[Year 12 IPM] stop motion pro

[claire]

Really surprised you didn't get any support. I found them very anxious to help.



> Travers, Graham J <travers.graham.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> 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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