Windows Movie Maker and iMovie...

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Permalink Reply by Alline Sada on November 6, 2009 at 2:40pm

I've used Showbiz and Pinnacle with my middle school kids when doing claymation. These have a nice video clip management system and some nifty effects they really enjoy (green screen, etc..)

Stikfast kits I've heard are fun too, but I haven't tried them..
http://www.stikfas.com/products.html

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Permalink Reply by Alline Sada on November 6, 2009 at 2:40pm

I've used Showbiz and Pinnacle with my middle school kids when doing claymation. These have a nice video clip management system and some nifty effects they really enjoy (green screen, etc..)

Stikfast kits I've heard are fun too, but I haven't tried them..
http://www.stikfas.com/products.html

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on November 6, 2009 at 4:54pm

I use the freeware (with webcam) for stopmotion:

http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Matt McCarty on November 6, 2009 at 9:33pm

If you use a mac iStopmotion from Boinx software is a product that I've had success with.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Fox on November 6, 2009 at 10:08pm

Bob Greenberg who did 'Where The Wild Things Are' used www.samanimation.com to do some stop motion. Hope that might help.

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Permalink Reply by Anders on November 7, 2009 at 9:11am

Or maybe AnimatorDV Simple+ it´s free...

http://animatordv.com/download_free.php

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Permalink Reply by William on November 8, 2009 at 12:11am

Thanks to everyone who offered ideas! Wow! I'm chasing the suggestions upo now...

Thanks again!
W

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Permalink Reply by Jack Olmsted on November 8, 2009 at 6:54am

Stop Motion animation films are now simpler to do with the new Windows Live Movie Maker


"Stop Motion movie made with Windows Live Movie Maker: All you have to do is take a bunch of photos in a row, import them into a Movie Maker project - then set the 'duration' of each photo to somewhere between 0.08 and 0.15 seconds each. And boom! Stop Motion! "

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Permalink Reply by AdamG on December 30, 2009 at 7:45pm

Have you considered Blender. It's free and pretty powerful.

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Permalink Reply by June Kollar on January 11, 2010 at 10:28am

We have some funds available to purchase software for claymation and general movie making. One of the students suggested "ULead" by Corel. Has anyone had any experience with that program?

June

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Permalink Reply by Marty Caise on January 12, 2010 at 3:46pm

I think this depends on a couple of things - the computers you are using and the grade level of your students. There are other products out there that have a lot more bells and whistles. Avid Pinnacle Studio and Adobe Premiere Elements are two examples I have seen in the classrooms used at both the middle and high school levels. Of course one of the differences is that Movie Maker and iMovie 8 are included with a computer where Avid and Adobe Premiere must be licensed which brings in a funding challenge espcially when you are looking at a lab situation. The other challenge is the state of the computer.

Since I am more of a "PC guy" I can speek more to MovieMaker than iMovie, and what I can tell you is that MovieMaker during a rendering creates temp files. These temp files will accumulate over time eventually leading to a performance hit if preventative maintenance is not performed regularly.

Marty Caise
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