How to Edit individual frames

bacifr,

You can use Share>QuickTime>Expert Settings to export a clip as an Image Sequence.

That will create a .png file of each frame that can be opened and manipulated in Photo Shop.

You could then import each frame back to iMovie or use QuickTime Pro to first reassemble the image sequence to DV.

Matt

FCE probably would be best to edit a specific area of your video over several hundred frames. However, it's not the easiest to learn when you've been doing iMovie.

If this is important enough, FCE is your most economical means (I think it's $300 vs $1,300 for FCS without educational discounts), but you'd need to get a book to help you work through the use of it. I used a book by Tom Wolsky for FCE. It walks you through projects (comes with a DVD with the projects included) so you're doing as you're reading. It's excellent and Tom even makes frequent posts on this site to help others.

I am not aware of any plug-in that allows you to do any color modifications to a specific area of video in iMovie.

Hope it works out for you,

Lawrence

' BTV Pro' has a feature to "average" several frames together. "..To create a noise-free image, the frame averaging feature takes a number of frames from the video input and averages them together to produce a single image. This can significantly reduce, or even eliminate, the noise in the video signal. This works because the image is constant but the noise is quickly varying so over several frames it averages to zero.."

But perhaps the adjustment you want is more drastic. (..And I don't know if 'BTV Pro' is a 'Universal' app, so it may need to run in 'Rosetta' on a MacBook - thus making it a bit slower than usual..)

As for other "copy and paste" movie-editing programs; ' MediaEdit Pro' (..there's a free trial download..) lets you 'paint' on video frames, but I don't know if that lets you do subtle touch-ups ..read more about it on their website.

bacifr,

You could certainly set up an action in Photoshop to process several hundred images in an sequence the same way automatically.

F Shippey

bacifir,

1.) You could export a frame of the clip, modify it in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (or whatever image editing app you use).

3.) Created a mask for the modified area

2.) Overlay the modified image over the duration of the original clip using a mask/matte so only the area you corrected shows.

3.) You'll need Quicktime Pro or a plugin from one of several vendors. I like GeeThree Slick volume 4

http://www.geethree.com/slick/V_04.html


This volume has 5 great plugins, between the Matte-tastic and/or VidMix (cookie cutter) plugins you should be able to create your effect.

However, If you have Photoshop I would follow Matthew plus F Shippey's suggestions.

Here is something that you might try.

picture in clip (static) is a plugin which you can purchase for $3.00 from

http://www.imovieplugins.com/fxhome.html

With this plugin you can place an image (jpeg, gif, pict etc.) over a clip.

HTH
David