Stop Motion Animation Capture

I use my old version of Premiere (6.5) ALL the time for this sort of stuff. I save it as a NTSC/DV format and it edits easily in FCP.

Another way is to use a digital camera capturing stills and use those to create the animation.

There are also dedicated stop motion capture software packages (drawing a total blank at the moment ...)

What fun!

cheers
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www.istopmotion.com

Great piece of software. Used it for fun little projects.

Shane

You know the coolest way to do stop-motion? Still camera, SLR if you've got one.

bogiesan

CORPSE BRIDE was made that way.

Shane

I thought that that movie was really good on it's technicall aspect. The setup for each shot must have took a long time.

you want the mac based FrameTheif animation software

http://www.framethief.com/

30 day trial i believe and or purchase at very low cost after

the issue with using the digital still camera is that you will create large image files (not really a big deal) but framethief is a simple shoot & capture & import

professionals use it and so do kids its that simple

just hook your dv video camera up to your computer via firewire and hit the space bar to capture a single frame (jpg or tif)

hope this is helpful

I thought the Canon capture software that comes with the dSLRs allowed capture of smaller frame sizes. The camera can only capture one size, but it means you don't have to do a batch conversion later. I haven't used this software that came with my 10D for quite some time, though, so I may be mistaken.

I remember the stop-motion capture in Premiere, and thought it was a great little feature to have. This feature has been removed from Premiere Pro on the PC for some reason.

actually no cost as FrameThief its a shareware

will capture uncompressed, HD, many formats

the issue with using the digital still camera is that you will create large image files (not really a big deal) but framethief is a simple shoot & capture & import

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Nonsense.
All DSLRs give you wide choice of image sizes and compressions.

The advantages of shooting with an SLR far outweigh the perceived limitations but they require thoroughly understanding your animation project's needs. The documentation on Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" and many other stop-action films shot with still cameras is extensive. It's great fun to research. You'll spend hours on google looking for various stop-action proejcts. Lots of these animators are artists or students, gladly sharing their techniques on their sites or blogs. if you find one you like, post it.

There are cults of animators who shoot with still cameras and bring the frames into After Effects for processing with time remapping, frame blending and many other effects. Incredible stuff. Try google for Patrick Siemer, a visual effects artist at Pixar. He is featured in the new AE7 CIB from Adobe.

bogiesan

Here's an Apple article about the shooting of Corpse Bride... SLR's, FCP and all:
http://www.apple.com/pro/film/lucas/

PowerMac G5, dual 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4)

in response to David who says 'nonsense,

i shoot animation with a digital still camera and it does not create a 720 x 480 image size it is always larger, neither does the still camera create an image in the Hd aspect ratio.

when using digital still cameras even at a low rez re-sizing for exact image size composition is not unusual