Video stop-motion

I'd like to do some simple stop-motion stuff with the Mac. I'm intending to do this with a video camera straight into clips. Essentially what I need to be able to do is to tell iMovie to import just (say) 5 frames.
So I can do:
position
capture
position
capture...
move to timeline
How can this be done easily?

Alexander,
iMovie has a basic time lapse feature built-in.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1203.html
For more sophisticated stop-motion work, you should have a look at an application called iStopMotion.
http://www.istopmotion.com/
Matt

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I am trying to make a stop motion video in iMovie. Does anyone know how to turn off the Kens Burns Effect?
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... Does anyone know how to turn off the Kens Burns Effect?
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I'm trying to make "Stop motion videos" in Final Cut EXPRESS by using 100's of still photos and setting them to music. They are coming out blurry if viewed larger than 4x6 in size

I'm trying to make "Stop motion videos" in Final Cut EXPRESS by using 100's of still photos and setting them to music. They are coming out blurry if viewed larger than 4x6 in size.
I don't understand why this is happening.

Quick follow up, since I was on my phone earlier and am back to a real keyboard.
To access Easy Setup, hit Control Q.
If you click on the blue discosure triangles, a dropdown menu with about a dozen different presets will be displayed. Select the one you want, (Here, I've selected 720P.)
Whatever you select for a preset will not be applied until you make a new sequence. (I don't like to have sequences with different properties in the same project so I prefer to make a new project if I change the Easy Setup.)
Because photo aspect ratios are different than video, I typically put a solid generator of some compatible color on the first track (v1) and put my photos on the track above (v2). Looks better, IMO, than black bars. There are other creative ways to display them. And of course, you could scale them up to fill the frame…but then you probably would have to re-position them.
Good luck.
Russ

Stop Motion using photos + combining with video clips

We have about 3000 sequenced photos we want to put together into a Stop Motion video. We would also like to add an actual video clip to the beginning and to the end of the Stop Motiuon segment. Can this all be done in Premiere Pro? If so how? If not - what other Creative Cloud programs should we use and how?
Thanks.

Why did you ask a new question when you already asked in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1389086

Art student wanting to do stop motion video or a moving image film

Hi
I'm very new at this but am interested in Stop Motion or at least moving illustrative work. I'm a masters art student and have been put down as a 'video art' discipline. I have always been interested in the work by William Kentridge who illustrates and films it using a video camera, illustrating frame by frame, stop motion style. Has anyone ever done anything like that or have heard or can direct me to illustrative work that would be classified as 'video art'. I'm not sure where to start and what programs would be best to use. I am proficient with Photoshop. Any help and advice would be awesome.

Les
Your one sentence is art in itself! My sentence is puny compared to that!
Jim Cookman wrote:
One could argue that all video is art. Myself, I lean more to defining it as craft, but there you go. Please define art in a short sentence.
Hi Jim,
There is a lot of confusion regarding the difference between art and craft.
Craft tends to focus on technique, like good pacing in a video edit,
color-correcting with an understanding of color theory, composing a shot well, etc.
Sometimes the more creative examples of craft are called art.
People talk about the artwork of a advertisement, or a Smoke artist.
A trained artist can offer a lot of originality and skill to a video/film
production, but generally the work must support a story,
so it stays in the domain of craft. For example, in David Lynch's
Mulholland Drive, one could argue that the lighting and camerawork are craft,
and the storyline and editing are art.
In ancient times, art and craft were the same.
For example, the Greek word for art is τεχνι, i.e. technique.
Another approach to art is think of it as a way to create beauty.
Classical art of every culture includes examples of this. Even today
many people have a difficult time with contemporary art because
it often does not strive for beauty.
A more up-to-date definition of art involves language. There are
many kinds of language--natural languages like English,
the language of film conventions, the language of choreography, etc.
English, for example, can be used to express all kinds of things,
from software manuals to impassioned love letters; but poetry
is a very special form of English usage. The essence of poetry
is playing with the language. Sure, sometimes it rhymes, sometimes
it is beautiful, sometimes it is very expressive, but deep down
the artistic aspect of poetry is using language in a different way.
An important aspect of contemporary art is the idea that
it doesn't express a clear message. A TV commercial might be
very clever and "artsy", but the message must be clear: You
Want Our Product. A work of art tries to be much more elusive,
so that the viewer in engaged in a kind of cat-and-mouse game
with meaning.
A one-sentence definition of art? Uh, let me give it a try:
"Art is the manipulation of linguistic conventions so that
the multiplicity of possible meanings form a structure that is
interesting."
Les

