From everyone at Boinx Software, we wish you a great 2008. May all your dreams come true and your plans come together successfully.

An article at the Apple Developer Connection tells the story of how FotoMagico was developed and what motivates Peter Baumgartner, the principal developer.

Just a few days after the last release we proudly present iStopMotion 2.0 FC5!

Major news are a German localization and the first draft of built-in Help books in both English and German. There's of course a few more bug fixes, too.

The new gorgeous artwork and icon are coming soon...

Meanwhile get FC5 now and give us feedback so we can fix all remaining issues and make 2.0 final the most stable 2.0 ever.

Those of you working with the current seeds of Leopard and Quartz Composer will enjoy this new version of Set Structure Member.

This is the first of our patches rebuilt from the ground up for Leopard compatibility. Watch for more to come.

Due to a change in Quartz Composer you now have to explicitly set the type of the input you want to modify. Except for that change please refer to the original 1.0 post.

As we can only test our work on beta software, this patch is also considered beta quality. Please give us feedback on usefulness, bugs, ideas, ...

Boinx_SetStructureMember_2.0b1.zip
Zipped Directory, 128 KB - for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Yes, there's still more bugfixes in this beta version. FotoMagico now works with libraries converted to the latest iPhoto format and also supports and shows all the new album types seen in iPhoto 7.0 (part of iLife '08). Events (except for the "Recent" one) are not accessible outside iPhoto, so FotoMagico cannot display them. Look around for some other news as well. Get the latest beta here: FotoMagico 2.1 Beta 10

Elliott Cost, Mac Filmmaking:

This week I was lucky enough to interview the CEO of Boinx Software, Oliver Breidenbach. If your not familiar with iStopMotion, it's a simply way of capturing stop motion videos directly to your Mac. I asked Oliver questions ranging from, how Boinx Software was started, to the impact iStopMotion has had educationally.

Now it's even easier to have your slideshow on the iPhone. There's a convenient export preset in the latest FotoMagico beta. Plus important fixes. Get it here: FotoMagico 2.1 Beta 9

If you continue to experience problems with this release, please contact support at your earliest convenience. We added even more logging capabilities that hopefully help us tracking problems even better and faster.

While the process of localization, documentation and final design continues, engineering works hard to solve the remaining issues in iStopMotion 2. After thinking for a while we decided to totally rework the compositing sidebar as it was not exactly intuitive before. We are a lot more happy with the new version, but tell us what you think as you are the users!

There's of course also a huge number of fixes and other small improvements to stability and functionality. Read the included Release Notes if you like to know all the details.

Download iStopMotion 2.0 FC3 here now or from the new iStopMotion 2 pages later when the page has been updated.