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Trouble with layered PSDs in Premiere Pro CC
Hey All-
I’m having a super weird set of errors in Adobe Premiere CC (7.2.2) running on a new MacPro. I imported the PSDs as separate layers, which worked fine this morning. However, now when I double click one of the layers in the browser to bring it into the viewer, every layer looks the same. It’s as though Premiere is only reading the background layer of the PSD. Color correction and vignettes not showing up. It’s a mess. Rebooted, trashed prefs.. nothing. Duplicated the project to no effect. Duplicated the files to no effect. Re-connected media to no effect. Re-imported all the files and those work normally however they aren’t the ones in the sequence, and linking those sequence files to the PSD in the finder results in the same problem (only reading the background). I even opened the project in the latest CC 2014 on a different edit station, and had the same issue. I’m sorta stumped. Haven’t found much around on the forums. Wondering if there is a way short of exporting PNGs of every layer (this agency has given us 10 PSDs with 40 layers each) to get some reliability…
My advance thanks!
Mike
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2 Replies
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Hi, Mike.
Yes, png files will be better. Sometimes that can be a pain, depending how many layers you are working with but much more stable than psd files and png files treat shadows and vignetts much better than files than require the creation of alpha channels. PNG files just have them automatically. Just turn on one layer at a time and export each layer as a png
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in photoshop:
File>Scripts>Export Layers to files
png is an option
disable trim layers so each layer is full document size…
hth,
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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