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Stop-Motion
We are shooting a TV Show, and for the opening we are going to be treating a bunch of video footage to look like stop-motion footage. I want to treat the footage like the footage in this video:
It would be, I believe treated in Photoshop and every other frame or third frame imported back in for the final composite? But if I have a clip, is there a script that can export every third frame or something of that nature?
Thanks
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
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Effect>time>posterize time?
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I’ll give that a shot as well… But if I were exporting the frames out, and only wanted every 3 frame, is there a way to pull that off?
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com -
i think if you were to render an image sequence, but set the frame rate in the render settings to one third of the comp’s rate, you would get every third frame rendered.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
actually, if you set the comp frame rate to one third, you could ram preview to see what the footage would look like at that rate, and make modifications if need.
so try a comp rate of 10 fps, if you need it jerkier try 6, etc…
Kevin Camp
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This Dan Ebberts expression on Time Remapping plays ever 3rd frame, but it does it at the frame rate of the clip. Put this on time remapping (Enable Time Remapping, Copy the expression, Alt-Click the Time Remapping Stopwatch, Paste):
n = 3;
n*timeBut if you exported an image sequence you should get every 3rd frame in the sequence.
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Cool, I’m giving both techniques a try to see what works best. Thanks for the tips.
With the Time Remapping strategy, if I wanted every 4th frame or 5th frame I put n=4 or n=5?
Thanks again
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com -
Yep, the expression gives you every “n”th frame.
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One thing I’ve noticed, and this will probably change when I take it out of After Effects and reimport it, is that everything is obviously sped up quite a bit, how would I go about addressing this issue? Should I make the frames 2 frames long? Or something else
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com -
if you reimport as an image sequence, you can set the interpret footage to the frame rate (say 10fps), then you can put that into a 29.97 comp and ae will fill the gaps with duplicate frames, or you could work in a 10fps comp, but render to 29.97 and ae should do the same thing to the render.
you could also drag the images in and then drag them on the comp icon, ae should ask what to do witht he images. set it to make singel comp, set the frame duration of each image and to sequence them.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Great, thanks for that advice, that’s exactly what I needed. I appreciate all your help
Dan
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
http://www.luminair.com
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