When it comes to DigiCel FlipBook,
 the sequels are always better than the original.

We've added new playback features that give you a better look at your animation and more control to save you time. We've added new drawing features to help the animators that want to draw on the computer. We've added some terrific new painting features that will amaze the pros and delight the beginners. And and we've added even more speed that everyone will enjoy.

More Speed - More Power - More Ease-of-Use - More Affordability

• Full Screen Playback for Maximum Visibility

• Real Time Direct Video Output to TV or VCR for Preview & Recording

• Photoshop Editing Within FlipBook, Use Photoshop to Edit Your FlipBook Images

• Start and Stop Frame Markers to Control Playback and Compositing

• Cut, Copy & Paste Within Images With Scaling & Rotation

• Improved Graphics Tablet Support 

• Improved Line Quality

• Pencil Texture Lines

• Automatic "Paint To" Lines Make Painting Limited Animation a Snap

• Automatic Overlays

• Multi-File Import for 3D and Rotoscoping

• New Drawing Tools to Speed and Simplify Drawing

• Multiple Levels of Undo / Redo

• AutoGap Closer, Leak Locater & Instant Stop Leak for Faster Painting

• Convenient License and File Transfer for More Productivity

• Erase Inside or Out Rectangle for Faster Image Clean-Up

• Drag and Drop Soundtracks Make Adding Sound Faster and Easier

• De-Speckle Action Cleans Multiple Images With a Single Effort

• Append Frame and Levels expands your scenes to match your creativity

• Animated GIF Output for Web and Email Delivery
  
  AND MORE . . .
  All available with a new pricing and upgrade structure to make FlipBook easier to own than ever.

SPEED

When it comes to getting your work done, faster is always better. And FlipBook 4 is faster than ever.

Scenes Open Faster
FlipBook 4 has been optimized to open your scenes faster. FlipBook 4 can open a scene with 500 frames and 10 levels in 3 seconds on a fast computer. Compare that to the 8 seconds it takes Photoshop to open, without any images at all, and you get an idea of the speed in FlipBook 4.

Move Between Images Faster
To make painting and clean-up even faster FlipBook now has "HOT KEYS" to move you immediately to the next or the previous drawing in your level regardless of how many empty cels are between drawings.

Scenes Composite Faster
Small scenes composite in real-time and you don't really need to get any faster than that because the compositing will stay ahead of the playback so it's always done as soon as you want to see it. But larger, or more complex scenes can take longer so FlipBook 4 offers several options to make compositing go faster. For example, by only compositing every second pixel FlipBook can composite a scene about 3 times faster with only a slight degradation in image quality.

AVI Files Import Faster
Importing AVI files to be used as backgrounds or for reference while drawing is much faster than it used to be and FlipBook 4 can import the soundtrack as well as the images.

Editing the Xsheet is Faster
Again, this was never an issue in small scenes but if you had a big scene moving around in the xsheet would start to slow down. FlipBook 4 makes moving around and editing the xsheet in big scenes much faster than it used to be.

PLAYBACK

Full Screen Playback
FlipBook 4 lets you play your scenes back FULL SCREEN so you can see your animation clearly without all the extra tool bars, tool boxes, palettes and xsheet.

WYSIWYG Video Output
Real-time WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) preview lets you see your animation on TV and record it directly to videotape while you watch it play in FlipBook. These days lots of video cards have a composite or S-Video output to TV and Windows lets you extend your computer screen onto the TV. FlipBook 4 takes advantage of these new features by creating an extra playback window that you can drag onto your TV and if you have a VCR hooked up you can record exactly what you see while you play your scenes in FlipBook.

Mid-Scene Start and Stop Points Make Working in Long Scenes Faster and Easier
When you're doing a 30-second commercial you could have 900 frames in one scene. If you are only working on a small section of 100 frames in the middle you don't want to wait for the other 800 frames to play before you can see the part you're interested in. And if your scene has lots of levels you don't have to wait for the extra frames to composite.  Now FlipBook 4 lets you set temporary start and stop points within a scene to restrict the playback and the compositing to the area you're working on.

DRAWING & PAINTING

Tablet Support
The traditional animators, that have been around a while, still prefer drawing with pencil and paper, but many of the new up and coming animators are learning to draw right on the computer with a tablet or even a mouse. FlipBook 4 supports graphics tablets  so you can still get the look and feel of a pencil while drawing directly into the computer and saving the time it takes to scan or shoot your drawings as well as the cost of paper and pencils.

New, Improved Line Quality
FlipBook has always done a great job of making scanned lines look great on screen. But with the addition of tablet support we wanted to make the lines that you draw with FlipBook look better too. FlipBook 4 also has a new type of pencil line that actually looks like it was drawn by a pencil on paper and it gets darker as you trace over it, just like pencil and paper. This line is perfect for sketching ruff drawings and getting a feel for the animation.

