Video frames to layers

I have imported a video that I want to draw over. I click on a frame I want to draw on but it is not selected in the layers, is there a way to do this or a shortcut. Really frustrating to click on layer 25 in the timeline, then have to re click the same layer in the layers palette to draw on it. To do this on 60f sequences gets very tedious.
Any advice would be appreciated.

I cannot import video files.
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Whenever I try to import video into frames to layers on photoshop, I get this error. (could not complete the video frames to layers because of a program error)
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I'm using Photoshop CS5 extended.
I've been using that to make gifs. It was fine when I import video frams into layers with the video formats of .mov or .avi. But After I installed OSX 10.6.8, this message comes up everytime I want to import videos: "Could not complete the Video Frames to Layers command because the movie file could not be opened."
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May I know what to do to solve this problem because all along I've been fine with making gifs and importing videos until now.
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Adnicej- wrote:
...I've been using that to make gifs...
The computer deities may be trying to say something to you. GIF is not a video format.
Are you opening video with the same codec that was successfully opened before?

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The relevant auxiliary service/ helper app is being blocked and thus not launching,. anything from permissions issues to security tools getting in teh way. Check your Task Manager/ Activity Monitor, turn off security stuff, run as admin.
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This is perhaps not the correct place to post this, but I am new to the forums, as you can see.
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Convert the file in ffmpeg/ MPEGStreamclip or another tool or export it from Quicktime Pro using anotehr CoDec. PS just sucks at dealing with these compressed files and using such an old version doesn't help with contemporary digital video from a camera...
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hi
im having this problem with the "File > Import > Video Frames to Layers" the box comes up like this:
as you can see the box is white, the file i have imported if MP4 and iv tryed this with 2 files now, and get the smae thing, iv also tryed ans mov file the which dose show a preview but it still showd the black bar at the bottom and no time bar and such
iv uninstalled the and reinstalled Photoshop and have the latest version of Quik time installed
it's Photshop CS5 that im useing running on 64bit windows 8, i was priviously runing 32bit windows 8 and and this worked fine, then upgraded to 64bit and now this problem has occoured
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