Photoshop: Editing Video and Creating Slideshows

Course details

If Photoshop is the center of your creative world, it's a good choice when you need to edit video. In this course, Rich Harrington reveals how the powerful image-editing tools in Photoshop CC translate to video and shows how to transform a selection of clips into a polished movie. He walks through a real-world project from start to finish, illustrating the basic technical skills that will help you edit raw clips into cohesive stories. Learn how to import and organize footage, build sequences in the Timeline, fix color and exposure issues, add overlays and transitions, adjust volume, and publish your finished project in the right formats for web and social media. Plus, find out how to create animated slideshows from still images using a similar Timeline-based workflow.

Learning objectives
Video formats supported in Photoshop
Organizing media
Controlling playback in the Photoshop Timeline
Organizing assets
Building a sequence
Adding transitions and effects
Working with audio
Fixing exposure
Color balancing a shot
Adjusting contrast
Adding text and graphics
Building a slideshow
Exporting to H.264, QuickTime, and DPX

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Course overview
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Getting Ready for Motion

04 - Making sure your computer is ready for motion
05 - The Motion workspace
06 - Supported file formats for editing
07 - Transferring footage to an edit-ready hard drive
08 - Organizing media on your drive

2. Meet the Photoshop Timeline

09 - An overview of the Timeline panel
10 - Controlling playback in the Photoshop timeline
11 - Viewing options in the timeline
12 - Enable timeline shortcut keys
13 - Adjusting performance for better playback

3. Organizing Assets

14 - Organizing clips with Adobe Bridge
15 - Rejecting files
16 - Batch renaming files
17 - Consolidating files to a single location
18 - Selecting music
19 - Recording narration

4. Building a Sequence

20 - Setting up the timeline
21 - Organizing shots and adjusting clip order
22 - Adjusting duration
23 - Adding transitions and effects
24 - Changing the playback speed of footage
25 - Building complex sequences

5. Working with Audio

26 - Adjusting volume in clips
27 - Muting audio
28 - Adding a music bed to your Photoshop timeline
29 - Previewing audio

6. Correcting Color and Exposure

30 - Fixing underexposed footage
31 - Fixing overexposed footage
32 - Adjusting the contrast of video footage
33 - Color balancing a video shot
34 - Adding vibrance to a video clip
35 - Creating black and white effects
36 - Using photo filters for video footage
37 - Using smart filters
38 - Correcting with Adobe Camera Raw

7. Working with Text and Graphics

39 - Adding a watermark
40 - Adding a lower-third graphic
41 - Animating text
42 - Inserting a logo bug

8. Building a Slideshow

43 - Loading multiple photos into a slideshow
44 - Adding a soundtrack
45 - Editing to the beat
46 - Adding moves to photos in a timeline
47 - Adding transitions to the timeline

9. Publishing Video

48 - Before you export your video from Photoshop
49 - Understanding nonsquare pixels
50 - An overview of the render video dialog
51 - Quality-based presets
52 - Exporting H.264 from Photoshop
53 - Exporting Quicktime from Photoshop
54 - Exporting a DPX sequence from Photoshop
55 - Including an alpha channel in your video

Conclusion

56 - Next steps