More Tool Attributes and Easier Access
Now that the drawing and painting tools have more features, we thought we'd make it easier to access and control them all. So now you can access the Tool Attributes dialog by holding the mouse button down on the tool in the tool box, just like Photoshop. And you can leave the tool attributes dialog open while you work for quick and easy changes as needed.

Line, Circle & Rectangle Drawing Tools
Since we've made the lines look better we thought we give you some more drawing tools as well. So now FlipBook 4 has tools for drawing straight lines, perfect circles and easy rectangles.

Perimeter Cursors
It's always nice to be able to see what part of the image is going to be affected before you actually make the change. The cursor in FlipBook now shows you exactly which pixels will be changed before you make your changes. So you know ahead of time whether you need to make the brush or pencil size larger or smaller.

Adjust the Brush and Pencil Tools Size with the + and - Keys.
And we've made it easier to change the brush and pencil size too. Now you can just press the + and - keys on the keypad while you're painting to increase or decrease the size of the tool.

Better Zoom Control
We also thought you'd like some better Zoom control so now you can drag the Zoom tool to surround the part of the image that you want to zoom in on and as soon as you let go you get to see and edit exactly what you want.

New Way to Zoom Out
Even though it is a clear violation of the Windows standards, we've given in to peer pressure and we've followed Adobe's example. So now you can hold the Control key or the Alt key down and click with the Magnifying glass to zoom out while editing images in FlipBook.

Select, Cut, Copy & Paste Within Images
And now that you're drawing more in FlipBook 4 we thought we'd give you some more editing tools too. This new feature makes animation much easier for the aspiring animator and the pro. Now you can cut or copy any part of an image from one cel and paste into back into the same frame or into any other frame. And when you're pasting it you can scale it up or down and even rotate it. So you could copy a drawing to the next frame (by pressing the F7 key) and then cut and paste any the part of the drawing that needs to be repositioned. Or you scan your model sheets into an inactive level and copy pieces from the model sheets and paste them right into the scene to save drawing time.

Photoshop Editing From Within FlipBook
Now you can use Photoshop, or whatever your favorite paint program is, to create and edit backgrounds and overlays. And you can also use it to add special painting effects to cels as well.

Pick Colors From the BG to Add to the Palette
Now you can pick colors from the background and add them directly to your palette, making it easy to get exactly the colors you want in the palette. You could even scan a color model in as a background and create the entire palette by just clicking around on the background.

De-Speckle Action
Scanning images often come in with little specks where dust or dirt was on the scanner's glass or where little bits of eraser were left on the image. And FlipBook has always provided a way for you to easily clean up these specks. But now it's even more powerful because you can select a whole range of cels and FlipBook will despeckle them all as a batch process with a single command.

Faster Cel Clean-Up
And if the De-Speckle Action isn't enough to get your cels clean, you can use the Select tool to select a rectangular area and FlipBook will let you erase everything inside or outside the selected area. AND you can make the selection box stay in the window when you change from one drawing to the next. So you can erase that area in as many frames as you want and all you have to do press 2 keys.

Multi-Level Painting for Limited Animation
We're still looking for a better name for this feature but we didn't want the lack of a great name to keep you from getting to use such a great feature. Today's budgets are forcing more animators to do limited animation, with the character spread across multiple levels to speed up the drawing process. But duplicating lines on multiple levels looks bad and trying to paint right up to the edge, when the edge is on a different level can be pretty tough. So FlipBook uses it's Light Table to let you see the lines in all the related levels while you're painting. The current level is displayed in its actual color and all of the other lines that help make up the character are displayed in pink. When you click to fill inside the black lines the fill stops when it hits a pink line from another level. This makes painting multi-level drawings a piece of cake and "paint to" lines are a thing of the past.

AutoFinish
AutoFinish is a very powerful feature that can save you hours of painting time. Once you've painted the bigger areas in your drawings just press F2 and FlipBook will paint the rest of the image for you. It does it by painting all of the remaining areas, that are enclosed by pencil lines, with the nearest color. So once you've painted enough of the big areas to make sure the unpainted areas have the correct color nearby FlipBook can automatically finish the painting.

QuickErase
This new feature works with the Fill Tool to let you erase something you've painted with a quick and easy Right-Click of the mouse. It really comes in handy when used with the AutoFinish feature above. Sometimes your drawings will have areas that are enclosed by pencil lines but aren't supposed to be painted. For example, a character standing with its hand on its hip could have an area enclosed by the arm and the body that isn't supposed to be painted. A quick Right-Click in the area erases the paint and leaves the image perfect.

Auto Gap Closure
Sometimes when you're filling an area, the paint spills out through a gap in the line and floods the entire image. FlipBook 4 has a new feature to deal with that. When you see that the paint has flooded out you just hit the Escape key and FlipBook will undo the fill, close the gap and re-fill the frame - all in an instant.

Leak Locater
If the gap is too big for Auto Gap Closer you can just grab the Fill Slider and as you drag it the fill reverses until you locate the leak.

