From the course: Learning Stop Motion Animation

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Importing from the Camera Roll

Importing from the Camera Roll

If you're using iStopmotion for the iPad, you'll need to transfer the movies from your iPad to your computer. One of the easiest ways to do this is with iPhoto. Once you've plugged your iPad into the computer, it will typically launch on its own. Select the iPad from the Devices list. And then, using the scroll bar, locate your clips. In this case, there's not a lot on this iPad so it's pretty easy to find. I'm going to bring all of these in. Even though these may not all be used in the finished project, I'll choose them, and we can decide later if we are going to use them or discard them. An easy way to select all the clips is to click and drag. If you'd like to select individual clips, hold down the Cmd key, and you can click on discontiguous clips. In this case, though, I'll grab all of these. With them selected, click the Import Selected button. They'll then be added to your iPhoto library. I recommend that you leave these on the device still. Later, you can go back to your iPad…

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