[senit] ican animate questions

In ican animate can you get the isight built-in camera to record

Hi Alison,

On 26 May 2007, at 20:39, Alison Barton wrote:

> In ican animate can you get the isight built-in camera to record  
> short clips
> rather than 1 frame at a time ? I have a student who wants to make  
> a weather
> forecast and I see that Ican animate has chromakey.
Your best bet here would be to go back to Kudlian, who make | Can  
Animate, and get their excellent Weather & Geography plug-in for iMovie:
http://www.kudlian.net/products/weather/
It only costs about £30 for a single user licence.

The chromakey tool within I Can Animate relies on the moving footage  
being the background, with the animated work being in the foreground:
http://www.kudlian.net/products/icananimate/examples/

>
> Is it possible to download / import video clips (e.g avi) into ican  
> animate
> (e.g someone doing a weather forecast recorded on an external video  
> camera)
> then use the chromakey function in ican animate to delete the bg in
> preparation for e.g weather map bg.
>
>
> We have a video camera that can download to the mac via a usb cable  
> but I
> wanted to hook it up to make animations directly in ican animate or  
> imovie
> on a copystand so it would be good to be able to record each frame  
> directly
> into ican animate by using the external video camera rather than the
> in-built one. When you go into the settings only the isight camera  
> is listed
> though (when the other camera is connected to the usb post). Would  
> using a
> dv cable make this work ?
I'm pretty sure you need a firewire connection, and then I Can  
Animate should automatically override the iSight, and if it doesn't  
you should be able to select it.
>
> Thanks in advance, Alison B

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