Just a quick question

Brodie Jackson

Brodie Jackson

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I am panning on making a stop motion film for my HSC art major. just wondering if any of you guys know a program you suggest i use in constructiong the images into a film clip?
cheers :)
 
iMovie if you have access to a Mac

[video=youtube;ipE3nCjI0IU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipE3nCjI0IU[/video]
 
I will be sure to post it Hamish :)
will be in 12 months time but i'll get there lol. Just in the planning stage atm. really need decent marks toward my HSC. so hopefully it all comes together nicely in the end!
 
... ooo and a bit of home and away ... although the latest gang related story lines are far to silly for my liking!
I've always wondered... do you get eastenders/corronation street/hollyoaks/emerdale over there?
 
Most of the stuff I do is either related to stop motion, or it is animation. All very experimental.

LarryBolch's Channel - YouTube

I use a PC and have found that Sony Vegas Movie Studio does everything I want. It is a small fraction of the cost of the industrial version. The main differences are that Vegas Pro interfaces with high-end production-house and network hardware. Not something an individual user would ever see. It also has unlimited video and audio tracks, while the Studio version has less. My version—which needs updating—can handle up to ten of each. I have never come anywhere close to maxing it out.

This was shot nearly a decade ago with a Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera on continuous—all still images. It was animated in Movie Studio, with one track for the main video and a second for the see-thru titles. One audio track was dedicated to the rhythm, two to ambient sounds—applause and the like—and two more to sound effects. Synchronizing the effects is ultimately simple. Drag the audio clip until it lines up with the video frame. Oh, and it is supposed to be amusing!



[video=youtube_share;k4kjXLvJ6mU]http://youtu.be/k4kjXLvJ6mU[/video]


The Movie Studio interface is devoid of eye candy, very easy to use—highly intuitive. As well as still frames, it will import and export pretty much all video formats, and will even upload directly to YouTube. Above all, it does not get in the way of the project. Sony offers several different bundles from just the program, to a full production suite, along with content. Any of them can be downloaded for a 30 day trial, and made permanent by buying inserting and registering the serial number. Browse my channel, and you will see how off-the-wall home movie making can be.

Home Studio Family Overview

Hope this helps.
 
there are narcotics that give a similar effect to that ;)
love the sound track, the swooshing noises as poeple move their arms etc ...
I can certainly imagine that being a lot of fun to put together!!
 
It was a project that lay dormant for quite a long time—actually shot nearly a decade back. Shooting in one direction, I had diffused daylight through large windows, and artificial light in the other direction. It was shot prior to RAW and I just was not able to get the colour balance I wanted. Photoshop CS5 allowed me to process JPEGs as if they were RAW, and it worked reasonably well.

A bunch more has been uploaded to the channel, with other stuff shot with still frame on continuous, interval timer and actual animation. Motion is just too much fun to be squandered on straight video. :D
 
You do get up to some random stuff Larry!
How did you get the criminal mug shots?
I guess you must have been pretty clever about the order you put them in?
Some of te morphs are hysterical!!

We have just started a you tube channel ... I've not quite worked it out yet!
Can we link to each others channels? Is that something people do like facebook liking etc?

Did you see I bought a steady cam for my iPhone? Ive always like video/editing... But never really got into it for some reason?? I can see me enjoying it as another related medium quite a lot now I have an excuse to do it!

This is a video I did at college, the audio/video sync slipped in some transfer at some point so it's a little shoddy looking but it was a lot of fun to do ... I really have no idea why I didn't get more into video

[video=youtube;GOjwdYYJCvQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjwdYYJCvQ[/video]
 
Hamish Gill said:
You do get up to some random stuff Larry!
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It is really great having the tools on-site. I have a nice lot of synthesizers and play both wind and keyboard controllers. Across the room from the music stuff, is my general purpose and A/V computer which well set up for media acquisition and editing of all kinds, and my graphics machine is in another room. It was recently upgraded for 3D modeling and rendering and is near state of the art. All three machines have the appropriate suite of software installed. So when I get an idea no matter how complex or off the wall, I can simply do it. It has been a matter of slowly upgrading as I can afford it—some of the stuff is decidedly vintage now.

How did you get the criminal mug shots?
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I happened upon them when looking for something else. Evidently Denton County Texas posts all mug-shots of those arrested, and they are public record, so can be used.

I guess you must have been pretty clever about the order you put them in?
Some of te morphs are hysterical!!
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Preparation was everything! ACDSee Pro allowed me to drag them into order and rename and number them so they would stay in order. The goal was to set up a sequence where each successive picture was as close as possible to the one before. The jailers had no idea about colour balance or lighting, so everyone had to be corrected as best I could, considering they were rather low resolution JPEGs. In the end, I am quite pleased—it tends to draw quite strong reactions.

We have just started a you tube channel ... I've not quite worked it out yet!
Can we link to each others channels? Is that something people do like facebook liking etc?
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I too am just learning my way around the interface. At this point, I don't see any way of linking, but there very well may be.

Did you see I bought a steady cam for my iPhone? Ive always like video/editing... But never really got into it for some reason?? I can see me enjoying it as another related medium quite a lot now I have an excuse to do it!

This is a video I did at college, the audio/video sync slipped in some transfer at some point so it's a little shoddy looking but it was a lot of fun to do ... I really have no idea why I didn't get more into video
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Agree. Before it was Sony Creative, it was Sonic Foundry. When I outgrew my Amiga, SoundForge Lite was bundled with the sound card. A simple, logical interface so easy that I rarely needed documentation. With slight variations, all of the applications use a version of the same interface, so it is very comfortable moving among them and they play nicely together. When Sony bought them, it kept the team intact, supplied funds for development and marketing. New and very powerful features are added, without changing the fundamental programs.

I shot a couple of documentaries long ago on film, and really found editing physical film tedious. Once I became steadily employed, there was no further need. I greatly enjoy playing with the animation techniques you see on my channel, but I am fundamentally a still photographer. I have tested the X100 and got spectacular results. Just a couple of test clips, but on my 1600p monitor they scale up nicely from 720p and are sharp and richly detailed.

Speaking of SoundForge, there is a tool primarily aimed at restoring old vinyl LPs. You capture a sample of "silence" which may contain tape hiss, turntable rumble and whatever else that may be constant. Under your control, it will deduct this from the overall sound file. I had done a couple of test clips at an outdoor cafe and while I picked up voices nicely, I also picked up traffic sounds and all manner of ambient sound. With this function in SoundForge, I was able to remove it totally!!! However, when it was totally gone, there was noticeable distortion of voices, so I played with the blend-slider until it all sounded very natural. Ambient levels were far lower, and voices were clear.
 
Thank you so much. They were all immense fun to do. Amazing the freedom that the software empowers one. No matter how wild the idea, it was just a matter of sitting down and doing it—laughing all the way. Whatever your imagination comes up with, you can do. Never in the history of art, have we had the media with the power to match our imaginations. On the other hand, if you produce something terminally boring, you are stuck with the full responsibility for it.
 
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