Question about converting video to jpeg and back to video

Is it possible to import a digital video sequence into photoshop and convert it into individual frames, so that each frame can be manipulated individually (drawn into, coloured etc) and then reform the individual frames into a video file for export toAfter Effects, Premier Pro or Avid?
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Hi,
I do not know Photoshop very well, but I know that you can import your video into After Effects, then export out an image sequence from there - TGA or other "Lossless" codecs. Then you would have individual frames to work on. Once done, you could use Media Encoder to get a good quality export from the individual images back to video.
Pierre

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John,
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Message was edited by: monkmara

monkmara
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