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  • GIF files imported in FC Pro

    Posted by Joe Young on September 11, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Hey folks,
    I’m really sorry to trouble you, but I hope to have some advice on GIF files and JPG cropped images from Photoshop.
    When I import any GIF file, why does it always come up as a white square? When the GIF file is on a website, it has a transparent background. Let me say this more clearly. When you crop an image in Photoshop (JPG image) using the eraser tool, it only shows the object itself and not the sqauare background.

    Then when I import that into FC Pro, it always shows a white background, with the object that I’ve cropped appearing against that unwanted whit background.

    Is there a solution to my problem?
    Really grateful if you folks have the answer..

    David Roth weiss replied 16 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Dennis Leppell

    September 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    save your images from photoshop as a .tif, with transparent background.

  • David Roth weiss

    September 11, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    GIF files are not supported in FCP.

    David Roth Weiss
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    David Weiss Productions, Inc.
    Los Angeles

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