Importing video files to Photoshop CS4

Posted by Garuna on March 30, 2009

1. Supported video and image sequence formats

(*Photoshop CS4 Extended*)

You can open video files and image sequences in the following formats.

QuickTime video formats

• MPEGâ€'1 (.mpg or .mpeg)
• MPEGâ€'4 (.mp4 or .m4v)
• MOV
• AVI
• FLV is supported if Adobe Flash Professional is installed.
• MPEGâ€'2 is supported if an MPEGâ€'2 encoder is installed on your computer.

Image sequence formats

• BMP
• DICOM
• JPEG
• OpenEXR
• PNG
• PSD
• Targa
• TIFF
• Cineon and JPEG 2000 are supported if the plugâ€'ins are installed.

Color mode and bit depth

Video layers can contain files in the following color modes and bits per channel (bpc):

• Grayscale: 8, 16, or 32 bpc
• RGB: 8, 16, or 32 bpc
• CMYK: 8 or 16 bpc
• Lab: 8 or 16 bpc

2. Go to File>Open>select the video file

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