Exporting Frames in Premiere

Toshi.des · Post by **Toshi.des** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:39 pm

I don't have AE and I'd like to attempt some rotoscoping. I use Adobe Premiere CS3 but from what I've heard it's not really that great to use Premiere for this. So I guess I'm stuck with the 2nd option of exporting frames and putting them in Photoshop.

While I know how to export 1 frame at a time from Premiere, isn't there a way to select a start and end point and it export all frames in between? I'm not sure if there is but for some reason on thought I saw someone mention that and it would save so much time since there are about 3 scenes I plan on doing this to.

Help appreciated.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:53 pm

Select the area you want to export with the work area bar.

File > Export > Movie > Settings > File Type: TIFF

And be sure to change the Range to the Work Area Bar.

(This is on a Mac. It may be a little different on a PC, but it should be similar, I would think. Just be sure to not export the frames as .jpg's. It's a lossy compression and you'll lose quality.)

Toshi.des · Post by **Toshi.des** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:53 am

Thanks, works perfectly. I've wonder this before, is .tiff even better for quality purposes than .bmp?

Also is there a way to open multiple images in photoshop in one document instead of separately? For instance when you select all images and either drag them into photoshop's work space or right click and open they all open in their own project window, it would make it quite a bit easier if they all started out in one.

Again though thanks for your help, exporting the frames premiere already saves a ton of time for me

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LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:27 pm

Both BMP and TIFF are lossless, so the quality is the same between them. The thing is, BMP files are a lot bigger than TIFF files are. For example, I just took a screencap of my desktop, took it into Photoshop, and saved it back out as both a BMP and a TIFF. The BMP image is 3.8MB and the TIFF image is 1.4MB.

(Even better than both of those, imo, is PNG. The same picture above came out as 1.3MB in PNG format, and it too is lossless.)

All of the above accept alpha channels as well.

As for your second question, all the pictures will have to open in their own window. Think about it this way: if they all opened in the same window, you wouldn't have multiple pictures - you would have one picture with a whole bunch of layers.