5 Replies Latest reply on Jul 3, 2012 1:17 PM by the_wine_snob

Saving Video's & Settings

SonnyT Jul 3, 2012 9:50 AM

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

1. Re: Saving Video's & Settings

the_wine_snob Jul 3, 2012 10:08 AM (in response to SonnyT)

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,

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2. Re: Saving Video's & Settings

SonnyT Jul 3, 2012 10:43 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)

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. Re: Saving Video's & Settings

Mylenium Jul 3, 2012 11:00 AM (in response to SonnyT)

That's correct. Unless you use the Frames to Layers script, PS will create a video layer. Everything else is handled in the timeline.

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4. Re: Saving Video's & Settings

SonnyT Jul 3, 2012 11:07 AM (in response to Mylenium)

I see so thats normal. Thanks a lot!
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5. Re: Saving Video's & Settings

the_wine_snob Jul 3, 2012 1:17 PM (in response to Mylenium)

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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