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To import a video into Photoshop, you basically use the same technique that you
would use to import any other type of file. So as we saw in the movie, we could
double-click the application frame, the background here in Photoshop or we can
go to the File menu and select Open. Again, go to the Media folder in the
Exercise Files folder and open up the Animated ROCK Logo and just go ahead and
click Open and again we'll click No here. We will talk a little bit more about this
in Chapter 6 and there is our video, as you can see by the Video Layer icon here
in the Layers panel. Photoshop can import MPEG-1 files. That's files with the
extension .MPG or .MPEG. Also MPEG-4 files. Those are mp4 files, which actually this file
is. Also M4V. Also QuickTime Movies. That's .MOV. AVI files.
That's Windows Media and if you have a few extra programs installed you can bring
in for example, Flash video, an .FLV file if you have Flash Professional
installed. If you have an MPEG-2 Encoder on your system
then Photoshop will be able to bring in MPEG-2 files. Now, if you have one
of those file types I mentioned, let's say for example, an AVI file, but it's
not importing into Photoshop, chances are most likely the problem is in
the way the video was compressed. From my experience nine times out of ten,
if you just download the latest version of QuickTime that will solve all your
problems. As we've talked about in the last chapter,
Photoshop really needs QuickTime and other codecs installed on your system in order
to be able to process video. When you import video this is crucial. Normally,
when you bring in images they are stored in a PSD, but when you bring in
video this video is not stored in the PSD file. We'll talk about why that is
and some other important issues about that a little bit later on this chapter. But
for now, that's how you import a video clip into Photoshop.