Importing animated photoshop layers to FCPX

I have reworked and saved all my files in FCP 7 including some multilayered animated Photoshop files
in order to be able to finally export my project into FCP X - I have exported the file as Apple xml Interchange
and than used the 7toX transfer app to import the project into X.
All the files came in but I have multiple errors, such as wrong font, wrong size of some images and movies,
some sound layers not there but most importantly:
all my animated layered Photoshop files are there but none of all the keyed animation is there, nothing is
animated anymore.
Any quick suggestions???
pierre

I'm a little surprised that the animations didn't come over to FCPX intact. (Just checked the documentation and nothing stands out.)
Two thoughts:
If you don't need to work on the animations in FCPX, flatten them before exporting from FCP7.
Otherwise, contact Assisted Editing; I think they're responsive.
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