Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 35)

29 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Workflows and system setup
Last updated 11/6/2011
To export a movie with the information to use the Edit Original command, in the Export Movie Settings dialog box,
choose Project from the Embedding Options menu. (See “
Export a movie file for further editing ” on page 447.)
Working with Photoshop and Premiere Pro
If you use Photoshop to create still images, you can use Premiere Pro to make them move and change. You can animate
an entire image or any of its layers.
You can edit individual frames of video and image sequence files in Photoshop. In addition to using any Photoshop
tool to edit and paint on video, you can also apply filters, masks, transformations, layers styles, and blending modes.
You can paint using the Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Healing Brush, or Spot Healing Brush. You can also edit video
frames using the Patch tool.
In Photoshop, with the Clone Stamp, you can sample a frame from a video layer and paint with the sampled source
onto another video frame. As you move to different target frames, the source frame changes relative to the frame from
which you initially sampled.
After making edits, you can save the video as a PSD file, or you can render it as a QuickTime movie or image sequence.
You can import any of these back into Premiere Pro for further editing.
If you use Premiere Pro to create movies, you can use Photoshop to refine the individual frames of those movies. You
can remove unwanted visual elements, draw on individual frames, or use the superior selection and masking tools in
Photoshop to divide a frame into elements for animation or compositing.
Comparative advantages for specific tasks
The strengths of Premiere Pro lie in its numerous video editing features. You can use it to combine Photoshop files
with video clips, audio clips and other assets, using the Photoshop files, for example, as titles, graphics, and masks.
In contrast, Photoshop has excellent tools for painting, drawing, and selecting portions of an image. Tracing a complex
shape to create a mask is much easier with the Photoshop Quick Selection tool or Magnetic Lasso tool than with the
masking tools in Premiere Pro. Rather than hand-drawing a mask on each frame in Premiere Pro, consider doing this
work in Photoshop. Similarly, if you are applying several paint strokes by hand to get rid of dust, consider using the
Photoshop paint tools.
The animation and video features in Photoshop Extended include simple keyframe-based animation. Premiere Pro,
however, provides quite a bit more keyframe control over various properties.
Exchanging still images
Premiere Pro can import and export still images in many formats, but you will usually want to use the native
Photoshop PSD format when transferring individual frames or still image sequences from Photoshop to Premiere Pro.
When importing a PSD file, Premiere Pro can preserve individual layers and masks. When you import a PSD file into
Premiere Pro, you can choose whether to import it as a flattened image, or with its layers separate and intact.
It is often a good idea to prepare a still image in Photoshop before importing it into Premiere Pro. Examples of such
preparation include correcting color, scaling, and cropping. It is often better to make a change to a source image in
Photoshop than to have Premiere Pro perform the same operation many times per second as it renders each frame for
previews or final output.
By creating your new PSD document from the Photoshop New File dialog box with a Film & Video preset, you can
start with a document that is set up correctly for a specific video output type. If you are already working in Premiere
Pro, you can create a new PSD document that matches your composition and sequence settings by choosing File > New
> Photoshop File.