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Professional requirements are to be met at a relatively affordable price. Dragonframe 3.0 is designed to allow keyframes to be displayed for moving objects in order to test the timing of a movement before recording.
External control of light sources or frame-by-frame playback of audio tracks for lip synchronization is also said to be possible. Camera settings or frame-based motor control of the camera tripod are to be controllable directly in the program using function graphs.
The software is available for both Windows and Mac; Dragonframe is currently offering it with an additional keypad controller for around 300 dollars.
Dragonframe’s offer here.
Another beautiful example of a stop-motion work:
