Quicklinks to all course lessons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Lesson 13 Sections: 13-1 13-2 13-3 13-4 13-5 13-JFF 13-IDEA
Lesson 13 Sections: 13-1 13-2 13-3 13-4 13-5 13-JFF 13-IDEA
(13-1) Video in Photoshop
Why would you ever want to edit video in Photoshop, when there are many dedicated software applications that do only that, and do it better? Good question. The answer for me is that I can use Photoshop's image adjustment layers on video just the same as I'd use them on a still image. I take video clips that I'd like to adjust with Photoshop's powerful image adjustment tools, export them back out, and then do my final editing in programs like Adobe Premiere Pro or iMovie. Don't misunderstand me. Photoshop has a good video editing feature set that is continually improving over time. But if you're big into video editing, you'll be much happier doing most of that work in a dedicated video editing application. Let's get started! Any video below will get you going. Each tutorial shares slightly different options.
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Video: Video Editing Basics in Photoshop by Adobe (7:44)
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"For the beauty of the Earth" is a video I've created using the tutorials above as a guide. A couple of cautions. Photoshop really works the processor - my laptop fans started blowing, and the bottom of the computer grew quite warm to the touch. Photoshop crashed once on me while rendering the video - so I strongly suggest you save your work often. I rendered the video at high quality h264 at the same size as my original (hi definition = 1280x720 pixels @ 72 DPI), which ended up being around 220 MB in size. I have re-saved it for YouTube as a 720x480 version, which only was 20 MB.
You can't see what the audio is doing (there is no audio waveform, as in most other video editing programs), so it is more difficult to precisely time my cuts and transitions. I also found that adding cross-fades really messed up my timings, so I ended up using regular fades. Photoshop needs to fix that one!
Anyway, I present the video as just a sample of what you can do in Photoshop to edit videos. After learning and using this feature, for me, using Photoshop would be ideal for creating color or filter modified clips, which I would then pull together in a full blown video editor. I would definitely prefer to work with audio in a full blown video editor.
Music is by Rachel Portman, Cider House Rules - Main Title. Images are from Pinterest.
You can't see what the audio is doing (there is no audio waveform, as in most other video editing programs), so it is more difficult to precisely time my cuts and transitions. I also found that adding cross-fades really messed up my timings, so I ended up using regular fades. Photoshop needs to fix that one!
Anyway, I present the video as just a sample of what you can do in Photoshop to edit videos. After learning and using this feature, for me, using Photoshop would be ideal for creating color or filter modified clips, which I would then pull together in a full blown video editor. I would definitely prefer to work with audio in a full blown video editor.
Music is by Rachel Portman, Cider House Rules - Main Title. Images are from Pinterest.
