How to turn Clips to frames-Modification-then reassembly of clips in Shake

[bruce-morgan]

I am a starter in digital composite work so please bear with my basic question 
I was speaking to a former digital artist from a major effects house.
I told her I wanted to
1-break down clips into frames  in final cut pro and or quick time
2-modify the frames in photoshop cs5
3- reassemble them in some program (this is where I am not sure )
The only way I have done this so far is the use of a very basic gif engine called gif fun
The digital artist warned  me that i would get an effect called jitter 
She told me to use Shake
so i have been reading tutorials and looking at video tutorials
Can someone please give me the procedural for the above process minus the MOdification in shake ?
Thanks
Bruce R Morgan
working on  Project Lodestar Sagas  

[tim-turner]

probably need to familiarize yourself with the basics of shake, first.
you can actually avoid the GUI completely for tasks like this, with shake.
using the terminal, you can navigate to the folder containing your Quicktime mov and type
shake -info nameOfMovie.mov
this will return some info, including the frame range.
Then, you can type
shake nameOfMovie.mov -fo nameOfSeq.@@@.tif -t 1-100
where @@@ is the number of 0's you want in your numbering and -t is the frame range.
usually, I make a folder for the image seq to reside in

Depends on what you want to do to the images in PS, shake pretty much can do everything PS can do, except the healing brush

To work on images inside shake you'll need to do a couple of tutorials first to get used to the concept of a node based workflow.
basically you'd bring your .mov in with a fileIn and then connect a series of nodes under it, the last being a fileOut node.

Good luck.  It's definitely worth learning the shake process.  I just taught one of my clients, a photographer, to use it.  He's hooked.