Ahoj. This is Zdenka. One of the things we didn't talk about on this channel yet
is stop-motion. What is it? It's sort of like a time-lapse but it is still very
different. With stop-motion you will bring static objects to life by
physically moving them or not. I'll show you. It is very old technique which is
having quite a bit of a comeback these days. I've seen commercials entirely shot
in stop-motion. I've seen some products videos which are actually mixed with
stop motion, slow motion and speed ramping and that's something I actually
like personally. I simply like to match the rhythm of the music to the video. I
like to play with different speeds. So today, stop-motion two ways....
well three ways.... possibly four ways. Smartphone way for the mobile users, camera
way with the camera like I have this mirrorless camera and lastly the lazy
way with the camera as well.
Let's talk about the setup. What do you need is table, nice background if you
like and nice steady light. You don't want to do it by the window somewhere
using natural light as it is going to change on you once a cloud shows up. I
optioned for my studio where I used my continuous ring light. Before we get to
the bigger stuff, let's start with the option number one and that is smartphone
stop-motion. There are whole bunch of different apps you can use for
stop-motion. I decided to go with a free version of app called stop-motion studio.
My phone is sitting on a tripod in a smartphone holder. Now everything I'm
using in this video will be listed below in a video description in case you want
to grab something and yes those are international links. It's very easy to
use this app. First of all, you will be taking a series of photos which will be
played one by one as a video, so every time you shoot stop-motion, you have to
make sure you lock your brightness and focus. Bbefore we do that, let's look at
settings here. You can select movie speed, I'll leave it at 5 frames per second,
fade effect, ratio and all kinds of effects. Let's tap to take photo and now
everything is in automatic mode which we don't want. Let's go to Al, tap Sun to
adjust exposure and tap on the screen where you want the focus to be. Next you
want to select timer so you don't have to physically take photo every single
time. You could also introduce camera shake by pressing the button, so let's
stay away from that. Timer is better. I'll choose ten seconds. All I'm going to
do now is move my items. Now I am not really that precise with these movements
today but when you will try, remember that small same distance moves are the
best. And if you have kids, here is your perfect activity these days. Moving on to
option number two with a camera. I've got here overhead set up. Camera is
Canon M6 Mark II. Moza Slypod and tripod. I have again my ring light and I
also added two LED lights. And again everything is linked below. You might
also want to use camera shutter if you have one or connect your camera to a
smart phone like I do. My camera is set to manual mode, my aperture is F/5.6 as I
want most of it in focus. Shutter speed I think is /150th. I'm taking photos in RAW
to preserve quality as I might use some of the photos for something in the
future. And the same process goes, move your objects to create movement. Because
of the light I'll make a change and step away so I don't create a shadow by
accident. To create the actual video let's go to Adobe Premiere Pro. First
I'll go to edit preferences, timeline and change still image default duration to 1
second. Press first image, hold shift, press last image and drag them all on
your timeline sequence. I'm going to change to 23.976 frames per second. Now
when I play it, it's quite slow so I'll select all images, right click and select
nest. Now it is one clip, no longer single images. And what I do here is to change
the speed to get the visual result I want. 150 percent faster is good. I
actually like it 300% better and now I just color grade the clip as usually.
All I want to say now is that there are many different ways you can create the
stop-motion video in Adobe Premiere Pro. I'm sure you will find a zillions of
tutorials, this is just a way which works for me and yeah this is how I create my
stop-motion. And the last option is for those moments when it's very difficult
to just grab the object and do it step by step like for example if you have
something rounded and you just want to roll it. Sure you could do it in a burst
image mode but I usually am not having that much time and sometimes I'm even
lazy so I'm just gonna do it in video sort of faking it. So for this you want
to film in manual mode as well. You want to have fast shutter speed because you
don't want motion blur. So what I did, I filmed this a video sequence in 120
frames per second, my shutter speed was 1/240th, respectively my camera actually I
have it set on a 1/250th of a second. I filmed purposely at 120 frames per
second so if I decide to use the same clip in my future projects in slow
motion. I have it I simply like to save a lot of time by giving myself different
options. So option one I can use it for stop-motion an option 2, I can use it for
slow motion. It's gonna look completely different. I can just use tiny bits and
pieces of the video clip. Once I was done I placed it on 24 frames per second
timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro. Go to posterize time effect and here you
can experiment with different frame rates. I chose 2 frames and that's it.
And I would use this if I would be filming some kind of a motion like a
person and there is a hair motion or I would use it if somebody was running for
example. Hit the thumbs up if you found this video useful and don't forget to
subscribe to all future videos because soon I'm gonna be showing you how I am
filming product videos and product commercials where I'm gonna be actually
using all those styles. If you have any questions or comments or simply want to
say hi or Ahoj, you can leave it below in a comment section. And I'll see all of
you my friends in the next video ... Cau... Ahoj....