Fun Little Stop-Motion Video

If you've got a few minutes, and just want to sit back and see a stop-motion video by a young film maker (and I mean young), take a look at this THREAD. The link to YouTube is down the discussion. I did not remove the link from the thread, so you could see what equipment was used to do the PrE (version 1.0 !) work - who needs a super workstation?
Hope that you enjoy,
Hunt

those mystery "text" adventures ( before much graphics were added...and then it was only still images added at first )...were cool.
theres one I really liked and cant remember the name of it right now but kept me busy typing for a few weeks at least.
instructions like , " n, n, e, n, e, drop rope, get shell, w, s, w, s, s, dig "
drove me nuts sometimes !
Then there was the game changer for all that...the "myst "..series. Wow !
yeah, it was his shield he used as the mirror....
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What programs/functions do I need to master in order to create stop motion animation?

Hi,
Im just starting a new job, and will be creating a handful of films for my new employer.
I want to create something interesting, and have been leaning towards stop motion animation.
What initially inspired me was this music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfcHq0hhFWg
To me, it looks like a bunch of stop motion ( ex; the paper balls and hand colored individual frames of the guy playing guitar), paired with some digital animation (walruses). Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
So - to focus my question:
1) What program does one use to play all the individual pictures taken to create the stop motion animation? In other words, once I have shot all the individual pictures of the objects I want to animate, and am ready to organize them and set a playback speed, what program would I use? Do most people just throw all the pictures into final cut and do it that way?? Or is there a better program?
and
2) How do you cut portions of pictures / drawings / frames out to allow for a deep layering effect? I figure most people take each frame and manipulate it individually using photoshop (cutting portions of an image out so something else can be seen through the void). But is there a better way??
For example, lets say I have two crecent shaped pieces of black paper, and I want them to move towards each other from the left and right sides of the screen, and eventually completely obscure whatever is going on in the background behind the paper images. First I would take a series of pictures, moving the pieces of paper in small increments, until they closed the gap and overlapped each other. From that point, I would lay down whatever video I wanted playing in the background into the timeline. Next, I would import the series of photos with the pieces of paper moving towards each other - then comes the problem. The portion of the pictures used for the animation that is NOT PAPER would be obscuring my background video. So at this point, is it easier to shoot the animation against a white background and just chroma key the white out? Or do most people cut the non paper part out using photoshop? or is there a better way?

frisbee681 wrote:
Hi,
Im just starting a new job, and will be creating a handful of films for my new employer.
I want to create something interesting, and have been leaning towards stop motion animation.
Congratulations on the job. Not many of them out there.
frisbee681 wrote:
1) What program does one use to play all the individual pictures taken to create the stop motion animation? In other words, once I have shot all the individual pictures of the objects I want to animate, and am ready to organize them and set a playback speed, what program would I use? Do most people just throw all the pictures into final cut and do it that way?? Or is there a better program?
Easy to search the app store, as mentioned, or just google stop motion for macintosh. Mastering the application is easy. Learning how to animate is where you need to start.
frisbee681 wrote:
2) How do you cut portions of pictures / drawings / frames out to allow for a deep layering effect? I figure most people take each frame and manipulate it individually using photoshop (cutting portions of an image out so something else can be seen through the void). But is there a better way??
In the odlen days, we used multiplane stages. Each set of drawings was placed on a glass stage, one under the other. INcredibly fun, absurdly difficult to keep clean and properly lit. Now all of that stuff is done with alpha channels and compositing software like Motion or Afer Effects.
frisbee681 wrote:
For example, lets say I have two crecent shaped pieces of black paper, and I want them to move towards each other from the left and right sides of the screen, and eventually completely obscure whatever is going on in the background behind the paper images. First I would take a series of pictures, moving the pieces of paper in small increments, until they closed the gap and overlapped each other. From that point, I would lay down whatever video I wanted playing in the background into the timeline. Next, I would import the series of photos with the pieces of paper moving towards each other - then comes the problem. The portion of the pictures used for the animation that is NOT PAPER would be obscuring my background video. So at this point, is it easier to shoot the animation against a white background and just chroma key the white out? Or do most people cut the non paper part out using photoshop? or is there a better way?
Umm, yes. You're only guessing. And, honestly (Did you want honesty?), your heart may be in this but you don't have much a clue. Techniques and effects (and the experience to guide the decisions to do them in camera, on the shooting stage, or in software) are not where you start animation. You start by learning how cameras work, how shutter speed and f-stop relate to ISO speed, how to shoot on-2s (or if you should), how to do eases and stretches and squishes, how to develop characterization in inanimate objects so you can invoke emotive responses from the audience, how to shoot to hooks in the soundtrack, how to plan, how to storyboard, how to budget time, how to establish and maintain quality shooting conditions, how to do animatic or rough tests, how to learn from the tests, how to have fun, how to make money, how to get it done.
This is kind of like saying you've just inherited a hundred acres and are thinking about getting into farming. You plant some seeds and do some stuff and then pick it and sell it. How hard can it be?
bogiesan

