Post #2
Alright, so you've got your first stop-motion pictures, and you'd like to see how they look playing at high speed on a computer.
So.....five easy steps, once again.
First, import your pictures onto your computer. It's probably a good idea to create a folder for your images to go into. Call the folder 'Animation 1' or something else deep and meaningful.
Second, open your video editing program. If you've got a Windows computer, open up a program called Windows Movie Maker (WMM for short) If you've got a Mac, open up a program called iMovie.
Third, click and drag all your photos into your editing software. On WMM, click 'Import', and find your files. On iMovie, open up a 'Finder' window and go to 'Animation 1's' folder. Open it, and select all the photos and drag them into iMovie's video bay.
Fourth, set all your pictures to 0.1 seconds long. In WMM, you'll need to go to and change the still duration to as low a photo length as it can, and on iMovie, you'll need to go to 'Clip Adjustments' on any photo in your group and check the box labeled 'Applies to all stills'. Then, click the still duration and change it to 0.1 seconds. With 'Applies to all stills' checked, iMovie will change every photo in your bay to one tenth of a second.
On WMM, you'll need to drag a box around all your images in the import bay, and drag them into the timeline.
Fifth, preview your video. Go to the first picture in either of the programs, and click play. Look what you've done! You just made a basic stop-motion animation.
We'll cover more details in the next post.
--Noah Master
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