We are delighted to announce the release of the Moviestorm Education 2013 updates. You can download Unlimited or Junior builds, for Mac or PC by clicking on the following links:
Moviestorm Unlimited (PC) - http://cloud.moviestorm.co.uk/download-1.5/Moviestorm_Windows_Education_Unlimited_1.5.4.exe
Moviestorm Junior (PC) - http://cloud.moviestorm.co.uk/download-1.5/Moviestorm_Windows_Education_Junior_1.5.4.exe
Moviestorm Unlimited (Mac) - http://cloud.moviestorm.co.uk//download-1.5/Moviestorm_Mac_Education_Unlimited_1.5.4.dmg
Moviestorm Junior (Mac) - http://cloud.moviestorm.co.uk/download-1.5/Moviestorm_Mac_Education_Junior_1.5.4.dmg
If
you have a current Moviestorm Education license, please feel free to
download the new updates and benefit from the enhanced performance, new
functionality and additional content.
There are installation guidelines here - http://support.moviestorm.co.uk/kb/technical/updating-moviestorm-education-versions
IMPORTANT MODDING NOTE - When installing, please be attentive to the user's mods which reside in the Addons folder.
If you have any questions or issues, please contact support.team@moviestorm.co.uk
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Next gen iPad technology demo at BETT
We are
delighted to have been invited to demonstrate our next generation technology on
the Epson stand (Number D284) at BETT 2013, from Wednesday 30 January to
Saturday 2 February.
Are you visiting the Bett Show? If so, please come and find us on the Epson Stand D284, where you can play with our new iPad app, and discover the ease and creativity the app offers to make simple movies with just a few screen touches. You will also be able to enter a prize draw to win a FREE Moviestorm Education Site License for your school or college, worth up to £2000!
Come and get involved, we'd love the chance to meet some of you, to show you or new Moviestorm iPad app AND for you to enter our prize draw.
For more information about BETT, click here: http://ow.ly/gTFdV
For more information about the Moviestorm iPad app, click here http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/
Are you visiting the Bett Show? If so, please come and find us on the Epson Stand D284, where you can play with our new iPad app, and discover the ease and creativity the app offers to make simple movies with just a few screen touches. You will also be able to enter a prize draw to win a FREE Moviestorm Education Site License for your school or college, worth up to £2000!
Come and get involved, we'd love the chance to meet some of you, to show you or new Moviestorm iPad app AND for you to enter our prize draw.
For more information about BETT, click here: http://ow.ly/gTFdV
For more information about the Moviestorm iPad app, click here http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/
Monday, 24 September 2012
Moviestorm 1.5.3 nearly ready
We're currently finalizing the release of Moviestorm 1.5.3. If all goes well, it'll be ready by the end of this week. Here are the highlights of what we're hoping it will include (note that some items may not ship if they fail final QA):
New features
Bug fixes
New features
- Look At now has a customizer which allows you to change the duration of the look at blend, where on the target the character is looking, and to do the look at with just the head, just the eyes, or both the head and eyes
- Switching between the Cutting Room and the Camera View or Director's View keeps the timeline position, if the Cutting Room is showing a view of the scene.
- Ceilings now cast shadows, provided Interior lighting is disabled.
- The Script Editor now has a 'clear timeline' option when right clicking on the current scene, which removes all activities in that scene.
- The prop customizer in the set workshop now has an option to stop a prop casting shadows. This will also stop it reducing shadowmap quality, which can otherwise happen for props near the edges of your scene.
- The 'Home' key now centers the view.
Bug fixes
- The 'Dead' mood now prevents any automatic look at activities, or any improvisation.
- Very long (eg over 6 min) clips now display correctly on the Cutting Room timeline.
- The say record buttons are now play/stop buttons rather than having a separate stop.
- Loading a multi-scene movie that was saved in the Cutting Room will go straight to the Cutting Room rather than asking which scene to go to then going to the Cutting Room.
- Having a broken video in your movie no longer stops it from loading.
- When changing the duration of a walk, it should move later activities along to provide space.
- When using the image browser, images over 4 megapixels now warn the user to resize them, rather than risking breaking Moviestorm.
- Remove mark now works on marks that do not have an associated walk.
- When taking screenshots in the Camera View with the snapshot button, the resulting images now include depth of field.
- The cel-shading tick box on the lighting settings no longer overrides the movie cel-shading tick box on the script settings unless you tell it to.
- Memory leak fix: Moviestorm no longer holds onto copies of videos that were used as previews, or that were used on the Cutting Room timeline, or that were deleted.
- Modders workshop: changed the 'Move to' menu so that you can scroll through the list of addons.
- Modders workshop: fixed the 'Browse' button so that it works for props that have spaces in their folder names.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
After iPad, what next?
As you've probably seen, we've just released our Moviestorm iPad app. It's an important step for the company, which we hope will bring movie-making to a whole new generation of people.
We've had a few questions from people about where this will lead next, so we figured we'd take a few minutes to reply.
Will there be an Android version?
