JohnnyR1Red Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 Morning guys, I am looking for a new package for animation, we currently use SMP but we find the support to be non existent and we are having lots of issues with it so we would like to try something else. We currently use it on our laptops with camcorders but I am open to anything really, we have iPads in schools so that could be a solution. What would you recommend? Thanks John
chazzy2501 Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 movie maker (the old XP one, which you can download for 7) will allow you to make stop motion. We use it every activities week.
JohnnyR1Red Posted March 12, 2013 Author Posted March 12, 2013 movie maker (the old XP one, which you can download for 7) will allow you to make stop motion. We use it every activities week. We have used MM in the past but were after something a bit more professional. SMP has been great until we moved to Windows 7 and now it is really unreliable.
p858snake Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 When I used SMP back in highschool, I gave up on it and subsequently used it only to capture the frames from the webcam. If memory serves me correctly I ended up creating my project in either Adobe Premier (iirc) or the Ulead package for videos.
JohnnyR1Red Posted March 13, 2013 Author Posted March 13, 2013 The problems we have is that the school wants to use it with camcorders and not webcams as they want to be able to zoom in etc to make more professional animations. We can't connect the camcorders via usb and have to use capture cards inbetween the camcorder and the laptop. Sometimes they work fine, sometimes you need to unplug the capture card then plug it back in again before you get a picture and sometimes we don't get a picture at all, just a black screen. We cannot get any help from SMP and we are using the cards they advise on their website.
chazzy2501 Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 I'm told you can use Serif Movie maker to do stop motion, I can't talk to that particular strength but I doo like the software. It's cheap for a site licence and easy to deploy. (Made for education too)
JohnnyR1Red Posted March 13, 2013 Author Posted March 13, 2013 I'm told you can use Serif Movie maker to do stop motion, I can't talk to that particular strength but I doo like the software. It's cheap for a site licence and easy to deploy. (Made for education too) will take a look, thanks
SimpleSi Posted May 4, 2013 Posted May 4, 2013 I use Helium Frog in my primaries - just use it as the capturing prog and then convert movies to HuffYUV format (WMM doesn't seem to like MJPEG for some reason) and use WMM to add narration/titiles etc Definitely works in Win7 Simon
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