Making regular video look like stop motion

[Dan Rollins]

Your example is not playing for me? Can you check your link.

Cheers,
Dan Rollins
HDSLR Videographer (T2i & 7D shooter) – FCP7.0.2 (Studio 3) – 27″ iMac 2.8 Quad Core i7 4GB RAM – ATI Radeon HD 4850

[Matt Callac]

Your example didn’t work.

if you have After Effects there is a posterize time filter. Dropping the framerate down to 12 or even lower might achieve the look you are trying to get. Alternately motion has a strobe filter that you may be able to achieve a similar look with.
-mattyc

[Matt Callac]

Just noticed that the same strobe filter is available in fcp as well.
-mattyc

[Shea Scott]

https://www.youtube.com/user/mysteryguitarman?blend=2&ob=4#p/c/CF81022FAB19616C/4/XCWkyjdt5wc

sorry here is the link. I found the strope effect in Final cut and it looks decent but I think I’ll try messing with the frame rate and see if i can get it smoother. Any tips on how to do that in FC. Do I have to change the frame rate of my whole time line?

Thanks,

Shea

[Matt Callac]

yeah that link still isn’t working….you shouldn’t need to mess with the framerate of your timeline. Just mess with the parameters of the strobe effect.

-mattyc

[Chris Wiggles]

I was just searching for the answer to this question myself and discovered that the Strobe filter does a pretty good job of basically just making your video a slow frame-rate. If you actually want to make it realistically like stop-motion, then that would take more effort. I was just going for a look of basically a series of still frames, and didn’t want to make them all manually. the strobe filter does exactly that, simple!

Hope that helps someone else. 🙂

Regards,
Chris

[Mark Hunt]

QHQ Stop motion is a script for after effects which works a treat!