From FC to Photoshop CS3 Ext. and back

[David Bogie]

Export as a series of still images, a still image sequence.
This is only practical for a few seconds of video.

bogeisan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Coffin]

Thanks, david, I’ll try that.

I got a good response on another forum, too:
From Kevin Brock
“For output, I would spit out a reference movie. PS seems to open them fine. That way there is no extra compression going out. So, in FCP, go to File > Export > Quicktime Movie. In the resulting pop-up window, make sure “Make Movie Self-Contained” is not checked. Now you have a reference to your original media without transcoding and taking a quality hit. PS should open this movie up fine – does for me, using a ProRes HQ reference movie.

Then, coming back out of PS, I’d just use the setting that matches the destination sequence in FCP. ”

dc