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In reply to: Ahhh, I see... -- Aminaga 17:13:06 12-01-2005

Sure
Posted by: Xorlak
12:23:43 12-02-2005

The camera I use is actually pretty old, and I'm thinking about getting a replacement soon.  Your camera definitely needs a feature that allows it to record for a very short time and then stop (mine does 1/4 second as the minimum).  This is so the frames will all show for the same length of time.  If you're planning to do this without computer software, your camera also needs an audio dub feature.  This allows you to record over the movie's sound without recording over the picture, so you can add voices, music, sound effects, etc. after doing the animation by just playing them near the camera's microphone.  That's sort of the minimum required.

Now if you plan on doing things digitally, things change.  You basically just need a way to get the pictures to you computer.  You could buy a video capture device to feed the video to your computer (usually they also come with decent video editing software like Video Studio) and edit in sounds, effects, etc.  I also suppose you could forgo the video camera entirely, and just use a still digital camera to get the pictures and assemble them into a video file using a program like pjBmp2Avi.  You'll still need to find a program to edit in the sound, though.

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-Xorlak
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