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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: Agent_Tachyon on June 29, 2007, 11:24:57 PM
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I want to make a short stop frame animation film and want to know how to shoot single frames with my mini-DV camera. I can make do by recording for one second then stopping, but that makes for fairly choppy animation. I can compensate manually, but I was wondering if there's some way to make the camera record one frame at a time?
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I'm imagining you're talking about a Ray Harryhausen - clay-mation sort of chingamadira....
In which case I would imagine it would depend on the camera model whether or not it can take stills and whether one can attach a remote shutter switch. Something only TFM knows for sure.
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It's an Elura 100.
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It appears as if your wireless remote and a tripod would do the trick ...
Here's The Fucking Manual (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=326&modelid=12827) :wink:
(edit: wacky friggin dynamic linking)
..and a pertinent clip shot:
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Thanks, but I'm not using a memory card and was leaning for something recorded as an already assembled film (recording frames onto the tape, rather than having to assemble them later).
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Just thinking off the top of my head here ...
I think that the very nature of tape is going to persist as a problem then, it's really designed for continuous flow. The mechanical stresses / alignment issues of the start & stop are going to give you more headache quality-wise than importing a series of stills into a keyframe application (like Flash) where you could control the frame rate and publish out as video, which could be then moved to another medium.
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Good point. I wonder if there's a way to use my standard recording technique (record for 1 second then stop), and import a frame from each second into Flash like you said. I'm sure there is, but that could be very time consuming. It's things like this that I want to learn Linux for, it seems there's ways to write scripts to do stupid little things like that on their own rather than having to do it manually.
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Thing is, if you go the memory card (or other) route that results in individually named/numbered still image files, as I recollect (it's been awhile) importing into flash will automatically distribute them to either frames or layers (choose from the import menu).
It will do this sequentially so the biggest task in that area for you is to verify that they are indeed numbered correctly.
You must be able to do Batch re-naming under DOS (http://www.google.com/search?q=batch+renaming+in+dos&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a), it would serve to make a numbering system that mortal eyes can deal with. :wink: