QuickTime

 A technician showed me that you can also create simple image sequences using QuickTime. All you do is go into File then click on 'Open Image Sequence'. If you put all your images into a folder you can then choose the folder and it opens all of them. Its the simplest method I've found as there is no way of editing the clips once there on there, you can only choose the frame rate at the beginning. Also you cant rearrange your images so you have to photograph them all in the right order. To give you more control over your animation you can then open up the image sequence in Photoshop. It displays the sequence as one single image with as many layers as photos in the sequence. By clicking on Window then Animation, it then brings up a timeline where you can then begin editing your video. There is still no where near the amount of control you get when using Final Cut as you would expect so I didn't really see the point in trying this method out myself, though I did create a simple sequence using QuickTime just because I was quite surprised that you could even do that.

Untitled from holly raper on Vimeo.

(excuse the picture of the hamster at the end - i didn't realise that was in the folder when i imported in into QuickTime!)