Creating an image sequence from video in Photoshop

[Darren McLoughlin]

Using Photoshop to create an image sequence from video

It is possible to use Photoshop to create an image sequence from a video, in other words to convert video to a sequence of images.

I covered how to do this using Premiere Pro in this post but it is easy to do the same without leaving Photoshop.

In that post I covered using a timelapse but here it is standard video.

Here is the process.

❶ Open your video in Photoshop

Open video in Photoshop

• The Timeline window should display below your video, if it doesn’t then go to Window>Timeline
• Drag the sliders at left and right to set a work area, here I have chosen approximately 6 seconds but you could use the whole video clip

Set work area

❷ Render Video

• Go to File>Export>Render Video…
  

File>Export>Render Video...

• Click on Adobe Media Encoder and then choose Photoshop Image Sequence

Image sequence

• Here you can confirm various settings, you can choose the Range - set here to be the work area from Step ❶ or you can choose All Frames or even a selection.
• I have left Frame Rate to be the same as the original Canon file by choosing Document Frame Rate
• Adjust the JPEG quality settings if necessary
  

Settings

• Click on Render

❸ Check Folder

• Here this folder contains the individual frames, for working from

Folder of images

If you need to create images from a piece of moving footage, then this method can help to narrow down a section to work from or, as mentioned in the post link above, to create a long exposure from a video - see here.

[Steven5E8C]

Hi

Thanku so much for this guide. It will be really helpful for us. I will use it for my next projects. Thanks again🙂

[MarekMularczyk]

Thanks for the post. Very useful. Just want to mention than when exporting asimage sequence, there are a number fo choices when it comes to file formats. It doesn't have to be just JPEG, there are options for PNG, JPEG2000, TIFF, and Photoshop

[Alexa5EB1]

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[MarekMularczyk]

Do you want them to be animated?

[MarekMularczyk · Accepted solution]

Maybe this video I did some time ago may help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3quRWTCg2Y

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[MarekMularczyk]

Happy to help

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[board5E78]

Thank you very much for the post. I have applied it as an illustration for my longboard website (https://longboardbrand.com/)
Before that, I took screenshots and the quality is quite poor, now it's better.

Thank you again very much!

[Darren McLoughlin]

Glad to hear it worked for your website.

[Kirk Hammet]

Thank you for the helpful information.

[Mraz5FA0]

Great articles, I have done everything that you have done to add video my site https://gopaintsprayer.com, the one thing isafter its rendered and i check the folder its saved to, I have 300 individual images but no video. Any Ideas?

[sales5EC6]

Great guide thanks for sharing!

[KillerRabbit]

My images are all coming out black. What am I doing wrong?

[KillerRabbit]

I think you can't do that with a .mov video. After I made it an mp4 if worked

[Israel34314237gqr0]

Thank you for the information, it works like a charm, unfortunatelly i can not find the final files... so i just lost my time and did it later on the www for free, even though i pay for photoshop...