Importing Photoshop Alpha file into FCP 7

Hi gang:
I am stumped! I just upgraded to Final Cut Pro 7. When I create a Photoshop title in an Alpha channel (as I have done hundreds of times before), import it into my browser, then drag it into my Viewer, it does not come in as an Alpha Channel file. I tried saving the file in CYMK, in RGB, in 8 bit and in 16 bit (and all combinations). It is an Alpha channel document in the Photoshop program and I save it as such, but it does not come into FCP 7 as one. I have never had this problem in FCP 6.5. Is there a difference? Any ideas?

MacPro
OS X 10.6.8
2.16 GHz Dual Core
3 GB SDRAMM
Photoshop CS5

Make sure it's an 8 bit RGB. The other selections are bad. Are you sure it's a .psd and not a .tif with transparency turned off?

Thanks, Jude. That worked. I was expecting to see it as an Alpha file in the Viewer (as I always have), but it appeared solid. When I brought it into the timeline as RGB 8-bit it worked great. Thank you.

CMYK is for printing, and can cause all sorts of greif for FCP.

Delphinus Wrote:
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> Thanks, Jude. That worked. I was expecting to see
> it as an Alpha file in the Viewer (as I always
> have), but it appeared solid. When I brought it
> into the timeline as RGB 8-bit it worked great.
> Thank you.

...not just grief...CMYK colors are the wrong colors for motion pictures period. Convert to RGB and make sure all blacks are @ 0...otherwise they show up as dark gray (or faded). You see spots on TV all the time where the Editor / Designer did not translate the graphics from CMYK to RGB. Stands out like an alligator in a swimming pool.

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