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Once you’ve made your selection it’s simply a case of dragging the file from the Media pane to the timeline at the bottom and shifting items around until you see fit.

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Going back to the search function, I’m actually rather impressed by the way PulpMotion manages to grab every song from your iTunes library, every photo from your iPhoto library, and every Movie you hold dear to your heart in virtually a matter of seconds it’s almost like it’s completely integrated with iLife. Using an iSight or DV camera currently connected to your computer, sit back, smile, and take a snapshot or live video of your beautiful self and insert it straight into your animation! The fourth section, Capture, is one I’ve not had the chance to play with but it seems pretty clever.

It’s also worth noting that you can only hold one song per animation, so choose wisely using the preview button at the bottom. If you’re after a particular set of photos or perhaps one song by Michael Jackson, simply use the search bar at the bottom of the pane to locate your desired item. I think it’s fair to say the first three are pretty self-explanatory, but each one allows you to select that particular type of media from within your iTunes and iPhoto libraries, as well as your Movies folder (in Video). The Media pane is broken into four sections, as seen in the image below-Audio, Photo, Video, and Capture. My favourite theme is “San Francisco,” which has your media flying high in air balloons over a clever drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge-the most recent photo or movie is flown by the front of the screen with older media gliding by in the background. Unfortunately there’s no clearer way to preview themes other than in the bar at the top (pictured) of PulpMotion, but selecting a theme and then hitting the “Play” button provides a real-time preview at a lower resolution than the final build, if you will, of your composition. Some are rather simple, while others show a little more complexity or imagination, but there’s definitely something to suit every mood or occasion. Themesīefore you start your animation it’s best to select a theme from one of the very many available. Create a new composition, select a theme for the animation, using the media window select a music track as the backing music for your animation, followed by the pictures you want to use, and then drag and drop all of those bad boys into the timeline at the bottom in the order you wish for them to appear and then preview your animation.

With that, the process is incredibly simple. PulpMotion is broken down into several windows, with your animation themes at the top, current compositions to the left, your media/options to the right, and the timeline of your animation at the bottom, with the very middle screen being used as a preview window. In short, you can create animations using your own pictures, videos, and music, wrap it up into one nice package, and show it off to friends and family in the easiest of fashions-a slightly more creative way to show off your recent holiday to Dubai.

PulpMotion, as described on the developer’s website, is a moving slideshow application for OS X, but the name really doesn’t do this any justice. However, Aquafades PulpMotion is the complete opposite of the spectrum here and the end product is absolutely incredible. I’ve come across a few kits in the past that have enabled me to create something or other, but most were too complex to really get in to, so I ended up ditching them.

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