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Stop motion editing?
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You shot it without knowing how you would post it? That bizarre issue aside, what do you mean FCP is not "efficient?" Post-production of stop motion is a well-documented and widely used practice in FCP, easily researched online at dozens of forums and tutorial sites. But one does need to plan ahead. Are you using properly numbered jpgs?
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Thank you for your short and unnecessarily rude reply. to answer your questions, yes I have numbered the jpegs and i shot it with the idea of editing on FCP but its a little harder than i thought. I have 1879 pictures and it isnt very quick is what i mean by not efficient.
tell me what to do.
tell me what to do.
What did you mean by not efficient enough? ( what are you trying to do? )
I used the older quicktime 7.xx to create jpgs sequence into a mov file, then import it to finalcut for editing.
would probably work too with newer quicktime, but the comp i'm using at the moment don't have the new version.
I used the older quicktime 7.xx to create jpgs sequence into a mov file, then import it to finalcut for editing.
would probably work too with newer quicktime, but the comp i'm using at the moment don't have the new version.
taking a look at istopmotion right now.. thank you!
the quicktime idea sounds good..!
thank you for your replies
For ultra basic [and cheap] Smoovie is the newest entry, I think. I'm trying it now and will then try iStopMotion.
There was nothing rude about his response. Stop motion is pretty basic nonlinear editing. And less than 2,000 images is a pretty small amount to manage. That's about two and a half minutes, if you're giving every image a 2 frame duration on a 24p timeline. Sounds like google would be your friend, rather that someone "telling you what to do."
Yep, open sequence of images in Quicktime 7.
Not sure how that was a rude response, seemed you overlooked a pretty big part of the workflow...
You should look into iStopmotion in the future, though, you'll never know how you lived with onion skinning, heh.
Not sure how that was a rude response, seemed you overlooked a pretty big part of the workflow...
You should look into iStopmotion in the future, though, you'll never know how you lived with onion skinning, heh.
You can also have a look at Frame by Frame which is a free stop motion software, abeit not as feature rich as iStopmotion.
Also, here's a workflow I use when doing stop motion in FCP:
- Open FCP
- Click on "Final Cut Pro" next to the apple in the left corner
- Click on "User Preferences"
- Click on the "Editing" tab
- Change "Still/Freeze Duration" to 00:00:00:03
- Import photos into Browser
- Select all your photos and drag them into the timeline.
- Voila.
- Open FCP
- Click on "Final Cut Pro" next to the apple in the left corner
- Click on "User Preferences"
- Click on the "Editing" tab
- Change "Still/Freeze Duration" to 00:00:00:03
- Import photos into Browser
- Select all your photos and drag them into the timeline.
- Voila.
Interesting info. I jsut finished making a stop motion video of comparable size (a little under 2k images) in imovie last night. I jsut put all my edited jpegs in an iphoto album and dragged them into imovie. Pretty easy actually! Good luck with your project!
Hi,
Plenty of solutions above to solve your problem.
Here is a link to a former post of me (search forums). In the post are also links to stopmotion websites with a lot of knowledge.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/835207/
Good luck with youre project.
Plenty of solutions above to solve your problem.
Here is a link to a former post of me (search forums). In the post are also links to stopmotion websites with a lot of knowledge.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/835207/
Good luck with youre project.
I have iMovie '08 and cannot figure out a way to get the fps faster than 2. A far cry from 24 fps. Are you using iMovie 11, or is there a way to get iMovie '08 to animate a series of images?
i think I'musing imovie 8... i'll have to check it out later as it is on a different computer. All we did was drag the photo files in from iphoto. Then you can double click on one of the pictures and set the display duration. I think you can go all the way down to a tenth of a second... That worked for us, because 10fps is really all we needed.
Thanks for the "set duration" suggestion, when I tried before I tried the "photo duration" slider from the iMovie/Preferences drop down which only goes down to 1 per second, and the slider underneath the thumbnails which goes down to 1/2 second. Now a third option which you suggest. I couldn't get anything on a double click, but a right click gave me the set duration option, but it appears to only go to 0.2 seconds rather than 0.1 seconds. But that is pretty good for basic animation as you mentioned...I think I'll end up buying iStopMotion for the more complete animation abilities. I tried Smoovie which is cheap and great for very basic compiling of image sequences, which is what I was originally after, but as they say, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and I think my little knowledge is telling me to spend more money!
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The thing about iStopMotion is that to get HD output capability, you have to buy the much more expensive Pro version at $499. At that kind of cost you should also compare it against Dragon Stop Motion which is $275.
P.S. How was the snow today?
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The best I've been able to set that at is 0:05. That represents seconds and frame count, so 6 frames (or images) a second give a 30 fps rate, or 0.1666 second per frame. I'm using iMovie 09.