superimposing video

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Mark_Newland
Jan 21, 2004
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I’m using photoshop 7 to combine 2 video clips (from adobe Premiere 6.0), 1 layered over the other. To do this, I’ve imported a video clip to photoshop as a film strip (it breaks the clip into each frame, and plants all the frames in order like a comic strip). Then I’m painting the area I’m going to superimpose on bright green (essentially, creating a green screen). Here’s the problem: once it’s painted on one frame, the only way I can find to plant it on each subsequent frame is to copy/paste, which creates a new layer with only the green area on it, then drag the new layer on to the next frame and line it up. As you can imagine, doing this accurately is immensely time consuming (like, say, 3 hours of work for a second of video). What I want to know is, is there a way to copy/paste to each frame in a very exact fasion, without needing to play with it? The green needs to be in the exact same position for every frame, so I figured it should be something simple I’m missing.

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Rene_Walling
Jan 21, 2004
Mark,

Have you tried After Effects? It’s probably better suited to what you want to do.

Meanwhile back in PS, if you select all, copy and paste (rather than drag and dropping) the green mask should always show up in the same place
M
mistermonday
Jan 21, 2004
Mark, this may work for you. On a separate layer, using the rectangular marquee, draw a selection which is exactly the same size as a single frame. Paint the green where it needs to go. Then with the selection active go to Edit>Define Pattern. Now just select your next frame and go Edit>Fill. When the dialog box comes up, pull down the USE menu and select Pattern. Next pull down the Custom Pattern Menu and locate the green pattern you just made, then click enter. Because the pattern is exactly the same size as the frame, it will paste and align. For all the subsequent frames, the fill settings will remain the same, you will just need to hit Shift + F5 and enter, or go back to the edit menu and select Edit>Fill>Enter.
Rgds, MM

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