Stop Motion Maker
Shoot frame by frame with the camera you hold, or use your photos, then save an MP4. No app, no account, no watermark.
Start the camera to shoot frame by frame, or add photos you already have.
The camera picture shows here. Video only: the microphone is never asked for.
Frames 0
No frames yet. Each Snap or photo adds one here.
Frames are kept in this browser on this device, so a reload loses nothing. Undo covers the last 50 actions of this visit.
Preview
Your frames play here, looping at the chosen speed, exactly as the video will.
Frames a second
No frames yet
This browser has no WebCodecs VideoEncoder, so the video is saved as WebM instead of MP4. The WebM is recorded in real time, so a 10-second video takes 10 seconds; keep this tab in front while it records.
No watermark and no sound track. Longest side at most 1280 px; at most 600 frames.
Privacy: the camera picture and your frames never leave this device. The camera is asked for video only, never the microphone. Each frame is kept as a JPEG in this browser's IndexedDB storage on this device, so a reload keeps it; Clear all frames deletes every one of them in one tap. The video is made by your own browser. The only things the page sends are an anonymous page-view count and two fixed event names, stopmotion-open (a first frame was added) and stopmotion-save (a first video was saved), never a picture, a file name or a size.
How to make a stop motion video
- Fix the camera. Lean the phone on a stack of books or put it in a stand so it cannot move between shots; a camera that shifts makes the whole picture jump. Steady light helps too: a lamp is better than a window with passing clouds.
- Start the camera and allow it when the browser asks. Only the picture is used; the microphone is never asked for. On a phone, Switch camera changes between the front and back camera.
- Snap, move, snap. Move your model, toy or clay a little each time. The onion skin lays the frame before over the live camera at 30 % (0 to 60 %), so you can see how far you moved. Small moves look smooth; big ones look fast and jumpy.
- Hands busy? Set the Timer to 1 to 10 seconds and press Start timer: it snaps every so many seconds, with a countdown, until you press Stop timer.
- Mix in photos. Add photos takes many pictures at once and puts them in file-name order (IMG_2 before IMG_10), after the selected frame, so you can shoot with another camera app and finish here.
- Fix the strip. Tap a frame to select it, then Move it left or right, Duplicate it (to hold a moment longer) or Delete it. Undo takes back the last 50 actions. New snaps go right after the selected frame.
- Pick the speed and save. Choose 5 to 15 frames a second and an optional hold on the last frame (0 to 3 s), watch the looping preview, then Save MP4.
How long will it be?
Each frame is on screen for 1 ÷ speed seconds, so length = frames ÷ frames a second + hold. The page shows the sum under the speed as you go.
| Frames | Frames a second | Hold | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 8 | 0 s | 3 s |
| 40 | 8 | 1 s | 6 s |
| 60 | 12 | 0 s | 5 s |
| 150 | 10 | 2 s | 17 s |
The hold repeats the last frame in the video, so a 1-second hold at 8 frames a second adds 8 identical video frames. Duplicate does the same for any single frame: three copies of a frame at 8 a second hold it for 0.375 s.
What it cannot do
- No sound. The video has no sound track, and there is no music or voice-over.
- No second phone as a remote. Using another phone as the camera or the shutter would need a server between the two; use the Timer instead.
- No drawing on frames, no text, stickers or filters. Frames go into the video as shot.
- The camera needs permission. If the browser refuses or has no camera, Add photos still works.
- At most 600 frames, longest side 1280 px. Measured on our test machine: a detailed 1280 × 720 frame is kept as about 200 KB (the JPEG and its thumbnail), so 600 frames take about 120 MB of this browser's storage, and headless Chrome on a 4-core server made the MP4 of 600 frames in 5.4 s. 600 frames are 75 s of video at 8 a second, or 40 s at 15. A phone is slower, and a phone short of space may refuse to store more frames; the page then says so.
- One shape per video. The video takes the first frame's shape; a frame of another shape is fitted inside it with black bars.
- MP4 needs WebCodecs H.264. Where the browser cannot encode H.264, it saves a WebM (recorded in real time) instead and says why. Chrome, Edge or Samsung Internet (version 94 or later), Safari 16.4 or later on a Mac, iPhone or iPad, or Firefox 130 or later on a computer make the MP4.
- Kept on this device and browser only. The frames do not follow you to another phone or browser, and clearing the browser's site data deletes them.
Questions
How do I make a stop motion video?
Put the phone or laptop where it cannot move, tap Start camera and Snap one frame. Move your model a tiny step, line it up against the faint onion skin of the last frame, and snap again. 8 frames make one second at this page's default speed, so a 5-second clip is 40 snaps. Check the looping preview, fix any frame in the strip, then Save MP4.
What frame rate should a stop motion be?
Film runs at 24 frames a second, and drawn animation is often shot “on twos”: each picture held for two film frames, so 12 different pictures a second. Cheap TV cartoons used threes or fours, 8 or 6 pictures a second (Wikipedia, Frame rate). This page offers 5, 8, 10, 12 and 15 and starts at 8: fewer snaps for each second, but the movement looks jerkier. At 12 the same 5 seconds take 60 snaps instead of 40.
Is anything uploaded, and are my frames kept?
Nothing is uploaded. Each frame is stored as a JPEG in this browser's IndexedDB on your device, so a reload or a closed tab loses nothing, and Clear all frames deletes them in one tap. The video is made by your own browser.