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exporting into Photoshop
What is the best method for exporting a video clip from Avid into photoshop for rotoscoping. I tried importing an avi into photoshop and got errors I wanted to import it as a film frames so photoshop would display in frames. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Okay I did export the clip as sequential files in PSD, but photoshop would only import them one as a time anyone know if I can load all at once as a filmstrip style?
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Do you have animatte on your system? That might be better. What are you trying to do?
Jon
“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
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If you have After Effects available to you I would suggest going that route. Export as a Quicktime or QT ref and then draw the matte with the pen tool with RotoBezier’s active. Create your matte keyframes at the first and last frames first. Then go to the middle and create a key, then go to the middle of those two sections and create another key. Continue working from the middle until you have the desired results. The key (no pun intended) is to do it with as few keframes as possible. Combustion would be another route if you have that, I actually prefer it to AE for rotoscoping. As for doing it in Photoshop I
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try opening the image sequence in imageready, i believe it is bundled with photoshop
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