Saving and exporting video and animations – Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx User Manual
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Saving and exporting video and animations
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Bounding Box
Redundant Pixel Removal
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Video and animation export formats
Optimize animation frames
Flatten frames into layers
Export video files or image sequences
Specify QuickTime Movie settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
For Photoshop versions earlier than Photoshop CC, some functionality discussed in this article may be available only if you have Photoshop
Extended. Photoshop CC does not have a separate Extended offering. All features in Photoshop Extended are part of Photoshop CC.
Video and animation export formats
You can save animations as GIF files for viewing on the web. Videos and animations can be saved as QuickTime movies or PSD files. If you’re not
rendering your work to video, then saving the file as PSD is best because it preserves the edits and saves the file in a format that’s supported by
Adobe digital video applications and many motion picture editing applications.
Optimize animation frames
After you complete your animation, optimize it for efficient download to a web browser. You optimize an animation in two ways:
Optimize the frames to include only areas that change from frame to frame. This greatly reduces the file size of the animated GIF file.
If you are saving your animation as a GIF image, optimize it as you would any GIF image. A special dithering technique is applied to
animations to ensure that dither patterns are consistent across all frames and to prevent flickering during playback. Due to these additional
optimization functions, more time may be required to optimize an animated GIF than to optimize a standard GIF.
When optimizing the colors in an animation, use the Adaptive, Perceptual, or Selective palette. This ensures that the colors are consistent
across frames.
1. Make sure that the Timeline panel (CC, CS6) or Animation panel (CS5) is in the frame animation mode.
2. Choose Optimize Animation from the panel menu.
3. Set the following options:
Crops each frame to the area that has changed from the preceding frame. Animation files created using this option are
smaller but are incompatible with GIF editors that do not support the option. (This option is selected by default and is recommended.)
Makes all pixels transparent in a frame that are unchanged from the preceding frame. The Transparency option
in the Optimize panel must be selected for redundant pixel removal to work. (This option is selected by default and is recommended.)
Set the frame disposal method to Automatic when using the Redundant Pixel Removal option. (See
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4. Click OK.
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