[Stíobhart Matulevicz]

neither importing the PSD as ‘composition’ or ‘composition – cropped layers’ made any difference. however your suggestion of making the comp size bigger worked.

my AE project was DV/PAL [720×576] but the imported PSD file was being converted by AE into a composition the same size as the original PSD file. when i adjusted the ‘composition settings’ to make this composition also 720×576 it started behaving as expected.

funny! – i can never remember adjusting the comp size when i’ve done this before. perhaps i’ve just forgotten doing it – or is there a pref somewhere that i may have had set previously, which will automatically create all new comps at the same size as the main project?

thanks for your help, folks.

[Stíobhart Matulevicz]

do you mean save the PSD file out of photoshop with both layers set to ‘normal’ and then open up the PSD file composition in AE and set the top layer to ‘multiply’?