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Answers : Technology

Is there a stop motion app for Mac?

I have been making stop motion for a long time and I have been wondering if there is a stop motion app because my computer has iMovie and it takes me hours to complete a stop motion with no music.(I have an older computer)

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Mar 15, 2009. 2:57 PM

=SMART= says:

You are in luck my man, you have found the king of stop-motion, The applications i use are :
http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html
FREE This one works direct from your camera or web cam, its available on leopard or tiger, I use this one and its really good !

http://www.kudlian.net/products/icananimate/download/
DEMO/BUY This one is really easy to use too

http://boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/
DEMO/BUY This one has the most features but is still easy to use.

I would recommend downloading all of them and having a go with them, you will soon find your favorite !

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Mar 17, 2009. 2:03 PM

dombeef (author) says:

Small print might be yes! :-)

Mar 15, 2009. 3:05 PM

frollard says:

Quicktime pro can import a series of images at variable framerates.

Final Cut Pro has the feature...

free = http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html

not free = http://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/pro/
not free = http://www.dragonstopmotion.com/

Mar 16, 2009. 6:55 AMalex-sharetskiy says:

all software is free!

Jan 2, 2011. 3:15 PMjaidex says:

I hope you will one day spend months and months of stressful work on something and then have every deem your efforts as not worth paying for - or even stealing them and leaving you with no compensation, then we'll see how you feel about all of YOUR efforts being "free".

You must be a very cool guy to not need to pay people for their work.

Mar 16, 2009. 7:17 PM

frollard says:

'all-free' software for mac is harder to find. That and its immoral.

Mar 15, 2009. 9:58 PMithinkibrokeit says:

I did a bit of stop motion using mac laptops a while ago. The software we used was called framethief. I don't know where to get it, but it was fairly simple. (who can miss the big red button that says capture image?)