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Creating mattes
: Export a video frame to Adobe Photoshop to create a matte 
that will mask or highlight certain areas of that clip or other clips.
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Cutting objects out of a scene
: Adobe Photoshop has several tools that work 
like a cookie cutter. You can remove an object and use it as an icon, make it into 
a button in a DVD menu, or animate it over a clip.
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Importing PSD files
: You can natively import Adobe Photoshop PSD files with 
video, blend modes, and layers.
You looked briefly at importing Adobe Photoshop CS5 files as footage in Lesson 3.
In this exercise, you will take a closer look at importing a layered Photoshop file 
into Adobe Premiere Pro as a sequence.
1
Open Lesson 19-1.prproj. Notice there is a bin in the Project panel named 
Finished. Expand the Finished bin, and open the Finished sequence if it’s not 
already open.
2
Play the Finished sequence, and notice that the title at the bottom of the screen 
is animated in layers.
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 Note:
In this 
exercise, you will 
animate a Photoshop 
PSD file in Adobe 
Premiere Pro. The 
PSD file is provided 
on the DVD, so it is 
not necessary to have 
Adobe Photoshop to 
complete this lesson.

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LESSON 19
Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects
Titles appearing at the bottom of the frame like this are often referred to as 
lower thirds
. The lower-third graphic is a nested sequence called 
finished lower 
third
. In the following steps, you are going to open that sequence to see how it 
was made and then re-create it.
3
Inside the Finished bin is another bin named Finished Lower Third. From that 
bin, open the “finished lower third” sequence.
This sequence is built from a Photoshop image that has three layers.
4
Move the current-time indicator to about two seconds into the sequence. Toggle 
the track output off for each video track (click the eye icon), and then toggle 
them back on to see the contents of each track. Examine the Motion settings 
of each clip, and notice that the Motion effect was used to animate each clip to 
achieve an interesting appearance.
You will now re-create this lower third by importing the Photoshop graphic into 
a new sequence.