Video editing - Paintshop Pro?

[Croziaq]

I'd like to know if there is any way of braking down a video into images to edit in paintshop pro and then re-place into video. Mainly because i can' work with after effects efficiently. Thanks in advance, Croziaq

[daamon]

Hi Croziaq,

Welcome to the forums.

You'll need a semi-decent video editing tool. I know that Adobe Premiere does it, but that's fairly pricey. There may well be others that are cheaper...

Look under "Advanced Editors" in the "Tools" section of this site.

Good luck...

[mwkurt]

You can use virtualdub to export a sequence of images to work on. Don't know of anything that is free that you could use to import the sequence back and create a video. Perhaps someone else knows.
Mark

[alsyed]

if it is just 1frame that you want to adjust, just export that frame as a *.bmp from virtual dub. Clean it up in your image editor. The load it back into a new virtual dub editor and save as an avi, then using a nle or avisynth, add the avi file as a layer on top of the frame it is to replace.

if it is a series of images, that all have to have similar edits, then export the series of images from virtual dub, edit each one in your image editor, i use paintshop pro 9 too, i recently removed menu options from a menu using the clone brush, from around 100 frames, using the history as a script, was able to update all the frames efficiently. then save all these images with the file format filename.x.bmp where x is consecutive number

then open up virtual dub, and just drag the images across, if the filenames are consecutively numbered, then they will all be opened over the timeline. Make sure your framerate is set to what the original file rate was. The export as an avi file. Again, in your video editor, just layer this on top of the original file and render out.

[reboot]

If you have paintshop pro, it includes animation shop.
Use virtualdubmod to extract the sequence.
Impor those into animation shop, and have it output an avi.
You can then encode for dvd, or whatever.