We're certainly planning on it. There are some technical issues we need to sort out, since we haven't developed for Android before and it's not quite the same as iPad, even though using Unity means we're already most of the way there. We're currently trying to decide whether to do it all in-house, bring someone into the team, or contract it out.
Will there be an iPad 1 version?
We were hoping to have an iPad 1 version from the get-go. However, it turned out that the iPad 1 wasn't really up to the job, so we're having to create a different, lighter version for that platform. We'll probably have to go with more cartoony characters, and make some other changes to the art. Once we've figured out exactly what we need to do to run on the iPad 1, we can see whether already we've got everything we need to put an iPad 1 app together quickly, or whether it's going to take more than that.
Is that it for the iPad?
Not at all. We wanted to start with something very straightforward just to prove to ourselves we could do it. There were a lot of features we wanted to put into this first version that were left out because of time, or because we were still getting used to the limitations of the platform and finding out how to make the best of it. For example, you can't add in a music track or use pre-recorded audio. We're already thinking about what will get put into it next - it'll depend on what's easiest and quickest.
Are you still supporting the PC & Mac versions?
Of course! We're working on a new update to Moviestorm right now, which includes some performance enhancements and bug fixes.
The iPad app and the desktop app are two very different products, even though they're based on the same principles and technology. The iPad app is designed for quick, easy movie-making, or doing stuff when mobile, but it has its limitations. Moviestorm itself is for people who want to spend longer on their movies, or who want to do more complex things. We're hoping that some of the people who use the iPad app will want to do more with their movies, and will see what they can do with the desktop version: conversely, some of the people who found Moviestorm too complex will find that the iPad app does all they need, and for a much lower price.
What's coming out next?
A good question. That's a lot of different projects for a small team. We're currently reviewing all our options, and then we'll decide how to proceed. (And we're moving into a new office next week, so things are even more chaotic than usual.) Right now, the answer is we're not really sure yet.
Hope that answers some of your questions. We'll keep you posted.
We've had a few questions from people about where this will lead next, so we figured we'd take a few minutes to reply.
Will there be an Android version?
We're certainly planning on it. There are some technical issues we need to sort out, since we haven't developed for Android before and it's not quite the same as iPad, even though using Unity means we're already most of the way there. We're currently trying to decide whether to do it all in-house, bring someone into the team, or contract it out.
Will there be an iPad 1 version?
We were hoping to have an iPad 1 version from the get-go. However, it turned out that the iPad 1 wasn't really up to the job, so we're having to create a different, lighter version for that platform. We'll probably have to go with more cartoony characters, and make some other changes to the art. Once we've figured out exactly what we need to do to run on the iPad 1, we can see whether already we've got everything we need to put an iPad 1 app together quickly, or whether it's going to take more than that.
Is that it for the iPad?
Not at all. We wanted to start with something very straightforward just to prove to ourselves we could do it. There were a lot of features we wanted to put into this first version that were left out because of time, or because we were still getting used to the limitations of the platform and finding out how to make the best of it. For example, you can't add in a music track or use pre-recorded audio. We're already thinking about what will get put into it next - it'll depend on what's easiest and quickest.
Are you still supporting the PC & Mac versions?
Of course! We're working on a new update to Moviestorm right now, which includes some performance enhancements and bug fixes.
The iPad app and the desktop app are two very different products, even though they're based on the same principles and technology. The iPad app is designed for quick, easy movie-making, or doing stuff when mobile, but it has its limitations. Moviestorm itself is for people who want to spend longer on their movies, or who want to do more complex things. We're hoping that some of the people who use the iPad app will want to do more with their movies, and will see what they can do with the desktop version: conversely, some of the people who found Moviestorm too complex will find that the iPad app does all they need, and for a much lower price.
What's coming out next?
A good question. That's a lot of different projects for a small team. We're currently reviewing all our options, and then we'll decide how to proceed. (And we're moving into a new office next week, so things are even more chaotic than usual.) Right now, the answer is we're not really sure yet.
Hope that answers some of your questions. We'll keep you posted.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Instant subtitles
If you've ever gone through a movie adding subtitles, you'll know what a slow, tedious and laborious process it is. It's even more annoying if you've already put the dialog into the say activities to improve the lip sync.
We've just finished off adding a feature which will take a lot of that work away from you. When you add subtitles in the Cutting Room, there's an option to automatically generate subtitles from the say activities in your movie. Moviestorm will then add the subtitles to your entire movie.
You can then manually adjust the subtitles individually if you want. It's still a bit fiddly, but it's a lot quicker than having to add them all in one at a time.
We've just finished off adding a feature which will take a lot of that work away from you. When you add subtitles in the Cutting Room, there's an option to automatically generate subtitles from the say activities in your movie. Moviestorm will then add the subtitles to your entire movie.
Obviously, if you make spelling mistakes in your say activities, you'll get them in your subtitles too...
You can then manually adjust the subtitles individually if you want. It's still a bit fiddly, but it's a lot quicker than having to add them all in one at a time.
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