The Onionskin keys allow you to overlay frames over one another. The Auto-Toggle key turns Auto-Toggle on and off. Cuts to a black screen at the end of a playback. When you release the button, you will switch back to Live View. The Live Toggle key switches between live and captured frames for as long as you hold it down. The Delete key deletes a frame when pressed twice. The Mute key turns off The Loop Key/Ping-Pong button will loop your entire frame sequence. However, you could animate a scene with only the Step, Play, and Shoot keys, if you so desired. When frames follow each other, it creates the illusion of movement.ģ A Closer Look: Dragonframe Keypad This page is an excerpt from There are 15 default keys on the keypad. Or if you scrolled through a flipbook, each page is considered a frame. If you look at a roll of film, each little square is a frame. What is a frame? Frames are individual pictures taken or drawn to form a short clip or movie. Along the right panel you can see a vertical display of numbers - this is also a timeline, showing details about each frame. For this, we are going to use timeline view, to view our frames as we create them. There are 3 buttons on the bottom left: timeline view, audio view, and X sheet view. This is the important one for this camera, as distance really affects the focus here.Ģ A Closer Look: Getting Started Open Dragonframe and create a New Scene. Click the camera icon and then click show webcam settings panel Make sure it s controlling Microsoft LifeCam Studio, not Facetime HD Camera Basic Controls Tab - Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness, White Balance Advanced Controls Tab- Backlight Compensation, FOCUS - either auto, or drag the cursor left and right to change the focus. 1 Create Stop Motion Animation with Dragonframe 3 Open Webcam Settings Panel to control focus - shown above.