What’s new in this version:
Dragonframe 2025.09.1
– 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
Dragonframe 2025.05.4
– Arc: Fixed crash when dragging LINE axis
– Added missing Nikon Z8 movie formats
Dragonframe 2025.05.3
– Fixed potential crash with libUSB PTP implementation on macOS
– Reworked Blackmagic output to make multi-output devices easier to work with
– Fixed Fujifilm GFX 100 II focus check
– Fixed delete bin ‘Insert deleted frames at playhead’ position when there are hidden frames in the timeline
– Increment editor – only perform reset on selected nodes
– Return camera to end of timeline when closing scene
Dragonframe 2025.05.2
Fixed:
– Fixed intermittent Windows crash with file selector
– Fixed Linux audio playback issues
– Fixed reference layer used in audio workspace was shown as missing
– Fixed reference video audio layer was short by a frame
– Restore focus to animation workspace when hiding floating tool palette
– Fixed application icon in Ubuntu 24
– Arc: Allow OSC encoder input to work while in Arc workspace
– Arc: Fixed left-handed SCARA virtualization when vTrack went into positive values
– DMX: Fixed default order of DMX exposure program
– DMX: Fixed Quasar light fixture definition color temperature
– DMX: Added ARRI Skypanel S60 Pro fixture definition
– DMX: Added DT neo color fixture definition
Dragonframe 2025.05.1
– 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
Dragonframe 2025.01.5
– Arc: Ensure that numpad jogging stops when switching workspaces
– Windows: Fixed potential lockup with webcams
– Fixed ARRI capture status going negative
– Ensure that image sequence export dimensions are sane, to avoid memory exhaustion
Dragonframe 2025.01.4
– Fixed trial activation date handling
– Fixed onion skin ‘frame echo’ when using portrait view
– Ensure that media player syncs to capture frame when capturing
– Do not use mouse scroll wheel for combo boxes
– Ensure that contextual menus close when clicking main viewing areas
– Arc: Fixed failure to reach indexed position
– Arc: Do not disable real motors when disabling virtuals in group
– Arc: dmc-lite was b-lining to pre-roll positions after HARD STOP during pre-roll
– Arc: Ensure that resizing a move doesn’t create multiple keyframes at the same frame, which was causing chaos
– Arc: Ensure that pre-Z DMC+ and DMC-16 show support for virtuals
– DMX: Do not set LIGHT-ON/LIGHT-OFF/SOLO for DMX children
– DMX: Fixed DMX zebra tool
Dragonframe 2025.01.3
– Fixed crash during import introduced in 2025.01.2
– Added Fujifilm GFX 100 II and GFX 100S II support
– DMX: Added ARRI L5-C Plus and L7-C Plus light fixtures
Dragonframe 2025.01.2
– Fixed crash when switching workspaces between windows
– macOS: Fixed crash when accessing menus
– macOS: Fixed rare crash with webcams
– Fixed accidental autofocus with Canon digital lenses
– Make it possible to grab and drag drawing object with dense tick marks
– Prevent resize of floating tool palette
– Arc: Fixed issue with undo of adjustment layer changes
– Arc: Fixed graph of axis when adjustment layer continues past main axis keyframes
– Added Canon EOS R1 support
– Handle eMotimo ST4 firmware < 8.0 not reporting capabilities properly
Dragonframe 2025.01.1
Added:
– ARRI Alexa 35 support
– Sony A9 III, A7CR, ILX-LR1, and ZV-E10 II support
– Nikon Z50 II support
– Panasonic GH7, G9 II, and S9 support
– 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
– 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
Dragonframe 2024.09.2
– When switching takes, make sure to honor DMX enabled/disabled state
– Fixed bug with invisible drawing layer getting drawn upon
– Fixed shape of step signals with dmc-lite sketch (50% square waves)
– Handle lower ISO values for iPhone
– Added Canon ‘lens barrel failure’ detection
– Windows – add application version information to exe manifest
– Windows – fixed master volume changing when changing local volume
– Windows – provide warning when webcam is in use by another application
– Since virtual axes cannot be animator controlled, disable option in configuration
Dragonframe 2024.09.1
– Camera: Added OM SYSTEM OM-1 MII
– Camera: Added Canon EOS R5 Mark II
– DF Tether: Added iPhone video stabilization and color space options (ProRes Log)
