Hey guys- I'm currently editing something for school in Premiere, and wanted to apply an effect from Photoshop to a few scenes. Is there any way to use photoshop effects in Premiere? Or, more accurately, is there a way to open video in photoshop? Thank you so much for any help!

Yes you can, by making a filmstrip in Premiere. Convert the movie to a filmstrip and open it in Photoshop. You can then rotoscope it (edit the frames frame-by-frame). I also think you can apply an effect to the whole filmstrip.

Gotan

be careful going to film strip, it does something to your video and makes the colors much richer. it's a different color space i think.

the video version of photoshop is called after effects. but that'd be expensive to buy, so you may be better just going frame by frame in photoshop.

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If the scene is long a film strip can easily overwhelm PhotoShop. In that case you may need to export to a series of frames (PICT sequence) and run a batch filter on them in PS.

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Originally posted by paul:
be careful going to film strip, it does something to your video and makes the colors much richer. it's a different color space i think.

You need to be careful with Photoshop yes. Mainly because computers use the RGB luminance levels and video editors use the NTSC luminance levels.

For example - black is 0 in RGB and 16 in NTSC.

You need to make sure that when you export to photoshop you are keeping the video levels at 601 (or NTSC) then in Photoshop - you need to be sure not to adjust the luma levels too much or if you do make sure you choose the correct settings when importing it back into the system.

That's what is usually occurring here.

-Chris
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