Create a Movie Using Photos as Video Frames on the iPad

For video production on any platform, the most basic task is to transform a series of images into a video. That's what is happening with a hand drawn, flip book, and the latest digital video. By modifying the individual images of a video you can achieve very interesting effects. Think Ray Harryhausen, Wallace & Gromit, or a time lapse movie. On iOS there are quite a few apps that offer specialized tools to create stop motion and time lapse movies, but until recently there hasn't been a good way to convert images from your camera roll into a movie. Why would you want to? Well many photography apps may not support video output. Also images from an external, high quality camera can be imported into the iPad. Finally there are a wide array of image editing apps in iOS, making adding special effects, frame-by-frame (rotoscoping) more than possible. Let's try a little project...

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Convert 3D Blu-ray Movies for Viewing on the iPhone with Habro my3D

The Hasbro my3D is a iPhone/iPod Touch accessory that turns the device into a 3D content viewer. When it was released it come with about 7 apps (6 games) for free (many of them now cost something). The apps were fun. You can find some videos on YouTube, but after awhile you soon want more content. You can create your own (see this article about creating your own 3D photos). But what about 3D movies and TV? The my3D's introduction app had several movie trailers and a commercial for a 3D cable channel. Where's that content? Is there a special app for that? No, there isn't. How about converting 3D content meant for other venues or creating your own like 3D photos (but with video). This you can do, and here is how you can do it with content from a Blu-ray 3D disc.

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