How to make a simple stop motion video using Final Cut Pro

in this video I'll be demonstrating how to make a stop-motion video in Final Cut Pro for the purpose of this video I'll be assuming you already have the pictures to make the stop-motion if you have questions about how to actually make stop-motion it's quite simply just moving an object a little at a time and taking photos in between products I found that do helpless stop motions are these Wireless remotes that can connect to your camera well I mean depending on I make mine specifically is a Canon Rebel t4i so this is the one I got the benefit of using this remote is you don't have to be touching camera every time you take a photo you do have to make sure that you have a camera compatible with it though I'll be assuming you already have a new library event end project I didn't realize this before but it's best to keep one library per video it just makes it simpler yeah in my case my computer storage was almost full I had about 20 gigabytes left I realized that these libraries actually take up a lot of space once you don't have the video you can delete your library and then free up a lot of space on your computer another thing to keep in mind is to have multiple events just to organize your media like for example my last video that I did this stop motion in this is what my event looks like it's really unorganized and I'd have to scroll through everything to find what I'm looking for for an upcoming video I decided to do it a little differently I kept my music stop motion and video and separate events but you also have the option of going inside of an event and just simply creating a new folder and then organizing it that way I actually kept my actual project and the video event this video itself is about stairs for dogs I'm just gonna work on importing a good thing to check before you actually import all the files is just going through them to make sure they all flow together a good way to do that is to go into this view right here and then you can just skip right through them by pressing the right arrow key to import your pictures into Final Cut itself there are two ways you can do that the first is you can go to file import Media or you can simply click on this button right here and that'll take you to the same place and then locate where your pictures are saved so I save most of the pictures in this folder so I'm just going to select the folder itself and click import all the other way to import is to go to your folder itself select all that you want in this case its most of them and then I'll hold shift to deselect that and then simply drag it into here so these pictures actually come later I'll select these because these are actually the first ones hold shift to the end and then just drag them into the timeline this menu will come up these are the default settings set of going with twenty three point nine eight I'm gonna settle even thirty P which is the rate so the rate is the the frames per second thirty P seems to be standard for video so though I'll just click OK then I'll select the other pictures and drag them into the timeline I can hold FN and the right arrow key get to the end and then I can simply drag them in afterwards and then I can hold FN left arrow key and then go to the beginning again so the default for each picture is ten seconds this is obviously too much for a stop motion so we need to change the duration of each picture so command a to select them all then you can click on modify and then to change duration also the keyboard shortcut is ctrl D so I'll do that right now with ctrl D and then I'll just put in three so each picture would last three frames and then I'll see what that looks like so this seems a little faster me so what I'm going to do is select them all again and then I'll say let's do five frames oh no no no there we go it seems a little slow so changing again let's see four so typically you'll want it around three it just seems to be a good fit depending on what you're going for if you want to do some fine tuning you can also select a certain portion that you might want to change the duration of so for example I can just select those and then change the duration of those specifically so I can make those like seven and then these would be longer and you see now that's a bit slower so important thing to note is that the aspect ratio of the photos do not actually match the screen here to remedy that I'll select all the pictures again and then you can go over here go to transform and you can do scale all and these will actually scale all the pictures at once so I already found the percentage I need in order to make it fit this screen and that's 120 and then enter and then you'll see now in a full screen it fits the aspect ratio I'm going for and you can see my foot something that I didn't do in this video is have constant lighting so problem is you can see the shifting of the lighting and it's probably best to just rely on your own light source that's not gonna be shifting I I was just using daylight and as you can see that makes a little more jarring to look at anyway ignoring that now I know stop-motion video is going to be complete without music and I've recently discovered a good resource to find music so let's just get right to that um this is not me looking at its tutorial I found YouTube itself has an audio library available that you can find free music for your project it'll say when you click to play this song if you're free to use this song so not all of you songs you have to give a credit for you can sort by attribution so if attribution is not required it says you're free to use this song in any of your videos so in the other ones with attribution or choir all you have to do is just copy whatever it says here and put that into your description with this website you can sort by genre mood instrument and duration I typically sort by the mood first so I like calm and then you can go from there genre if you want pop hey pop in your app whatever you're looking for once you found a song you like you just want to download and then you can save it wherever and then you can later import it into your project so if you want to find this just use whatever search engine you prefer and then you can search YouTube audio library and already comes up right there there first thing that picks up yeah then back in the final cut you can import it or drag it into here once you've decided on music you can just drag it in if you drag it into your timeline it'll show up here as well I've dragged it in now I'm just an edit worried there is no audio put it closer and then see how that looks like once you have your music press B on your keyboard and then just cut off where the end of the video is also at the end you probably want to fade out so it'll have two arrows spread apart a little bit and you can drag to the left so this will now make the audio fade out in the end that was a bit sudden so I'm gonna drag a little more so so that's that's basically it I hope this was helpful and I hope to see some good quality stop motions in the future bye [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Yoenosh

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Keywords: final cut pro, tutorial, stop motion, sad, dog, stairs

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Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020