Can you do stop motion animation?

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mikerodeman111

Newbie Joined: Feb 10, 2012 18:42 Messages: 1 Offline

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Feb 10, 2012 19:01

Hi, I'm looking to purchase some sort of video editing software, and I think I'm going to get PowerDirector 10. The only thing I'm wondering is, can you do stop motion animation easily in PowerDirector? I'm looking at this link: http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/ and there it shows iMovie lets you download all your photos that will make your stop motion all at once so you don't have to put each individual photo in one by one, this would be a long and tedious process. Can you do the same thing in PowerDirector? If you are able to do this in PowerDirector, can you tell me how?

Many thanks,

Michael Rodeman

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Feb 10, 2012 20:03

Hi Michael

Welcome to the forum

Yes, you can do this in PD.

There are a few ways to do this:

1. Preferences>Editing>Durations - Image Files and change time

2. Highlight all photos in media room and drop into timeline

3. Then Produce!

OR

1. Highlight all photos in media room and drop into timeline

2. Select all photos and use the Duration button and set time to say 00:00:00:03

3. Then Produce!

OR

1. Highlight all photos in media room and drop into timeline

2. Select all photos and use the Slideshow function

3. Use the Time Lapse template - there a tutorial at the start of the PD10 forum

I use iMovie - but for most of my slideshows I use PD as it is quicker, easier and the rendering/producing time is faster.

Happy editing

You can download a trial version of PD10 for free
http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/trials/index_en_US.html

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Happing editing

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Neil
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