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Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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Not bad. The animation seemed a bit jerky (which is down to a low frame rate - what FPS is it?) but the movements were well animated. Just speed it up a little.
Also, welcome to the forums! You might want to change your sig image to something smaller as max size limit is 400x100 pixels (otherwise the mods have a field day on you).
up the frame rate and you have something good. 
Have you got MonkeyJam set to Hold 2? That makes it 7.5fps.
That couldn't be 15. I think it's probably 8.
I've got a tip, though. If it's messing up like this you can always import the movie clip into a new project, speed it up, and then save it again. That'll make it go faster.
Good grief SW8, it says in the first post.
I didn't set "hold" or anything. I just open MonkeyJam,
Settings>FPS>15
Then Import my pictures and convert them to an .avi. (but then it gets changed into a WMV in the editing process).
Maybe it's the fact that I didn't film that well? Because I'm almost sure it's 15 FPS.
In that case, it is Hold 2 because for some reason that's the default.
well the easiest way is to choose 30 fps, to make it twice as fast 
well the easiest way is to choose 30 fps, to make it twice as fast
Well I remade it with your guy's advice, and it looks somewhat smoother. I won't post it though, since it's virtually the same.
Also, through this experience, I've learned that WMM isn't too bad when it comes to short films. I do the effects in GIMP (when I have effects to add), my stopmotion in MJ, so I only really need WMM for adding sounds and intros.
WMM is fine as long as no one can tell you used it. ex: Don't use the default credits and titles! It makes it look so lame! Same thing with iMovie and basically any software you use; don't use the defaults, or your audience will automatically assume it was made by an amateur.
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Exactly, that's what i'm starting to do.
Ah, I see. I was wondering why my film was 2-3 seconds longer than I expected. (I divided the amount of frames by 15).
So how do I change this "hold"?
You go to the capture window and under where it says "Image Hold" select the one, it's automatically on two. You also want to make sure it's set to stop-motion, not standard.
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