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stop motion animation
Hey!
My daughter and I are trying to do some stop motion animation like claymation.
We are using DV camera attached to FCP with firewire. I only want to capture one frame at a time firectly into FCP. I don’t want to use tape.
I see how to set the device control to none. But I don’t see how to captrue just one frame at a time.
Anybody?!?!?!?!?!?
NORMCO
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4 Replies
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you can shoot with a digital stills camera (potentially better reoslution than a DV camera)
Digital stills are named and numbered as sequentially, such as DSC_0001, DSC_0002 etc.You can then open this sequence of stills in QuickTime (one step using Open Image Sequence)and export then as a movie at the frame rate, size and codec you so desire.
You can even open the stills in PhotoShop or similar and grade/manipulate the images individually (to fix one dud frame, like paint out a fly) or as a batch (to increase their sharpness with Unsharpen filter)
Ideal if you can record the stills direct to your computer. This allows you to view the sequence at any given time.
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sorry to say this is not a function of FCP
there is a great application for just this purpose, however, and it is loads of fun (but not free)
check out Boinkz iStopMotion at https://www.istopmotion.com/
cheers
Andy -
This could interest you: Corpse Bride & FCP
https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JulAug05/julaug05_bride.html
https://www.apple.com/pro/film/lucas/
Wayne
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I’ve used Frame Thief with great sucess. You can download a free 30 day demo
Peter McAuley
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