http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: stop-motion - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:42:29 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-go-fan-video#post-64321 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:46:07 +0000 WSanford 64321@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Very creative. I actually liked yours better. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-go-fan-video#post-64306 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:39:47 +0000 PJ McConnell 64306@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I recently made a short fan video based on the Ok Go "End Love" music video, with nutcrackers! This is a stop motion, with a few slow motion clips, and some new jingle bells and bells added in the background. Before you criticize too much, this was my first stop-motion animation ever attempted and is meant to be a direct copy of the original video. So saying this, I am not exactly posting this looking for critiques because this was not too much of a serious project and was unoriginal. Just figured I would post it for you to see!</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ycttux8Uhc&amp;hd=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ycttux8Uhc&amp;hd=1</a></p> <p> </p> <p>and watch the original first if you haven't seen it it before!</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw</a></p> <p> </p> <p>PS: So sad I don't have a camera that record a higher FPS, huh?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/saving-inas-fast-forward-time-lapse-vide#post-40244 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:07:28 +0000 BarefootMedia 40244@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I believe you can do this with any major NLE.  But I know all versions of Vegas can easily achieve your results.  As part of the media properties when a clip is on the timeline, I can adjust the playback rate &amp; direction.  Vegas Home Studio lets me run my video forward or backward at 4 times normal speed.  So an hour of video plays back in 15 minutes.  But if I render this video and import it back to the timeline, I can speed the footage up 4 times more, so the 15 minute video will run in under 4 minutes.  So now we have the original hour of video appearing to be a 4 minute time lapse video.  Render &amp; import once more and speed it to twice the speed and the four minutes will take 2 minutes to play.  So the hour passes in 2 minutes and 15 hours would fly by in the half hour you desire.  By the way, the final ratio works out to around an acceleration of 32X.  If you are curious about how it looks, I could post a video I sped up to 64X real time.</p> <p>But I will point out that in Vegas Home Studio you have to process the aduio &amp; video seperately.  And the audio plug-in I have will only let me double the speed (or halve the time.)  But I have sped the audio up to match the video in just the same way and I think it looks and sounds great.</p> <p>Now there are likely to be other ways to achieve the same effect.  But this method can be used with most full scale NLE's.</p> <p>Good luck and have fun.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/saving-inas-fast-forward-time-lapse-vide#post-40242 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:20:38 +0000 neil189 40242@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi,</p> <p> I have a video already shot, that is approx. 15 hours, that i want to fit in a time frame of 30 minutes. I dont believe this is the same thing as time lapse, but it would have the same effect.  I basically want to save what it looks like while I am fast forwarding.  The video was shot on a Panasonic SD camcorder and is about a 40 GB file.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to do this?  What software would I need?  is it possible? Thanks alot for the advice.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/some-stop-motion-questions#post-38661 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:13:02 +0000 grinner 38661@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>bailing wire spun together works perfectly. yu can make the bones from wood. Where you leave gaps... those are joints.</p> <p>It'll be good for you to play without armatures at all first. You'll get a feel for plasticina this way.</p> <p>here are some ideas you can try with logos and such:</p> <p><a href="http://grinnerhester.com/demoreel07.wmv">http://grinnerhester.com/demoreel07.wmv</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/some-stop-motion-questions#post-38649 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:34:19 +0000 ralck 38649@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the tips guys!</p> <p>I'll have to do some digging around and look at some tutorials to figure out what I want to use for skeletons.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/some-stop-motion-questions#post-38646 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:58:09 +0000 grinner 38646@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>you'll find some sweet armature how-tos online with a quick search.</p> <p>If you build one right, man, your life will be easier and the end result will run circles around trying to make something work and not quiiiite gettin it to.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/some-stop-motion-questions#post-38586 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:41:18 +0000 Don 38586@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I can offer you two peices of advice....</p> <p>one: the "Hardness" or "Softness" of light quality is dependant on one thing... The size of the lightsource, relative to the size of the subject.</p> <p>therefore a large lightsource (ie: the Sun) will give harder light on a distant subject (ie: a person on earth) than a smaller light closer to the subject (ie a softbox two feet from the subject). </p> <p>so test out what you got to get the look you want. at the size you're looking at, halogen worklamps should be great!</p> <p>next item:</p> <p>your models.</p> <p>Clay works great as a skin, over a structure, but sucks structually speaking. </p> <p>at the size you're talking about, I'd go this way:</p> <p>Bionicles, or toy action figures (Barbie, GI Blow, etc), use heavy copper wire and zip ties to reinforce the joints, then lay on layers of clay over top..... </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/some-stop-motion-questions#post-38584 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:20:27 +0000 ralck 38584@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I did a quick skim-through and didn't seem anything similar, so I thought I'd ask...</p> <p>So without getting into details, I'm going to have to be immobile for the next few days at least... depending if my toe is broken or not...</p> <p>Well, I've had a few ideas about trying my hand at clamation and other forms of stop-motion.  My question is... to use a system of 3-point lighting in a small scale like that, what kind of lights should I use?  Should I use lights I would normally use on a live-action shoot and just use stuff to diffuse them and cut down the light as much as possible?  Should I just use those lights as-is?  Should I get some sort of smaller lights... even using household lamps and white-balance in my camera?</p> <p>I want to light like film... I just don't know what kind of lights will work best for a small scale.  And just to give you an idea, I'm thinking the clay puppets will probably be between 1-2 feet tall.</p> <p>Also... I was thinking of going down to the local craft store and getting some modeling clay.  Will that be rigid enough to stay where I want it and still flexible enough to move?</p>