Create Stop Motion

[norb]

I have a very simple question: I want to create a stop motion video, but can`t find a way to do it in VideoStudio.

I have 60 still-images, I insert them into the timeline and - can`t change the project-speed settings anywhere.

I can change the speed of one image, but only down to 1 second. But it need to be much shorter (to get a speed of approx 15-20 frames per second).

How do I create a stop-motion/time-lapse video with pictures in Video Studio?

Thanks!

[2Dogs]

Hi Norb,

you can do it, but it's tedious! (but stop motion animators can deal with that maybe!)

In file preferences, as you say, the minimum default duration for inserted images is one second.

After you've inserted them, however, you reduce the duration in the "Edit" screen. With the timeline in storyboard view, click on one of the inserted images and you should then see a duration box to the side of the preview window in which you can reduce the duration to a single frame if you like.

[Ron P.]

There is a much quicker way to this...

Highlight all your images in the storyboard (Shift-Click method). With all image clips selected, go to Clip-->Change Image/color duration. The Duration box will open, and you can set the duration across all images down to 1 frame.

[norb]

Thanks so much, guys. I was going through the help-files and google-ing this problem for more than an hour without any solution - and you helped me in minutes!!

[Ron P.]

Your question sparked an idea...

I loaded up 25 images, changed the duration to 5 frames each. Rendered a video (justed used project settings of MPEG2...). Started a new project, inserted the newly created MPEG2 of the images. I then used the Time-Shift and reduced the time down to just 2 secs. So I have 25 images playing in 2 secs, fairly quick if you ask me. Anyone have some dramamine..

[2Dogs]

Shouldn't you be out clearing up the leaves Ron?

[Black Lab]

I think Ron is shoveling snow at this point.

[Ron P.]

I think Ron is shoveling snow at this point.

Not yet. We lucked out the last go round and only received about 3" of snow. Still had to have the drive pushed out by a tractor. The wind blew hard enough, it created some sizable drifts. That was about 3/4 melted away as of today.

However, here comes the next bout. It started snowing a few hours ago, so far a light - moderate snow. Then tomorrow we are to get another 4-6" of snow. Maybe my luck will hold out, and this will track the same as the previous, to the north-west. I feel sorry for those folks though.

I got to talk to my brother, who is a pro-truck driver, yesterday at Christmas dinner, he made it home... He was delivering a load from Calif to Denver, and got caught in the Loveland Pass area, where they had about 30 feet of snow. He came within a few feet of not being here now. His brakes froze up, on the downside, forcing him to "nose-into" a big snow pile along side the road. Good so far huh?? Well this snow pile, and roadway was only 70 ft above a parking lot. The snow pile started giving way to the weight of his truck, the trailer sliding towards the drop. Emergency crews (salt-sand trucks) came running when they heard his plea for "HEELLLLPPPP" on the radio. They managed to keep it from going down. He told me that he thought he was dead, when the truck went to sliding, pushing this massive pile of snow.

[2Dogs]

Wow! Glad he made it thru all that!

Down here in NW Katrinaland, it rarely snows, though we're having a little cold snap at the moment. We just missed that big line of ice storms that went thru from the SW recently. Being without electricity for a week is not my idea of fun!