-
After Effects to Photoshop
I have just finished editing a video clip in After Effects and am trying to open it in PhotoShop CS3 but an error message keeps coming up that says “Could not complete your request because it it not the right kind of document” that was with an .AVI file
Or this message for an MPEG-2
“could not complete your request because the movie file could not be opened”what do I do to get my video into photoshop?
-
5 Replies
-
Well, Photoshop doesn’t do movies. It does still images.
If you’re trying to save out a still of your video, just render a frame (or sequence) to the psd format. You should be able to open any frame of an image sequence render (like psd, tif, tga, etc.) in PSD, just not “movie” formats that encapsulate the entire movie into one file (avi, mov, mpeg).
-Greg
Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com -
Im pretty sure that Photoshop does handle video now, but you have to use CS3. Try exporting it out as another file. Maybe the AVI file is just not recognized. I would try a quicktime, PNG file, or an image sequence. There is also a great book written by Richard Harrington called “photoshop for video” (that I have not read yet but……). Worse case scenario this book should help you solve the problem and give you more insight for future projects. Hope this helps
Shannon
-
Not just CS3… CS3 Extended! HAS to be Extended or it won’t do it!
CS3 Extended can handle TONS of stuff including 3d imports like OBJ, 3DS, U3D, KMZ and COLLADA. It can also handle some medical formats like DICOM, and stuff most of us will never need, like MATLAB interactivity.
For video, if you have CS3 Extended, you should be able to simply add a new layer and use the import to place the video on it.
You have several options while importing as well, including a “stacked” import which will place each frame on a separate layer (limited to 500 frames) or you can import to a single layer.
You can then made all kinds of changes, add elements like text, adjust, and you get tools like “Duplicate Frame” which helps in speeding up the process of painting something in by hand frame by frame by frame. Duplicate the frame, and then just change what needs to be changed!
Hope this helps!
Brian -
Wow. So, I imagine it also saves properly formatted layers back out to the movie file? I’m having a hard time imagining it really useful. Is the target audience people who rarely need to work with video, or are they offering something the mainly After Effects user can’t do? Any AE pros here have the “How did I ever live without this!?” experience?
-Greg
Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com -
I’ve not used it myself, but I have seen it used. It seems to work fairly well. The export is limited, but it seems accurate.
The only time I’ve seen it used was for adding a text layer over a plate like a juiceback or whatever you have.
And as far as I could tell it was also very fast… Our graphics operator on a show site was using it to add/change titles to background plates for quick edits on site. Kind of interesting.
Brian
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up