How To Edit Videos On Photoshop

Photoshop has this feature throughout the older versions, like Adobe Photoshop CS6 or CC. You can use it to do basic video editing like joining, splitting, and adding audio or filter/effects in the video clips. Thus, if you mainly work with Photoshop and are familiar with it, you can easily do basic video editing without needing to install and use other applications. But for advanced video editing, you can consider video editing software. So, without further delay, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of editing videos on Photoshop.

How to Edit Videos on Photoshop?

For editing video(s), you import them onto Photoshop and edit them to your liking. And once you are done, you can export them in a preferred format. Before you move on, make sure Photoshop supports the video format of the files you want to import. If they aren’t supported, convert them into a standard file format like MP4 and then import them.

Step 1: Organize Your Workspace

Before you even begin editing your video clips, you can organize the workspace to make it easier to work on Photoshop.

Step 2: Import the Video Clips

You can add/import one or more video clips at once by opening from within Photoshop. Initially, when you add the clips, all of them will be placed inside a single video group. A video group is a collection of all the images, shapes, text, etc., used while editing video inside Photoshop and can further contain multiple video clips. It’s similar to layers created when adding and editing photos, but instead, you have the Video Group (s) under the Layers tab. In Photoshop, each video group has a separate timeline. You can adjust their positions to perform various operations like joining, splitting, and moving the clips anywhere in the timeline.

Step 3: Edit the Video

Once you have a video group to work with, you need to edit them and produce a final result. While you edit, you can press Ctrl + Z or Command + Z to undo any action. To adjust the position of a clip, select and drag it to an appropriate place in the timeline. Likewise, you can drag and drop to move the video clip onto another video group. If you have a very long video clip, the length of the timeline can become too long. You can zoom in or zoom out by adjusting the slider in Zoom in timeline at the bottom left corner (below the Timeline tab).

Join or Split Video Clips

Joining two videos in Photoshop is as easy as it gets. For this, you just import them into the same video group and adjust their timeline (which video comes first). However, to split a video into multiple parts, The above method is particularly useful if you need to delete a part that lies somewhere in the middle part of the video. However, if you just want to delete some parts at the start or end of the video, you can do so in the following way.

Add Audio to Video Clip

You can easily add audio for the video clip by importing it into the Photoshop timeline. Here’s how to do it. Additionally, you can silence or reduce the volume in individual video clips.

Filter and Color Gradient

Similar to images, you can apply different filters and even use adjustment layers while editing the videos. However, you must convert them to Smart Objects or use Smart filters. Otherwise, Photoshop will apply the filters only to a single frame.

Adding Text as an Overlay on the Video

Whether you want to add a watermark, put a disclaimer at the start of the video or provide a description of a person in an introductory video, you can do it as follows.

Add Smooth Video Transitions

Abrupting starting or ending of a video clip doesn’t give a good impression. So, you might want to add a smooth transition when one clip ends and the other starts. Fortunately, Photoshop provides various effects, such as fade-in, fade-out,