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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.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2023 at 11:09 AM

    Future plans look very promising :)

    What about integrate the Software with KDE Gear?
    Releasing more frequently - thru Gear - would be great :)

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    1. gruenichJanuary 9, 2023 at 12:58 PM

      Thanks for the encouraging words! I think for every incubating project it should be the goal to become part of KDE Gear. For KStopmotion I would like to see this happen and I am working towards it.
      Unfortunately, Tim and myself don't spend to much time for KStopmotion. And besides us, there is not much of a community left. The first step is to rebuild a stable user and developer base, who cares about this piece of software.

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  2. Kjetil KilhavnJanuary 10, 2023 at 9:27 AM

    If it is possible (no legal problems) I would suggest letting the applikation name be just Stop Motion. It is not necessary that every applikation name either starts with a K or replaces a C with a K somewhere in the name.
    Yes, there are some intentional spelling errors here.

    But then again, you're doing the work, so if it makes you happier to have a K in the name, then by all means do so. Although I don't foresee using this application myself in the near future I am glad for every free software application. Each application contributes to making free software (and thus free software based operating systems) a real option for more people.

    So keep up the great work.

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    1. gruenichJanuary 11, 2023 at 7:29 PM

      Thanks for the encouraging words!

      See our according issue (https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/stopmotion/-/issues/10), you are not the only one with this idea. As a result of this blog post and the received feedback, I consider renaming the application to KDE Stopmotion.

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