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Postby VegettoEX » Mon Aug 05, 2002 3:01 pm

I was actually talking with AD about this subject, this morning.

The video we're working on has some parts where we're taking an image from PhotoShop, and placing it in Premiere w/o the background.

Easy, of course. Just import the one layer you want, overlay it with the video, boom, you're done.

For some reason, though, PhotoShop was rendering the effects in the layer, but Premiere just REFUSED to recognize them AT ALL. No matter what we tried. NO MATTER. We did EVERYTHING.

So for this specific thing, we're going to try the "Green Screen" approach and see what happens. The "smoothing" option is actually going to be better for this one, anyway.

When it comes down to it, I think both methods are important to know, if you're going to attempt this kind of thing. See what works best for you :D.
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Postby alternatefutures » Mon Aug 05, 2002 4:46 pm

You didn't try very hard. To make a layer effect permanent, just make another, empty layer, link the two together and Layer -> Merge Linked. Import to Premiere and you're done.
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Postby ErMaC » Tue Aug 06, 2002 9:47 am

Or I think you can prob ably just render the layer's effects, right?

FYI Layer effects exist only in Photoshop itself. They are applied in realtime to the image and only the instructions on how to render them are stored in the .PSD file, and thus anything reading the layer from the PSD file will not have the effects with it. I encountered this using multiple layers from photoshop in after effects, but premiere behaves the same way.

You can render the layer's effects by saying Create Layers and then merging the layers as altfutures suggested, I think you can also go to the layer and say "Rasterize" but that might only work with text layers. Basically once you do that, it commits the changes and burns them into the picture, as opposed to rendering them from instructions (the difference between prerendered backgrounds in say, Final Fantasy 7 and the realtime-rendered-characters).
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