Movie Studio 10 - psd image support dropped?

memoryman wrote on 12/10/2010, 12:34 AM
Hi, I have a MS 9 project where I used a .psd image as an overlay to show one of those "bugs" (soccer game score, club logo etc) as an overlay to the main video. Worked beautifully with transparent background ... then upgraded to MS 10, and now can't even load a .psd file, and converting the .psd image to .jpeg loses the transparency. No doubt you guys :) will advise some workaround, but having the .psd support was so good (could even edit the graphic, save it in Photoshop, and because the media was registered in the project the changes would appear instantly on the timeline. No mess, no fuss). Anyone know a workaround, or what Sony's position is? Any advice appreciated ... do I have to use chroma keying?

Cheers.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 12/10/2010, 12:48 AM
Export PSD to PNG. PNG supports transparency. PSDs are a moving target as Adobe is updating the format, a format that's not documented. PNG and JPEG are.
Markk655 wrote on 12/10/2010, 6:05 PM
Not sure why your psd doesn't work in VMS 10. I have VMS HD Suite 10 and PSE10. Took a jpg photo, copied a section, created a new PSE document with transparent background, pasted the jpg section and then saved as psd format. Opened the organizer and dragged it to the VMS video overlay track in the timeline. It worked without issue and the psd registers in the project media tab.
BobWard wrote on 12/10/2010, 7:17 PM
I have VMS 10 HD Platinum Suite. I just prepared a slideshow in VMS with 40 photos, all of which were in psd format. No problems encountered at all, everything worked great.

Bob
Eugenia wrote on 12/11/2010, 3:45 PM
Maybe he used a newer version of the format, that Vegas does not support.
memoryman wrote on 12/11/2010, 10:33 PM
Hi, and thanks for your comments and ideas ... I'm using PhotoShop Elements 7 ... so it shouldn't be due to a recent format change, and in any event, it works in MS 9. I'll try the .png suggestion in the next project, but for now I'll complete this one in MS 9 and keep my fingers crossed on further information and/or testing on the .psd support. As a convert from years of using the eternally flaky and insular Pinnacle, this integration between Studio and a graphics program was such a nice surprise. Cheers.
Markk655 wrote on 12/12/2010, 5:58 AM
Memoryman,

I completed my own identical switchover a few years ago and haven't looked back. I love the psd support. I just wish we could grab the psd layer support (a single psd with layers would place each layer on a specific track like they do in VegasPro and the surround sound panning.