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The majority of stop motion programs have features that concentrate on making the stop motion process quicker and easier. They'll usually have some sort of timeline, live video preview, onion skinning, etc. While the better programs will have an audio track where you can import a soundtrack like dialogue in order to help sync your animation to audio, none of them have the full range of capabilities that an audio editing suite or video editing suite. You're especially not going to find a free program that has the features of a 3 separate software suites in one program.
What the majority of people do is compile and fine tune their animation in a stop motion program, then take the video into video editing software to do the larger cuts, transitions and editing. Stop motion programs make it easy to edit, delete, add and rearrange individual frames. Typically, working with individual frames is a hasle in straightforward video editing programs because they weren't made with frame by frame animation in mind. Usually you can import sound in a video editing program, but if you need to do some heavy duty sound mixing and splicing you'd probably be better off doing it in a sound editing program (then importing that sound into a video editing program to put your entire movie together).
To actually frame-grab and compile the movie, I'd suggest using Monkeyjam if you're on a PC. It's free.
http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/
AnimatorDV: Simple+ became freeware.
http://www.animatordv.com/download7
If you're on a Mac, you could try Framethief or FramebyFrame (both free).
http://www.framethief.com/
http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html
For free video editing, you can try:
Windows Movie Maker 2 (regular Windows Movie Maker sucks. You should at least upgrade to WMM2 which has better features and more options)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
VideoMach
http://squash.hostbrickmovies.com/VideoMach-2.7.2.exe
VirtuaDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Avidemux
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
To do sound editing, you should give Audacity a try.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
The majority of stop motion programs have features that concentrate on making the stop motion process quicker and easier. They'll usually have some sort of timeline, live video preview, onion skinning, etc. While the better programs will have an audio track where you can import a soundtrack like dialogue in order to help sync your animation to audio, none of them have the full range of capabilities that an audio editing suite or video editing suite. You're especially not going to find a free program that has the features of a 3 separate software suites in one program.
What the majority of people do is compile and fine tune their animation in a stop motion program, then take the video into video editing software to do the larger cuts, transitions and editing. Stop motion programs make it easy to edit, delete, add and rearrange individual frames. Typically, working with individual frames is a hasle in straightforward video editing programs because they weren't made with frame by frame animation in mind. Usually you can import sound in a video editing program, but if you need to do some heavy duty sound mixing and splicing you'd probably be better off doing it in a sound editing program (then importing that sound into a video editing program to put your entire movie together).
To actually frame-grab and compile the movie, I'd suggest using Monkeyjam if you're on a PC. It's free.
http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/
AnimatorDV: Simple+ became freeware.
http://www.animatordv.com/download7
If you're on a Mac, you could try Framethief or FramebyFrame (both free).
http://www.framethief.com/
http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html
For free video editing, you can try:
Windows Movie Maker 2 (regular Windows Movie Maker sucks. You should at least upgrade to WMM2 which has better features and more options)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
VideoMach
http://squash.hostbrickmovies.com/VideoMach-2.7.2.exe
VirtuaDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Avidemux
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
To do sound editing, you should give Audacity a try.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Uploading video problems? Plz help?
Obvious B@
So the other day i made a vid and i wanted to edit it on mobie maker, the file was an avi file and played with quicktime, For some reason it didnt allow me to put it on movie maker so i put it on sony vegas pro and edited it, after i exported it i tried to upload it to youtube, it didnt upload it took FOREVER it said 116 hours and 58 min remaining, same with facebook it took forever and wouldnt upload on there to, so i tried to put it on my itunes movies, it would appear there but i sync and it wouldnt show up on my iphone, my computer just would NOT cooperate with it it dosent work anywhere and its an avi file that plays with quicktime i dont know if its quick time or the avi format or what, Please help me :( i make alot of video's and i dont want to have to stop making videos because my computer wont work with the vid files, BTW i recorded the video with an iphone app called cycorder.
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You dont say what camera you are using it would have been helpful.
The problem is that AVI is not a video format its a container, and can hold almost any type of video. Even MP4 based video
Your problem is that the video file is huge and you need to reduce the size, you don't need to cut the video.
your best bet is to either convert the video, go here and choose the first one in the list.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/all-in-one-video-converters
then convert the video to something like MPG the quality will be OK, and the file size should be smaller. you can now edit the video,
or use a editing package that supports the video format, if you go here you can use a piece of software to see what the video actually is.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/codec-video-identifiers
once you have done then use the same video format to export it, Check the file size it should now be ok to upload. you dont say how long the video is, but remember that youtube only allow 10 minutes or 1GB which ever is the biggest.
that should sort you out
RR
You dont say what camera you are using it would have been helpful.
The problem is that AVI is not a video format its a container, and can hold almost any type of video. Even MP4 based video
Your problem is that the video file is huge and you need to reduce the size, you don't need to cut the video.
your best bet is to either convert the video, go here and choose the first one in the list.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/all-in-one-video-converters
then convert the video to something like MPG the quality will be OK, and the file size should be smaller. you can now edit the video,
or use a editing package that supports the video format, if you go here you can use a piece of software to see what the video actually is.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/codec-video-identifiers
once you have done then use the same video format to export it, Check the file size it should now be ok to upload. you dont say how long the video is, but remember that youtube only allow 10 minutes or 1GB which ever is the biggest.
that should sort you out
RR
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