stop motion`

[Mike Clasby]

Stop motion is done in the camera… take a pc… move an element… take a pick… move an element… then import the sequence.

You could animation things in AE (position, rotation, etc)one frame at a time, a keyframe on every frame, but why not let AE interpolate the inbetweens? Maybe I don’t understand the question?

[Chris Smith]

If you are doing stop motion, there are quite a few free programs that allow you to sample a frame form a firewire source.

If you want it to look really good, use a digital SLR camera. Nikons and Cannon’s come with free software to trigger a photo and save it in incremental naming convention to a folder. Drop this folder into AE and it will play it as a movie.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com