

There's also the wear-and-tear on the camera's tape transport system and recording heads to consider. Typically a camera will record 5 to 30 frames at once, far too many to achieve smooth stop-motion effects. While certain Mini-DV cameras offer variations of stop-motion/time-lapse capability, none to my knowledge is capable of true, single-frame shooting. If you've dreamed of creating your own claymation world ala Wallace and Gromit, or compressing the effects of three months of winter on your backyard into 30 seconds, read on. Yet their solution goes far beyond the constraints of traditional stop-motion photography, in which a single frame is shot, objects are slightly moved in the frame, another frame is shot, and so on, to simulate live action. IStopMotion is the brain-child of two live-action animators in Munich who longed to be able to do in video what they had achieved as kids in Super8.
ISTOPMOTION REVIEWS SOFTWARE
It was during such idle trolling of the net that I stumbled across iStopMotion, an outstanding application from Boinx Software that so completely fills its niche that it's tough to imagine how it could be improved.

No longer do we need fear crashing Final Cut by firing-up the web browser for an alternative view to the render bar's glacial progress.

408 to love OS X: It permits entertainment while rendering. OS X and Quicktime 6 or higher - USB or Firewire input and camera.
