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I am looking for software for my grandsons. They want to be able to take a series of digital pictures of legos and put them together in a slide show so that it looks like a video. Any recommendations? Can they do that with a still camera or do they need a video camera? Thanks for your help.
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What about Power Point. It is not what you are asking but very user friendly for new people wanting to do a slide slow presentation. Even grade one can learn how to do this. -
I will assume they will play the legos into different charaters, and take pictures, and just make them as slide show.
They probably will use still camera.
If no edit is need, you don't need extra software. If the camera has USB port, than they usually provide software to connect the camera to computer to upload all the pictures. And that software will usually has ability to allow you to show all pictures in slide show type. It will just goes one direction.
If they want a little bit fancy, but don't need to do too difficult job of manipulate the pictures to put them together, they can use Microsoft power point (I believe if you download Java, they will give you some free software that does similar work). That allows you to show the pictures with different moving directions. Or show few pictures together, or show only part 1st than the rest type of deal.
Adobe Photoshop or some software in that degree I believe will allows you todo much more fancy stuff. But I doubt that is what they have in mind.
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This is the kind of stuff they are wanting to do:
YouTube - Lego Hockey Penalty Shot
YouTube - England USA Lego Highlights 2010 World CupComment
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If they want to load into Youtube, you can look at WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER (Windows XP: Movie Maker 2.1 Download). I have not used it, so could not comment too much on it.
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To create a stop-motion movie like that, they will need video editing software (not just slideshow software). Windows Movie Maker may be able to do that, but it would be clunky at the best. I would suggest either Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Adobe Premier Elements, both of which can be purchased for under $100.
They would use a still camera and tripod, and then piece together the stills into a movie using the software. Sounds like a fun project!
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