Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1193)

408 Part II Effects
Working with Layered Photoshop Sequences
When you import a layered Photoshop file into Final Cut Pro, all the layers of the source
Photoshop file are composited together with a sequence frame size identical to the
imported Photoshop file’s frame size.
If you want to import a layered Photoshop file as a single clip, you must flatten the
image in Photoshop and then import the file into Final Cut Pro.
The sequence Final Cut Pro creates has the same number of layers as the imported file. The
background layer becomes a clip in track V1, and each consecutive layer appears in the
same order as the layers in the original Photoshop file. If you change the order of the video
tracks, the layering order changes. If the background in the Photoshop file is transparent,
the background of the new sequence is transparent as well and defaults to black.
Layer opacity settings, layer modes, and layer visibility are preserved, but layer masks
are not. If a Photoshop layer mode has no corresponding compositing mode in
Final Cut Pro, that layer mode is ignored.
An imported Photoshop
file becomes a sequence
in the Browser.
The background layer
becomes a clip in track V1,
with other layers on the
tracks above.
A Photoshop file is a
sequence with its own
tab in the Timeline.