Do Photoshop Filters Work in AE7?

[Mike Clasby]

“…for Photoshop to read a series of targas and apply the filter so that they can be imported as a numbered sequence in AfterEffects”

Put the targas in a folder and in PS, make an action of what filters you want to apply, then File>Automate>Batch and choose the aforementioned action.

When I use PS for its filters I usually export a Filmstrip (.flm) of the clip or layer from AE, then import that into PS, run the filter and re-import the Filmstrip into AE.

In the Render Queue, Output Module, Format>Filmstrip.

Either works to get your stuff processed with PS filters..

[Slice11217]

It used to be that you could simply copy all of the Photoshop filter plugin files into the plugin folder in After Effects. This was AE 3 or AE 4. I haven’t done it in a while, but it would be worth a try.

[Pj Letofsky]

So if I want to animate the photoshop filter> artistic> fresco so that a still grows into a fresco, i have to make the frames individually in photoshop, and then import the sequence to AE?

[Andrew Yoole]

Here’s a step by step:

1) Export footage from AE as an image sequence into an appropriately named folder. (PSD, TIFF or TGA)
2) Open one of the files in PS. Create a new Action, record the steps you require, then stop the Action recording.
3) Choose File/Automate/Batch Process. Choose the new action, define the Source Directory with the location of the image sequence, then run.
4) Get a coffee.
5) Import the image sequence back into AE. Check the image sequence box and AE will treat it as one footage item.

[Pj Letofsky]

I understand the import/ export/ batch/ script process, but to incrementally grow the fresco filter (animate), can scripting do that? I was under the impression that it would apply the same setting to each frame….

[Andrew Yoole]

That would involve a script within Photoshop, which might be better asked in the PS Forum.