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Editing Video in Photoshop CS6

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Video Editing in Photoshop CS6

Four years after HD video recording was introduced to SLRs by the Nikon D90 and popularized by the Canon 5D Mark II, video has become a standard feature for all cameras, from smart phones to professional SLRs. To match this shift in priorities, Adobe has added a new, full-featured, timeline-based video editor to the newest iteration of their flagship image editing program, Photoshop CS6. Video editing is now available in the standard version of the program, not just the extended.

In this video, I cover the fundamentals of video editing in Photoshop CS6, starting with the basics of adding and arranging clips in the timeline, creating transitions, and adjusting the audio. I then move on to using adjustment layers, layer masks, and Photoshop’s collection of filters. Finally, I touch on the basics of adding non-video assets like still photos and text, and how to animate them.

Since there was a lot of ground to cover with this topic, I couldn’t get as in-depth with some of the features as I’d have liked. If you have any questions about what I did in the video, please let me know in the comment section below. Similarly, if there are features that I skipped that you’d like to hear more about, please let me know, and I may produce a second video.

 

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Matthew Gore is the Editor-in-Chief and Administrator of Light & Matter Media.
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  1. Hey Matthew…Don’t know if this is still active or not…seems like maybe not :) . Been a Fuji xt-2 photographer for a few years and have enjoyed LR CC and have become interested in video-editing in PS CC. My rendering times for a 2.5 min video (with adjustments from Camera Raw and from within PS CC are about 5 hrs. I have a Win 10, 32GB RAM and 1 MB of video graphics memory on an NVIDIA Quadro K2200 card. My initial files out of the camera are 23 MB before rendering about about 2MB after rendering. Could I be getting better rendering times and smaller files without adding any hardware? What would I expect for rendering times with a video clip of this size and by all means if there’s an article or video which helps me with this problem, by all means send me on!

    Best wishes!

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    1. Hey Rob. The quick answer is that yes… you should be getting MUCH shorter rendering times for a video of that length, though of course, it depends entirely on how many effects you’re adding to each frame of the video. I’m currently using a computer that I built in 2012, with an old video card and 16GB of RAM, and my process times are generally in the 10-15 minute range for a video of that duration.

      Unfortunately, without knowing every detail of what you’re doing, it’s hard to know what’s causing the slowdown… or even whether it’s something in the production of the video or with the render settings or what. What resolution are you working at? If you’re using still photographs to produce 8K videos or something, that would make a huge difference, of course. Similarly, if in your output settings (h264?) you’ve got your quality level set to the slowest/smallest file settings (which provide smaller files, but not higher quality video).

      Anyway, I’d start with your output codec settings rather than worrying about your hardware, which is more than sufficient.

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    1. It depends on what you have in mind. If you want to replace an old logo in one of your video with a new logo, then you can simply create a new layer above the clip with the old logo, position the new logo over the old one (assuming that you are OK with an opaque logo), and you’re set.

      However, if you need to remove a logo… well, there’s no easy way to do it. If you have a static shot, you can create a new layer and clone over the logo, and then keep that layer visible for as long as the scene stays the same.

      But really, Photoshop just isn’t the program to do that sort of thing.

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  4. Thank you for the ‘time line’ icon tips. I was wondering what’s wrong with my cs6 for two days.

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  5. Thanks Matt for the video! I am a teacher and I have been trying to use After Effects, PowerPoint and chromakey to do my lesson plans. Now I can use my CS6 to do all of it!

    Thank you again….

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