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source for anything to do with movies, and that is, of course,
www.homedepot.com
(okay,
not really, but I gotta tell ya, they had a pretty sweet deal on a DeWalt 18-Volt ½ in.
Cordless Impact Wrench). Anyway, instead, I went and checked IMDb (the Internet Movie
Database), and I have to tell you, I was pretty shocked to find out that Debbie Harry was
actually listed as an actress in 53 movies and TV shows. 53! Digging a little deeper (not
really), I learned that none of those were put together using Photoshop's built-in video cap-
abilities, because prior to CS6, Photoshop barely had any serious video editing capabilit-
ies. I mean, you could do a few things, but nothing like the complexity you see in Debbie
Harry's 2011 (pre-CS6) movie short
Pipe Dreams
, where she played Iris, a young undoc-
umented worker from Ecuador. (Oh, I can see where this is going. They never have their
documentation, now, do they?) According to IMBb, the movie pretty much takes place in
anaging smoking-pipe manufacturing plant. Geesh—not that tired oldscenario again. Ican
probably tell you the ending already. Let me guess: she gets hooked on tobacco products
and winds up hitchhiking to North Carolina, where she meets an aging nicotine salesman
from Raleigh who convinces her to become a documented worker, and then the two open
a small pet bakery/mobile spray-tanning business in Jacksonville, against the wishes of
her controlling Canadian rebel-fighting parents and Kreshnik, her half-blind Albanian ex-
fiancé and father of their illegitimate teacup schnauzer, Mr. Buttersticks. Tell me you didn't
see that one coming, right?
Four Things to Know Now About Creating Video in Photoshop
Most of the photographers I talk to that have shot video with their DSLRs tell me they have
a bunch of individual movie clips just sitting in a folder on their computer—they've nev-
er even created a movie with them. I ask why, and they say, “I don't have time to learn a
video editing program.” I get it. Neither do I, which is why I truly believe the video feature
in Photoshop is a game changer. Now we can edit video in a program we already know,
so we don't need to learn a new program, just one new feature. This is what we've always
dreamed of: a photography program that lets us edit video, instead of making us photo-
graphers learn a video program. You're going to love this!
It Helps to Have Lots of RAM
When it comes to video, more is more. Ideally, you'd have a minimum of 8 GB of RAM,
but the more the merrier, because unlike still images, video has to “render” (which it does
in RAM), and the more RAM you have, the faster you'll be able to preview clips without
them being jumpy or jittery.
