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Video Clip Support


Photographers can now use PhotoTools 2.5 on short video clips inside of Photoshop CS3 Extended and Photoshop CS4 Extended. Imagine the power of adding your favorite PhotoTools 2.5 effect or stack of effects to your video. Follow these instructions:

  1. Open a video file in Photoshop. See Photoshop's documentation for supported file types.
  2. Open the animation timeline from the Window menu
  3. Set your work area start and end points
  4. Select a representative frame
  5. Open PhotoTools and apply any stack of effects
  6. Press Apply, you will be prompted to apply the stack of effects to the entire clip.

PhotoTools will provide you with a status dialog that displays the number of frames to process and estimates the amount of time remaining to process the clip.

After PhotoTools is complete you will need to use Photoshop's Render Video dialog to save your work.
 

 Video clip support requires Photoshop CS3 or CS4 Extended

To work on video layers, your PhotoTools preferences must be set to copy of current layer.

PhotoTools is designed to work on short video clips of less than one minute. Depending on the size and frame-rate of your video, the complexity of the PhotoTools stack and the power of your computer, working with video can take up to one hour per minute.



See also

Using the Effects Library
Using the Effects Stack
Using the Mini-Library
Using the Masking Tools
Preferences
Photoshop Lightroom Use
Aperture Use
Batch Processing
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