[Year 12 IPM] stop motion pro

[Travers, Graham J]

I found the support for SMP to be next-to-none. File sizes are huge -
even with min frame size each frame is 256Kb and my kids files were
typically >100Mb.

Cameras were a pia. Could not get the Logitec version suggested, and
used a $70 camera called 'All in One' which the software would 'see' on
one day but not the next. 

Is was typical to have to boot SMP 3 or 4 times to get it to run.

My tip - stay away from SMP. Try Monkeyjam or easier still - shoot with
any camera, load Flash, go to File/Import to Stage, the proram will say
'this is the first of a sequence - import all', say yes, and it's all
done! 
Easy to add titles, special effects, sound etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of claire
Sent: Monday, 27 March 2006 2:43 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: RE: [Year 12 IPM] stop motion pro

We had the same network problems. Each frame was saved as a high quality
tif image, and we soon ran out of space, even animating at a low speed
12 frames/second.
I had awful problems and ended up having to purchase portable hard
drives, so kids had heaps of memory and weren't trying to move things
across the network. Also wasn't rapt with the quality of photo captured
using our cheapish web cams.
 At VITTA conf last year, spoke to the SMP people and it sounded like
the new version would overcome a number of issues I had. The SMP people
are very helpful and it would be well worth a chat with them.
http://www.stopmotionpro.com/support.htm
Claire Bloom
Warrandyte High




> Travers, Graham J <travers.graham.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> We purchased a site licence for SMP last year - VERY expensive. It is
> not geared to run on a network and very user-unfriendly re the storing
> of files. I'll probably persist with it this year, but I wish I'd
known
> about Monkey Jam earlier, as that probably does everything SMP does.
> 
> Graham Travers
> Oberon High School
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Terri Van Zetten
> Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2006 8:00 PM
> To: ipm at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] stop motion pro
> 
> gday.
> 
> Has anyone had experience with rotoscope in SMP?  It looks really
cool,
> my
> kids (upper primary) who created 'Toy Wars' for the 3in6 are desperate
> to
> buy the software - they are running an Easter Raffle to buy it.  Is it
> easy
> to use and effective.
> 
> I am also thinking of buying a personal copy mainly for that part too
as
> I
> create little animation movies to teach concepts to the kids,
especially
> the
> littlies who can't read.  With this I have learned an important hint
> though - dont munipulate your voice to make it sound squeaky otherwise
> you
> have 27 preps saying 'ctrl alt delete' in squeaqy voices...
> 
> Is this suitable for this software?
> 
> If there is someone on this list who supplies the software, I am happy
> for
> you to email me off the list.
> 
> Cheers, Terri.
> 
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