Practicing Stop Motion

Last week we had a go at trying stop motion for ourselves.
On Premiere we set up a new file and created it in the D drive. On the the capture selection, instead of capturing film, we clicked on stop motion. In this, the computer allows you to use the camera directly with the computer. We set up our scene with a toy bus and some paper clips, set the camera on the tripod and made sure the camera wasn't going to move.
Each time we clicked grab frame it took a picture, and gave a ghosted effect of the last image as well as what the camera currently sees, thus allowing you to see how much to move the objects. We made the bus smash through a load of paper clips by gradually grabbing new frames and moving the bus and paper clips slightly each time.
Once the capture was done, Premiere gives you the opportunity to make it into a small video clip for use on the Premiere timeline, or you can keep it as a series of pictures.