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subjects: Art and Design, Citizenship, Design & Technology, English, Geography, History, ICT, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Religious Education, Science
national curriculum: KS2 to KS4
scottish curriculum: B to E
age range: 7 to Adult
sectors: Early & Primary, HE/FE, Home Learning, Secondary, SEN
publisher: Tech4Learning Inc

New version 4 now available - Create compelling stop-frame animations.

Description

Frames (previously known as VideoBlender) is the premier tool for turning images into animated movies.

Pupils can create movies using pictures that they have taken for clay animation, stop-motion animation, and much more.



Also available Mission Impossiball resource pack designed by Staffordshire Local Authority for use with Frames. See link at bottom of this page for more information.

Features
  • Edit and add multiple objects within each 'frame' including, text, still images and shapes.
  • Import images (photos or drawings) directly from a file to quickly create stop-frame animations.
  • Include up to two sound tracks within the animation (narration and music).
  • Supports a wide variety of file formats:
    Image: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PICT, PNG, TIFF
    Sound: AIFF, AU, MIDI, MP3, SND, WAV
    Video: AVI, MOV, MPEG 1 and 2 (Video Only), MPEG 4
  • Output to QuickTime format - easy to share.
  • Export movies for podcasts, presentations, and more: Choose how you want to share your animated movies. Export a movie for a Podcast, or a Full Quality video to share in iDVD.
  • Create animated GIFs. Create animations to use on your web site, in presentations, and in multimedia projects. Combine images from ImageBlender or Twist to make great animated images.
  • New in Frames 4 - Illustrate your own animation - Use the drawing tools in Frames to create your own llustrations. Group, layer, and transform shapes to make your animation uniquely yours.
  • New in Frames 4 - New Digital Storytelling Features - For all of the budding digital storytellers out there, Frames 4 includes enhanced pan and zoom options, as well as text and object animations. And do not forget Frames has always included 2 audio tracks.
  • New in Frames 4 - Export to Adobe Flash® If you are sharing your files online, you can now export them to Adobe Flash® format. The export is fast, the files are small, and the stories can be read by most Internet browsers.
  • New in Frames 4 - Import images from a connected digital camera - Connect your digital camera and it appears inside the Frames Library panel. Simply drag the frames you want to add into your animation or import the entire folder at once.
  • New in Frames 4 - Now on Linux, too Frames is now available for popular Linux distributions as well. As schools look for affordable solutions to maintaining or increasing their technology infrastructure, Linux is a great solution. As some schools move to Linux, Frames will move right along with you.
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