Stoptake Annimations - feed back wanted please!

[mattypj]

I know this is very off-topic but thats what this is for, so im gonna try to get some feed back from any one who is interested in/has made claymation/stoptake annimation.

Here is a link to my videos http://www.bolt.com/Mattypj/video/
There is only 3 on there at the moment, i might put some new ones up soon!
Im not exactly good at it yet.

So i would love some feed back esessialy if you have made these types of annimation before.
Whats the best program to use?
How many fps is the best?
...Ect.

I made these using still photos i took on to the sd card of my cannon mvx1i video camera, some of the older aminations like the cd one and the salt shaker one were done using ulead and just capturing the frames straight from the camera through firewire.

Now i use Adobe Premiere Pro and I import all my images as jpeg's from the sd card!
I hope all this makes sense to! Enjoy!

[redwudz]

This topic is actually 'on topic' for our site as it is video related. Moving to Newbie/General.

[gadgetguy]

Don't sell yourself short, those are actually pretty good for experimental attempts.
It's been a while since I did stop motion animation. I remember I was taught (about 100 years ago or so) that effective animation can be done with as little as 15 frames per second, but this doesn't conform to any of the broadcast norms and won't work for DVD (however, you can still make it work by doubling the frames and changing the framerate). If you use 24 fps then any of the conversion methods used for film will work for your animation as well. Or you can just follow the spec for your neck of the woods.
The real question is: What is your intended goal for these animations? Knowing the target will improve your aim.
As for which program to use, I'm not sure what to suggest. The last time I did it, I was using Ulead VideoStudio. It worked OK, but I won't say it's the best. These days I would probably use AviSynth and/or VirtualDub, but that's mostly because that's what I use for pretty much everything now.