Free Animation Software?

[davee123]

So, I've found a few free bits of software that do video capturing, but I really need one that allows individual frame replacement from other sources-- IE from already existing GIF/PNG/BMP/JPG files. Specifically, I've done some renders using LDView, and I'd like to string them together into an animation. I did find a few a demo program that rather annoyed me, too-- it effectively wrote "DEMO" on the final output (since it was a demo program), but let me go through all the motions of putting together the frames before making it clear that it was going to overwrite text onto all my frames :(

Any suggestions?

DaveE

[Xenophilius Studz]

If I'm corrected, a free program I use to string my frames together into an animation is Monkey Jam. It works pretty well for me. You can easily import pictures into it and capture from the program. I reccommend Monkey Jam. If you Google it you'll find the site.

[Grimmy]

Another one for MonkeyJam It's a pretty well known program and is pretty good. The way it's setup can make it easier if your syncing sound and voices. It's a little different then normal editing software as it is specifically made for animation.

[davee123]

Cool! I tried out MonkeyJam, and it seems to work OK-- although when I play back a movie in Windows Media Player, it has a hard time with the default frame rate. QuickTime plays it alright, but Media Player doesn't seem to give equal time to individual frames, interesting. Works fine if I double-up the frames (which is MonkeyJam's default, seemingly for importing images), although it's obviously a bit slow since it effectively reduces the frame rate. Anyway, I'll have to play around with it more! Thanks muchly!

DaveE

[pe668]

There is a very good program called "Helium Frog" that is for making stop motion films.

http://www.heliumfrog.com/