From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing

How to use the exercise files - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing

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How to use the exercise files

- [Instructor] If you have access to the exercise files used in this course, I wanna clarify the way that they're organized. I've downloaded those exercise files to my desktop, and you can see here that they're organized with a different folder representing each chapter in the course. There's also a video project folder template. This contains some empty folders, but you can copy it and use this organization system for your own video project. In each chapter folder, there is a folder for the video assets used in that chapter. The Bear River project that we'll work on spans a couple of chapters, so all of the assets for that project are in the separate Bear River Assets folder. When you edit a video file in Photoshop, Photoshop does not embed the video file into the Photoshop file. It simply references the original video file wherever it's stored on your hard drive. In the case of the files for this course, that's gonna be in each chapter's video assets folder or in the Bear River Assets folder. So you don't wanna change the folder structure of the main exercise directory here. Don't move or rename any folders and don't rename any files, as this will break the link to the original video. If you do run into a missing media link dialog, here's how you handle it. I'm gonna open up one of the project files for this course, and here is the dialog telling me it cannot locate the linked assets. It's telling me the name of the files that are missing and the last known location. So I'm gonna choose one of these and I'll click Relink, and it takes me out and allows me to navigate to find them. So I know that they're in my Exercise Files folder, and I know that since I'm working on chapter six, it's in here, and let's come into the Video Assets folder. So there it is, the_spy. Now there's another clip that is missing here, and since it's also in the same folder, Photoshop's gonna see that and it's gonna automatically relink that one, as well. Now, even though you get that missing media dialog, you can still click Cancel and the file will still be opened, but you'll see exclamation marks on the thumbnail of the video layers that are missing, and Photoshop will only show you a still frame grab of the video layer and you won't be able to do any actual work on the video. All right, let's get started.

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