Using video clips from Vegas with Photoshop

adguy31 wrote on 2/2/2004, 3:10 PM
Hi,

I recently purchased Photoshop CS with the hopes of using some frames or clips that I have in Vegas with Photoshop and adding masks, changing colors, etc. However, there is a "filmstrip" mode in Photoshop where you can import clips and frames but it is only for Premiere or Premiere Pro files and not .avi, mpeg1, mpeg2 files. I would really like to be able to do something here and completely integrate my Vegas files with Photoshop. I already own Combustion and can do this task there but since Vegas is my preferred NLE and not combustion I would like to be able just to at least pull these clips and/or frames in Photoshop and start going to work. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Seth

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kentwolf wrote on 2/2/2004, 6:43 PM
I also use Photoshop CS and I believe the best you can do is to export your video clips to a image sequence and use from there.

This is one of the integration benefits of using all Adobe products. I don't believe there is any other way.
FuTz wrote on 2/3/2004, 10:11 AM
I also don't believe there's another way.
PaintShopPro will load AVI files in AnimationShop but it's not of great help in your situation...
Satish is in Beta testing with something that will allow Vegas users to make rotoscopy (frame by frame editing) soon. Get the news at www.debugmode.com
Sony? I don't know. They should move their *** to get something done the same way Adobe developped their "creative suite" series of applications in my very humble opinion...

Personnally, I'm waiting for WAX (Satish's app) to be released.
metrazol wrote on 2/3/2004, 12:29 PM
Uh, may I recommend CinePaint? It's formerly known as Film GIMP and is a Free/free/FREE alternative to Photoshop. Very different interface, but if you want something that works all the time, every time (after the first time...hehe...) and don't feel like shelling out for Premiere or some other buggy Adobe app, it's worth a look. I'd include a link but can't seem to find their page...check SourceForge.net
cyanide149 wrote on 2/3/2004, 12:59 PM
You could use the "Export Frames For Range" script and create individual frames for import into Photoshop. I've used this with the "extract" filter, and although it's time consuming, it does work pretty well