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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files

Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files

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- Motion offers several ways that we can open PhotoShop files and extends Final Cut Pro Ten's capabilities by allowing users to work with Illustrator files, too. Let's see how we can import these files and set them up so that we can animate them inside of Apple Motion. I'm here in my Chapter 3.9 Import PSD AI project. I want to go to my File Browser and under my desktop I'm going to navigate where these files are located. I'm going to go into my FCP ten guru folder. What we're looking for is the assets import folder which we can double click and you'll see a couple files. One is that clock 2 psd file we imported on a earlier project, but a word of caution. So if you select this and just choose Import, you'll that all of the layers that we saw in that previous Final Cut Pro Ten file, I'll first of all hit Shift Z so we can see the full graphic, you don't have access to any of the layers. It brings it in as just one element. So I'm going to hit Command Z to undo that. And the trick to…

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