editing pictures in photoshop for imovie

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editing pictures in photoshop for imovie

Hi.
I recently made a stop motion with several thousand pictures and I timed them and everything. I want to edit a lot of these pictures in photoshop and just realized that timing them again would be a huge hassle.

Is there any way to save the timing/clip settings to apply to newly imported versions and/or is there a way to export the current clips, edit them in photoshop, and import them thus retaining the clip settings?

MacBookPro1,1, Other OS

Posted on May 1, 2008 4:29 PM

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Answer 1

May 1, 2008 10:48 PM in response to kapg12

sad news: no

Photoshop is for stills (you know that), iM creates 'clips'=movies from stills..
and, no, you can not keep the settings of a clip and change 'just' content ..

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Answer 2

May 2, 2008 1:42 AM in response to kapg12

You can use QT Player Pro to open an iMovie-native .dv file and export every frame as an image file. Tip: create a folder for the files; exporting so many files to the Desktop has choked the Finder for some people 😉

Then use Photoshop and a lot of patience or batch features to edit the images.

Then use QT Player Pro to export the images as a .dv file with the desired frame rate etc. Then import that .dv to iMovie. Your timings should be intact.

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