Importing Photoshop elements ... weird black boxes showing up in Motion.

When I try to import a layer from a PSD file into Motion, it imports with a strange black box of the same dimensions as the layer.
For instance, if I'm animating several letters of a word, and I import the letters separately, each letter comes into Motion bound within a black box ... almost as if I flattened the text against a black background.
It's pretty annoying--any thoughts?

The problem lies with the psd file. Could be a couple of things. Presumably, there is a proper alpha channel in Photoshop?
Did you make sure that the image mode is set to RGB? Other color modes will give you strange results.
If you select the psd in the Media tab, what does the inspector say about the alpha interpretation.
Usually this works perfectly fine in Motion, so I'm leaning towards a problem with the picture.
Andy

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