The iPod Photo Flip Book

For those who are unfamiliar with the term, a flip book is a do-it-yourself animation technique in which you draw a figure on the first page of a book, slightly change the figure on the next page, and on and on until you have multiple varied copies of the figure. Then, if you flip rapidly from one page to the next (using a motion like shuffling a deck of playing cards), the figure will appear to move.

But what if you segmented a movie into still frames, loaded those frames onto an iPod Photo as a photo album, and then scrolled through them at the proper speed?

Who says the iPod Photo can't do video (albeit really cheesy video)? Here's the technique:

So now you have the individual frames from your video on your iPod Photo. Unfortunately, the fastest "playback speed" provided by the iPod's standard slideshow options is 2 seconds per image, which is far too slow to get smooth video. Instead, select your album and then select the first image in the album (the first frame of your video) to display it in full-screen mode. Now use the iPod's click wheel to "play" the movie (by scrolling clockwise) at whatever speed you like. You've just created the first electronic photo flipbook!

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