Question about Stop motion animation

[Nikki_Thompson8584]

Hi!  My son and I created a stop motion animation video with Adobe BUT cannot get it to send to his teachers email!  It sends but pops up as just one of the pics.  How do you send the video so he can play it for class?

[Stephen Marsh]

What is the format?

GIF? MP4? ???

What is the file size?

Due to file size limitations, large file attachments may not make through email and you may need to use a file sharing service where you send a download link to the recipient.

Where are you previewing or viewing the emailed video? Does viewing the video in a different program show the animation?

[Nikki_Thompson8584]

It is in Adobe Lightroom- I tried to share via email but it doesn't play?  What other programs could I use to send the video?

[Trevor.Dennis]

You need to save or export to a local drive so you can see it's size and format.

You might be better asking in the Lightroom forum if that's the app you are using.

[Conrad_C]

A lot depends on how the current video file is saved, such as its format and bit rate. That will determine whether it’s in a form that anyone like the teacher can play, and how big the file is.

For example, if the stop motion video was exported at a high bit rate for high quality, the file might be hundreds of megabytes in size. But a problem you might run into is that email was never designed for such massive files. Email was designed for text, with a message needing well under 100 kilobytes (KB or K). Sure, you can attach files, but most email servers expect attachments of a few hundred KB up to several megabytes (MB) if you’re lucky.

If the video is many tens of hundreds of MB, or exceeds 1 GB, which is not unusual for high resolution video, it will greatly exceed the attachment limit of many email servers. Some email servers would reject a message containing such a large attachment. A school with a limited IT budget might have a very low attachment file size limit.

How do you resolve this? Do what video pros do: Never attempt to email a video file. Instead, upload it to cloud storage, generate a link for where it ended up, and put that link in the email message. The teacher clicks the link, it goes to the web, and plays back the video. For example, the student can upload it to YouTube (optionally as an unpublished link for privacy), then send the teacher an email containing the link to the YouTube video which can easily play back on whatever device the teacher has.

If the teacher requires the full quality original file, upload it to a folder on cloud storage such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Apple iCloud Drive, etc. and send the teacher a download link for that file.

Video pros now use cloud services such as frame.io (now part of Adobe) to store, review, comment on, and collaborate on videos. It’s much easier to do it that way than try to shoehorn these workflows through email.