Frame Editing

[stender]

Hi All,
Total video newbie so be gentle!
I'm looking for an application which would allow me to edit individual frames of a video such as a divx/avi.
I'm a photoshop user so ideally something that I could take each frame and edit it in that such as remove parts of the picture or alter.

As an example, video clip of a football match where I could airbrush out the ball in each frame so it doesnt appear in the clip. Also ability to add a soundtrack which i assume is standard ops.

I am clueless at re encoding etc so please post in stupid speak

Thanks in advance

[poisondeathray]

photoshop extended has support for certain types of video

after effects is sort of like "photoshop for video" . You might use the clone stamp in AE for example to airbrush out the ball. You don't have access to all the photoshop tools, only a small subset. There are plenty of video tutorials that show you how to do these types of things on youtube, vimeo, other sites

But nothing beats photoshop for fine detailed work and tools. So you can import stills edited from photoshop (e.g. png, psd, bmp etc...) in almost any non linear video editor (NLE) , eg. sony vegas, premiere pro, final cut pro, etc....

You can export out image sequence out of the NLE (or even free tools like vdub) to edit in photoshop

[stender]

Thanks. Which would you recommend as the easiest to use and how do I load an avi for editing? If I have a 20 minute avi and want to edit say 6 minutes worth?

[poisondeathray]

6 minutes !? frame by frame edits ? A bit crazy... no ? Hopefully you mean selected frames. e.g. for a 30fps video : 30 frames/s x 60 s/min x 6 min = 10800 frames . Looks like you'll be working over Christmas doing this

Exactly what type of edits are you doing ?

If you need photoshop specific tools and quality, I would use photoshop

In vdub you can export an image sequence. Load the avi, file=>export => image sequence . After your edits, you can re-assemble the sequence by loading the first image in vdub if they are sequentially numbered, then encode it into a video. eg.

00001.png
00002.png
.
.
.

If it's other types of edits, there maybe ways you can reuse patches and keyframes so you don't have to edit every frame

[stender]

I told you I was a newb. 10800 frames for 6minutes! I won't attempt a new Evian Commercial then!
Thanks for your help, Ill have a play and post a link to my movie when fox sign it.