Stop motion frame rate
Hello,
I'm trying to do a stop motion film and I have a few questions about frame rate. I'm using iMovie 6.0.2 on OS 10.4.7.
1. The shortest possible duration I can put on a photo is 00:00:01. I've heard it said in this forum that the last two digits stand for frames per second, but that doesn't make sense, seeing that a higher number of frames per second would have a quicker duration, but the higher the number in the last two digits, the longer the duration. I assume that the final 01 stands for "one tenth of a second," or about 6 frames per second. Normal stop motion does app. 24 frames per second. Is it possible to set the duration of photos to something near this?
2. If that isn't possible, a friend of mine suggested simply putting the photo duration to 00:00:01 (6 frames per second, if I am correct) and fast forwarding the video at 4x. In order to prevent the music and sound effects from also being fast forwarded, she said to try saving it at 4x and exporting it to quicktime or something, then import it back to iMovie so that the 4x speed becomes the default and reads as 1x. Can this be done? Thanks.
Christian
I'm trying to do a stop motion film and I have a few questions about frame rate. I'm using iMovie 6.0.2 on OS 10.4.7.
1. The shortest possible duration I can put on a photo is 00:00:01. I've heard it said in this forum that the last two digits stand for frames per second, but that doesn't make sense, seeing that a higher number of frames per second would have a quicker duration, but the higher the number in the last two digits, the longer the duration. I assume that the final 01 stands for "one tenth of a second," or about 6 frames per second. Normal stop motion does app. 24 frames per second. Is it possible to set the duration of photos to something near this?
2. If that isn't possible, a friend of mine suggested simply putting the photo duration to 00:00:01 (6 frames per second, if I am correct) and fast forwarding the video at 4x. In order to prevent the music and sound effects from also being fast forwarded, she said to try saving it at 4x and exporting it to quicktime or something, then import it back to iMovie so that the 4x speed becomes the default and reads as 1x. Can this be done? Thanks.
Christian
ibook G4 1.33 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
