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Author:  Fogmeister [ Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Free Stop Motion Video Software?

I'm looking for a fairly basic bit of software to create a stop motion video.

I have a load of images that have been taken of one of our build sites over a few weeks and I'd like to create a stop motion video of them.

Ideally I'd like to get them playing at 30ish frames per second but iMovie only allows a minimum of 0.1seconds per image.

Can anyone suggest any other software? Or does anyone know of a way to change iMovie to work faster?

Thanks

Oliver

Author:  timark_uk [ Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

QuickTime can do that, at least QuickTime 7 could, I don't seem to be able to find the command in QTX. Hmm …

Mark

Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

timark_uk wrote:
QuickTime can do that, at least QuickTime 7 could, I don't seem to be able to find the command in QTX. Hmm …

Mark


In which case you can grab your Snow Leopard DVD and install QT7 to do it :)

Author:  timark_uk [ Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

forquare1 wrote:
In which case you can grab your Snow Leopard DVD and install QT7 to do it :)
Srsly? \•/

Mark

Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

timark_uk wrote:
forquare1 wrote:
In which case you can grab your Snow Leopard DVD and install QT7 to do it :)
Srsly? \•/

Mark


Yup, it's in the extras bit IIRC

Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

Well I had a play with the images on my work PC using Movie Maker and it looks excellent.

But Movie Maker only goes up to 8 fps for images.

I have found a workaround in iMovie to get faster than 10fps which is to create the movie at 10 fps and then create a new movie and import the current one but increase the speed of it to 300%.

Free is good for me at the moment :D

Author:  Fogmeister [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

Well... I'm importing them into iMovie now.

I didn't think it would take THIS long. There are 18GB of images (17,000 @ 1.1MB each).

So far it's been going for 2 hours and it still says 2 hours remaining and that's just to import them, LOL!

Author:  ProfessorF [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

Fogmeister wrote:
There are 18GB of images (17,000 @ 1.1MB each).


There's a clue there... ;)

Author:  Fogmeister [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

I need a new iMac to do this :D

Hmm... that sounds like a decent excuse :D

Author:  ProfessorF [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

Nah, you need a new Pro.
Really.

Author:  Fogmeister [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

ProfessorF wrote:
Nah, you need a new Pro.
Really.

Really? Cool, thanks for letting me know :D

I almost wasted my money there!

Author:  Fogmeister [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

15 minutes to go, LOL!

Author:  Fogmeister [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

D'oh!

I'd forgotten to remove the Ken Burns effect before importing :(

Starting again as it appears you can only remove the effect photo by photo :(

Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

Why are you using iMovie? QT Player can import a series of images at the frame rate you specify. MUch quicker to do than rely on iMovie to handle it all.

Author:  Fogmeister [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Stop Motion Video Software?

paulzolo wrote:
Why are you using iMovie? QT Player can import a series of images at the frame rate you specify. MUch quicker to do than rely on iMovie to handle it all.

QT Player? I didn't know about that.

I thought only QT Pro could do that?

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