Photoshop sucks (and how TVP saved my ass)

[slowtiger]

Just want to share this experience. I've lost 2 days already, maybe this saves others from doing the same.

I did some basic 3D animation in PS CS5, which already took very long due to PS' slow response to everything. Yes, I switched off all multiple Undo and other useless features. I ended up with 8 layers of 1 3D object in 125 frames, with only 1 layer being visible. Saving one frame of this as PNG only took seconds. But exporting the whole sequence ("Export to Video") took forever, meaning no result at all, instead PS crashed. No matter whether I tried Quicktime or Image Sequence. Yes, the animation was converted to frames already (it's a bit confusing, first "Select all keys", then "Frames to Layers", then "Frames from Layers"). It took PS 2 minutes to save one lousy PNG of 57k!

After much swearing, aborting, and restarting, it dawned to me: since every frame is a single layer, let's try to open it in TVP!

Opening a 500 MB file only took seconds in TVP. Spread the frames, merge to one layer, reverse order, done. Export from TVP at usual speed. I'm doing a little dance of happiness right now.

Dear Developers: you did a damn fine job. Thx.

[Elodie]

Thank for your message, it's always a pleasure for us to read such declaration of love !

[slowtiger]

You may know this already:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/769443

[Elodie]

Thank you for sharing : made me laugh a lot :')

(I didn't use PSD files for 5 years... I didn't remember it was such a horrible file format !)