In the Timeline or Layers panel, select the video layer.
For Photoshop versions earlier than Photoshop CC, some functionality discussed in this article may be available only if you have Photoshop Extended. Photoshop does not have a separate Extended offering. All features in Photoshop Extended are part of Photoshop.
You can transform a video layer as you transform any other layer in Photoshop. However, you must convert video layers to Smart Objects before you can transform them.
In the Timeline or Layers panel, select the video layer.
If the video layer is not a Smart Object, Photoshop asks you to convert it.
You can create new video layers by adding a video file as a new layer or creating a blank layer.
The video appears on a video layer in a new document.
For the active document, make sure that the Timeline panel is displayed in timeline mode.
For the active document, make sure that the Timeline panel is displayed in the timeline mode.
You can use various methods to specify when a layer appears in a video or animation. For example, you can trim (hide) frames at the beginning or end of a layer. This changes the layer’s start and end points in a video or animation. (The first frame to appear is called the In point, and the last frame is called the Out point.) You can also drag the entire layer duration bar to a different portion of the timeline.
In the Timeline panel, select the layer.
For best results, drag the layer duration bar after the bar has been trimmed.
This shortens the layer duration by hiding the frames between the current-time indicator and either the start or the end of the layer. (Re-extending the ends of the layer duration bar reveals the hidden frames.)
To delete footage in one or more layers, use the Lift Work Area command. To delete a specific duration from all video or animated layers, use the Extract Work Area command.
To hide frames at the start or end of a video or animation layer, trim the layer. To start or end video at a different time point, move the video layer.
If you move video layers, changes become permanent when you save the file. If you trim video, however, you can restore it by re-extending the ends of the layer duration bar.
In the Timeline or Layers panel, select the layer you want to edit.
From the Timeline panel menu, choose one of the following options:
Move Layer In Point To Current Time
Permanently moves the start of the layer to the current-time indicator.
Move Layer End Point To Current Time
Permanently moves the end of the layer to the current-time indicator.
Trim Layer Start To Current Time
Temporarily hides section from the current-time indicator to the start of the layer.
Trim Layer End To Current Time
Temporarily hides section from the current-time indicator to the end of the layer.
You can also use the Lift Work Area command to hide frames in one or more layers, or the Extract Work Area command to hide a specific duration in all layers of a video or animation.
A section of the footage in selected layers can be deleted, leaving a gap of the same duration as the removed section.
In the Timeline panel, set the work area to specify the duration of the selected layers you want to omit.
From the panel menu, choose Lift Work Area.
To delete portions of video and automatically remove the time gap, use the Extract Work Area command. The remaining content is copied to new video layers.
In the Timeline panel, set the work area to specify the duration of the video or animation that you want to omit.
From the panel menu, choose Extract Work Area.
A video layer can be split into two new video layers at the frame you specify.
Select a video layer in the Timeline panel.
The selected video layer is duplicated and appears immediately above the original in the Timeline panel. The original layer is trimmed from the start to the current time, and the duplicate layer is trimmed from the end to the current time.
As you add more layers to your video or animation, you might want to organize them into a hierarchy by grouping the layers. Photoshop preserves the frames in your video or animation in grouped layers.
You can also group a group of layers. Besides nesting your layers in a more complex hierarchy, grouping a group of layers lets you simultaneously animate the opacity of all the grouped layers. The Animation panel displays a group of grouped layers with a common opacity layer property.
Grouping video layers in Photoshop is similar to precomposing in Adobe After Effects.
When you rasterize video layers, the selected layer is flattened to a composite of the current frame selected in the Animation panel. Although it’s possible to rasterize more than one video layer at a time, you’ll only be able to specify the current frame for the topmost video layer.
In the Timeline panel, move the current-time indicator to the frame that you want preserved when you rasterize the video layer.
To rasterize more than one video layer at a time, select the layers in the Layers panel, set the current-time indicator to the frame you want to preserve in the topmost video layer, and then choose Layer > Rasterize > Layers.
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