Stop motion using DSLR images

[Micah Mcdowell]

You definitely could use Premiere…

Or, you could take Adobe After Effects if you have it and drop all your images in a composition, scale them and trim them all to 1 frame at the same time while they’re all selected, and then go to Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Sequence Layers.

And, voilà, you’re done with your project. That method would take 30 seconds, while in Premiere you’d have to scale every frame individually (unless there’s a better workflow I don’t know in Premiere).

[Jeff Brown]

I’d pre-process the images first in Photoshop if needed. Then, treat the images as a file sequence (assuming they have sequential frame numbers). Interpret the footage to the desired frame rate. I’d use AfterEffects for the finishing over Premiere; Premiere tends to bog down with large frame sizes (2K+), and color-correction, blurs, masks, etc, are probably easier to do in AE.

-Jeff

[Pieter Helsen]

Cool, thanks for the tips guys 🙂 I will use Lightroom and After Effects I think!

Kind regards,
Pieter

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[Ann Bens]

In the Preferences you can set the still image default duration to any amount of frames.
If you set it for 1 frame the 1200 stills will give you a sequence of 48 seconds in PAL or 40 seconds in ntsc.
Best is to convert the stills to framesize. This can be done in Photoshop as a batch.

You also can scale the still down to framesize by scaling down one still, copiyng it in the timeline, selecting all the others and paste attributes. This will be a strain on you computer.

[Jeff Brown]

One caveat: if you use still frames (as opposed to a file sequence), you’ll find it pretty much impossible to edit. You will have the equivalent of 1200 “clips”, all of one frame duration…

been there ;>)
Jeff

[Andy Carrasco]

Peter,
I realize I am over a year too late for posting to this thread but I am working on a similar project in AE and would love to hear how you got yours to turn out. My main issue right now is rendering. My final video is choppy and doesn’t have a smooth transition between frames. If you could give me any insight on how you completed your project I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!