– Reference scene/takes now support hi-res proxies
– Audio: Add ‘latency’ option to try to accommodate for bluetooth latency
– Increment editor improvements: ping-pong playback, one second pause at end of playback
– Movies are still stored in test folders but with “Movie_” prefix
– Movies have a separate push-in mask, to account for framing differences with stills
– Movie Export now handles anamorphic aspect ratios properly
– Import: Drawing layers are added instead of replacing old ones
– DMX: It is possible to rearrange DMX programs
– Arc: Improved ‘upload move’ progress
– Arc: special effects rolling capture during slow moco move
– Arc: Added CoreXY virtualization method
Dragonframe 2024.05.3
– Added support for Nikon Z6 III
– Ensure that program does not generate hi-res proxies during conform process
– Generate error when Sony camera is using auto-focus
– Fixed exposure selection in reference scene
– DMX: Added Godox light fixtures SL150R/SL300R/SZ300R
– Fixed potential crash on quit on macOS after using color chooser
– Fixed potential crash on Windows with webcams
Dragonframe 2024.05.2
– Workaround for disappearing view on macOS
– Fixed potential crash in reference movie decoder with unsupported formats
– Fixed crash when clicking outside of drawing layer text area during edit
– Do not show projection safe mask area when it is disabled
– Improved bluetooth audio playback on macOS
– Gracefully handle audio systems with more than two channels
– Restored real-time motion control playback countdown
– Made motion control “B-Line” dialog a little scarier
– Fixed floating tool palette looping between showing and hiding
– Fixed keyboard focus after going to a dialog
Dragonframe 2024.05.1
– Basic color management via OCIO, for converting sRGB source to monitor color profiles
– Live view magnification views each get their own grid
– Cine: Added sort options in Cinematography Test and References areas
– Cine: Added camera notes pop-out window
– Arc: Added group lock to lock entire group of axes
– Arc: See and change indexed exposure assignments directly
– Arc: Added ‘Extend Curves’ option to extrapolate past last keyframe
– Added ‘burst mode’ for some cameras
Dragonframe 2024.01.3
– Fixed sluggish DMX workspace live view
– Fixed Color Palette tool being stuck in corner of window
– Improved Nikon live view compression on cameras that support it
– Allow user to assign scene layer to a toggle group
Dragonframe 2024.01.2
Fixed:
– welcome screen preview of scenes with hidden/tagged frames
– using mouse wheel to scale animation view
– floating tool palette randomly moving to the wrong monitor
– floating tool palette buttons toggling instead of playing animation when pressing SPACE
– When shooting in middle of sequence and out point is with camera, keep moving out point
– Changed default hotkeys to toggle guide layers to SHIFT + 1-8
– Fixed Preferences dialog going behind main window
– Fixed crash when deleting large section of empty frames beyond end of timeline
– Arc: Fixed jogpad mode using wrong axis group (virtuals or non-virtuals)
– Arc: Updated SDL library to fix macOS bluetooth gamepad disconnections
– Arc: Fixed indexed axis go-motion on DMC
– Arc: Ensure dmc-lite shows up in triggers UI
– Arc: Fixed last axis dropping out group when clicking on it
– DMX: Added Aputure Amaran F21x/c and F22x/c DMX fixtures
– DMX: Added EclFresnel DMX fixtures
– DMX: Added Forza 60B II and 150B light fixture definitions
– DMX: Added Cineroid FL400 and FL800 light fixture definitions
– DMX: Added PavoTube II 15C & 30C fixture definitions
– DMX: Added Gemini 1×1 and 2×1 fixture definitions
– DMX: Added Nanlux Evoke 2400B fixture definition
– DMX: Added Prolycht Orion 300 FS and 675 FS fixture definitions
Dragonframe 2024.01.1
– Improved hot key toggling of guide layers
– New dmc-lite Arduino real-time motion control sketch, for Giga R1 and Portenta H7
– Playback performance improvements
– NDI Input: Direct NDI input integration
– Option to lock NDI/Blackmagic/Syphon/Spout live view output to specific camera
– DMX Generate Effect: Auto-generate flicker, pulsing, or static
– Arc: Added jogpad mode that uses jogpad keys but stays in main Arc workspace