Sofa Control Script for iStopMotion
I picked up the $49 software bundle from MacHeist last week and finally got to play with some of the applications this weekend. (If you are on a Mac, don’t miss the MacHeist deal!) The gem of the bundle for me was a program called iStopMotion. In a nutshell, it allows you to easily make stop motion movies. As I was playing with it I thought it would be really handy to be able to control the program with the Apple remote. Another MacHeist goody (although it isn’t part of the bundle – you had to play the games to win it) was an application called Sofa Control. With Sofa Control you can create custom scripts that let you control any application with the Apple remote. It was very easy and I thought I would share the script with anybody who might find it handy. Here is what the script does:
iStopMotion Apple Remote Mapping:
* Plus: Play
* Left: Previous Frame
* Right: Next Frame
* Play: Capture Frame
* Play Hold: Save Movie
(Click here to download the iStopMotion Sofa Control script)
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
The script provided on this page no longer works with the current version of iStopMotion. The latest version has built in support for the Apple remote so this hack is no longer necessary. Unfortunately, iStopMotion’s built in support for the remote is incompatible with Sofa Control all together. That is a bummer because now there is no way to delete a frame from the remote. If someone can figure out a way to get that feature working I would be grateful.