Chapter 27: Photoshop and Digital Video

Overview

A new movement of visual expression is in play, and it s the digital movement. The computer encompasses all artistic mediums including music, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, and video. This final chapter will cover how Photoshop enables you to handle still images and titles for video formats to be used in nonlinear video-editing programs. As an extra bonus, if you have Adobe After Effects, you ll learn how Photoshop stills can easily be composited into your movies.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Nonlinear editing

• Understanding video formats, pixels, and video aspect ratios

• Preparing Photoshop images for digital video

• Working with alpha channels for compositing

• Pulling it all together in After Effects