Stop Motion app 2
Recently we were talking about stop motion animations when I though, that should be pretty easy to do in flash. So I gave it a try to see how far I get in one evening. Accessing the cam and taking snapshot is easy so I made a simple array of images and played through them with the timer. Result:
You can also flip through the images by sliding over the image region. To delete the image when flipping through simply click.
Now thats good and nice but you can’t save. Even better would be a rendered mpeg movie as a final result. To do so I used the new AIR 2.0 NativProcess to call ffmpeg that turns a serie of images into a movie. The images are stored in a tmp directory using the PNGExporter. Voila finished is the StopMotion application that can render images to a mpeg movie.
I like the new NativeProcess as it allows to break out of the AIR container and runs other apps. So if somebody wants to play around with the StopMotion app feel free to download it:
Hej, this is not working anymore!
Flash Player 10.2.153 only displays a grey box.
What a pity.
just move your mouse over the record button if you have your webcam activated and click record to take snapshots… that should still work.