Stop motion with DVX100?

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AustinGK

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I am trying to do a stop motion sequence. I have a DVX100b.

Does anyone know how to do this with the DVX?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

AustinGK
 
Is it for a timelapse?

The interval recording feature was discontinued on the "B" model, so there's no way to do it in camera. That being said, there's still many ways to achieve a stop motion...

I know some editing programs will let you capture using a "stop motion" effect. What NLE are you using?
 
Thanks for the reply. I'm using Final Cut. So there's no way to shoot stop motion with the DVX 100b?

Any help on getting the effect and how we should shoot it would be appreciated.

AustinGK
 
I use DV Rack with my DVXs for most of my shooting. As of 2.0 it has both stop frame animation mode, complete with onion skin view, plus time lapse mode with any interval your heart desires.
 
If you mean stop motion for animation then whenever I've done it I've just let the camera run, move the figures slightly, take my hands out of frame for a brief moment, and so on and so on.
 
i did a lego movie on a crappy one chip sony cam

just as long as you get one frame for each frame that you need then you're fine and you can extract those frames you need from a video that has hands here and there sometimes or whatever

this can take a while though, extracting all the frames for my lego film was very long and borring, but i didn't have time to work out a better way, even though that may sound silly

if i were to do it again i would try out using the still feature you get on most cams, if you've got a whole load of stills and they're in order then you can make video out of them in QT pro, i think there is a way to do it in FCP but i haven't quite figured it out yet

just play around doing different things and work out what works best for you

btw, why the hell did they take the time lapse feature off the dvx100b!? GRRRRR!!!
 
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