Making a stop motion movie

Hi, i've recently shot a stop motion movie. I have transferred the pictures into Iphoto, and opened them up in Imovie, but when i try to add them with a 0:03 frame rate via the photo settings, it does nothing! HELP!

You could save a lot of time (no imports into iPhoto or iMovie) by creating your video using a dedicated stop motion software app.
You could also upgrade QuickTime Player to "Pro" ($30) and use the import Image Sequence to build the video. It takes only a few minutes.
Export this file as DV Stream (or not) and you can use it in iMovie to use its features (titles, transitions and effects).
iMovie is a DV editing app. Any file format other than .dv will be converted to it.
You're working with image formats and you may not even want the conversion to "video".
Tell us the destination format you want to implement and we can help you decide the best course.

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    frisbee681 wrote:
    Hi,
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    Congratulations on the job. Not many of them out there.
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    frisbee681 wrote:
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