Open or import a video file (photoshop extended), Import image sequences (photoshop extended), For more information, see – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Video and animation
Last updated 1/10/2010
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Do any required color correction, scaling, cropping, or other edits in Photoshop so that After Effects doesn’t have
to do extra image-processing work. (You can also assign a color profile to the image that corresponds to the
intended output type, such as Rec. 601 NTSC or Rec. 709. After Effects can read embedded color profiles and
interpret the image's colors accordingly. For more information on color profiles, see “
Importing video files and image sequences (Photoshop
Extended)
Open or import a video file (Photoshop Extended)
In Photoshop Extended, you can open a video file directly or add video to an open document. When you import video,
the image frames are referenced in a video layer.
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Do one of the following:
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To open a video file directly, choose File
> Open.
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To import video into an open document, choose Layer
> Video Layers > New Video Layer From File.
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In the Open dialog box, for Files Of Type (Windows) or Enable (Mac
OS), choose either All Readable Documents
or QuickTime Movie.
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Select a video file and then click Open.
You can also open video directly from Bridge: select a video file and then choose File > Open With
> Adobe Photoshop
CS4.
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Import image sequences (Photoshop Extended)
When you import a folder of sequenced image files, each image becomes a frame in a video layer.
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Make sure that the image files are in one folder and are named sequentially.
The folder should contain only those images you want to use as frames. The resulting animation will be more
successful if all files have the same pixel dimensions. To order frames correctly for the animation, name the files in
alphabetical or numeric order. For example, filename001, filename002, filename003, and so forth.
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Do one of the following:
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To open an image sequence directly, choose File
> Open.
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To import an image sequence into an open document, choose Layer
> Video Layers > New Video Layer From File.
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In the Open dialog box, navigate to the folder with image sequence files.
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Select one file, choose the Image Sequence option, and then click Open.
Note: Selecting more than one file in an image sequence disables the Image Sequence option.