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Tech Specs
iStopMotion for iPad
System Requirements
Supported Cameras
iPad 2 Built-in Cameras
iStopMotion Remote Camera
Internal Storage Format
Export Video Format
Sharing/Export Options
Time Lapse Intervals
Animation Tools
iStopMotion Remote Camera
(iStopCamera)
System Requirements
Overview
Making movies on a shoestring budget? No need hunting for talented actors, building a stage or even writing a script. A bit of clay or a toy can be the star of your animated masterpiece. Spending quality time with your kids? Watch them tap their creative potential and be amazed at what they create. iStopMotion for iPad is also ideal for use in the classroom and in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages.
If you want to watch a flower bloom or the fog clearing the Golden Gate, you need a lot of time and patience or you can watch a time lapse movie. If you play back a sequence of images at a higher frame rate than you captured them, slow things seem to speed up. This technique also helps to discover patterns like how clouds form which happen too slowly in real time to notice.
iStopMotion for iPad can be set to capture frames automatically at a given time interval. It also allows you to control camera exposure and focus. helping you to easily create fascinating time lapse movies.
A movie is actually a sequence of photos paraded before your eyes at high speed, usually at about 25 frames per second. Things seem to move because of small differences from one picture to the next. Early film makers invented stop motion animation (also known as stop action animation or claymation) to create a giant gorilla climbing up the Empire State Building. The gorilla puppet would be moved a tiny bit in between taking images, coming to life when the images were played back as a movie.
With iStopMotion for iPad you can now easily create your own masterpiece at home.
To submit your clip, either fill out this form or check the “Submit to Boinx Gallery” option in the export to YouTube dialog in iStopMotion on your iPad.
The camera overlay is the magic sauce of iStopMotion for iPad. While animating, you can actually see what changes you make to the scene by seeing both the last picture you've taken and the current view from the camera overlayed. This lets you animate very quickly and with high accuracy, getting your story done in a way that will make you proud.
At any time during animating your story, tap the play button to see what you've done so far instantly without "waiting for rendering to finish". This is immensely gratifying and the key to having fun with stop motion animation. This is especially important to kids to keep them interested and motivated, a prerequisite for a better learning experience.
You can use the front and rear cameras of your iPad 2 with iStopMotion, but in some cases, you might want a better camera or one which can be more easily positioned. The iStopMotion Remote Camera app (available from the App Store free of charge) turns your iPhone 4/4S, iPod (4th gen) or a second iPad 2 into a remote camera, connected via Wi-Fi.
With its gorgeous and intuitive design, the unique time line lets you know where you are in your clip both at the big picture scale as well as the immediate neighborhood of the current frame. It helps novice movie makers to intuitively grasp how stop motion animation works and to get a feeling for their progress.
Quickly add a bit of music to your movie and proudly share your creation online with friends, family or other stop motion animation artists or time lapse photographers via email or on YouTube. Of course you can also export your movies to your Mac or PC for further editing or archiving.
