Answers.Body: <p>As Final Cut Pro is not made by Adobe, it does not have the same exact processing engine for dealing with the effects in a PSD.  This appears to be an artifact of the difference in processing between the systems.</p>
  
  <p>To work around this, I would recommend exporting the components as TGA or some similar file format that has alpha support.  Simple alpha blending is far more likely to blend in a predictable manner between applications.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks AJ. I'm not using any special blend mode in the PS files, so I was just guessing that this problem would happen for many when importing PSD files to FCPX (which is promoted as a new feature). I managed to work around it by exporting layers individually as PNGs, but that's a more cumbersome workflow.
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Body: <p>In Photoshop, I have prepared a scene to be animated in FCPX. I just selected a part of the clouds and copied into a separate layer, with 10px feather to avoid rough edges. However, when I import the same PSD into FCPX, the feather becomes a black halo. Anyone know how to fix this?
  See examples below:
  <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/KpsoV.png" alt="Photoshop">
  <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/C9gtA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do the layers maybe use a certain blending mode in Photoshop which is not supported in FCPX?
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Tags: <final-cut-pro-x>
Title: Black halo / ghosting on transparent layered PSD file imported into FCPX
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ThreadText: # Black halo / ghosting on transparent layered PSD file imported into FCPX
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-13)
  
  In Photoshop, I have prepared a scene to be animated in FCPX. I just selected a part of the clouds and copied into a separate layer, with 10px feather to avoid rough edges. However, when I import the same PSD into FCPX, the feather becomes a black halo. Anyone know how to fix this?
  See examples below:
  ![Photoshop](https://i.sstatic.net/KpsoV.png)
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/C9gtA.png)
  
  **Tags:** final-cut-pro-x
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do the layers maybe use a certain blending mode in Photoshop which is not supported in FCPX?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-04-14. Score: 2
  
  As Final Cut Pro is not made by Adobe, it does not have the same exact processing engine for dealing with the effects in a PSD. This appears to be an artifact of the difference in processing between the systems.
  
  To work around this, I would recommend exporting the components as TGA or some similar file format that has alpha support. Simple alpha blending is far more likely to blend in a predictable manner between applications.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks AJ. I'm not using any special blend mode in the PS files, so I was just guessing that this problem would happen for many when importing PSD files to FCPX (which is promoted as a new feature). I managed to work around it by exporting layers individually as PNGs, but that's a more cumbersome workflow.  
  
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