I've made an animation in photoshop CS 5.1 with three layers that I want to export to Apple's application Motion in order to work on each layer individually. I can easily make a quicktime file, but I can't work on each layer this way. When I import the photoshop file I get the prompt "All Layers," which I choose, but there is no movement when I hit play on the timeline. Only one frame is displayed when there are a number of different frames, and animations. So, I've tried everything I can think of, but can't seem to crack this one. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm using an IMac with 8 gigs of ram and 3 external hard drives with a terabyte internal drive.
Animated PSD layers are not even supported in After Effects, so it's extremely doubtful any of that would show up in a program from a competing vendor who would have to reverse-engineer it.... Therefore your ojnly option is to show/ hide layers as needed and render out separate sequences of the individual parts.
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I'm sorry, but I'm new to how this Forum works. Sorry, that my posts didn't show up here. Not sure why.
Thank you for your suggestion which I've tried. So now I have three separate layers in Apple's Motion. However, I want to import the rendered video from PS as alpha channels so that they don't need to have a transparent layer in Motion such as "Add". I want them to come in as transparent layers. I see no option in "Render Video," for making an alpha layer. What do you think I ought to do please? thanks so much! Lucinda
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