Animatics workshop

I went to the animatics workshop today. Animatics are basically an animated stroyboard to give clarity and more information than a standard drawn storyboard. I learnt how useful keyframes can be-we used them to control panning of the 'camera', movement and rotation. I found today really useful and am wondering if i could use Final Cut to edit a simple stop motion animation and make it more interesting by using some of the techniques I've learnt. I could even just use still drawings for parts of it and use key frames to move focus to different parts of the drawing and even move parts of it. Below are my notes from the lesson which I will refer back to if I decide to edit and animation using Final Cut.

I also learnt a useful technique in Photoshop to remove the background from an image so when put in Final Cut it won't cover up other layers of images. Once you've done this you can actually use Final Cut to animate this single image - using key frames. In Photoshop you select the image using the magic wand tool then inverse it. Then you create something called an alphachannel which is an extra layer and then save it. When you import it into Final Cut the background has been removed and you are left with a single image.