iStopMotion Animation

boinx offers a 7 days test period... test on your own:
http://www.istopmotion.com/license/demo_dv.html

no, it's not part of any package, it is a standalone app; creator is not Apple, but Boinx.-

no, haven't tried..- not enough "endurance" for stop motion.. 😉

Hi(Bonjour)!

iStopmotion is a "standalone application" who allows animation production.

You can save your animation in any quicktime formats and codecs, including DV-stream for iMovie using.

It' a very good program (tink about vocal command to oignon peeling between images to check continuity), but you have to master some animations skill to produce quality movies.

It's worth the price.

Michel Boissonneault

hello all,

i have tried out iStopmotion (and the freeware Singleframer as well) and i can't say that they work .... after making a time-lapse recording with both QT could not recognize the output of either of them (error -2048).
i played around for a while but to no avail. then i tried BTV Pro and it works just fine and especially appreciate the possibility of recording/converting widescreen material.

hope it helps & viva la mela

the error code -2048 lets me guess, you tried to import from a PC formatted, usb2 connected ext. drive, right?

hello all

Karsten:
i imported - strike that: i captured from my miniDV camera via firewire cable, just like in iMovie, FCE and so on, only that this was a time-lapse capture. i then converted to QT movie with the following settings
DV PAL
best quality
16:9 aspect ratio
i checked importing in iMovie and FCE 2 and get an "unsupported format" error in both.
but as i said, i tried BTV Pro and it does it neatly, especially the 16:9 part which neither iStopmotion nor Singleframer seem to support

(-2048) ....yeah i know what you mean: the error message is the same when trying to play some .wmv file - been there too many times. i sometimes wonder what the heck they create all these formats for .... so much time, money and manpower wasted and so much frustration on the user side..... 😟

anyway - lang lebe der apfel

hmm, did you try to use istopmotion for standard 4:3? we read here lots of trouble handling 16:9 qt files....

your file, was it .dv or in a .mov container...?

finally: needed googleearth to know exactly where Belize is... looks nice (beaches?) 2000km from top 😉

hello all,

karsten:
iStopmotion doesn't give me a lot of options here: it's either DV NTSC or PAL and then there's a third option called DV Cinema with a resolution of 720x280 ... kinda strange. there is however the possibility to do a custom setup, if seen it just now. but in any case if you change the resolution you basically just fiddle with your material, because footage shot on a miniDV camera in 16:9 mode is and remains 720x576 PAL or 720x480 NTSC - it is no native 16:9 but just squeezed/letterboxed.
i've read a thread today (in the FCP discussions i think) where the whole topic was being discussed at length. the outcome of the whole thing is this:

widescreen material receives a flag from the camera marking it as 16:9. QT is unable to read/recognize the flag and thus all material is converted to 4:3, e.g. final cut export.
the two apps that do it right are iMovie and BTV Pro, don't ask me why.... oh yeah, a little curiosity: when exporting with QT conversion from iMovie you will get a different aspect ratio: 1040x576 - very neat and it's actually right or should be: if you want widescreen, make it wide, 576 lines are always 576 lines on my TV.
i don't know anymore, maybe i got it all wrong - i'm just a smalltime videographer....

i'll keep y'all posted - viva la mela

PS: yeah, nice beaches, palmtrees ... also beachbars 🙂

I never realized there could be so many problems using iStopmotion...

... ehm, I do read ONE post, concerning using istopmotion in a properly not meant to be used way...

as I posted above: try on your own, they offer a free trial; a discussion about a single problem is not a "many" in my understanding... 🙂

video camera with single frame shooting - no. not on a consumer (price tag) level..
you can use ANY digital still camera and use almost any video app to make a "movie" out of pics /QTpro allows the bulk conversion of a folder of pic files into a mov...

but istopmotion offers some essential features as onion-skinning etc.....