Adobe Photoshop provides powerful image enhancement and restoration tools that can assist in the improvement of film or video sources. Other special effects, such as rotoscoping, also require the ability to manipulate individual frames of a digital video file. In order to leverage the tools and filters found in Photoshop and apply them to individual video frames, you need to know how to export a video file from Adobe Premiere CS4 to a file format Adobe Photoshop can work with.
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Step 1
Open Adobe Premiere. Select the file you wish to export as individual frames. Select “File,” “Export” and “Media” from the menu or press the “Ctrl” and “M” keys on your keyboard.
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Step 2
From the “Export Settings” dialog box, click on the “Format” pull-down menu and select “TIFF.” From the “Preset” pull-down menu, select the format that matches the source video file.
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Step 3
Select the destination folder where you want all individual video frame TIFF files to be stored by clicking on the file path next to “Output Name.”
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Step 4
Check the “Export as Sequence” box. Then click the “OK” button. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 will now launch the Adobe Media Encoder.
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Step 5
Click the “Start Queue” button from the “Adobe Media Encoder” dialog box. A progress bar will display the estimated time required to complete the export.
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Step 6
Open the folder that contains the exported TIFF files. Note that there is an individual TIFF file created for every frame of video. These files include the original video file name plus a unique, three-digit frame number.
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Step 7
Open the TIFF files in Photoshop by selecting all of the files from the folder containing the TIFF sequence, then clicking the right button on your mouse and selecting “Open” from the menu. Each TIFF file will open in Photoshop. You can now work with each file that represents the corresponding video frame. Add effects or image adjustments as desired to each file. When finished, import the TIFF sequence back into Adobe Premiere.