Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 541)

534 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Video and animation
Last updated 1/10/2010
More Help topics
“ Creating images for video ” on page 538
“ Load video actions ” on page 541
“ Adjustment and fill layers ” on page 311
Supported video and image sequence formats (Photoshop Extended)
In Photoshop Extended, you can open video files and image sequences in the following formats.
QuickTime video formats
• MPEG-1 (.mpg or .mpeg)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4 or .m4v)
• MOV
• AVI
• FLV is supported if Adobe Flash Professional is installed.
• MPEG-2 is supported if an MPEG-2 encoder is installed on your computer.
Image sequence formats
• BMP
• DICOM
• JPEG
• OpenEXR
• PNG
• PSD
• Targa
• TIFF
• Cineon and JPEG 2000 are supported if the plug-ins are installed.
For more information on plug-ins and how to install them, see also “ Plug-ins ” on page 44.
Note: In Photoshop Extended, you can select multiple single-layer DICOM files and open them in a video layer (like
opening an image sequence). See “
DICOM files (Photoshop Extended) ” on page 603.
Color mode and bit depth
Video layers can contain files in the following color modes and bits per channel (bpc):
• Grayscale: 8, 16, or 32 bpc
• RGB: 8, 16, or 32 bpc
• CMYK: 8 or 16 bpc
• Lab: 8 or 16 bpc
For a video on working with video layers, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0027 .