STOP MOTION - How to create new project as 10FPS?

This is my first time here on this forum.
I'm creating a lot of stop motion videos now at home.
The thing is that whenever I go to my project properties, I can custom choose project resolution, but in FPS drop down, I am stuck with available options. from 23.98 to 60FPS.
I want to choose 10 or 15 FPS for my stop motion projects.
Please help.

First, I'm curious as to what delivery method uses 10-15 fps. I don't know what you'd play that back on.

But unfortunately, FCPX only uses standard video frame rates.

Stop Motion is done at 24fps.
If you want to change how it looks it's up to you to animate it accordingly.

Stopmotion is done at whatever frame rate you wanna do it at. I've done it as slow and 7.5 frames per second and as fast as 60. That said, your timeline doesn't need to match your stop motion frame rate. Just create a normal 24 or 30 or 60fps timeline. I don't know how you're photographing your animation, but assemble all of the frames using the fabulous Qucktime 7 Pro (I'm not sure if regular Quicktime Player can do this). Or you can assemble them in After Effects and export a 24, 30, or 60fps video file at the same resolution of your original pictures. It will seem to move WAY too fast, but no need to worry about that, it's fine. Import that into FCP. Then retime that imported video file on the timeline until it runs at your desired frame rate. So if your timeline is 30fps, youd slow it by 33% ot get 10 frames per second.

What I mean is that Stop Motion is made at 24 FPS. It's how you animate that gives it the look you want.
You do not animate at 7 FPS. You use the 24 FPS base and you move according to the feel you want to give.
And you don't animate at 30 FPS either.

My two cents...as a professional animator.

Why can't you animate at 30fps? What if it is for television broadcast, not a movie theater?

Albo is right.
Standard Cartoon (animation stand) and Stop Motion is done at 24 (12 by 2) the classical way.
That what I've been told by my teacher when I was younger and he was quite famous from cinema and TV

You can animate anyway you want. The animation is related to how much movement you make between shots. If you hold a frame for 12 images it will last 1/2 second on screen.
Blinking your eyes is 1 or two frames depending on how fast you want it.
If you want a slow motion blinking for 1 second it will take 24 frames.
If you put a 24 FPS animation in a 30 FPS timeline it will go faster.

A lot of animation is done on two's. Meaning that every frame is doubled.
1 image = two frames It is more economival (It takes less time to make).
A lot of Wallace and Gromit films are done on two's but only when needed.

You can animate at any frame rate you want. If your timeline is 30fps and you're doing it on 2s, your stop motion is 15 frame per second. If it varies then, well, it's variable. I gone from on 1s to on 2s to even on 3s depending. But yes you CAN animate at 30fps. I've done it. I've also done 60fps on ones. That's a 60fps stop motion animation. There is no rule that you MUST do it at 24fps. I would use a 30fs timeline or even 60fps as it offers far more flexibility than 24fps. The only reason I'd use 24 is if I were going to a DCP or film.

The point is, though, that your timeline need not match the frame rate of your animation. That's the important takeway here.

There was a time animation was done at 24fps because that was the frame rate of the celluloid film it was being photographed to. We work with digital media, we have more flexibility.

FCPX.guru wrote: There was a time animation was done at 24fps because that was the frame rate of the celluloid film it was being photographed to. We work with digital media, we have more flexibility.

Celluloid film has no frame rate
A a good old ARRI easily could record at a higher frame rate (up to 100) and the 'trick desk' cameras can't do more than 1 fps.
The classical 12 on 2 still seems to have the 'best look'

I won't go into the ins and out of animation.
If you animate at 30 FPS. 15 frames is 1/2 second.
The point in animation is how you move your character to achieve what you want.
As a rule, even in the digital world we animate at 24 FPS. It doesn't proclude from animating at whatever you want.
At 60 FPS you will need 30 frames to animate 1/2 second. If you are animating a puppet it doesn't make sense.
So animate at whatever FPS you want. Animation is about rythme and how much you move between each frame.
I am not taking about Motion which is a Motion graphics software. I'm simply saying animation is usually done by moving an object or a drawing at 24 FPS.

"Celluloid film has no frame rate"
When played back it does, 24fps standard, all theaters do 24fps playback of film.

"As a rule, even in the digital world, we animate at 24 FPS."
Why? What is the purpose of this "rule"?

