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The year is 1994.
Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa,
the tunnel is opened between England and France,
and the first genetically modified tomatoes are created,
and Adobe released Photoshop 3.
Not CS3; 3.
What the heck am I talking about?
Every single time Adobe updates Photoshop,
we create new amazing features and functionality,
many that you've probably been used to for quite a long time;
bevel, emboss, glows, drop shadow,
all of those layer styles,
and if you're a Final Cut Pro 7 user,
and even 10,
you'll understand there are lots of work arounds and issues
when working with Photoshop files.
All of these layers and layer styles
things have have to be restorized, converted,
and compromised.
I want to show you that when you move to Premier Pro CS6,
anything you do inside a Photoshop file
works perfectly in Premier Pro;
in fact, if you're used to the way Photoshop files work in After Effects,
either in a merged or unmerged
or flattened or layered,
it's exactly the same way in Premier Pro.
It basically makes anything possible
and it puts a direct connection between Photoshop
and Premier Pro directly in the time line.
Let me show you how this works.
Let's jump up over here and look at Premier Pro
and I'm going to bring in a Photoshop file that I have right here,
so let's look at this as my wonderful, gaudy looking graphic
that I just created,
and it has quite a few things going on in here.
We can see that I have this shape,
which is our palm trees
that actually have a stroke on them.
If I turn the stroke off, you can see I have a white fill
with a very, very large gradient colored stroke.
The same with title,
big strokes on that, and then below that,
if I turn this off and we look,
we've got several different layers.
You can see that I have a big bevel emboss
on this sun shape right here,
and then below that, I've got these radiating lines
that have a layer mask set on them, too.
So quite a few things all going out at the same time.
No problem; let's jump into Premier Pro,
and I'll just choose File > Import
and we'll find my Photoshop file--there it is,
my cloud graphic, import that file,
and here we have some options.
The first one is Merge All Layers.
This is the one you want to use if you want to
retain the exact look and transparency of every single layer and object,
but you want it to act like a single graphic,
and that's really what I want to do here,
but let's look at the other ones,
Merged Layers; in this example,
I could override the ones that are showing in Photoshop
and just turn the ones on that I want in here and
merge them so, again, it's like the first one.
The last one is more of what you're used to
in Final Cut,
but we're going to retain all of the layer effects
and we can bring it in as a sequence if we want.
Again, I'm going to go back to Merge All Layers,
and click OK.
It brings it in as a single graphic.
I'll drop this on top,
drag this out,
and I'll hit play, and you can see there's our graphic,
and everything plays back accordingly.
All of our layer styles are showing up inside there,
and all the transparency and everything working just fine.
Well, let's jump over to Final Cut
and find out what happens when we do the same thing,
so I'm going to import a file
and we'll bring in the same thing;
this is the graphic we're bringing in,
and it comes in as a sequence,
and if we open this up, we can see--oh,
what the heck has gone wrong?
Well, every single layer style, gone.
Layer mask, gone.
Strokes, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
And now we have this inside Final Cut,
let's hit the play button--oh, yeah,
that's right, every single thing has to render
before we can see it.
Another thing that I'm not used to when you're working with Premier Pro.
I didn't create this demo to point out the pain
you already feel;
I wanted to point out that if you think this is the way
all software works,
you're missing a huge amount of functionality inside Premier Pro.
If you're working with Premier Pro--
I mean, look at that--
or come back to my really gaudy graphic back her,
everything is in tact,
and we can also just select this if we don't have this open already,
we can choose Edit Original,
and it's gonna launch us back into Photoshop
and we can make any changes here,
turn that off, hit Save;
it's gonna tell us we've got saved, no problem.
We come back in here into Premier Pro, wait a second, boom, and it updates.
If you wanted the multiple layers that you normally have,
a lot of Final Cut users like that,
where they'll bring in all the different layers of Photoshop and animate them.
No problem; we have both worlds inside there,
but I just want to make sure you understand
that you have amazing functionality in Photoshop
that everyone knows and loves,
layer masks, layer styles,
different types of text controls,
all of that is completely in tact inside here.
In fact, the new 3D object that you create inside
Photoshop will convert perfectly in here.
They're not 3D anymore when they're in Premier Pro,
but you're not gonna have to restorize or flatten or do anything of that.
So let's understand that there's a lot of functionality that
has changed since 1994,
and it's time to take advantage of that, and you take advantage of that
when you put Photoshop together with Premier Pro CS6.
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