Stop Motion Video software ? - DPChallenge Forums

10/02/2011 05:17:29 PM · #1

I've made several stop motion videos in the past using a lightweight freeware. I had it on an old laptop that bit the dust, and now can't remember what it was called. I'm sure I posted the name of the software somewhere on these unsearchable DPChallenge forums to help someone else out.

In particular, I used it to make videos called, Wake Up Kids and Cork Floor Installation.

I've just installed Windows Live Movie Maker, no doubt along with some Windows spy and bloatware. It's so disappointing that the good old days are gone. I remember when I could search for something, find it, and download it. These days I seem to find lots of bullshit ads, and when I do find something that looks downloadable, it turns out to require some shadybastard 'downloader' to be installed before the download can happen. Screw that.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

10/02/2011 06:33:30 PM · #2

On the rare occasions I look for software I usually look first at cNet.com

10/02/2011 06:35:11 PM · #3

Originally posted by GeneralE:

On the rare occasions I look for software I usually look first at cNet.com

cnet was one of the offenders which wanted me to download through their own exe, which I think is shady. >:-(

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

10/02/2011 06:44:49 PM · #4

OMG, Windows "Live" Movie Maker is even crappier than the original Windows Movie Maker. How the fuck do they make something so much worse!?!?

raish

Olympus C-2500L

10/03/2011 12:52:42 PM · #5

This (and the info that's put up with it) reminded me of this thread.

Spork99

OM System OM-1

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

10/03/2011 12:55:46 PM · #6

I use a program called "Frame by Frame", but it's Mac only.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

10/03/2011 01:02:30 PM · #7

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
On the rare occasions I look for software I usually look first at cNet.com

cnet was one of the offenders which wanted me to download through their own exe, which I think is shady. >:-(

Not sure what you mean -- I've never had problems, but haven't been there much lately. AFAIK, they guarantee their downloads to be free of viruses/malware.

FWIW I used an old version of Adobe Premiere for this time-lapse.

If you've ever bought a stand-alone CD/DVD burner, they often come bundled with some software which might include video software.

10/03/2011 02:03:15 PM · #8

I took a leap of faith on cnet last night and tried "dubstep", or something like that. It was almost promising, but didn't seem to be able to import all of my photos... nearly 3,000.

So far, Microsoft live movie maker has done the best job, though it took about an hour to render, and then had the annoying side effect of putting the photo filename as a subtitle randomly on about half the photos, ruining the video it took so long to render.... and so is dead to me. I spent some time struggling to get the subtitles off, but am not willing to got through some 3,000 frames manually deleting them. >:-(

The most annoying thing to me is that this stuff used to be so quick and easy!

Why has life become more difficult?

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

10/03/2011 02:15:17 PM · #9

What size photos are you importing? You should batch resize them to the size of the video frame (e.g. 640x480 pixels for traditional VHS format) before importing into video editing software.

Also, number them (e.g. 0001_Filename, 0002_filename2) so they'll import in the order you want to render them.

Message edited by author 2011-10-03 14:16:40.

IAmEliKatz

Nikon D5

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

10/03/2011 02:26:33 PM · #10

There's always this.

Time Lapse Camera

I actually bought one and i'm pretty happy with it so far.

Only one major design flaw that you can't see what you shooting. You have to power off the unit and then connect the drive to see what you are taking a picture of and then reset.

10/03/2011 02:55:32 PM · #11

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I did that my second go-round. MS preserved the camera-given filenames, so I suppose it's reading them from metadata, but only when it feels like it about half the time.

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

10/05/2011 03:34:39 PM · #12

FYI...

JPGVideo is what I was after.

What a pain in the arse that was, but it's finally over!

Expect a new thread from me on this in 2015. But I'll be even more rank then.

raish

Olympus C-2500L

10/05/2011 05:32:47 PM · #13

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

But I'll be even more rank then.

yakatme

Lytro Illum Light Field Digital

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

10/05/2011 05:41:05 PM · #14

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Expect a new thread from me on this in 2015. But I'll be even more rank then.

I'll make sure that I save it in my Watched Threads for you.

bhuge

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/05/2011 06:00:41 PM · #15

Another great freeware program for this is FFMPEG. It has a steep learning curve because its all command line based. But it has almost infinite flexibility. I used it heavily during most of the workflow on a few hollywood stop-mo films.

Message edited by author 2011-10-05 18:01:04.

10/05/2011 06:44:22 PM · #16

Originally posted by bhuge:

Coolio, do you have any of your stuff online to see?

As far as huge learning curve... I have better things to do with my time than learn! ;-)

bhuge

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/05/2011 06:56:35 PM · #17

The studio is overly protective when it comes to their internal process. So I won't mention any movie names but lets just say that the main character was a little girl with bright blue hair and a search of my name on IMDB might return something. The second film is still in production, but should be out next year.

10/05/2011 07:12:54 PM · #18

Originally posted by bhuge:

AWESOME ! Loved it !

10/05/2011 07:33:35 PM · #19

OH snap, the software seems to be creating erroneous files! I'm about to snap!

10/05/2011 10:23:10 PM · #20

Well, crap. The software couldn't handle ~4,000 frames, apparently, so I split it up and recombined...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3y6rbVw04