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Hello, I have some intricate PSD files which I wish to animate in AE.
These have groups of layers with masks (bitmap hand painted) on layer 
but also on the groups.
Group mask do not seem to come through in AE, so I copy pasted them as 
separate files and added as track mattes but still doesn't seem to give 
the same look.
Any ideas?
On the same note, some PS shape layers with opacity set to 0 and a 2px 
stroke come into AE as raster layers with 100% opacity. Create shape 
layer from vectors is greyed out. Any workarounds except copy pasting 
the path from PS to AE?
thanks in advance