I've played with that a little too, and it is quite a powerful feature which brings a lot of opportunity. Something I would expect on a full point release no less!

I think some kudos should also go to Adobe for this also. They've kept the PSD file spec the same since day one making it possible for 3rd parties to implement features like this.

Bob.

A general question, since I have not tested this feature( I think this is great!) does it bring in PS smart filters.... and can you modify them?

I forgot to check last night.
Does it work with the "Open in Graphics Editor" script that Gilles (aka Rosebud) designed?

Mike

Does it work with the "Open in Graphics Editor" script that Gilles (aka Rosebud) designed?

Yes . . yes it does. Did it this morning and did it again now at 5pm UK time! It came back with the Layers intact too.

Grazie

I haven't tested everything but I don't think it understands things like smart filters.

Folders come in as empty events
Adjustment layers come in as empty events
Layers marked as invisible come in as events

So its rudimentary, but I don't really expect so much from the advanced features in photoshop. Yeah, it'd be nice to preserve filters and transfer modes... and not import things that I've marked invisible...but I didn't create these photoshop files with Vegas in mind.

I'll repeat a couple of things from the more general Vegas9d thread.

--It'd be very cool to have a dialog to allow you to choose what layers you want to use from the layered image file.
--It'd be very cool to be able to import a layered image file as a veg file, or convert it to a veg file while its in the media pool, or to have the option when you drop it across tracks to automatically create a nested veg file. This would give you a little multitrack object that you could open up and clean up, without creating 30 new tracks in your master project.
--It'd be quite cool to handle other multilayer formats in the same way. Especially GIMP's native XCF format, but also the Fireworks multilayer PNG and whatever format the Corel product uses.

And some new ideas...
--Some people want folder tracks in VP10. Great idea. Should have been there in Vegas 4.0 (or pick a number, any number). If this feature were implemented, why not have the option to create a track folder when you drop a multilayer image across tracks of the timeline? This would be another option to "create nested Veg." I'd want both features, of course.
--Photoshop allows you to work in a non-square aspect mode, which is handy because you can paste square pixel media into it and it'll automatically stretch it. People are likely to use the feature, Vegas needs to somehow not fight it. (The problem is that Photoshop will create an image a 720x480 that ought to have a PAR that is NOT 1.0. Vegas will always treat the image as if it had a 1.0 PAR. Try this out with a PSD file with the layers spread across tracks. It's a pain to correct. I gave up.)

Rob

Yes . . yes it does.

Grazie, that's great news :-)
Make that fantastic news !!

Mike

Mack350,Thanks a lot for testing out the PSD layers! ;-) Smart filters...... well I was hoping that SCS had developed a smooth "buffer" to pass data to executable Smart filters and use them as 3rd party apps. ;-( But layers is a great start! Thanks again for checking it out!

You should definitely do more checking on your own. I just looked at some pretty basic stuff and not the "Smart" bits. I think if you know you're composing for Vegas then it's easy to tailor what you do, and it's a nice feature to have.

Rob