Transitions on psd files

My wife has Adobe Premier, and she can put transitions between her PSD stills with no problem. I have Final Cut, and I can't. Is there's a certain file I can use that will be transparency, and be the same quality as Photoshop files/ with layers, and will allow me to put transitions on them. In other words, what is a quality file, that has transparency, that will allow me to put a transition between stills?
Can you help me?

The short answer is use PNG (which will not allow layers, but will allow transparency)
There is nothing special about PSDs that prevent you from using transitions. You always need handles in order to do transitions. The problem is that you don't have handles. FCP imports PSD files as sequences. When you initially import the PSD file, a sequence is created based on the length of your Still/Freeze Duration in the User Preferences/Editing panel. By default it is set to 10 seconds. Each layer in the PSD file is translated to a video track in FCP within that sequence. You then have the option to take only the layer(s) you want and copy them from the PSD timeline into your edited sequence or to nest the sequence into your edited sequence. If you nest the sequence, the length of the clip will be limited to the length of the sequence (by default 10 seconds) so if you try to put a transition at the end of the nested sequence, you won't have any handles. The solution is to open the PSD sequence and make all the layers much, much longer. (Be aware that if you have that PSD sequence cut in to your edited sequence already, you will probably ripple everything in that sequence to the right.) Then cut in only the length you need, and you'll have all the handles you could ask for, which will allow transitions.

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