Video layers are indicated by a little film reel icon in the Layers palette and they can be further embedded in Smart Objects for lossless scaling and Smart Filters. The background video updates as you move through the Animation palette's timeline. Considering that for animated web buttons, it's often overkill to buy an Application like After Effects, Adobe has loosened the reigns to allow a certain level of feature overlap so that video can be imported, filtered, combined with other animated layers, and then exported to a variety of video or frame formats:
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While Adobe ImageReady let you open Quicktime or other movie formats for use with animated GIFs, true video support and exporting has now come to Photoshop CS3 Extended. You could quickly measure a logo's height, assign it a known height, do another measurement and then tell the guy on the phone that you're going to need two feet by 4349 feet of bright green sticker stock, stat. While it's hard for me to see a non-scientific application of the Image Stacks feature, I can see the 2D measurements being used much like the ruler in Vanishing Point. This would ostensibly help visually cut to the chase, eliminating any random Waldos creeping up in your image. For example, you want to remove a figure walking through an image, or remove a car passing in front of the main subject matter.
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This would likely save a lot of manually entering values but it's hard for me to do this feature justice. When you have your measurements, you can then export the values to a tab-delimited text file for a spreadsheet. I would guess that this would be good for things like tumor size and density measurement. As well as simple measurements, area selections and their contents (perimeter, gray value mean, etc) can be logged as well.