I can import .mov files into Ps CS4, (Windows Vista 64 bit flavor).
However, if I import a cineform avi video file (converted with Neoscene) It only shows a white canvas. The layer icon show a little "film strip" icon , but when you open the animation toolbar in PS Cs4 and scrub the timeline .. you see nothing.

Is Cineform avi not a format candidate for PS? If this is the case.. it's not going to be productive then for any rotoscopy work between PremierePro Cs4 and PSCs4

anyone else facing this problem?

First of all, this should have nothing to do with whether the OS is 32 or 64 bit. Second, I assume that the Cineform AVI file opens okay with both After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4. However, if you installed the 64 bit version of Photoshop Extended CS4, try installing the 32 bit version instead. The Cineform codec usually doesn't work with 64 bit A/V software.

If that doesn't work, the Cineform importer doesn't work with Photoshop Ext CS4. For, me, it works fine with After Effects CS4 and Premiere CS4. I don't have Photoshop Ext CS4 32 bit installed at the moment, so I can't help you further.

For what it's worth, Cineform avi files work fine for me with 32bit Photoshop3 Extended. Something might have changed in CS4, but it's not that Cineform files never work with Photoshop extended in principle...

Ian

Well this just plain sux now :-(
For the record, I cant get it to import it into PS CS4 extended either in 32 or 64 bit Windows Vista versions.

When you import the video all you get is a White blank canvas. however the timeline window shows that there is a video of the given length.

Hopefully there's an answer to this, it's a bitch to work in uncompressed... or I'm back to frameserving like before Debugmode FrameServer Homepage (http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/)

David?

P.S I've subscribed to this thread.. but not getting any emails on updates .. so excuse for inconsistency in my replies.

Works fine for me in PS 64, using the PHD 4 beta. Of course, I'm just not that detailed to do rotoscoping like this, but it is handy for saving frames, I guess.

Thanks,
Matt

Ok it's official now. I cant continue to use Neoscene , at least for this project, becuase the Video file will not open in PhotoShop CS4.

I suppose this is a support question for Cineform, so will open a ticket there
Regards

Using NeoScene. On import of Cineform AVI in both PhotoShop CS4 (Vista 64) and PS CS3 (XP 32 bit), the movie shows up as a white solid on the timeline. However, if I install the Cineform separate player, the movie shows up correctly on the timeline in Vista/CS4.
Also, if you try to export a movie from PS CS4 (Vista 64), there is no option to export a Cineform movie.
Thanks for any advice

Again, I just guessing here, but from your explanation, it appears that Photoshop ext. only uses the DirectShow version of the Cineform codec. The 64 bit version of PS must access the codec via a 32 bit surrogate program that it spawns to communicate with 32 bit codecs.

NEO Scene only comes with the Video for Windows version of the Cineform codec. The freeware NEO Player comes with both versions of the codec, but encoding is disabled. It appears that you need at least NEO HD to both decode from and encode to Cineform in PS ext, but David Newman would be a better guy to confirm this.

Jay, thanks for the tip. I installed the free neoplayer and now all is fine.
I guess the NeoScene encoder has/had the Directshow version not integrated.

Anyhow all is fine now!
Clyde

I'm happy that my guessing was helpful. :-)

I have the CS4 suite installed, but I've never used PS for any video work, so this was helpful to me also.

Hi Clyde,

as per Joye's point that you can't export back out to Cineform, what are you now exporting to from photoshop when your rotoscoping work is complete?

I am interested in working in this way too.