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    importer, exporter

    Posted by Nate Abramow on July 19, 2005 at 5:18 pm

    simple question? yea…probably…but I can’t seem to get it to work right…if someone could throw me a bone it would be greatly appreciated…

    I want to take a clip, movie or just something in the timeline and export it into photoshop – I think you can as an image sequence or something – quite confused about correct exporting settings for this. Then in photoshop apply a filter or paint over a stationary object in the frame then reimport – the image sequence? – the clip? – whatever I was supposed to export from fcp to photoshop – back into fcp.

    Any simple way to do this or probably more importantly explain how to do this? Can someone point me to a good article on this? I know it can be done but I’ve never successfully completed it…

    … pb G4 with fcp 4.5 and photoshop cs, 1.5gb ram, external lacie, dv footage from a 29fps timeline, clip/shot length is about 10 sec …

    thanks in advance,
    nate

    Nate Abramow replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    July 19, 2005 at 7:23 pm

    If the object is STATIONARY, just export a single FRAME, open it in Photoshop, paint over the object, eliminate the rest of the image leaving only the new object, create an Alpha channel around the new object, import the frame back into FCP and Matte key it over the running footage.

    MUCH faster than exporting/importing an image sequence.

  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    July 19, 2005 at 7:42 pm

    But if you WANT to export an image Sequence:

    Choose the area you want to export by setting an IN and OUT point.

    File (menu) > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion… > Format: > Image Sequence.
    Options… > PICT (or similar) > OK > Save

    It will create a separate still of each frame (named after the sequence or file) and add a number after it (in order.)

  • Eli Mavros

    July 19, 2005 at 11:58 pm

    There is a way to then treat the first frame with a filter, with “record action” on in photoshop, and then drop all of the frames from the folder into that action set (or create a droplet…or if you are running Tiger, I think you could use automator for this too).

    respect,
    Eli

  • Nate Abramow

    July 20, 2005 at 3:42 am

    …thanks guys for all the help…still working on getting the best results…but I’m so much closer…

    thanks
    nate

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