Re: Stop Motion Animation

Taylor Umphenour wrote:
> 
> To Whom It Might Concern,
>          I am 14 years old and have been working with
> puppets and puppetry since I was 7 years old. Recently, I was introduced to
> the art of Stop Motion Animation. Since then I have made several short
> films using the equipment at the Governors Institute on the Arts in
> Castleton, Vermont (Where I was introduced to Stop Motion Animation) and my
> VHS camera. However, if you are familiar with the proccess of stop motion
> animation, you'll know that pushing the record button on and off as fast as
> you can doesn't work as well as everyone thinks it does.
>         I am looking for a computer program, or other piece of video equipment,
> which will be able to capture a
> user-selectable ammount of frames (Usually 1, 2 or 3) and then combine
> these short intervals into a finished piece. Do you know of anyone who
> sells any
> software/video capture boards, video equipment, editors, cameras, etc. that
> would be capable of this task? What would you reccommend for this use?
> *(If you are responding with computer products)->Truthfully, I do not know
> a whole lot about computers but am willing to
> learn as much as I need to in order to get effective stop motion animation
> results. I have an IBM compatible computer, running Windows 95.
> 
>                                 Thank You,
> 
>                                                         tr...@together.net

Most computer video camera software can do frame capture and save. The
only problem you would have is linking the images together in to a movie
format and saving them.

You may need to look into buying a production level package of Real
Player or Shockwave. These packages are not cheep and will contain
features you may never need.

You can find many hardware cards that allow you to record images on your
monitor.

You may have to change your video card in your computer. It may not be
fast enough to allow you to get full screen imaging of your movies to
record onto your VCR. Your COMPUTER may not be fast enough to do this
either. While you did not post exact specs on your computer (and I am
not asking you to) the question of weather your computer can handle the
speeds necessary for full motion video is an important one.

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