stop motion video

[kj1983]

I am wondering how people capture stop motion video?

Do they have to use some kind of fancy camera with faster shutter speed and capture one picture frame by frame?

I would like to learn about this video technology.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

You can use film - many still do - or even a still image digital camera. Shutter speed isn't the issue, it is being able to get the images single frame at a time because you then have to move your subjects inbetween. If you search for Stop Motion Software in google you will find some things that might help.

[austinm]

If I understand your question well, Id like to try to answer.

It isn't that difficult to do stop motion. Maybe others would say something different, but all I have ever needed has been a decent camera with a sturdy tripod. Shutter speed shouldn't matter as long as the stills you are capturing are not moving. You could have the slowest shutter speed in the world, and pull of stop motion by having what is in front of the camera very still and the camera is tripoded.

If you use a video camera, you can either take a still shot with the camera itself (some cameras allow this), or extract a frame from the shot in a video editor in post-production. I usually extract frames in post.

Digital cameras will work just as good as video cameras for stop motion.

Just tripod and keep everything still.

Hope that helps

Austin
MakingBetterVideos.com

[redwudz]

I'm wondering if you are asking about a special effect like those seen in The Matrix, where a person seems to be suspended in air as the camera pans around him. That's typically done with a series of still cameras mounted in a circle and timed to take pictures all at the same time, then used for video by adding them into frames to look like you are panning around a stationary figure.

[guns1inger]

Bullet Time ?

[Jedi5]

Doesn't Adobe PE 4 have stop motion?

[kj1983]

I am not sure if this make sense or not.

I think I watched the Pepsi commercial with the stop motion video.

I guess they took the still image one by one and combine together to create a still video.

[guns1inger]

Can you find it on-line somewhere - Youtube or something like that - so I can see what you mean ?

[Stiiv]

If you're referring to the kind of stop-motion animation used in the original "King Kong", or in Ray Harryhausen's films, or Robot Chicken, figure on 24 stills per second of animation...at least. You can use a video camera or still camera to do it....the hard part is moving your model ever-so-slightly for each frame. It's not for the faint-hearted, pal.

[frameghost]

as far as i understood your question — it's definitely one still image spanned through time. I do that in post-production too.

[jman98]

I am not sure if this make sense or not.

I think I watched the Pepsi commercial with the stop motion video.

I guess they took the still image one by one and combine together to create a still video.

I live in the USA and I've seen a lot of Pepsi commercials and I haven't seen one that uses "stop motion". I think the problem is that you are using an incorrect term to describe what you are seeing. You're going to need to provide some kind of link, maybe on YouTube, so the people here can help you but I'm pretty sure after reading this 2nd post from you that you are not using the correct terminology.

[filmboss80]

I used to do stop motion all the time. MANY projects. But I never did it on video. I used a Bolex 16mm motion pic cam with an intervalometer. Film rocks!

[kj1983]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

It's something like this.. take a lot of still images and combine as a video?

[guns1inger]

Or you move the camera very slowly, then use only 1 frame per second of footage you shoot. When you play it back at the correct speed, you will get the same effect as the video you posted.

What you want to do is very similar to this post : https://forum.videohelp.com/topic350445.html

It covers two methods - one using avisynth (note - for NTSC you would have to change the framerate from 25 to 29.97) and one you can do at transfer time. The real art if filming slowly enough. You need to move at 1/30th normal speed.

[redwudz]

That's a very nice video and a incredible amount of work. They either used a still camera with multiple images or a video cam with one image at a time, then played them back at a regular speed would be my guess. If it was at 15 fps, and the video was 7 minutes long, that would be about 6300 separate frames/drawings, if my math is correct. At 30 fps, double that for the frames.

It appears that video is made by multiple repaints on a several outdoor walls and a lot of planning before the artist started. You can see the paint splatter on the ground on some shots. May have taken several weeks or longer and understanding audiences/authorities.