stop-motion using stills from digital camera

[Adam Rose esq.]

under options / preferences

[Adam Rose esq.]

then under EDITING – new image length

[Peter Wright]

Options > Preferences > Editing > New Still Image Length

Needs to be set BEFORE you drop the stills on the timeline.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Jerry Waters]

For animation number the stills sequentially. Then “File-Import” and choose the first numbered still. Then check the little box (lower left) to import the string. It will add the string as a video file.

If you want to get a feel for this, first export a short piece of video as stills. This is a little wierd but it is under “Tools-Scripting-Render image Sequence.” Vegas will send out the video as a group of 1 frame jpeg or png files in a sequence. Check those out. You want to do something like that to do the animation.

I know this is odd. It seems like Vegas should have “Import-Export” instead of two different areas for inbound and out.

JerryW

[Jerry Waters]

On that “Import” it is “File-Import-Media” — then select the first still and check the box at the bottom for the numbered stills

JerryW

[Edward Troxel]

Definitely use the “Image Sequence” import method. That will be much easier to work with instead of trying to make each separate image 1/24th of a second.

Edward Troxel

[Esotericsean]

that does seem like the best way to do it, but for some reason vegas gives me an error when i send it a string of jpegs. (Warning: An error occurred while opening one of more files. The item was not found.)

thanks so much for all the help. i hope i can figure this thing out.

[Jerry Waters]

Sorry it didn’t work for you but it does work – just quirky. The files would have to be compatible as to resolution etc. Just a thought — try numbering them in the same manner as Vegas when it exports them. In fact, try saving your files with their names.

JerryW