PC users can create animations with Stop Motion Pro
Introduction
The Mac OS X Creative Suite is an essential software package for anyone wishing to develop creativity in the classroom. Containing award winning software titles that allow you create stop frame animation, TV type weather forecasts, add animated graphs to presentations, use special visual effects such as chroma key, and podcasting all in one fantastic suite.
What's does it contain?
The Creative Suite contains the following fantastic educational applications:
- Award Winning - I Can Animate
I Can Animate is a fantastic, easy to use stop frame animation program that allows you to create Wallace and Gromit like animations quickly and easily. It has some really powerful features and yet can be used by young and older children alike, as well as adults.
Learn more about I Can Animate
I Can Animate was the winner of the prestigious ERA award for best primary software, shortlisted for a BETT award and nominated for a Macworld award.
See examples of Animations made with I Can Animate
- Charting and Graphing for iLife™
Charting and Graphing for iLife brings digital video presentations to life. With this unique resource for schools, animated graphs can now become part of your video presentation.
Set the graph up to animate in time with your presenter. Choose to display different types of graphs. Engaging, Charting and Graphing offers a new way in which children are able to present their work. Ideal for science and maths presentations.
Enlarge: A Chart Overlayed in iMovie
Weather Forecasting and Geography for iLife™
- Choose to present as an outside broadcast
- Present in front of green screen so the weather map sits behind the presenter (chromakey).
- Weather maps for UK, Europe, US, New Zealand are available.
- Weather symbols are animated.
- Wind speeds and place names can be edited.
- Maps for night and day.
- Synchronise map display with the presenter.
- Add your own maps and graphics.
With Weather Forecasting & Geography you can create weather forecasts just like on TV.
Really bring weather to life with this exciting resource.
Enlarge: A Weather Forecast in iMovie
Essential Tools for iLife
- Ever wanted to fly or walk on the moon?
- Do you want to present your history project from the tomb of the Pharaohs, or the Acropolis?
- How about going on a rain forest safari?
- Report from the beaches of Dunkirk on D-Day?
Well now it is all possible with Essential Tools. Film in front of a chroma key screen and then add in pictures and movies to the background to create an amazing special effect. If you didn't know better you would think you were right there.
You can also add video frames to your presentation or sign language to your documentary with the special 'Picture within Picture ' feature.
Enlarge: An Essential Tools screenshot in iMovie
Podcaster
Podcaster is an ideal tool for anyone wanting to create and manage podcasts on both Mac and Windows.
If you want to publish your podcasts to anything other than a .mac account, then Podcaster is the only tool you really need.
With Podcaster you can publish and manage your podcast feed and episodes easily and quickly on an ftp site or local computer.
Podcaster will also manage your .mac account podcasts.
Enlarge: Podcaster