Photography Master Class

[Mercia Blackcat]

No good looking at me, I have nee tips but was messing about with Stop Frame Animations at 3 fps and someone advised me that in the trade a machine called Avid could be used to create cross dissolves that simulate motion usually achieved with 24-30 fps, like that achieved with actual video cameras.

Anyone know of any software that can simulate that effect?

[Nannou]

I might be a bit off the mark here but any video editing software should be able to create cross dissolves, as far as i'm aware Avid is just an expensive semi proffesional video editing suite but Windows Movie Maker should have a dissolve option.

[Mercia Blackcat]

Originally Posted by Nannou

I might be a bit off the mark here but any video editing software should be able to create cross dissolves, as far as i'm aware Avid is just an expensive semi proffesional video editing suite but Windows Movie Maker should have a dissolve option.

I'm new to this and used Windows Movie Maker so I'll have another look. I've got Adobe Premier and AfterFX but Movie Maker seemed nice and easy to use to link the still images together.

You can overlap fades with Movie Maker if that's what you mean but not sure that is the same effect.

[Nannou]

Originally Posted by Mercia Blackcat

I'm new to this and used Windows Movie Maker so I'll have another look. I've got Adobe Premier and AfterFX but Movie Maker seemed nice and easy to use to link the still images together.

You can overlap fades with Movie Maker if that's what you mean but not sure that is the same effect.

just had a quick search and found this

http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~humek/FOV1-000...6&Plugin=Metro

page 4 has a little section on cross dissolve but all that says is to overlap the clips so i'm not sure what the result will turn out like. I've never used movie maker tbh but Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas are both good and not as complicated as they look.

[Mercia Blackcat]

Originally Posted by Nannou

just had a quick search and found this

http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~humek/FOV1-000...6&Plugin=Metro

page 4 has a little section on cross dissolve but all that says is to overlap the clips so i'm not sure what the result will turn out like. I've never used movie maker tbh but Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas are both good and not as complicated as they look.

Excellent mate.

I've done slideshows of unrelated images with MM and used overlapping fade but just wondered if the effect achieved with Avid was more suited to simulated motion to achieve an effect similar to 24-30 fps when only 3 fps were being used.

I didn't use overlapping fade with the Stop Frame Animation I did as there were so many frames but maybe that would do the trick.

Why do this when video could be used people must wonder, but then again maybe not.

The thing is that Stop Frame Animations are easier to edit I've been told than video (I don't do video as such anyway) and more versatile.

In a commericlal environment it halfs the production cost of demos etc to produce a photomatix as opposed to using video motion cameras.

I've got Premiere and heard Vegas is good. Final Cut was also something I was told about but MM was easy to use if basic.

Thanks for that link though, very useful.