Flick Books

Turning your Flickbooks into a Video Loop

Using a video camera, tripod and Stop Motion pro capture each hand drawn image.
Start a new project in Final Cut Pro; make sure the settings are ‘DV Pal and Standard 48 Hz.’
You are now going to make a video loop of your clip. Select the original video clip, copy it, and paste it at the end of the original clip. So you have two copies of the same clip.
Select the pasted section and set it to play backwards. You do this by pressing ‘ctrl,’ and clicking on the clip. Then click on ‘speed duration,’ and click the ‘reverse clip,’ box.
Now you have a loop of one forward and one backward repetition.
To make a longer loop, copy both clips and paste them at the end of the first loop. Repeat this until the loop is as long as you want.