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Turn Your Mac Into an Animation Studio!Create amazing stop-motion animations and time-lapse movies using your digital video camera web camera digital still camera or Macs built-in camera.Animate your story using your digital-video or web camera. iStopMotion 2 even supports your Macs built-in camera.Create characters and sets from clay or use almost anything you have around the house...toys action figures even your own drawings.Hours of Fun at Home - Let your kids tap their creative potential and be amazed at what they create. iStopMotion 2 is so easy to use your kids might master it before you do. iStopMotion 2 is a great way to tell a story where a bit of clay or a toy can be the star of your animated masterpiece. Join the growing online community who share their creations online.Use With iLife - iStopMotion 2 exports files that are drag-and-drop compatible with iMovie so you can add titles transitions music and sound. You can even use GarageBand to produce your own animated music video!Loved by Educators - iStopMotion is used worldwide by educators from all disciplines as a tool to help develop creativity in students of all ages. It can be used to hone problem-solving and communication skills so fundamental to all areas of study. The time-lapse feature is ideal for science class. Speed up slow processes like a blooming flower or melting ice.Key FeaturesStop-motion animation made easy.Supports Mac-compatible cameras.Virtual Stage provides fun backgrounds.Unique onion skinning for smooth animation.Create amazing time-lapse movies.Print your creations as flip books.System Requirements:Power PC G5 or Intel Core Duo 512MB of RAM or more 1 GB hard disk space Graphics card with 128MB Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later Compatible camera Format: MAC 10.0 OR LATER Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 740569000461 Manufacturer No: 1045
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of fun, easy to learn, easy to use - very nice program for the Mac,
This review is from: Istopmotion 2 (CD-ROM)
This is a fun little program, that's easy enough to use for kids, but has a lot of flexibility for more serious users. I've mostly played around with this making little animated movies with my kids like the one I've included here, which was made entirely in iStopMotion2, but you can export the files to edit further and add sound effects and such in other programs like iMovie and Final Cut Pro. The basic idea is that you take a picture, then move the object to be animated slightly, then take another picture, then move again. You can decide how many frames per second you want to shoot. Obviously, more frames per second can produce less jerky animation, but it also requires much more patience and control. I like to stick to about 15 frames per second. For photo inputs you can either use a live source or you can import stills from any camera. With a live source you can either shoot stills one at a time or shoot continuously, at intervals you select. For example you could have your camera shoot every 3 seconds, which would give you time to make a quick adjustment to your clay figure and then move your hand out of the way. If you mess up, you could just stop and delete the messed up frames. A live camera source is easiest, since the program can show you an "onion skin," or a transparent layer from the last frame in the animation that serves as a reference point to figure out how far to adjust the next. It should be noted that not all camcorders can be hooked up as a live source to Macs - and this isn't really the fault of this program it has to do with the way the Mac is set up. Of course you can use the built in webcam on most Macs as a live source, but that's not always very convenient since you'd have to point the screen at the object you're animating and then you'd be interacting with the keyboard and would want to be sure to get your hands out of the way before taking a still. Any other webcam that you can use for live video chat on your Mac will work with this program, and you can also hook it up to any webcam that is compatible with your Mac or any Firewire based camcorder. As of now the program doesn't have any way of supporting live inputs from most HD camcorders, since they usually connect to the computer with USB ports and not firewire. At least, I'm not able to hook up my Canon VIXIA HFS10 and record "live" from it. Instead, I'm using an older miniDV camera I'd had around and stopped using when I picked up the newer one. You can import a soundtrack, or add one later from within an editing program. You can add backgrounds and foregrounds, and while the ones included with the software are really more for kids, you can import anything you like. To add backgrounds, of course, you need to do something like greenscreening, so that you can cut out the background you actually filmed in. There is a "key" function with the program that allows you to select a shade and eliminate it, but I've found it's not as effective as the keying function you'd get in Final Cut Pro or other more dedicated compositing programs. Still, it's good enough for most kids projects, and that's the kind of project you'd really want to complete entirely within this program. For more serious work you'd be better off capturing the basic stop motion here and then exporting it for edit, effects, and soundtrack elsewhere. Another very valuable feature is that you can set this up for time lapse photography, which would help to create very interesting animations for a science project, for example. One very cool feature is the "Rotoscope/Lip-Sync" function. What that allows you to do is, say, shoot a video of someone speaking a line that you want to include in your stopmotion video, and then import that video so you can see it side by side with your animation. You can then animate the mouth to match closely to the movements of the speaker in the video. You could also use this to match, say, the movements of a doll to the movements of a dancer, or match the walk of a clay figure to the movements of a real person walking. It's very useful. About this video: it was very easy to set up and the whole thing took maybe 10 minutes to complete. Obviously you can do much more sophisticated animation with this software than I've done here, and if you look it up online you'll find some very cool examples of what can be done. I did this just to show what you can accomplish in a very short time, with very little forethought or planning. Not a brilliant idea, but I was writing this review and thought a quick animation would be valuable as an example. I didn't have any clay or toys with me, which is what my kids and I have mostly used at home, but then I noticed a poor little styrofoam cup and realized I could document its destruction. Enjoy!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beware of Compatability!!!,
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This review is from: Istopmotion 2 (CD-ROM)
We purchased this for our son for Christmas & he has not had the time to do much with it yet but I felt it very important to write this review sooner than later. The reason being is that we purchased it based on the information on the "Product Features" section. I know we read the Production Description part as well but for whatever reason (Christmas rush?) our brains did not pick up on the contradictory information provided in this Amazon listing. The "Features" section states: Works with Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor; Mac OSX v10.3 or newer (Mac OS X 10.4 recommended).
Well, we also went out and purchased a used computer specifically for him to make his videos on. That was OUR mistake since we really should have read the info. more clearly. We are running OSX 10.4.11 and Quicktime 7.6.4 on a Mac G4 tower and are having difficulty running the program. We see now that the IstopMotion requires a G5 or higher computer. We contacted Boinx Support, who are very helpful by the way, & they informed me that: yes, it can run on a G4 but you have to make sure the graphics card is compatible & that it will only work on a G4 with Radeon 9600 which unfortunately ours doesn't have. The software package does clearly state that the correct system requirements but Amazon made an error in it's listing. Please note this contradiction. I will contact Amazon myself so hopefully if you are reading this you are confused by my review, assuming that Amazon corrected the problem. Otherwise, since we do have a 2nd computer with the correct requirements (just not an optimal situation since that is "the adult's" computer), he has been able to use it here and there (when time has allowed) & it seems like really cool software. He intends to make movies using his Legos & this will certainly improve on his previous results so in that regard, even though it hasn't been tested much, I would definitely recommend considering this software, especially for the price!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
IStop Motion,
By Jaycoub "Jaycoub" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Istopmotion 2 (CD-ROM)
This product works well on Mac. I have been able to create my own clay motion show using this product. The downfall to this program is that you have to buy another license in order to import sound and stream it live in IStop. That costs another $60 some bucks.
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