how can you use imovie to make a stopmotion animation?

Question

i've tried, but i cant make the gap between the pictures long enough. im pretty sure it is possible, because some people on youtube say that's how they made their animations.

Answer 1

Animate Your Photos
In order for your animated short to play properly, you must tell iMovie how long you want each photo to appear before showing the next one. It's kind of like creating a slideshow, except instead of giving each image a few seconds, you give it only a fraction of a second. The timing you choose will affect the overall tempo and length of your film.

For our sock example we used a duration of 3 frames-per-photo. Since videos you create in iMovie usually play at 30 frames-per-second, a setting of 3 frames-per-photo means you'll see 10 photos every second. Now you can see why you have to shoot so many photos!

If you use the 3 frames-per-photo setting, you can easily estimate how many photos you'll need to create a movie of a given length. In our example we used around 100 photos, for 10 seconds of video. If we wanted to make an animation exactly 30 seconds long, we'd shoot 300 photos.

Time in iMovie appears in "0:00" format (see figure 3). The number before the colon is the number of seconds and the number after the colon is the number of frames (so 3 frames-per-photo looks like this "0:03").

This next step is very important, so stay with us! In iMovie, select all of the photographs in your stop-motion album (the quick way to do this is to click on the very first photo and then, holding down the shift key, scroll down and click on the last photo.) Now click "Show Photo Settings" and type in "0:03" for your duration in the floating window that appears. Click the Apply button and your photos will start getting sucked into the timeline at the bottom of the window. [Older versions of iPhoto let you set the duration in your editing window without clicking "Show Photo Settings."]

Once iMovie's finished filling the timeline, hit play.

You just created your first stop-motion animated video short!

if you want more then see this site....

http://www.photojojo.com/content/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/

http://www.istopmotion.com/

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/262103

Answer 2

this won't answer your question but i thought I would throw it at you

I am going to tell you right now, any program can be made to do stop motion animation, but you should go to the net and look up a program called....don't laugh.....monkeyjam. it can adjust your capture frames for you.

It is freeware that is set up to do stop motion, only thing is I haven't figured out how to work the mp3 option in with the mode.