• Adobe After Effects

  Wrong Layer Imports from Photoshop

  Posted by Mark Archibald on July 26, 2007 at 1:14 am

  Aloha-

  Just installed the new AE CS3(8.0.0.298) and it will not play nice with Photoshop CS3(10.0).

  I have a multi-layer photoshop doc. I try to import a specific layer. In layer options, I choose the layer I want, but the wrong layer is imported. Anyone else seen this or know of a workaround or patch?

  OS 10.4.10
  2 x 3 Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon
  8 Gb RAM
  Quicktime 7.1.6

  Mark Archibald, Honolulu

  Mark Archibald replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  July 26, 2007 at 5:39 pm

  I’ve had this same problem on a number of occasions. May I ask, are you creating your documents fresh in Photoshop CS3 and in AE CS3 or are you updating old 7.0/6.5/CS2/CS documents?

  I think it has something to do with groups/folders in the layer structure and CS3 handling things differently. I haven’t run enough tests to be sure, in the meantime the workaround I’ve been using is counting up from the layer I want x number of times. It seems to be fairly consistent with the offset of the layer.

  Darby Edelen
  DVD Menu Artist
  Left Coast Digital
  Aptos, CA
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  Mark Archibald

  July 27, 2007 at 1:51 am

  Dave-
  Right after I posted, I figured out the workaround of importing the .psd as a comp.

  Darby-

  It IS a project upgraded from AE7, but the .psd was created in the same version of Photoshop CS3.
  After seeing your post, I tried it on a new project and new psd, and the same thing happens.

  It does seem to be something to do with the layer group, because I often just get a layer called “layer group/source.psd.”

  This is a bad BUG. I will fill out the form on their website and hope for the best…

  -Mark Archibald

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