Topic: imovie 11 question
Can anyone tell me how to set the specs on imovie 11 to 15 FPS?
Any info would be great, thanks.
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Can anyone tell me how to set the specs on imovie 11 to 15 FPS?
Any info would be great, thanks.
Actually, you can't get 15fps on iMovie, it's more for editing video. You could try a program such as iStopMotion or monkeyjam though.
But you had FCE, right? That can do thirty, and if you make each photo last two frames, it's 15 fps, that's what I do
Really you call yourself animator yet you don't know how to use anything?
Really you call yourself animator yet you don't know how to use anything?
You're really hating on Antonio 
what's up with that? (between this and your comment on his other film)
He probably just got the program and didn't know how to use it! Probably before he was working with another program, and wanted help.
That's what this whole community is about, helping others improve...
Edit: also, what shutterbroke said is what I'm referring to, I'm not sure if iMovie has options like that, but it probably does.
Hey Realm thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.
As for Outsider I try to ignore people until they have something fruitful to say and stop hating.
Thanks a bunch guy.
Really you call yourself animator yet you don't know how to use anything?
Well, well, look who's talking. There is no need to criticize like that on BiM.
I'm in agreement with GHB there, you really shouldn't be so aggressive in your posts, Outsider.
This is what I do. I'm assuming you use mac, right? Well, I have downloaded a stop motion frame grabber that let's you import pictures into the program.(unless you use a webcam for capture.) After you have imported the frames, you can easily change the framerate to what you want,(15 fps or higher) and then you can export the clip and import it into iMovie to edit it. Works amazing for me.
I use SAM Animation for this, but another program I have that is free and let's you import frames is FramebyFrame.
Dang, I had written a giant post, then I switched tabs and when I came back the page reloaded and I lost it
Anyways, basically what had written was that I just did a test where I put some images into iMovie, exported them and then brought the clip back in but sped it up 200%, it looked like 15 fps to me but I'm not sure...
I also said that while GHB's way works, those programs generally don't allow for high quality exports, so instead I prefer to go the QuickTime Pro 7 route, using the "Open Image Sequence" feature. For more info, google it, because I'm too lazy to rewrite everything I had said. 
(and I have to go have dinner now)
I use SAM Animation for this, but another program I have that is free and let's you import frames is FramebyFrame.
I use SAM Animation, too. I also submitted it a while back ago to the resources section if you Mac users wanna take a look at that. 
If you can get your hands on iMovie HD you should be able to import frames at 1/15th of a second, been using that for years. iMovie HD is an old version from around 2006. And you may be able to get it onto your computer for free if you have an older version but I'm not an expert on the matter.
Nice tip, Danimation.
Here it is, it's free.
Wait...I use iMovie too, and I've tried other programs to get faster FPS, but they all seem to need a webcam (I think). Is there a good (preferably free) program I can use without a webcam that will then increase my FPS?
If you can get your hands on iMovie HD you should be able to import frames at 1/15th of a second, been using that for years. iMovie HD is an old version from around 2006. And you may be able to get it onto your computer for free if you have an older version but I'm not an expert on the matter.
That's funny you mention an older version of imovie. For some reason after I reformatted my mac it wont run ilife that has imovie 11, so ithe only version right my mac will run is imovie 08. Until I can get my hands on a higher version 10.6.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Can you run 2 differant versions of iMovie together? Because I like using all the effects new to iMovie 11.
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