From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5494758 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:28:47 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.10] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC8615400E for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] Alternative to layered .psd import? In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:28:45 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote: > The short answer is no =96 layered Photoshop is it. When that fails, = you have to manually mimic this with single TIFF file exports of layers = from Photoshop and rebuild and layer in AE. This is probably not going to be a reasonable alternative for you guys, = but ProEXR can save out a multi-layer file from Photoshop that can be = read in AE. If you use the ProEXR Comp Creator functionality, it will = do all the setup for you. Problem is that first you'll have to convert your Photoshop document to = 32-bit mode which will make it take up a lot more memory and may take a = long time for big files. Also, it doesn't transfer adjustment layers or = anything like that, just regular layers. And because the files use = floating point, they are probably bigger and slower than an 8-bit PSD. But just wanted to point out that there is an alternative at least! Brendan