IN FCP 7 I could edit a logo in a .psd format as layers. Is this yet another feature no longer possible in FCP X?
MacPro (Tower), Mac OS X (10.6.5), Final Cut Studio
No this "Professional" Tool is no more supporting this "amateurish" function!
Becouse Nobody needs that!
Great. I am getting more and more fed up with FCP *** everyday!
A graphic with an alpha channel can be imported, but not layers. PSDs with layers can be imported into Motion, which is a better environment for intensive graphical work.
That'd be great if I was doing "intensive graphical work", I'm not. All I want to be able to do is animate a client's logo in a couple of quick and easy steps and not have to figure out how to do all of that in Motion. Thanks again Apple, I think FCPX stinks for the most part. Ooh, but it does render in the background!
If the logo has multiple layers and you want to animate the separtate layers in really cool ways, then Motion is ideal for this. There's a few more fathoms of depth to it, but for simple animations Motion is quick and fast. And if you need to use this again and again, make it as an FCP generator, and it will appear inside FCP's generator browser and can be applied any time you need it.
In the other topic Tom Wolsky had god idea for me: I need just to hire an assistant to do what FCPx can´t! maybe that works for you to. The only thing he has to do is: to open Psd files and export every layer as single images and then import them in FCPx and then put them together. But hey The app costs now only 299.-! For the rest of the mony you saved, you can pay the assistent for one day.
Now there's the very definition of a facetious comment.
As if your 662 animatics was comparable to a logo animation.
If you really think it is then an assitant sounds ideal.
beleve me Tom I have assitance, but not for things which FCp made before automaticaly! Walt Disney will have the same problem whit FCx like me. But they have more then 2000 FCP suites. They will not accept that workflow, just like me! Every cheap app is doing that automatically but not imovie Pro, sorry FCpx!
You're quite right. Until the application has a reconnect function, this is not the application to use for your type of work.
As Jobs is the largest single shareholder of Disney, I wonder if this will effect moving forward with a soltuion for animation companies. Drop him a line. He may even answer,
alifromköln wrote:
beleve me Tom I have assitance, but not for things which FCp made before automaticaly! Walt Disney will have the same problem whit FCx like me. But they have more then 2000 FCP suites. They will not accept that workflow, just like me! Every cheap app is doing that automatically but not imovie Pro, sorry FCpx!
Avid doesn't import PSDs as layers either. And where exactly does Disney put their 2000 FCP suites? I've been to Disney Studios. There's not room for 200 FCP suites let alone 2000. Hyperbole, thy name is: alifromköln.
Andy
Andy Neil wrote:
Avid doesn't import PSDs as layers either.
Andy
This is not true. Media Composer has supported PSD layers, selective layers and flattening a file for many versions now.
I'd do all my animation work in Motion, anyway, which does support PSD layers.
.PSD files in FCPX?
