Stop Motion - video

My son and I took down the Christmas tree yesterday, and of course after the tree was down, we realized it would be a great opportunity to try a stop-motion movie. So we used the cleanup part as a way to make the movie.

Took around 150 shots for about 40 seconds of video. We used Windows Movie Maker to pull together the shots into a movie. It lets you go down to .125 seconds per image. However at that rate, it was smoother, but way too fast. We would have spent twice as long taking photos to get this to work, so we expanded it to .25 seconds per image.

We only needed to toss about 6 shots out of the whole mess that had one of us still in the frame when we fired the camera.

It was also a great chance to try out my new remote for my Canon XTi. That turned out to be very handy for this sort of thing.

I ran into problems importing the audio as MP3 this time round with Windows Movie Maker. It would crash the application. I converted the audio to WMA and it seemed to solve the issue. I did not have this problem in the past, so suspect some other application I have added regarding multi-media has broken that within Windows Movie Maker...

btw - I have tried to do time-stop animations in Roxio's Videowave, however I can't get the images to have less than .33 seconds duration so you can't get very smooth operation.

Cheers!