Help! Editing an mp4 that has copy on it

Report · Dec 05, 2023

Hi
New to video here. I'm experienced in photoshop, illustrator and indesign but slightly clueless with video 😉 I've been asked to change some words that are in a video. What is the best programm to try and edit it in? I've been given the video (mp4 file) and a psd file which has the text on and images etc on. Is this an adobe premiere job? Can I directly edit the text in premiere? Or do I edit it in the photoshop layers and then somehow get that into premiere?

Report · Dec 05, 2023

Are you saying you've been given a video with text already in it or do you have the clean video with no text and a new PSD file? If so, then yes, Premiere is the way to go with this. If you create the text in Premiere, then yes, you can change it there, but if your type is already laid out in Photoshop, then it might be easier to import the PSD as a flattened file into Premiere and drag it on top of your video.

Just note that if you're working with a MP4 file, it's already compressed and exporting it again with further compress the file (similarly to how if you worked on an exported JPEG). It can definitely be done, but video compression is much more complex than exporting images from Photoshop. There are some very easy presets you can use when it comes time to exporting, though.

Report · Dec 05, 2023

Yes text already in the mp4 but I have a psd with the same text and images on too. I need to change the copy on the mp4. I'm presuming I cant do this directly in premiere? At the mo I can even seem to import it into premiere. New to video editing as you can see. I've updated the psd with what is required but think it might be beyond my capabilities!

Report · Dec 05, 2023

This can't be done in any program. Think of your MP4 with copy already in it similarly to a PSD with text that was exported as a JPG. You can never go back and change that text. You can maniuplate the image or video, clone out the area and put new text in (this is doable, but harder to do in a video than an image), or cover the area up, but the video is already "flattened" and can't be edited.
Do you have access to the original project file and source media?