Helium Frog Animator: Free Stop Motion Capture Software

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Last Updated on Monday, 16 May 2011 05:52 Written by Marc Spess Friday, 23 April 2010 22:41

Helium Frog Stop Motion Animation Capture Program

If you are looking for free stop motion software to capture animation on your PC - Helium Frog Animator is what you need. Anasazi hasn't been updated in several years and Martin Price took it upon himself to work on a new program. Helium Frog Animator will work on most modern PC's as opposed to Anasazi which has many compatability issues. You can visit the official Helium Frog Animator web site here, or download the latest version below.

Here are just a few of the features that Helium Frog Animator has:

-Onion Skinning -Frame Flipping - Frame Averaging - Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts - Output to .AVI - Chroma Key
- Timelapse - Compatible with Most Web and Image Streaming Cameras - Immediate Playback - User Guide "included with download"- Much Much More!!!


Agreement Before You Download!: Please note that this software is non commercial and was developed by a private individual as a home project. Martin has made every effort to ensure it is coded correctly, but it is provided free to you "As is" and as such I cannot be held responsible for its use or misuse or any damage, however unintentional to your system. You may pass on this software ,distribute it and include it on your website, but you cannot charge for doing so. You should also not decompile, extract or otherwise investigate the code contained within. Doing so would infringe not only your agreement to me, but also that of the suppliers of the code parts that this program is based upon.

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Contact software creator Martin Price for ideas, bug reports or technical questions at martinprice2004 at hotmail.com

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Read The Agreement...
written by saniismail, August 27, 2010
I don't think you read the agreement...that why you having problem with it.
"...it is provided free to you "As is" and as such I cannot be held responsible for its use or misuse or any damage,...."
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Looks good, but not what I'm looking for at the moment.
written by CFisher, November 01, 2010
It looks pretty good as I said in my title, but I'm looking for a program that you can import camera images. This doesn't seem to give you that ability. Could also be my OS, but with a Windows7 desktop, the program froze on several occasions. Could just be my fault in not looking at the requirements though. No fault on the programmer. Good work in general, I'll just have to keep looking though. Thanks!
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written by Carlos Luna, December 11, 2010
smilies/cheesy.gif hey i saw this video that came on with lego skateboard man and i was wondering if i can join the club
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written by Daniel, January 07, 2011
The program sucks
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written by ian M., June 07, 2011
Will not let me open the program after I downloaded it because I do not know how to choose a skin, please helpsmilies/sad.gif
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how do you do this
written by joey, June 22, 2011
how do you chose a skinsmilies/angry.gif
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written by joey, June 22, 2011
i wont let me on
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"What did I do wrong?"
written by Yarddy Jaramillo, June 29, 2011
I downloaded the program and when I clicked "download now" it said open or save. As usual, I wanted to run it, but there was no option for run. So I opened the file and got pictures of stupid frogs.

WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
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written by Des Osborn, July 02, 2011
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Really cool tool Martin! Thanks for all your efforts! My 14 yr old son and I had such fun creating a video of a haunted house complete with ghosts (salt & pepper shakers) and surfers in a combi coming along and killing the ghosts with a rock! Awesome!
In response to Ian M who couldn't start the program because he couldn't choose a skin - same thing happened to me when I moved the exe file from its original download location to my desktop (thought it would create a shortcut) but as soon as I moved it back with all its other downloded files it was fine.
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Canon eos 550D
written by Sophia Soderqvist, August 09, 2011
Does anyone know if this program works with Canon Eos 550D?
Thanks...S
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need help with error code
written by Jen, September 03, 2011
after taking a few pictures I keep getting the Error Code 2.09
capture routine problem and I have to quit the application. How can I fix this?
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written by Marc Spess, September 04, 2011
Hey Jen, that's a question that you would be best to direct at the official Helium Frog web site here: http://www.heliumfrog.net63.ne...index.html or e-mail Martin direct here: martinprice2112@hotmail.co.uk He's the guy who wrote the code. Each camera is different, let him know what type of camera you're using, your operating system and hopefully he can help.
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written by Martin Price, September 15, 2011
1) Choosing skin.....This is because you did not unzip the file correctly. You need to learn how to use Winzip. You are unzipping just one file , not the whole directory.
2) Stupid Frogs......Same as above. You need to download the file, not run it. This is explained in the doc*mentation on the website.
3)Error code 2.09. The program has difficulty accessing the disk. You may have another program accessing the directory, an extremely slow computer or running the software over a network drive.
4)Canon EOS 550D. It doesn't work as this camera can only stream video to Canon software. You are best sticking with a webcam.

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