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[SHORT AND SUITE][On the Road With Jason and Karl]
[Jason Levine] [Karl Soule]
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Hello, everyone--and welcome to Short and Suite.
My name is Jason Levine, Principal Worldwide Evangelist
for Adobe's audio and video tools.
In today's Short episode, I'm going to take
a look at the Native PSD import options
in Premier Pro CS5.5.
And there's lots of different ways to work with Photoshop files and
all of the Adobe applications in Creative Suite,
but what's really cool is the way that Premier Pro handles the import of PSDs.
Now, if you're not working with a Photoshop file to begin with, you can of course,
create new ones directly from Premier Pro
by going up to the File menu
and choosing New, Photoshop File.
But if you're already working with existing PSD content, it's very simple
to bring those PSDs directly into Premier Pro
and, again, retain many--if not all--
of things inside of that Photoshop file,
inside Premier, and also maintaining editability.
You're not having to flatten anything.
You can maintain the editable nature of those PSD files and use commands
like Edit Original, which you find in almost all of the Creative Suite applications,
to take you back to the application that created those--which, of course, is Photoshop.
So let's get started.
So I have a Lower Third title that a good friend of mine made for me that I want
to use on this video that we've been cutting together.
So to bring that in, I can simply double-click
inside the Project panel here;
navigate to my drive--
and let's go ahead and bring in that Photoshop file--LowerThird.psd.
Now, when I click on Import you're going to see
that it gives us this dialogue here,
and this tends to confuse people because,
when you choose Import As, you'll see
we have multiple options here.
So let's tackle the first one.
Merge All Layers basically says to Premier Pro:
I'm not going to make any changes to this
Photoshop file with regard to how the layers
are enabled or disabled, nothing--
exactly as it is, exactly as I left it in Photoshop--
that's how I want to bring it into Premier Pro.
So, with Merge All Layers selected--
and by the way, that's the default setting--
when I click OK, it's going to bring that
piece of footage in and you'll see that it'll come in with this little video icon here.
This is indicating to me that there's actually some animation on this,
and if I double-click it, go ahead and click Play,
you will see that, in fact, this is an animated Photoshop file.
So you can see, we've got some animated text;
we've got an animated background here and
you might be looking at this and thinking: Okay, great--so how do I access the layers?
Well, don't get ahead of yourself just yet.
If I want to see how this looks inside of my video, I can take this--either from
the source monitor or from the Project panel;
I can drop it down here--now, again--
it happens to be a 1080p PSD file.
I need to make this a 128720, so I can right-click
and choose Scale to Frame Size, and it automatically rescales.
And I can wind back and, again, you can see how it continues to animate.
This is animation which has actually been added, inside Photoshop,
in the Animation Timeline--very cool.
Now, if I expand Video 2 though,
you might be thinking, oKay--well, yes.
It's a PSD file, but it's flattened.
What if you want to make a change to the text? Or what if you want to--
how do you change these things?
Well, it appears flat, but in fact, it's not
because you can always go back to the original, and that's the essence of Edit Original.
So, from within Premier, I can choose right-click, Edit Original--
if the file isn't already open inside of Photoshop, it'll open it for you--
and now I'm going to change the text here.
So recently, I presented at one of the Larry Jordan FCP events.
That's why that's there--although is wasn't in Instanbul.
So we can go ahead--and let's just turn this back to Creative Suite Evolution Tour--
and we'll call this one: San Francisco, May 2011--okay, make a little change there.
Again, we can play this inside the Animation Timeline, here,
so you can see that those key frames and such have all been added inside Photoshop.
There they are--you can see them there.
Go ahead and close this, Save it,
and, again, much like many of the other processes--let's just
go ahead and cancel this one here.
That's another file that I had open--back to Photoshop, back to Premier Pro rather--
and you can see that it's automatically been updated:
Creative Suite Evolution Tour, San Francisco.
So again, even leveraging the Merge All Layers option,
you can always go back to Photoshop--that's the key.
All right. So let's go ahead and take this one out, and let's bring it back in again.
So we can again navigate to our drive: PS Stuff, LowerThird; click Import,
and now we're going to choose the second option: Merge Layers.
Now, this one is, effectively, the same thing.
The only difference is, it's going to allow you
to choose which layers you bring in,
and then it will appear as 1 merged clip.
So this is exactly the same as the previous method; the difference is,
as you'll notice, with the default--Merge All Layers--
all the layer selection here is grayed out, right?
So if you want to choose--oh, I want the first 3 layers here and this 1 all the way at the bottom,
I need to make changes to that--again, you choose Merge Layers..
Merge All Layers is going to bring the PSD file
exactly--it's going to import it exactly the way that you left it in Photoshop.
Merge Layers, here, allows you to choose those.
Now, the next option is Individual Layers,
and this can be helpful because, again,
now you'll have access to those individual layers with their associated
layer styles and layer sets, whatever it is.
And you can control how each one of those interacts with content inside your Timeline.
So if I go ahead and click OK--and let's go ahead and turn on a few more of these;
let's add in a few more--Layer 4 and 6--
Again, you can see that I went to the trouble of labeling all my layers. [laughs]
Bad. Bad boy.
Click OK and of course, now it's going to make a folder for you,
and the difference is that now what you can see is that, now, you have access
to each of those individual layers---and if I went to this one here, Text White--
let's go ahead and click this again--it shows up as that little video icon,
indicating that it's animated.
Go ahead and click Play--now, this is just the animated text.
So if I just wanted this element to appear inside this Edit,
I can click and drag that there.
Again, we can rescale this.
You'll also notice that my Drop Shadow has been applied so again,
my layer style is retained--and there you go.
So now we have just the text, right?
So this is great--again, if you're bringing in individual layers,
you control--you can basically reassemble--those Photoshop layers
on top of your video and have them interact any way that you like.
Now the last option here--let's go ahead and double-click this again, .
bring it in: PS Stuff, LowerThird.psd--
the last option, of course, is Sequence.
Now, those of you using other NLEs
will be very familiar with this one, particularly with Final Cut
because this is how they bring in Photoshop files, right?
And you can choose to bring them in as a Sequence--but what's different?
Well, they don't respect transparency.
They don't respect layer styles.
They don't respect layer sets--
and they certainly don't see animation, right?
But we do--we're Native.
And now, what we're basically saying is, let's bring it in as a Sequence.
We're going to put it in its own folder, create a Sequence for you,
but again, all of those elements are retained.
So if I go ahead and click OK on this one,
once again you'll see, it'll build a folder for us,
now we've got a Sequence that we could, theoretically, nest over top of something else..
Let's go ahead and play that back.
There it is, right there.
Now again, it appears as individual layers in the Timeline here.
So what if I want to edit this whole Photoshop file?
I don't want to just edit the text or just
edit the Lower Third background--how do I access that?
Seems a bit confusing--well, it's the exact same process.
Even though it brought it in as individual layers in a sequence,
you can still go back to that original Photoshop file and make changes,
simply by right-clicking Edit Original.
Whoom--you're back in Photoshop; make your changes.
When you click back to Premier Pro, those changes are updated.
It's really, really simple--and remember, of course,
that you also have Native capabilities,
especially where Photoshop 3D is concerned, and Inside After Effects CS5.5, as well.
So very simple, easy ways to import your
pre-Creative Photoshop media,
retaining layer styles, layer sets,
transparency--even 3D Objects--
right inside of those Photoshop files, and begin using them inside your Premier Pro Timelines.
So that's it for this episode of Short and Suite.
My name is Jason Levine--we'll see you next time.
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