Step1
The first thing you need to do is upload your footage onto a computer. Depending on how you shot the footage, there is multiple ways of doing this. For digital cameras there are two options. The first is to connect your camera directly through a USB cable. Depending on how long your stop motion movie plans to be, these pictures can take up a lot of hard drive space; so I would recommend clearing a lot of room, or getting an expandable hard drive to store all of the pictures. An expandable hard drive just for this project would be perfect, because then the files would be more organized and all in one location. The other method is getting a USB card reader. This way, your camera will save on battery power, and if you are using multiple cards, you can actually upload pictures while you are still recording the movie.
Step2
After all of the pictures are uploaded, it is time to organize them scene by scene, and put into separate folders. This will make it a lot easier to find certain parts and to make sure that nothing gets lost in the mix. Once all of the scenes are separated, each one will be worked on, one at a time, to create the video clips.
Step3
Using an editing software like Adobe Premiere, place all of the files into a folder in the program. Most cameras order the files by number so it makes it a lot easier when editing these together. Now all of the pictures are going to be placed in the timeline, at which most video editing software will set for a default time of five seconds. This is fine, because later on the speeds can be changed. Now render that video, and depending on how long it is, could be anywhere from ten minutes to a half hour. Once all of the scenes are a rendered, a new complete project will be created and the long videos can be sped up to create the faster speed.
Step4
For video cameras, the process can become a little lengthy. After uploading all of your video footage, the videos need to be spliced and edited down to specific scenes. Once those scenes are edited, time adjustments need to be made to make sure all of the movements are at the proper speed. Video editing tends to eat up memory, so make sure the computer you are using has a good amount of Ram (usually over 1gigabyte) so it does not crash and all of the work is lost.
Step5
Now we are at the same point for both video cameras and digital still cameras. The clips have all been sped up and rendered and now it is time to put them all together. With everything rendered, it is now easy to splice and cut scenes, and alternate between shots. The movie can be formed and all of it as a whole can be visualized.
Step6
Once all of the video is in place, it is time to import all of the voices and sound effects. A great part about Adobe Premiere and other editing software is its ability to have multi-layers of audio and videos, even having up to thirty layers at one point. An easy way to keep track of the sound effects and voices is to keep what you want the loudest near the first layer of audio. If someone is talking and they are the focus, keep them in layer one, while noise from a traffic scene will be in layer two. It is important to consistently preview all of the sound with rendered plays, because a delay or too loud of a background noise can distract an audience.
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