Stop Leak
Once you've found the point of the leak instead of having to go to the Tool Box and change tools now all you have to do is press the Alt key and the Fill Tool turns into a Pencil Tool so you can instantly close the gap and then let go of the Alt key to Fill without leaking.

Multiple Levels of Undo / Redo
And last but not least in our list of painting and editing enhancements is multiple levels of undo. Now you can undo the last 20 painting steps. Each time you click on undo takes you further and further back through the steps you've taken to create your image. And if you decide that you've gone back too far just turn around and start retracing your steps forward with the multiple redo feature. Now you're really free to explore your creativity.

AUDIO

Drag and Drop Soundtracks
Now you can just drag the WAV file for a soundtrack onto the xsheet and it will pop up the sound dialog to let you sync it and either enable or disable it.

Maintain Sound Sync During Editing
FlipBook 4 keeps track of your edits in the xsheet and will adjust the soundtrack to maintain synchronization unless you delete the frame that the audio is synched to.

Import Audio from AVI files
FlipBook now imports the soundtrack along with the video from AVI files. This makes it much easier to import live action video to use as a background, adding your animation in the foreground to make your home movies more interesting. It's also great when using the live action video for reference while animating over the top of it.

Save Sound File in FlipBook Scene File
Now you have the option of saving the sound file within the FlipBook scene file so you don't have to keep track of it separately. But you can still link an external sound file to your scene and even remove the sound file once it's been appended to the scene file.

XSHEET

Append Levels in the Xsheet
Now you can add new levels to an xsheet to make room for more characters, props, overlays or whatever.

Append Frames in the Xsheet
It has always been possible to add frames to a scene but in FlipBook 4 it's easier than ever.

Now it's Easier to Break the Link Between Multiple Copies of the Same Image
Since drawings are often used more than once in a scene, FlipBook normally only saves one copy of the image and uses it as often as is needed. This also means that making a change to any one of the copies automatically updates them all so you don't have to do each one separately. But sometimes you may not want the other copies to be changed so FlipBook 4 lets you easily break the link between multiple copies of the same image.

CAPTURE

Better Image Quality for Video Capture
FlipBook 4 analyzes multiple frames of video to significantly improve image quality by dropping out unwanted video noise (specks).

Save Capture Settings
Some of the newer capture cards default to settings that aren't what today's animators want. FlipBook 4 can override their default settings so the next time you go to capture images everything should be just the way you left it last time.

IMPORT

Multi-File Import
Now you can highlight multiple files to be imported into your FlipBook scene all at once. This is particularly helpful if you're importing photo-rotos to do animation over live action like in Looney Tunes, Back In Action. It's also a big help when you're importing a sequence 3D files into the background or the foreground to be integrated into your FlipBook scene.

IMAGE WINDOW

New, Bigger Tool Bars w/ Reactive Icons
Screen resolutions are getting higher and higher and although Windows lets you adjust the size of the text to make it easy to read, at higher resolution the icons start getting pretty small. FlipBook 4 has new, larger icons that automatically scale down when they are used in low resolution monitors and up when they are in high res settings so they're always easy to see and easy to click on..

New, Bigger VCR Controls
The VCR Control Panel has also been enlarged to make it easier to use. And new buttons have been added to improved the look and readability.

SCANNING

Automatic Timing When Scanning Over Roughs
FlipBook 4 can automatically place your scanned drawings into the same positions in the xsheet as your rough drawings so you don't have to redo the timing when you progress from roughs to clean-ups.

PRINTING

Print Registration Marks
Now you can print your images with registration marks so you can post punch them and put them on your peg bar to use for reference.

PORTABILITY

Transfer Your License and Your Files to any Computer
Dongles have long been used by many leading software companies to prevent software piracy. In this case the software will only run while the dongle is attached to the PC but you can move the dongle (and therefore the software license) from machine to machine as needed. DigiCel now offers dongles to our customers who want to be able to run FlipBook on more than one computer. But our dongles are actually 32MB USB hard drives. These '32MB dongles' not only let you move your copy of FlipBook from one PC to another, but they also let you take your files with you.

Animated GIF Movie Output
People often like to post their animations on the internet. But sometimes even with lots of compression the files are just too big. So we've added support for animated GIF files, which are usually quite a bit smaller so they download and play faster. And to get the best possible results, you can choose between standard or optimized color palettes. And for stuff like sending a pencil test in an email you can even select 16 or 256 shades of gray.

EASE OF USE

New Scene Are Easier to Make
Creating new scenes is easier in FlipBook 4. In most cases all you have to do is set the frame size. The rest can all be done later and it can be changed at any time. You don't even need to name it. That gets taken care when you save it.

Revert to the Last Saved Version of a Scene
We've added a Revert option to the File menu

Set Frame Rate During Export
We've added the ability to confirm or set the Frame Rate while you're in the Export/Publish dialog box so in case you were experimenting with different rates during playback, you can always make sure that the final output is the rate you want.

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