MOTK Shoot — Stop Motion Studio

LIVE

Source

Camera Resolution

Hi-res photo capture (if camera supports) Blackout screen during capture (kills monitor spill light) JPEG quality 0.92

Image

Mirror horizontal Mirror vertical Rotate 180°

Controls (camera-dependent)

Start a camera to see available controls.

Time-lapse

Interval (s) Ramp a camera setting

Tether — RAW originals

Fires the camera's own shutter on every capture (real shutter speed / ISO / RAW from the camera body) and keeps the originals on disk. Run the agent next to your camera: node bridge/production-agent.mjs — see docs/TETHER.md.

Agent URL Pairing key

The key stays only in this browser tab. It is not saved in the project or Agent URL.

offline

Fire camera shutter on capture Use camera JPEG as frame image

Connect to see camera settings.

Exposure passes

Capture all enabled passes per frame

Add a pass, then choose only the settings it should override.

Focus drive

Connect to a camera exposing manualfocusdrive.

Browser USB experiment

Optional Phase 1.6 lab. It is isolated from projects and does not replace the tether agent.

Open WebUSB lab

Onion skin

Enabled O Frames back 1 Opacity 0.35 Mode Also show next frame (review) Ghost X / Y

Onion skin ghosts previously captured frames over the live view so you can judge your next pose.

Layers (overlay guides — never exported)

No layers yet. Add a reference image, a primitive shape, or a garbage mask.

Guides

Grid Center cross Safe areas (90 / 80%)

Aspect mask

Target Mask opacity 0.7

Zoom the live view with the mouse wheel, drag to pan, double-click to reset. G cycles grids.

Exposure monitor

Histogram Clipping zebra Clip level245

Focus

Focus peaking Threshold55

Chroma key monitor

Enable key Key color Tolerance85

Anamorphic monitor

Desqueeze

Monitor-only tools. Captures and RAW originals remain untouched. Desqueeze metadata is included in project backups.

Audio tracks

No tracks.

No audio loaded. Load a WAV/MP3 to animate to sound (lip sync).

Offset (frames) Play during playback M Audio scrub on frame step Mute selected track Volume

Use the X-Sheet to write phonemes/dialogue per frame while scrubbing.

Face set

Show mouth cue from X-Sheet

Generic A/E/I/O/U/MBP/FV/L/WQ/rest mouth chart.

X / Y Scale %

Playback

Speed

Full sequence

Pop-through

Hold P to momentarily flip live ↔ selected frame. Release to return.

Compare

Source B Mode

Compare another edit or another take from this production shot.

Production

No take linked

Name Naming Folder root CSV URL GAS URL Auto reportmin

Sheet sync

No production selected.

Add shot

Shots

No shots yet.

Movie

Format Bitrate Include audio

Image sequence

Expand holds (duplicate files)

Project

Editorial hand-off

Active edit timing, holds, capture IDs, RAW references, and monitor desqueeze. FCPXML media is relinked to this take's frames/ folder.

Uses the active edit. Binary AAF is represented by portable AAF-lite JSON.

Edit sequence

External bridge

MOTK Shoot has no built-in DMX / motion control — instead it broadcasts every event over a WebSocket so external rigs (lighting, motors, triggers) can sync with capture. See docs/BRIDGE_PROTOCOL.md.

URL

offline

Reconnect automatically

Log

Scripts on the page can also use window.motkshoot (JS API) — every event is mirrored there.

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`Enter`	Capture frame	`Space`	Play / stop
`1` / `←`	Step back	`2` / `→`	Step forward
`3`	Toggle live view	`4`	Short play
`O`	Onion skin on/off	`L`	Loop on/off
`G`	Cycle grid	`M`	Mute audio
`Home` / `End`	First / last frame	`Del`	Remove from edit (capture kept)
`+` / `-`	Hold +1 / −1 on selected frame	`D`	Duplicate frame
`Ctrl+Z`	Undo edit change	`Ctrl+Shift+Z` / `Ctrl+Y`	Redo
`X`	X-Sheet	`?`	This help
`P` hold	Pop-through live / selected frame	`REVIEW`	Speed, range, edit/take A/B

Projects

X-Sheet — click a row to jump; type dialogue / phonemes per frame

Captures bin — every shot, as taken. Click one to insert it into the current edit.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts & WebHID keypad