Stop Motion

[Andrew Baik]

Dear Red User friends,

I have a client who wants to shoot some stop-motion Lego for a commercial on the Weapon.

I was wondering what the best shooting mode would be to get the easiest post-workflow.

We'd like to keep it at 8K is possible.

My guess is shooting stills locked off?

Thank you so much for your help!

Andrew

 

[Chad Lancaster]

look in the operations manual under frame trigger. Short answer is go to the display and tap menu - settings - recording - change mode to frame trigger

When you trigger frames in video mode its assembled in that single file so its playable like any normal r3d motion shot. I've never done a stop motion shot so I can't tell you from personal experience but it should work just like time-lapse mode where it combines in into a single r3d motion stream. Kessler cinedrive and other motion control rigs can control this as well so incase you need movement its all handled by the system.

 

[Uros Zuraj]

i would say go with a stills camera. easier to control for stopmotion from software like Dragon StopMotion - you can see the how much you moved stuff (ghosting/onioning), you have instant playback,...

 

[Patrick Tresch]

i would say go with a stills camera. easier to control for stopmotion from software like Dragon StopMotion - you can see the how much you moved stuff (ghosting/onioning), you have instant playback,...

+1 and it's way lighter.

 

[J. Andrés Cardona]

Dragonframe is a must. You can actually use the software with RED cams, but you won't be able to to capture through the software - so it adds an extra step. You'd capture previews to the comp and then manually trigger the cam as per Chad's suggestions. Would really become annoying once you need to delete a frame.

A DSLR would definitely be much easier and still yield great results since you're capturing 4k/5K+ RAW stills, depending on your setup.

We shot this on an old 7D last year: https://vimeo.com/195658755

 

[Nick Morrison]

Yes, we'vs done stop motion several times and it works great. There's a mode for that. We tend to use 3 frame bursts. Having a way to remote trigger is helpful (Fool Control).

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Dragonframe is a must. You can actually use the software with RED cams, but you won't be able to to capture through the software - so it adds an extra step. You'd capture previews to the comp and then manually trigger the cam as per Chad's suggestions. Would really become annoying once you need to delete a frame.

A DSLR would definitely be much easier and still yield great results since you're capturing 4k/5K+ RAW stills, depending on your setup.

We shot this on an old 7D last year: https://vimeo.com/195658755

Nice work. The hair animation in the water is impressive. The feel of the darkness is also well done. Keep on the good work.

Pat