[wellylug] Mostly OT: Stop Motion Video

[pete at marchingcubes.com]

I used to stop motion with very basic tools - a bt848 card with a
composite video in, an old vhs camera and a tool (i forget its name) that
would simply grab a frame from the video camera and write it out as an
image when i hit the space bar.

I then used mencoder to stich those frames together into a movie.

However, this:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/stopmotion/

looks pretty good. all you should need is a web cam or other device that
is v4l compatible.




> I know there's a couple of people on this list who are into video
> editing so I thought would ask here.
>
> After watching a documentary my kids are wanting to try create some stop
> motion video.
>
> I've been intending to purchase a video camera this year anyway so now
> before I do so I wanted to get some information on both cameras and
> video editing software (which preferably runs on Linux).
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I haven't done anything like
> this in 20 years.
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
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