Photoshop CS6: Editing Video

Guides you through the brand-new video workflow in Photoshop, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats.

With the release of Photoshop CS6, Adobe introduced the ability to edit video footage. Author Rich Harrington guides you through this brand-new workflow, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats. The course also covers how Photoshop's strongest feature, its image enhancement toolset, translates to video, from fixing under- or overexposed footage, performing color balancing, and adding vibrance and contrast to special effects, such as converting to black and white and using Smart Filters to soften skin.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Why use video in Photoshop?
• What you should know before taking this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Ready for Editing Video in Photoshop

• Making sure your system is ready
• Exploring the Motion workspace
• Looking at supported file formats for editing

2. Meet the Photoshop Timeline

• An overview of the Timeline panel
• Controlling playback in the timeline
• Viewing options in the timeline
• Enabling timeline shortcuts

3. Building a Sequence

• Understanding the reality of editing video
• Setting up the timeline
• Building the A-roll
• Organizing B-roll
• Adding B-roll to the timeline
• Editing B-roll in the timeline
• Changing the playback speed
• Adding transitions

4. Working with Audio

• Adjusting volume in clips
• Adding a music bed to the timeline

5. Controlling Adjustment Layers

• Fixing underexposed footage
• Fixing overexposed footage
• Adjusting contrast
• Color balancing a video shot
• Adding vibrance to a video clip
• Creating black-and-white effects
• Using photo filters
• Using Smart Filters to soften skin

6. Working with Text and Graphics

• Adding a lower-third graphic
• Animating text
• Inserting a logo bug
• Adding moves to photos

7. Publishing Video

• What to do before exporting your video
• An overview of the Render Video dialog
• Exploring quality-based presets
• Exporting H.264 files
• Exporting QuickTime files
• Exporting a DPX sequence

Conclusion

• Goodbye