FCPX.guru wrote: "Celluloid film has no frame rate"
When played back it does, 24fps standard, all theaters do 24fps playback of film.

The YouTube link I supplied was TV and made for TV - but captured on Celluloid.
Theatre use only was a 'gimmick'

FCPX.guru wrote: "As a rule, even in the digital world, we animate at 24 FPS."
Why? What is the purpose of this "rule"?

It's the 'Look'. When animating with 'real things' like drawings, stop motion (like with clay Aardman does) it doesn't look that 'artificial'

Also the 24 FPS comes from the movie frame rate that was 16 FPS then standarized at 24 FPS. Which is still in usage today.

Interesting discussion here and mostly by the fact that all of you are about right mostly ALBO …
Many of us can remember using an OXBERRY animation stand which was THE standard then for animation as much as the ARRI BL or the ECLAIR NPR were the standard gear for synch sound (24 fps or 25fps) in low budget productions.

The OXBERRY could run at a maximum of 180 frames per minute (3 fps) in continuous mode. Is this a multiple of 30 fps or 24fps? We all know it was for 24 fps as television NTSC was interlaced and useless for any animation…You could not even go out without a huge truck.

ALBO wrote
So animate at whatever FPS you want. Animation is about rythme and how much you move between each frame.

Great conclusion do your calculations and chose timeline standard for delivery
and in doute go 24 it’s cool, economical and has nice “look”

The subject says: STOP MOTION
Stop motion of the real world or on location is another story as what you are filming has a duration that you want to accelerate to another duration to show a phenomenon , but again you need smoothness, so do your calculations and check your delivery requirements for final choice of FPS base.

Is that 2 cents ?

Many of us can remember using an OXBERRY animation stand

Nice.
I edited my first film on a Steenbeck. 16mm.
I was lucky because I had access to this. No Final cut at that time.

The video below is not stop motion animation. It cell animation or line drawing animation. My guess is cell. It was probably done using an Oxberry Animation Stand and then edited on a Steenbeck.

Cell animation and stop motion animation are both cool but the speed and smoothness of the animation is up to you. Stop motion animation is used when animating objects. Cell animation is used when you make use of drawing techniques onto cells.

At 24 FPS in order to spell your name with pennies sliding into frame using stop motion you would move the the pennies one centimeter and expose four frames each time you move the pennies. That works but it looks like stop motion animation.

If you want to go totally hardcore you can move the pennies just 2 millimeter and expose only one frame each time you move the pennies. This will look much smother during playback but will also require a lot more time and effort.

24 FPS, 30 FPS even 60 FPS can all work. It is all about timing and the distance the objects are moved.

The goal when making King Kong (black and white version) Star Wars or Sinbad The Sailor is to not have it look like stop motion animation but instead look like live action. That being said Lego Animations are a different story.

At my college we had an Oxberry and Steenbeck.

Another way to look at it is you can do 3-D animation at 60 FPS and the animation will look silky smooth. If you drop down to 30 FPS it will look less smooth than 60 FPS. If you drop it down to 5 FPS it starts to look like stop motion animation. That is because you have eliminated a lot of the key-frames in between the starting point and stopping point. That is also why gamers want the high frame rates.

Final Cut operates at film and video playback rates. It does not support image sequences the way animation oriented programs like After Effects or Motion do. In After Effects, you can “interpret “ an image sequence in any frame rate you want. The standard interpretation is a default video frame rate of 24 or 30 or 25. But you can do 3,10, or any frame rate you want. I sometimes use this feature when I’ve got a few frames that I’m looping at variety of speeds. But generally speaking, when shooting normal stop motion, you work to a standard projection/playback frame rate (24fps eg) and you shoot in 2s, 3s etc by creating hold frames or specifying in Dragonframe or other capture software how many frames to capture in a burst. This way each time you hit the shutter, you don’t have to hit it twice or three times. You should always shoot the 2s or 3s in camera rather than messing with it in post. That’s because playback on set is a pain if you are planning tho ad d the extra frames in post. No one does it that way professionally. I have been doing SM for 35 years on the highest levels and you always capture all the frames on set. BTW even though US video playback is 30fps, almost nobody shoots at anything other than 24. Why? Because 30fps is 25% more frames to shoot and animation is hard enough work without making extra frames.