Making a Stop Motion Film

Hi-

I am importing photos from iPhoto into iMovie to make a stop motion film and am running into some issues. Would appreciate some help as I am a complete novice at this

1) what photo size should my photos in iphoto be?

2) I read to set the time of each photo to :03 for the best stop motion, but can't bet iMovie to do less than :10 in the settings.

3) The type on my title/credit screens looks nice when I am creating it, but when I watch it back it looks awful

4) I exported to dv so that I could watch on my Windows machine at work, and the quality is awful. Pixelated, slow etc. Is this the result of my work machine or the result of doing something wrong in iMovie?

Thanks, and any other pointers/help in doing this would be greatly appreciated!

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 4, 2006 11:21 AM

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Dec 6, 2006 11:21 PM in response to meagfitz

1) if you don't use any Ken Burns effect in iM, the final NTSC res is enough 720x480..

2) set your new iM project's format to "dv" NOT mpeg4... 1 frame in iM lingo = 00:00:01, 3 frames = 00:00:03

3) see 2), plus don't judge pic quality in iM's preview window, on TV ONLY... iM is meant for TV-delivery, not computer-displays ...

4) mpeg4=> dv => awfull .. 😉

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