Assembling the stop motion sequence with After Effects

- Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics tool,…and it makes it very easy…to work with stop-motion or time-lapse sequences,…as well as add text and sound to the finished movie.…Let me give you a quick overview on how to use it.…What I need to do is bring in my movie.…So let's make a new project here,…and choose File,…Import, File.…Navigate to the folder of JPEGs that you recently created,…and single-click on the first image.…

Don't double-click.…Choose to import this as a sequence.…And I would suggest the Force alphabetical order box…to avoid any potential gaps.…Now, when you click Open,…it brings that in as a sequence of images.…Let's double-click on that and press Play.…And you see that the movie is loaded.…That looks good.…Now, there's a couple tricks here.…

You might recall that we talked about how a movie file,…a regular one that you shoot on a video camera,…has between 24 and 60 frames per second.…Well, these are still images,…and I have enough to create a very short animation…of about five seconds at 30 frames a second.…