Tips on making Lego videos

[Lego Fanaat]

Did not find a specific part in the forum sub-parts, so I will post this here:

Recently I decided that I want to dig up my old Lego sets and make stop motion videos of building the sets and of the sets in action.
As a special twist to these videos I decided that it might be interesting to film it from different angles simultaneously.
I made a test vid with a set I had laying around (TMNT Kraang lab Escape):

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Any ideas, tips or other kind of comments are very welcome, before I start working on my old castle and robin hood themed sets (since these are significantly larger)

[Neo]

The dual view of the Lego build is nice -
it would be nice to know what kind of video tool was used.

[Lego Fanaat]

I used Adobe's Premiere Pro for editing the movie, but I am sure other options also might be able to easily handle two Images simultaneously.
Also realized my lighting is far from optimal in this vid, so hopefully I can make some better vids soon.
Any thoughts/tips on the used frame speed?

[gopalkrishnan]

I think there are tonnes of free tools that do the job fairly well. I found some free web services and tools for video editing.

They are:
VideoEgg
Photobucket
YouTube Remixer

[brickcollectors]

Any thoughts/tips on the used frame speed?

My husband just wrote an article (for a magazine I publish) & made a video tutorial about frame rates in LEGO stop motion animation. I'm no expert (he is!), but I think you could up your frame rate just a bit to get a more fluid look. It is really time-consuming to do a higher frame rate, though. It really depends on how much time you want to spend!

If you're interested, you can check out his tutorial to find out what software he uses and how he does it. This link will take you to the page where you can download the magazine with his article, and there's a link to the tutorial on the same page.

I hope you decide to try making more videos!
Joelle