Ok,
So you've probably guessed alot of your Stop motion work will depend on one key ingredient. LIGHT
I think alot that have experimented with doing stop motion realise the pain stakin process of putting together 20 seconds of footage and how difficult it all is. You do need lots of patience.. and practice.
As already quoted here, you need to shoot in frames/stages before putting it all together, whether you do this manually or using that program I posted above is up to you.
Because you'll be hooked up to the cpu at the time of running, i found that being indoors meant my camera didnt give me much light, so i had to use other ways of bringing in the light. I look back at my own experiments and find that for today's time they even look poor, but for what they are they gave me alot of fun.