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seeker wrote on 5/18/2003, 4:12 PM
andysmyth,

"...I need to touch up a few of the clips and it would seem logical to export the individual frames, touch them up in Photoshop and bring them back to Vegas."

I do it by rendering an uncompressed AVI from Vegas and opening that AVI in Corel's Painter 7. Painter converts the AVI to a FrameStack format (FRM) which consists of a sequence of individual bitmap images. You can then "touch up" the individual frames in Painter in many different ways.

I also have Photoshop, so I used a Shortcut in my Painter Plugins folder pointing to my Photoshop Plug-Ins folder to make my Photoshop filters and plugins available directly in Painter. With the combination of Painter's and Photoshop's plugins and filters you can do some amazing things.

If you don't have Corel Painter, and you want to do this sort of thing in Photoshop, I think you need Adobe Premiere to open your AVI and convert it to the FilmStrip format (FLM) which you can then open in Photoshop and do whatever you want. You will need to send the results back to Premiere where you can convert it back to an AVI that you can open in Vegas.

There may be other better ways to do this, but right offhand, I don't know what they are. Corel Painter in conjunction with Photoshop is making me very happy in this regard.

-- Seeker --
kameronj wrote on 5/18/2003, 4:12 PM
There are a gaboogle amouts of ways to export stills, modify them in an external program, resave as an AVI (or whatever) and bring them back in to VV.

I use a little deal from JASC right now to do some frameXframe - but the biggest thing is you want to be able to export the images...my guess.

There is a script that renders to images that comes with VV (or you can d/l from SoFo's site). But what I do is save what AVI I want, import it into JASC Animation Shop, make images...take images into either Image Composer or PhotoShop...edit...take bake into Jasc Animation shop - stich back to AVI...dump in VV - adjust the audio - take a shower!!

:-)
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/18/2003, 6:20 PM
If you can find a copy of Fractal Painter (is it Corel Painter now?) on e-bay, that can edit AVI's. It supports onion skinning which is useful. I got a copy of Painter 5 for $30 on e-bay 2 years ago. It was a legal copy too.
mfranco wrote on 5/19/2003, 10:25 AM
VirtualDub will save to a windows bmp or tga sequence. It has a lot of neat plugins to preprocess the footage, you can find tutorials around the web and it works very well. It's freeware too.

http://www.virtualdub.org

- mfranco