The premier tool for turning images into animations!
With Frames students can create animated stories from pictures of clay characters that they make, pictures they have painted, or pictures they have taken with a digital camera.
Tell stories with pictures!
Frames is the premier tool for turning images into animated movies. Students can create movies using pictures that they have taken for clay animation, stop-motion animation, and much more.
The process of creating animation engages students in the curriculum and encourages problem-solving. Authoring provides a means to collaborate and communicate ideas.
Designed for education, Frames combines an intuitive interface with powerful authoring tools. With Frames, students can add text, shapes, and transitions to images, and add sound tracks to their animations.
Students can also search and choose from thousands of images in the Pics4Learning collection to use in their animated movies.
With Frames, you can use the same program on Macs and PCs. This makes Frames perfect for multi-platform environments, allowing you to train users once, and then focus on creating curriculum projects.
Students can create animations that demonstrate curriculum concepts, share language arts projects, explore art techniques, and much more. Frames lets students create animations frame-by-frame, including imported videos.
Movies can be saved as QuickTime, AVI, and Animated GIF for use online, in multimedia presentations, or for inclusion in other video productions.
FEATURES
Frames's straight-forward interface lets you combine pictures, text, shapes, and sounds from a wide-variety of sources to create amazing animations.
Control Objects on Each Frame: Extensive control of objects in a frame, including the ability to adjust background color, add shapes, precisely locate text, rotate objects, and much more.
Text Effects: Create dazzling titles, credits, and animations using fades, spotlights, spins, and much more.
Pics4Learning: Browse and search for images directly from the Pics4Learning online image collection.
Transitions: Choose from a wide range of transitions including cubes, fades, flips, and more. Run transitions between frames, or as the animation frames continue playing.
Cross-platform Compatible: Develop animations on both Mac (OS X) and Windows. Animation files are compatible across platforms.
Stop-motion Animation: Capture individual frames from a digital video camera.
Add a Variety of Media: Supports a wide variety of file formats:
- Image: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PSD, PICT, PNG, TIFF
- Sound: AIFF, AU, MP3, Wav
- Video: AVI, DV, MOV, MPEG (1 and 2, Video Only)
Batch Import: Add entire folders of images to an animation at one time.
Drag and Drop: Drag and drop images, sounds, and videos into your animations.
Digital movie production engages learners in the curriculum, giving students a way to collaborate, communicate, and express their ideas. Frames puts your students in the Director's chair with the tools to take creative control of their research and presentation projects.
System Requirements
Macintosh:
- OS X 10.2 or later Recommended: 10.2.8, 10.3.8, and OS X 10.4.2
- 256 MB RAM
- 160 MB hard disk space*
- QuickTime 6 or higher
- 1024x768 monitor resolution or higher
Windows:
- Windows 2000, XP or later Recommended: XP SP2
- 256 MB RAM
- 160 MB hard disk space*
- QuickTime 6 or higher
- 1024x768 monitor resolution or higher
NOTE: *5 minutes of video captured from a digital video camera can require 1GB of hard drive space.
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