Editing frames of movie in photoshop or any photo editor?

[misterchuckles]

Hi everyone. I have an avi that has five or six frames that show imperfections that I would like to sponge out. Does anyone know of a way to load frames of an avi into a photoeditor like photoshop, use a paintbrush or drawing tools over the individual frames to edit them, and then re-insert those frames again into the original movie? I thought maybe there would be a way to export each frame as a BMP and then when I'm done, reimport them into a frame editor so I can export the newly edited movie.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it!

Cheers,

Charlie

[Truman]

You can use Vdub or Avisynth to save the part of the movie as an image sequence (a chain of bmp files). After editing the images with Photoshop you need a video editor, that is able to load an image sequence as source.
There is an Avisynth plugin, ImageSequence, that loads 24 bit images, .TIF, .TGA and .JPG.

[rustic]

You could export to Filmstrip format from Adobe Premiere. You can load that in Photoshop and edit it like any JPG/BMP/whatever.

[ladieskiller101]

If you have premier, you can also convert your movie into filmtrip and open it in photoshop to do the painting. Then convert that back to .avi. But it take lots a space to do so, so it's your choice. :P