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Leland Parker
October 6, 2009 at 8:12 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Well, at long last a solution… and from what I can tell, it simply must be an OS bug. Here’s what worked. I gave the file to someone running PSD on a MBP running Snow Leopard. He opened it, saved it, and then gave it to my editor who is also running SL. Works! Problem not so much solved as it is beaten!

Now. Does anyone know the best way to bring this little issue to the attention of Apple and Adobe? Perhaps to gain an actually solution to those not willing to jump to SL? I personally intend to but after a font issue I saw go down today I’m hesitant.

Leland
SYZYGY Media
Leland Parker
October 3, 2009 at 11:04 am in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Those are good points, but in my situation, the ease of sending jpegs to client for layout approval, and .psd to editor for motion video far outweighs the challenges… in fact there has never been any challenges ’til this bug came along! When my client says, oops, the date of the event is wrong, I can change it in my psd and send to the editor and FCP is aware of the updated PSD and whalla! If I had to kick out a new .tga for every layer that simple text change effected I would either lose money or annoy clients billing them 10 minutes for a 30-second repair.

-L
Leland Parker
October 3, 2009 at 10:56 am in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Now THERE’s an IDEA!!! I was so wrapped up in the software, I kind of forgot about basic OS causes! I’ll ask the editor to try that on Monday. Wow, good old corrupt preferences file… wouldn’t that be something!

-L
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 6:56 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Thanks. What’s your system spec? Especially CPU and version OS & FCP
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

It is… in a word, whack! And thinning my hair by the minute.

Here is the test file I’ve been using. It works just fine in my FCP 4.5 on my (non-intel) G5 dual.

https://www.syzygymedia.net/downloads/test-psd.zip
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Yep. We’re 8bit… sorry I neglected to put that in the original post.
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 4:52 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

My editor is using FCP 6.0.6
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 4:32 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

First, thank you so much for your well informed post!

Regretfully, the posts on Apple’s site relate to things I’ve already checked (as stated in my post) I did use max-compatibility, and I am on a mac.

I did think about your work around (which is a great idea) but we’re looking at this being an on-going, 10-files-with-4-5-layers-each every week in-perpetuity… so I’m hoping there’s simpler solution.

What I think I’d like to do next is send the test file to someone else who has same spec machine as my editor.
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 2:07 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

Thanks to all who have and will reply, but PLEASE read the original post carefully. PSD file was created on MacBook running Leopard.
Leland Parker
October 1, 2009 at 12:21 pm in reply to: PSD Layers Don’t Show in FCP 6 – Pulling my hair out!

I tried .tiff format (and 8-bit vs. 16 bit and .dv format). Still nothing! I told you I was running low on hair! Thanks for the suggestion though.

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