cokie69 wrote:
Hi Silkrooster, I was very surprised with your answer, please do enlighten me... which version of Photoshop does handle video? I only know (a bit of) CS5 so I might be loosing on something interesting . I always thought Adobe had separated its tools according to different uses, so Photoshop=images, Premiere=videos and Flash=FLVs. Has this changed?. Thanks for your input.
Photoshop has been handling video since CS3 Extended. In CS6, video was moved to the standard version. Then in CC, they did away with extended so both video and 3d is included.
I think it was CS5 when they added timeline to go along with the animation. Both sharing the same panel. (I could be wrong on the version)
The timeline bring photoshop more in line with premiere and after effects as far as editing in the timeline line goes (all three are key frame{oh yeah flash is that way as well just not as elegent}) However there are features that are hard to animate in photoshop that are extremely easy to do in premiere and after effects. (like animateable shapes)
Where photoshop does shine as far a video goes, is most if not all filters and styles can be applied to the video. It treats it like a photo, but is applied to all frames on that layer.
If you have all the apps I recommend that photoshop be for images, premiere for video and flash for animation and scripting. Use photoshop for light duty video editing and or adding effects that only photoshop has. If you have after effects, use its special effects when possible. Use premiere for editing video footage, especially when there is a lot to do. Flash is best as scripting anything that is animated.
That said, other technologies are creeping up to take over, like html 5 video and animation, which can be created using Adobe Edge Animate. Adobe has another program for helping premiere (don't recall the name atm) that takes raw footage and trims them, leaving a shorter piece of footage, which would mean less video in ram, and allows another person to handle that job, if your part of a group.
As far as animation goes, I still prefer actionscript over javascript. It is more mature and robust. But Adobe is giving us the impression it prefers javascript.
In CS3 flash had a media encoder for converting video into flv video. This encoder is now used in all video applications including photoshop. Making it a dedicated app for converting all video formats and I believe still sequence formats.
Anyway, I have gone well beyond what you asked, so I will leave it there for now, as it is starting to sound like I am selling for Adobe. Which I don't work there, so...