Low quality export for stop motion animation stills from Canon 5D Mark ii

Thank you very much beforehand to anyone who is willing to look through this issue, it's been a long and frustrating process so far...
I am attempting to put together a stop motion animation in Final Cut Express but my exports are always either low quality, or medium quality and stretched. I am shooting on a Canon 5D Mark ii set to take pictures at 21M 5616x3744 [999] (though I'm not entirely sure what the 21M or 999 mean).
When I first assembled my stills (unedited or altered in any way) and exported, it looked like this:
A relatively drastic loss in colour and quality. This was achieved exporting through quicktime conversion using the following settings:
Compression Type: H.264
Compressor Quality: Best
Size: 1920x1080 HD
Preserve aspect ratio using: Crop
Deinterlace source video: unchecked
Unhappy with the result, I went through hours of testing and researching which only yielded a result after I discovered the control-Q Easy Setup menu. I tried setting up as an apple intermediate codec using HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 at 29.97 fps. I kept the export settings the same as above, but knowing that I was now working with a canvas that keeps to the 16:9 proportions, I tried cropping one of my stills in photoshop to fit that 16:9 ratio.
I then imported my 16:9 cropped still and an unedited JPEG version from my camera and exported the resulting 10 second video. The result was better quality, but still noticeably degraded from the original stills. More importantly, both the cropped 16:9 and the unedited JPEG were stretched out of proportion as seen below (16:9 version):
Of course I forgot to note the original settings on Easy Setup so I can't figure out how to get back to the original lower quality, yet undistorted image (not that I want to do that). I tried numerous different sizes for the export including changing the Crop (when necessary) setting to letterbox. Nothing worked.
The canvas, however, immediately looked 100% better after switching the Easy Setup to HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 at 29.97 fps. It held the improved quality without distorting the image:
I'm not sure if there's any hope of having a great image quality, but at very least I would like to be able to export at the decent quality of the second screenshot without the stretching and cropping.
I need to have this resolved ASAP for work, I've already wasted too much time here. Any help is so appreciated, I'll be active in providing whatever additional information that I can to responders, though please keep in mind that I'm relatively new to all this, I don't know where to find everything

I've decided just to try to get back to the export that I showed in the first screenshot. That result came before I started tampering with the Easy Setup. Like I said, when I changed the setup the canvas quality improved drastically and the dimensions seemed to fit much better, but the export was vertically stretched and cropped. I just reset my FCE settings and it turns out the default setup is DV-NTSC, but it's giving me a terrible quality still...
I just want to get back to that second screenshot's quality.. Could someone suggest what I should switch the easy setup to for importing stills from my Canon 5D Mark ii to yield the right results?

How can I make a stop motion animation using Premiere Elements 13?

