Need help: I’ve got a project due in 2 days and I need to know how to put the pics in place. I’m using OpenShot, but if anyone’s got tips on any other program that’d be great. Thanks!
@Waj b/c IDK any other high-profile editors on the boards.
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Ah yes, I remember when I made a stop motion for a school project… that was 5 years ago.
I used Vegas for that one- I think the key was just to take a huge number of pictures for important scenes so like 25-30 pics/second and for other less important ones maybe 10/second.
Normally there should be a way to set the default length of an inserted image (the default on most programs is five seconds, so for stop motions it should be set to like 0.024 s). Then you can just easily highlight your image sequence and drag and drop them into the timeline.
Hope that helped,
Cheers!
– Waj
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It’s real simple, on paper at least.
Basically all you need is a camera (and preferably a tripod to keep it steady), a good lighting source, an object( Like a toy car, a transformer, some legos, ect.) and an idea for what’s happening in the stop motion.
You use the camera to take pictures of an object slightly moving. The problem is this can take a long while. you need to take a picture of every slight movement, or else you risk the animation looking choppy.
You then import it to whatever video editor you have (You might have to google which is a good one to use if you don’t have any, I only have experience with Shotcut and Windows Movie Maker, that latter of which I cannot recommend) and "speed up the photos, usually under a second. I’m not sure what a good estimate is, mainly because I haven’t done something like this in over a year, but like the fellow above me said .10 seconds per frame may be good.
After adding in any little details you may want to add (Voice clips, music, sound affects, ect) you then export it as an MP4 (how this is done depends on what editor you use, although most have a simple export button and automatically save it as an MP4) after that you should be good to go, submit it to YouTube or Vimeo or Vid.me, ect, and see if it gets any attention.
I’m not an expert when it comes to this kind of stuff, but I hope this is helpful.
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2 days for a stop motion video? Oh boy. You probably should have asked a lot sooner, because stop motion takes quite a while.
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Got the pics done, but editing is the problem. 'Tis all, hopefully.
I have to say I’m probably no help but for me when I made a couple (test) vids I was using an ipad (school provided) and had found a stopmotion app on it, so I just started screwing around on that, set up a light box and lighting, made a stand out of bionicle parts and just started recording, not the best vids but I was happy with em (recommendation, get some kind of sticky tack if you’re using any type of figure, you’ll need it!).
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Spending too much time taking pictures
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