Stop Motion Animation

To Whom It Might Concern, 
	 I am 14 years old and have been working with
puppets and puppetry since I was 7 years old. Recently, I was introduced to
the art of Stop Motion Animation. Since then I have made several short
films using the equipment at the Governors Institute on the Arts in
Castleton, Vermont (Where I was introduced to Stop Motion Animation) and my
VHS camera. However, if you are familiar with the proccess of stop motion
animation, you'll know that pushing the record button on and off as fast as
you can doesn't work as well as everyone thinks it does.
	I am looking for a computer program, or other piece of video equipment,
which will be able to capture a
user-selectable ammount of frames (Usually 1, 2 or 3) and then combine
these short intervals into a finished piece. Do you know of anyone who
sells any
software/video capture boards, video equipment, editors, cameras, etc. that
would be capable of this task? What would you reccommend for this use?
*(If you are responding with computer products)->Truthfully, I do not know
a whole lot about computers but am willing to
learn as much as I need to in order to get effective stop motion animation
results. I have an IBM compatible computer, running Windows 95.

				Thank You,

							tr...@together.net

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