I am trying to make a stop motion animation with a series of still shots. So far I have managed to speed up the shots so that I have one frame per second but this is still not fast enough and I can't work out how to make them go any faster!
I am working on a class project with my 8/9 year olds and the project has stalled at this point because I can't get past this hurdle. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

yogawithlexi,
Welcome to the forum.
Im also needing to just edit the photos but adding text. Nothing fancy. I just want to make some flyers.
For editing photos, to be output to the printed page (whether by a commercial printing service, or a desktop printer), I strongly recommend Photoshop Elements (PsE).
If you need to output to a video file, then Premiere Elements (PrE) can possibly do what you want, but not for the printed page - at least not easily, and with the ultimate results. First, Video is not dependent on DPI/LPI (Dots Per Inch, or Lines Per Inch), where printed material will be. Also, while PrE can output a Still Image, the quality, when printed, will be far less, than what one can obtain with PsE.
Do you currently have Photoshop Elements on your computer, or only Premiere Elements?
Good luck,
Hunt

Stop motion on premiere pro

Hello, i am trying to make a stop motion film using adobe premiere pro cc, and possibly premiere elements 12 if necessary. I would like to know how i can createa live feed of images from camera to software. I would also like to be able to use the onion skin tool whether that is available in either of the sed softwares. thank you

Premiere Pro captures via FireWire natively, or via HDMI and SDI if you have compatible third-party hardware installed. This is typically used to capture moving video, though. I don't know if it will do a single frame.
Honestly, your best bet may be to use a stills camera to shoot the frames.

Stop Motion

I am trying to create a movie with both video clips AND stop motion. I have searched and searched but i havent found a clear answer. I have already inserted all the video clips that I want for the intro. Now I just need to insert the stop motion part. HELP!

We have about 3000 sequenced photos we want to put together into a Stop Motion video. We would also like to add an actual video clip to the beginning and to the end of the Stop Motiuon segment. Can this all be done in Premiere Pro? If so how? If not - what other Creative Cloud programs should we use and how?
Do a search on how to manage Sequential Image files.
Basically ...Select All> Import> multiple files and check as sequence.
I would do it in AEFX and create a digital intermediate files. Others wil have a different opion on that workflow.
Jim - if you lock a Post / THread..how about putting "Locked" in the Title.
That post also had the additional info asked for.

Stop-motion with camera?

I have a school project where I need to animate a stop-motion video. We used a Canon 7D to take pictures and I imported them in lightroom. What I need to do now is take all of these frames and put them together to make the video. I tried manually doing it, but it came out all shaky. There has to be an easier way then to manually do it like that.
Please help
Thanks
-RJ

I'm guessing that the jerkiness is based on the camera's moving from one photo to the next. While Flash has an onion-skin function for the timeline, aligning a lot of imported photos will be a long and painful process. Flash isn't really the right tool for this sort of thing. Photoshop, on the other hand, has a crop and straighten photos function that will organize all of your photos while you sit and sip your coffee. It's in the File... Automate... menu. When you have the photos aligned and cropped, you can then export a video file straight from Photoshop.

Stop Motion Effect?

Is there a QUICK way to create an effect similar to stop motion animation (1 fps) with a video clip already on the time line in Final Cut Pro?

Look for the STROBE filter.
Shane

Stop motion queston

Hoping someone can help.
I'd like to try some stop motion animation so I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on the subject as a whole. And specifically speaking, if anyone knows of an inexpensive usb webcam I can purchase for taking the stills.
I've got a MacBook Pro that's about a year/year and a half old.
I've tried the built in camera and it seems to work, but it has some very obvious drawbacks.
Any help would be appreciated folks, thanks so much.
Dave

Another approach, with the benefit of higher image quality than many video cameras, would be to shoot animation with a digital still camera. The many frames you shoot can be combined into a movie.
For example, when you import a still frame into FCP, I think the default duration is 5 seconds. If you set this value to the duration of a single frame of your video format in the preferences, you can then import a huge folder of frames to the timeline, and render it as a playable movie - each photo will be one movie frame.
The camera must be solidly mounted and preferably untouched while animating, so remote control is helpful. Some cameras offer a TV-like remote control accessory, and some have computer software that let you run the camera whilst tethered to your computer by USB.
Be sure to study Aardman Animation, Ray Harryhausen, Willis O'Brien, and many other practitioners.

Stop motion troubles

I just finished work on a stop motion video involving a crew of LEGO characters fighting to the death. However, when I go to the begining in the timeline and try to watch it the whole way through, it messes up. The video will play for a while, then it will freeze on an image while the playhead keeps going. It's like my computer is freezing up on me, but I know that this is not the case. Is it a problem with the actual footage, or is it just the program's fault? Is there a way to smooth things over so I can view what I have created so far?

Oddly enough, all of the problems were mostly fixed as soon as I posted this question...
Also, I was unware that I had to render the footage, and things seemed to run smoother when I finally did. Thanks for your effort though.

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