Exporting Stills for Cartoon Animation

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Cable on for Expert Village. In this clip we're going to look at how to transfer images that you captured with a digital still camera and put them on to a computer so that you can order them and play them back as a finished Quicktime animation. Make sure you have your digital still camera hooked up with a USB cord in to the right port in your computer. Next, it's a really good idea to make a destination folder somewhere on your computer. We'll create a new folder and call it frames. Inside this folder we'll put all our still Images that we captured with our camera. When we attach our digital still camera, at least on a Macintosh, it shows up on the desktop as a new drive. And this one doesn't have a name it's called "No Name". If we open up that drive, we'll see an arrangement of folders. Open them up and then we can see all the still Images that were captured with our digital still camera. Notice they're all numbered sequentially. One, two, three, four and so on. The numbering is Important and it happens automatically so that an application can recognize that Images are in a sequence and should be handled as such. So what we need to do now is select all the frames in our folder and drag them from the camera on to the computer in to our folder called Frames. So now back in Framethief, we'll just be using this application to reorder the frame and not capture at all. So back in Framethief go to File, Export, image Sequence to QuickTime movie. We're just going to locate those still Images that we copied to the computer and reorder them, resequence them to a QuickTime movie. Locate the first frame in the sequence of frames that you want to reorder in to a QuickTime movie. So in our case we've opened up the folder called frames and selected the very first still Image in our sequence of captured frames. Click Open and you need to name your final QuickTime movie. Let's call it ball d-s-c for digital still camera. We'll press return and the program recognizes it as a series. It might take a couple minutes for the computer to rethink the file. But there is our digital still camera QuickTime movie. Open that movie up and it should look something like a normal QuickTime that was compiled from a series of still Images."