[CREATE] Stop Motion & T-Shirts

[Braydon]

On 09/04/2011 06:06 PM, manuel quiñones wrote:
> El día 4 de septiembre de 2011 21:23, Braydon<ronin at braydon.com>  escribió:
>> On 09/04/2011 04:36 PM, manuel quiñones wrote:
>>> 2011/9/4 Braydon<ronin at braydon.com>:
>>>> What are some of the best software for doing stop motion animation with
>>>> frame rate control?  I've used FFMPEG via the command line to make
>>>> stop-motion video from still images, however each image represents a one
>>>> frame one-to-one only....
>>> Well there is Stopmotion application [0] that allows you to change the
>>> frame rate and export to video.  But I only used it for simple
>>> animations, I don't know if it scales for making a real project.
>>>
>>> However, if you are using ffmpeg, there are options for controlling
>>> the frame rate of the input and output files:
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -r 12 -i input.m2v -r 24 output.avi
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> [0] http://stopmotion.bjoernen.com/
>> Thanks, just tried this, useful for realtime playback testing but the export
>> doesn't seem to be working with mencoder of ffmpeg. Just did a apt-cache
>> search in Ubuntu and tried Luciole and exported from there. I am digging
>> these razor blade applications! Thank you all free software graphic
>> developers for your hard work.
> Yes, that real time check is great for making stop motion, the
> difference with the previous photo and the current is useful.
>
> I remember using it with Ubuntu.  Check the commands being called for
> export video, in the preferences.  Maybe you need to install
> something.
I was getting an error with Stopmotion about missing images or directory 
since it was using an FFMPEG command. The other one, Luciole, only 
exported at 720p.

I just found a plugin for GIMP for animation that worked the best.

Here are the steps I did:
1. Install: sudo apt-get install gimp-gap
2. Open: "Open as Layers..." in GIMP
3. Save: "Save as..." in GIMP of all of the single images as layers
4. Export: From the new "Video" menu, selected "Master videoencoder" and 
exported a video from the layers at 30fps.

The resulting video:
http://braydon.com/2011/09/choice-collaboration/

Woot!