Dragonframe stop motion animation software for macOS, Windows and Linux.

This is a perpetual license with three years of updates and support (maintenance agreement). You will receive updates and support for three years. After that, the license will still be active. It does not expire.

The software is delivered as a digital download as soon as your payment clears, so you can get to work right away. (Student orders must be approved before you receive your license. Any rejected orders will be canceled and fully refunded.)

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER PURCHASING THIS ITEM FROM OUR SITE:

1. You will receive an email with your serial number.
2. Download the software from our site. [Downloads]
3. Use this serial number to activate the software.

WHAT THE LICENSE ENTITLES YOU TO: You may activate the software on one computer for every license you purchase. You may also activate a single license on a second computer if Dragonframe will not be used on both at the same time.

NEW IN DRAGONFRAME 2025.09

• Added SOLO CAMERA option to hide any layers, mattes, or chroma-keying
• Added movie export ‘step by tags’ option, to match ‘step by tags’ playback
• Arc: ‘Reorient rig to current position’ to create world offset/rotation for virtualized rig
• Added ARRICORE image format support
• Linux webcam performance improvements
• Linux reference layer hardware-accelerated decoding via VAAPI
• Improved Blackmagic Design output device selection
• Added support for Sony cameras to download movie after recording (for models since 2020)
• Updated increment editor to make it easier to work with extra function points

NEW IN DRAGONFRAME 2025.05

• macOS: Added option to use libUSB instead of ImageCapture for communication with digital cameras over PTP
• Added ‘Duplicate Drawing’ option for drawing layers.
• Added support for Fujifilm X-M5.
• Arc: Added new backlash rollback algorithms that work for indexed axes and are more reliable.
• Arc: Added SCARA virtualization
• OSC encoder improvements
• Arc & DMX: Change playback speed by percentage
• Arc: Added ‘super solo’. Alt/option + click solo icon enables it
• DMX: Double-click in keyframe area places key at existing value
• DMX: Added histogram to DMX

NEW IN DRAGONFRAME 2025.01

• Improved quality of ‘hold-on-still’ image and do not apply video assist levels to it
• Fixed playback hitch when reference layers start later in playback
• Added ARRI Alexa 35 support
• Windows audio: no longer adjusts master volume of program when changing volume in a workspace
• Arc: Added option to use a move test as a reference layer
• Arc: Added ‘gobo’ function for axis. This makes it available in the Cinematography workspace.
• Arc: DMC limit switches can be configured as ‘normally open’
• Arc: dmc-lite enables pull-up resistors for logic-in and e-stop inputs, to simplify wiring
• DMX: option to mark channels as ‘single value’, so they are not keyframed