Attach your digital camera to a tripod by threading the screw on the mounting base into the bottom of the camera body. Adjust the height of the tripod so the viewfinder shows the center of your flip chart. Set the focus mode on your camera to "manual." Zoom in on the chart, focus the lens and zoom out until the flip chart just barely fills the entire frame.
Brainstorm ideas for your first flip chart movie and settle on a central character or message you'd like to explore. If you've decided to make a purely typographical project, decide what text you want to use. Draw a series of timed, improvisational sketches to flesh out your ideas. Force yourself to continue drawing and without stopping to correct mistakes. Delay judgment to allow yourself to experiment and see what's possible with this medium. When you have some ideas, draw a quick thumbnail storyboard for your project and keep it nearby to refer to as you shoot.
Turn to the last page of the chart and flip the other pages over the back of the easel. Begin drawing and pause between strokes to shoot stills as you go. This creates the time-lapse effect seen in the "RSA Animate!" films. When you have completed the drawing on your first page, flip to the next page. If your project is character-based, redraw your character while referring to the original image on the last page of the flip chart. In the case of a typographical project, each page should begin a new phrase. Continue drawing and shooting, using as many pages as you need to work through your storyboard.
Connect your digital camera to your computer and import the stills from your shoot. Launch Quicktime Pro and select "Open Image Sequence" from the File menu. Browse to the directory where you imported your stills. Select all of them and click "Open." In the dialog box that appears, set the frame rate to "24 frames per second" and click "OK." Quicktime Pro now plays back your sequence of images as continuous video. Choose "Export" from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, set the "Export" value to "Movie to Quicktime Movie" and click "Save."