Hey loves! ❤️
I just released my 49th song in #onesongamonth — and this time I created a stop motion music video in Final Cut Pro! It was such a fun (and crazy!) process, and I wanted to share how I made it:
At first, I collected a bunch of stock videos — some for inspiration, and some I actually used as backgrounds. I started playing around with still photos to try and create a stop motion effect. Some of it worked!
But… when I tried to do a test for the lipsync, I quickly realized: this was going to take forever! One idea was to cut out frames from a video to mimic stop motion — but syncing the lips to the music just didn’t work.
Then came the magic trick:
I tried speeding up my video — and it actually gave me the exact effect I wanted! Still, the lipsync was off (of course), so I created a backtrack at half tempo, and recorded the lipsync in slow motion.
Fun fact: I didn’t even know the lyrics properly yet, so it helped to do it sloooow!
I filmed it all in front of a green screen, imported it into Final Cut, and then just doubled the speed. Suddenly — everything worked!
The result was exactly the vibe I was going for. I added different colors, backgrounds, and even tracked some objects in Final Cut to follow my movements. A lot of the effects and stop motion moments are actually built from still images!
It took time, but it was SO worth it. Maybe I’ll try this method again sometime.
Hope you love this video and this song as much as I loved making it!
Love and light,
/M