Final Cut Tip o' the Day 6/3 – Photoshop & FCP

Did you know that when you import a Photoshop project into FCP, Final Cut recognizes the layers? It will import the PS document as an individual sequence in FCP. Then you can animate the individual layers if necessary. If you want to make changes to the PS document, righ click on the document in the browser and choose "open in editor". (You may have to set the preferences to select PS as the editor for still images.)

Here is the key. FCP will not import Photoshop effects. So, if you want a drop shadow, you'll have to do that in FCP.