Get a Video Clip into Photoshop?

You open your first video clip one way, but you add more clips in a slightly different way. Luckily, to open the first video clip in Photoshop, you do it the same way you do any other file: choose Open from the File menu, then choose the video clip, click the Open button, and it opens right into Photoshop. When you open a video clip, it automatically opens the Timeline panel across the bottom of the screen (this is pretty much command central for video editing in Photoshop). You’ll see your clip appear on the right side of the panel (movies are put together going from left to right, so the first video clip you see on the left plays first, then when you add a clip to the right of it, it plays next, and so on). To add a second clip (and any other clips you want added to this particular movie), click-and-hold on the little filmstrip icon that appears just to the left of your first video clip in the panel and choose Add Media from the pop-up menu that appears. Select the video clip you want to appear next in your movie, click the Open button, and now that clip appears right after your first video clip. To see your very short movie, tap the Spacebar on your keyboard and it starts playing (you’ll see the little playhead and video scrubber line—it’s that red vertical line—moving right along with where you are in the movie). It’ll play through the first clip, followed by the second clip, and so on. (Note: If pressing the Spacebar doesn’t start your movie, click on the little line icon at the top right of the Timeline panel and, from the flyout menu, choose Enable Shortcut Keys to turn on your shortcuts for the panel.)