It's my day for Adobe quirk questions. About a month ago I found that the Photo Shop credits I've been using for years don't seem to play nice when I bring them into CC 2015 Photo Shop and resave them.
On my old laptop I have CS 4. I don't use it much but I've been building credits from the same template for 3 or more years. Now that I have CC 2015 on my main edit computer at work I figured I'd just bring the template over and build the credits on it. The credits have about 8 layers for banners and text. There are up to 3 columns of text which are in different layers. The layout is very straight forward and I just turn on the layers I need depending how many columns of credits there are on a given page. This is all fine and when importing to Avid I flatten the layers and all is well until now.
What I found is if I open a Photoshop document from CS 4 in CC 2015 and type over the existing text and save it back to the original file everything imports into Avid fine. If I open the CS 4 doc in CC 2015 and then do a Save As then the resulting file will not import into Avid properly when flattening on import. So if I just update text and do cmd S to save it works but if I save as the flatten doesn't work correctly when importing to Avid. It's hard to describe the result but it should be text over a grey banner but what come out is solid white in what looks to be the shape of the banners alpha channel.
If I import not flattening all the layers come in correctly so something is happening with the flatten. I've even brought the resulting files that are a problem when flattened in Avid to AE to just look at the alpha channnel and it shows up correctly in AE.
One thing I have noticed is I usually will get the dialogue box when saving stuff in PS that says something about maximizing compatibility with other versions of PS IIRC. I always choose maximize compatibility and haven't had any issues related to that. On the work computer I no longer see that dialogue box pop up. I'm assuming that might be a preference setting somewhere or did that dialogue go away? At any rate I wonder if because I don't see that dialogue box there might be less universally compatible PS files being made. That doesn't explain why saving back over the original file works in Avid but saving a new one doesn't but I'm just thinking/typing out loud here.
I'm on Mac OS 10.10.5 Avid 8_9_4 and CC 2015.5.0 Photoshop. I did some googling but haven't turned anything up.
I also just typed up a brand new PS image with just text and that messes up too when flattened. Did Avid break something in the traditional import on 8_9_4
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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