Photoshop_ Video Editing - Compositing a Timelapse
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00:05Hey everyone! When people hear the word Photoshop, most immediately associate it with image editing.
00:10And 98% of the time, they'd be correct.
00:13However, there are a few features that Adobe included in Photoshop to appeal to a much wider range of customers, such as video editing.
00:20In this video, we're going to take a look at how we can create a time-lapse style effect using a still image and stock video.
00:27I have to note before I go on, not all versions of Photoshop will have the video editing capabilities.
00:33If you're running the extended version of Photoshop, you'll be able to follow along with no issue.
00:37The standard version, however, doesn't have the same functionality.
00:41In terms of the media that I'm going to be using, the image is just a standard JPEG that I took in Mexico,
00:46and the footage of the clouds, which you can see playing here, was downloaded from videocopilot.net.
00:52If you want the exact links to the download page, I posted them over on iceflowstudios.com.
00:57Importing video footage into Photoshop works just like it does for images.
01:00You can either open them through the File menu, or simply drag them right into Photoshop.
01:05Let's focus on the image before we touch the video.
01:08In this image, we're going to be replacing the current sky with the clouds footage,
01:12so we need to isolate the sky from the rest of the image.
01:15This can be done in a variety of ways, but because the sky is fairly uniform,
01:19I'm going to grab my magic wand tool, and with the tolerance set to 15,
01:22start clicking in the areas that you want selected.
01:25Once you make your first selection, make sure to hold down your shift key to include the other areas that you click.
01:30Make sure you include all traces of sky which may be hiding in between fences and such.
01:34Any little bit that may be left behind will throw off the whole effect.
01:37Good, now that the selection is complete, we need to separate it from the rest of the image.
01:41This can be done by copying the selection onto a new layer.
01:45Head up to the Layer menu, down to New, and then over to Layer via Copy,
01:49or you can use the shortcut key, Command or Control J.
01:53Perfect, it's time to bring in our video.
01:55Hopping over to the tab that contains our video file, we can simply drag the layer containing our video
02:00right over to our document which contains our image.
02:03Once it's there, place the video so that it covers the whole entire sky.
02:07Once it's in place, in your Layers panel, right click on the video layer and create a clipping mask.
02:12This will place the video of the clouds inside the sky which we extracted a few moments ago.
02:17Good, so now how do we play this thing?
02:19We need to bring up our Animation panel.
02:21This can be done by heading up to Window and then down to Animation.
02:25When the Animation panel appears, let's go over a few things which can help in your editing.
02:29First, the most obvious is the play button which can also be triggered by tapping your space bar.
02:34This will play back your video.
02:36Now you might have just noticed that our clouds have disappeared.
02:39This is because the video file is 5 seconds long but the duration of the document is set to 10 seconds.
02:44To correct this, click on the drop down menu at the top right corner of your Animation panel,
02:48choose Document Settings and change the duration accordingly.
02:52I'm going to drop it down to 5 seconds.
02:54The next thing we're going to look at is how we can fade our video layer in or out.
02:58Beside the video layer in our Animation panel, click on the arrow to expand its contents.
03:03We want to adjust the opacity.
03:05Clicking on the clock icon will add our first keyframe to help us adjust our opacity.
03:10When the keyframe is added, set the opacity of the video layer to how you want it to appear when the video starts.
03:16In this case, I'm going to start the video with the sky in its clear state.
03:20So I'm going to set the opacity at 0%.
03:22Now move your playhead to the point where you want the clouds to be 100% visible.
03:27I'm going to set it around 3 seconds.
03:29Now beside the clock, there's an upwards arrow.
03:32It might be a little bit difficult to see.
03:34This will add an additional keyframe where your playhead is.
03:37When the new keyframe is added, set the opacity back up to 100%.
03:41Playing back our video, we can now see that the clouds gradually fade into view.
03:45It may be a little bit choppy the first time you play it as Photoshop is rendering the video.
03:49This also works with adjustment layers.
03:52Obviously, if the sky is getting dark and gloomy, we need to adjust our image as well.
03:56In your Layers panel, select your background image and then add an adjustment layer.
04:00To make things simple, let's add an exposure adjustment.
04:03To darken your image a bit, decrease your exposure and then slightly increase your gamma.
04:08That should leave you with a slightly darker background image.
04:11Now just like we did for the video player, we need to key the opacity.
04:15Expand that layer's contents in the Animation panel, add a keyframe at the beginning of the video,
04:20and then change the starting opacity to 0%.
04:23Now add the second keyframe at the 3 second mark and change the opacity back up to 100%.
04:30Our video is complete.
04:32To save it, instead of going to File and then Save, we want to go down a little bit more to Export and then Render Video.
04:38Enter a file name, choose where you want to save it, and then choose your compression method.
04:42QuickTime Movie with an H.264 codec usually works quite well.
04:47And that's that. I showed you a preview of what Photoshop can do with video.
04:50Using your imagination, you guys can do a lot more.
04:53If you want to read this tutorial or check out others that I've released, head over to iceflowstudios.com.
04:57And as always, if you enjoyed this video, make sure to like, favorite, and comment on the video.
05:01Take care.