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Saving Video's & Settings

Jul 3, 2012 9:50 AM

Tags: #cs4 #video #settings #saving

I loaded an MP4 into Photoshop CS4 and edited some frames.

(I'm on a Mac OSX) 

 

Now I need to save the video file.

 

I tried to save the video file as an MP4 and AVI leaving detault settings alone.   However no matter how I saved the video it looks all pixalated, or save as a much smaller video size and still all pixalated. 

 

I have no idea what settings to choose, so how do I save  an exact copy of my video with the edits I made? 

 

Thxs

529 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Bill Hunt, Jul 3, 2012 1:17 PM
 
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  • Bill Hunt
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    1. Bill Hunt,
    Jul 3, 2012 10:08 AM   in reply to ctennaro
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    Do you have the option to Save_As/Export as MOV with either the Animation, or PNG CODEC? Either of those should work fine on either a Mac, or PC (with the proper CODEC's installed).

     

    MP4's are heavily compressed, and when one does a Save_As/Export to MP4, the video will be re-compressed.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Hunt

     
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  • ctennaro
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    2. ctennaro,
    Jul 3, 2012 10:43 AM   in reply to Bill Hunt
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    Thanks a lot for the suggestions, they were indeed helpfull.  I saved the file as a Quick Time Movie and the copy looks identical (or almost identical) to the orignal file.  

     

    One other question. Should the layers pallet show each frame of the video? When I load the video file it just one layer in the layers pallet.

     

    Note On Saving:

     

    I can do the following.

     

    File

    Export

    Render Video

     

    File Options:

    3G

    FLC

    Quick Time Movie

    AVI

    DV Stream

    Image Sequence

    MPEG-4

     
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    3. Mylenium,
    Jul 3, 2012 11:00 AM   in reply to ctennaro
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    That's correct. Unless you use the Frames to Layers script, PS will create a video layer. Everything else is handled in the timeline.

     

    Mylenium

     
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    4. ctennaro,
    Jul 3, 2012 11:07 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    I see so thats normal. Thanks a lot!

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    5. Bill Hunt,
    Jul 3, 2012 1:17 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Mylenium,

     

    Thank you for that bit of info. I do all my video work in Premiere, so had no clue how PS-Extended handled things. Now I know.

     

    Appreciated,

     

    Hunt

     
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