[MacDV] Corel Photo-Paint

[Jim Asherman]

On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 05:32  PM, Mark Petrie wrote:

> I'm a fairly new FCP3 user (OS 9.2.2) and have been getting the daily
> digests of this list for the past few months..I appreciate the good 
> info and
> it has been helpful in several instances. Thanks to all...
>
> This is the first time I am writing. I am trying to create titles and
> credits in Corel Photo-Paint 10 (came bundled with DVDSP; I don't own
> Photoshop), but I can't seem to get FCP to open the PSD files that I
> export...the files show up in the Import navigation window with the file
> extension .psd and "Photoshop document" as the description in the "Kind"
> column  (I export to the Capture Scratch folder for the project) along 
> with
> a preview, but when I click "Open", I get this error message: File 
> Error:
> Unknown file...however, Quicktime recognizes them as I have successfully
> opened them in Picture Viewer and Quicktime Player where they are 
> defined in
> Movie Properties as Photoshop documents.
>
> I have exported these files as GIF, and they open OK, but there is no 
> alpha
> channel, hence opaque, and I want to be able to superimpose the text 
> over
> existing video clips in the project.
>
> Anyone else using Photo-Paint or have any suggestions as to what I may 
> be
> doing wrong? I appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks...Mark
>
>

Just "Import" the psd.'s instead of planning so far ahead. Looks good on 
paper but skips a step. Import.
Jim