0.8.6! The last release was three years ago and this is the first release since Stopmotion became a KDE incubator project.

About Stopmotion

Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

Direct capture from webcams, MiniDV cameras, and DSLR cameras. It offers onion-skinning, import images from disk, and time lapse photography. Stopmotion supports multiple scenes, frame editing, basic sound track, animation playback at different frame rates, and GIMP integration for image. Movies can be exported to a file and to Cinelerra frame lists.

Technically, it is a C++ / Qt application with optional dependencies to camera capture libraries.

Changes in release 0.8.6

This release does not contain new features but provides changes under the hood.

• New build system using CMake. The qmake one is deprecated and will be removed.
• The test executable can be executed as a CMake test target (make test-stopmotion && make test).
• Fixed various warnings from Clang, GCC, and Qt 5.15.
• We have a build pipeline executing automated builds and tests.

Future plans

• We decided to renamed the application to KStopmotion, as Linux is trademarked.
• Transition from Qt 5 to version 6.
• We should integrate better to KDE's tech stack: Internationalization, using KDE libraries, update and reformat documentation.
  

Get involved!

If you are interested, give Stopmotion a try. Reach out to our mailing list kstopmotion@kde.org to share ideas or get involved.

You can also help to improve Stopmotion. For example, we started the transition to Qt 6 and we welcome any helping hand.