How do I create a video overlay in photoshop from a website?

[thomasc11484006]

I want to import video from websites into photoshop without downloading the video. The reason I want to do this is so I can play netflix or youtube videos as a layer and use the video frames as a tracing reference. I will need to be able to control the video within photoshop as well (play, stop, rewind, fast foward, slow, and pause). Is this possible?

[Mylenium]

Unless you are a programming wiz that can write his own plug-in with the described functionality it's simply impossible. Even the video programs like Premiere can't do any such thing for a million reasons into which I won't get. Sorry, but simply forget it. It can't be done.

Mylenium

[JJMack]

Photoshop support video layers in documents. Photoshop does not have a Netflix or Youtube video player feature. With a Photoshop script you may be able to open a Youtube or Netflix video stream to download all or part of a the video into a video file then open the file into a Photoshop document as a video layer.  However,  that may be a violation of someone's copyrights.  Much content on the web is not in the public domain. Photoshop can also import video frames from a video file as a stack of frame layers.

To get what you want into photoshop it will require downloaded content from the web.  Editing is done locally on you machine and Adobe does not officially support remote files. I imagine you do want to save you work on the web content.