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[[Category:Ubuntu]][[Category:Linux]][[Category:Studio]]''A popular trend with youth today is to create lego stop-motion videos and post up to YouTube...
.. You can use the '''Cheese''' / '''Audacity''' and '''Cinecutie''' ('''Cinelerra''') open source applications '''to do this for free'''...''
There are many types of video editors that you can use... I prefer to use a non-linear video editor like '''Cinecutie''' or '''Cinelerra'''. I am using the <u>experimental</u> version of Cinelerra (called Cinecutie) since it has better fonts for titles. For all intents and purposes, there are no major difference between Cinecutie and Cinelerra - they work the same way...
'''A non-linear editor is better suited to cutting, copying and pasting frames or a range of frames (cut points)'''. All material is saved and can be recalled or re-used as needed. This non-linear method is superior to linear video editors which can be more "destructive" when you cut and paste frames.
Here is a link to a more comprehensive definition of a non-linear video editor:
[ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system] ]
Here is a link to the community version of Cinelerra:
<li>[ [[Quick & Simple - Recording With Audacity]] ]<br /><br /></li>
</ul> '''NOTE #1: When recording my voice, I usually start a recording in Audacity, then later start the video playing on Cinecutie, then talk into the microphone while viewing the video. This may take a number of "takes" until you get it right. Don't worry about trying to start both audio and video playing at the same time - you can leave Audacity in record mode, and then later cut out the portions of the audio you do not need...''' '''NOTE #2: Once you create and save audio files in the ogg file format. Then you can set the frame range (In-point and Out-Point), click the file menu, and select Load Files to add your ogg files in the media area of your Resources Window. Then you can repeat the same steps as adding a special effect (like a title), except you are adding audio instead...''' == Arming Tracks / Truncation Adjusting Volume Levels / Truncating Tracks == Before rendering the project down into a video file, you may need to perform finishing touches such as '''adjusting sound levels''' for various audio tracks, or '''removing various overlapping audio tracks''' so the audio will end with the end of the video... Before you perform these finishing touches, you need to understand about '''"Arming Tracks"'''. The term ''"Arming Tracks"'' goes back to the age when recording studios recorded music Multi-Track (magnetic) tape machines. If you wanted to record on a particular track, you need to press a button to make that track available for recording. If you weren't careful, you may have more than one track, or the wrong track armed, which would damaged the correct track's recording (thus you would have to record that track over). As it relates to Cinecutie, '''all tracks are armed by default''', so if you are performing an operation for only one particular track (like adjusting audio levels, or truncation), '''you need to make certain that all the other tracks not to be affected are "unarmed"'''.<table align="right"> <tr> <td>[[Image:cinecutie10b.png|thumb|450px|right ]]</td> <td>[[Image:cinecutie10c.png|thumb|150px|right ]]</td> <td>[[Image:cinecutie10d.png|thumb|150px|right ]]</td> </tr></table>
By arming a track, and unarming other tracks, then you can mark your frames in order to adjust volume audio levels, or truncate (cut) pieces off your video...
= Rendering Stop Motion Video to Ogg Theora Vorbis File =
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With your video completed and saved, the time has come to create a permanent video file to play or post up to YouTube...
This process is referred to as '''"Rendering"'''.
There are many versions you can save your completed video ('''MPEG''', '''AVI''', '''OGG''', etc). There is no concern which format to use, since you can always convert (transcode) your video file into another format using the mencoder utiltiy: [ Internal Link not yet available ]
= Posting Stop Motion Video on YouTube =
== Creating a YouTube Account / Upload Videos ==
In order to post up YouTube videos, you must have a YouTube account... '''Here is a link to a YouTube video to create an account:''' [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogXGI-X48I4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Upload Stop Motion Video ogXGI-X48I4] ] '''Here is a link to upload a video to your YouTube Account account:''' [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-gQAwS2uc [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-gQAwS2uc] ] '''Here is a link to my completed YouTube video to show the final product:''' [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8if6uyB9cqk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8if6uyB9cqk] ] ]
== View comments / statistics Regarding your YouTube Video ==
== Title Scrolls ==
To be completedat a later time...
== Laser fire ==
To be completedat a later time...
== Explosions ==
To be completed at a later time...
