epdfilm Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I've been trying to export as layered Photoshop file to bring into FCP X. However, seems to come out as flattened only. I saw a previously topic and I'm thinking that is the case. Can someone confirm? If so, I guess the only way to do it is to make a "slice" of each layer then export all. Am I correct in that assumption? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted August 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 10, 2015 Hi Epdfilm, Welcome to the forums :) The app should export majority of the objects without needing to flatten them. Would you be able to attach your file so I may investigate this further? C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_H Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 I think he means that he wants to export with layers, but is getting a single, flattened image... I have no problem exporting layered PhotoShop files, so my take on it is that there is probably a conflicting layer effect – something that PhotoShop doesn't have or does differently. If you make just one layer visible, select it, right click on it and choose "Merge visible", it will make a flattened copy of that layer with all effect applied. Do this for each of the layers you want to use, delete the original layers and save a copy. That copy will have your layers but no custom effects. That should be "simple" enough for FCP to work with. (I'm not quite clear if you're saying your exported PSD file is actually flat if viewed in PhotoShop, or if it's FCP that is importing it as flattened artwork – a lot of options to address the problem) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted August 17, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 17, 2015 The problem will be that FCP X does not recognise the compression method we used for 8-bit files. This has been fixed for a future release. If you open the PSD in Photoshop and resave it, FCP should be able to open it. Callum 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epdfilm Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 Thanks Ben. Just what I wanted to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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