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App Detail » FlipBook Creator (ParaParaManga Maker)

Published by: Kosuke Aota

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 3.3.0
Released: April 08, 2013

What's New

The problem that the pen color was reset when color space was changed between RGB and HSV, is fixed.
UI improvement

App Description

This app creates flip book animation from the pictures you drew.
The Animation is available to export as MPEG-4 movie and Animation Gif, thus it is easy to share it with SNS or mail, and play or edit it in other Apps.

・View Design
The main view is composed of two parts. Upper part is Information Panel and lower part is the Canvas area.
Upper part can be paging with slide action. Each page has faction such as "Add, Copy, Move, Delete frame", "Edit color and line width", "Preview", "Zoom, Undo/Redo".
Canvas is always showing on lower part, so you can edit setting with check current canvas state or draw a pictures with watching preview.

・Drawing
Color:
The app provides 8 preset color, which can be called with 1 tap. Also, you can edit RGB value with sliders. This means you can use unlimited color. Edited colors are saved up to 20 colors, and saved color can be allied with 1 tap action as well as preset color.

Zoom:
You can draw detail with 2-times or 4-times zoom in.

Trace:
Any frame can be shown on canvas translucently.

Undo/Redo:
Yon do not need to be afraid to fail, Only push "Undo" button, it will be recovered.

・About Frame
In this app, the one picture which composed flip book animation is called "frame".
All frames of animation are shown above canvas. So you can draw with checking other near frame.

Add:
To add new blank frame to just after editing frame.

Copy:
To add the frame copied of editing frame to to just after editing frame.

Move:
Long pressing a frame, moving mode is waken. During moving mode, dragging frame and changing order is available.

Delete:
To delete editing frame.
When you mistake to delete frame, push undo button on zoom view. ( Zoom view can be shown by sliding upper part.

・Preview
Without exporting movie file, animation can be played in the app.

Quick Preview:
to be played on canvas directory just 20 recent frame with certain speed.

Full Preview:
to be played on the special view for preview. You can edit play speed, which set with the number of frames per a second, FPS.

・Export
This app can export as two type movie files; MPEG-4, Animation Gif.
You can check the result by playing just after exporting is completed.
Exporting animation, It is easy to share it with SNS or mail, save into Camera Roll, play or edit on other apps.
Before exporting, animation title and speed is editable. And final check of preview also are available.

About Animation Gif:
It is good for a few frames and low fps animation. On most Mailer application, Browser and PowerPoint, and etc, Animation Gif can be played with just add the file.
Animation Gif File is create at every export time. It is not saved in App.

About MPEG-4 Movie:
It is good for bigger file size animation.
This file type can be played on many applications and devices.
MPEG-4 Movie file saved in the App for Movie Factory Function. Once exported, you can select replace with old file or reuse it. If you want to delete exported file. From all MPEG-4 file list in movie factory function.

Share with Twitter/Facebook:
Twitter・Facebook do not directly support MPEG-4.
If you want share MP4 file, firstly upload it to Movie sharing service such as Youtube, then share the Link of movie.
Uploading to youtube is supported by iPhone. You can upload it from camera roll.

In the case of Animation Gif, Twitter is supporting Upload animation Gif since June 2014, however Facebook is not. If you want to share on Facebook. You need to use Picture sharing service or site.
You may upload it to Facebook directly, however it would not animate in Facebook page.

About Movie Factory:
to Generate new MP4 movie file with combining two or more exported mp4 file in the app.
It is available to create rich movie. For example, repeating the certain scene or shuffling scenes.

・Management of Animation
Animations can edit title and thumbnail image to make easy to be identified. You can change editing animation anytime and export animation.
FPS can be set by each animation.