Quicktime would be a pain, perhaps you mean iMovie?
iPhoto has slide shows built in.
– import all your images into iPhoto; I usually just drag them there
– select “Library” on the left
– make a new album and drag all your photos into i
– select your new album. you should now see a “Slideshow” button on the right.
– click “Slideshow.” That’s it!
– under the “File” menu you can export this as a movie.
But what if you are talking about stop-motion animation? I recommend using iStopMotion. It is literally designed to do stop-motion animation.
Well worth the $50!
However, although iMovie is also geared towards slide shows, it can be coaxed into making an animation down to 8 frames a second or 12 frames a second if you are meticulous enough.
– Open a new project
– click the “Media” tab, and under that the “Photos” tab.
– it helps if your images are already in iPhoto
– alternately, you can drag individual frames from a folder into the timeline
– a widget will appear that lets you set how long each image displays;
I think the fastest is 3 frames, which gets you 8 images a second, if you are animating
– make sure you uncheck the effect that zooms into each image!
– You can then edit every photo down to 2 frames… still not ideal. Oh well.