Export video – Adobe Photoshop CS3 User Manual

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Export video

Note: In Photoshop, you can export QuickTime or Image Sequences. In Photoshop Extended, you can export timeline
animations with video layers.

Choose File > Export > Render Video.

In the Render Video dialog box, enter a name for the video or image sequence.

Click the Select Folder button, navigate to the location you want to save your video, and then click Choose.

To create a folder to contain your exported video, select the Create New Subfolder option and enter a name for the
subfolder.

Under File Options, select QuickTime Export and then choose a file format from the pop-up menu.

(Optional) Depending on the QuickTime video file format you choose, click the Settings button and specify the

export settings.

Note: iPod (320x240) automatically uses H.264 (High Quality, RGB 24 bits) settings.

Under Range, select one of the following options:

All Frames

Renders all the frames in the Photoshop document.

In Frame

Lets you specify the specific frames to render.

Currently Selected Frames

Renders the frames selected by the work area bar in the Animation palette.

(Optional) Specify render options:

Alpha Channel

Specifies how alpha channels are rendered. (This option is only available in formats that support

Alpha channel, such as PSD or TIFF).

Frame Rate

Determines how many frames per second (fps) the rendered video plays.

Click Render.

QuickTime export file formats

A file format developed for third-generation mobile devices. 3G is based on the MP4 file format.

FLC

An animation format for playback of computer-generated animations on workstations, Windows, and Mac OS

computers. This format is also referred to as FLI.

Flash Video (FLV)

Adobe® Flash® Video is the Adobe format for streaming audio and video over the web and other

networks (you must install a FLV QuickTime encoder).

iPod (320x240)

An .m4v file containing H.264 video and AAC that is optimized for playing on an iPod.

QuickTime Movie

The Apple Computer multimedia architecture that includes a number of Codecs.

AVI

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is a format for audio/video data on Windows computers.

DV Stream

A video format with intraframe compression that uses FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface to transfer video

to nonlinear editing systems.

Image Sequence

A sequence of still images that can reside within one folder and use the same numeric or alphabetic

filename pattern (such as Sequence1, Sequence2, Sequence3, and so forth).