W8 - Flickbook options

In searching there's a terminology issue not just between Flip book and Flick Book as one or two words, but also between creating a photo version of a stop animation sequence - which is what I want - creating an on-line catalogue that one can flip the pages of (with the sound of paper being turned!) and custom designing my own hardcopy photo book where I flip over the pages!



Video
Format: Create a flip book from 16 seconds of camcorder video
URL: http://www.flipclips.com/
Cost: USD 18 printing + USD 17 postage for 1 book
Time: 10 days printing and 7 days for shipping (3 weeks).


The advantage of this is all I need to do is provide really good footage and all the formatting is down for me.



On-line Catalogue
Format: create an on-line magazine by uploading a pre-formatted PDF file
URL: http://www.pagegangster.com/examples/
Cost: looks like I could do it for free
Time: is delivered to my email account. The test I did I was still wating after 1 hour...so it's not instant.

I would have to custom design all the formatting and it doesn't give the stop animation effect, so it's better for presenting just a folio of images.



Flickbook - with work!
Format: download free software and insert and format images.
URL: http://www.blurb.com/my/dashboard
Cost: for a 120 page, soft-cover, 18x18 cm is AUD 27 + AUD 16 (priority post)
Time: 14 days for printing, 7 days for shipping

The main advantage over the Camcorder Flipclips is that I can use a much longer sequence. The disadvantage is that I'll have to learn the software and, in order to create a flip book, I'll have to arrange 60 images left to right on the RHS and then 60 images right to left on the LHS. Could be fiddly and costs the same as Flipclips!



Flickbook, manually
Format: Do it all manually. Print out the image sequence, cut out, arrange and bind.


Well, there's no software to learn, but no capability to format. But then there's no 3 weeks waiting and just the cost of a few sheets of colour laseer printing.

Method of collecting footage
Format: You Vision Video glasses from Photojojo which records up to 5 hours of video of whatever I look at. Very Maxwell Smart.
URL: http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/you-vision-video-glasses.
Cost: USD 149
Time: can't find out without creating an account?

This would take a lot of work to select images from in IMovie or Windows DVDMaker and then upload them to a third place to make the book. so this leads to another method...

On-line Flickbook via DVDMaker
Format: free software to download from Windows, select, import and sequence images and package to show on Windows Media Player
URL: http://download.live.com/moviemaker
Cost: 0
Time: whatever I put in.



Flickbook with potential
Format: one image a day. Set up to collect one face shot a day, for example form a built in webcam, but I suppose that one could potentially upload anything one wanted to record via one image a day.
URL: http://www.dailymugshot.com/products/flipbook
Cost: USD 9 + shipping
Time: ?


Again this is a service that does the formatting for you.




On-line flickbook
Format: on-line flickbook loop using a feed from a selected Flickr Photoset
URL: http://flickbookr.com/
Cost: 0
Time: instant



To use this all I'd have to do is upload my images to Flickr and put them in one photoset. On this website I then type in my username and the name of the photoset, the speed of transition and click the button! The disadvantage is that it doesn't have the physical sensation and satisfaction of the book, but there's no new software to learn or massive amounts of formatting, so I reckon this is a good compromise.