Photoshop Files in 1080i60 project

I am editing a project shot in 1440cbr on a JVC Everio HD-7. I have found the Final Cut Express Easy Setup format that works best with this footage is HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60.
Can someone recommend a technique to generate and import photoshop files that will not suffer resolution issues? As of now, I create a 1920x1080 file in photoshop. When these files are imported to FCE, they are not nearly as sharp, and appear stretched.
Thanks in advance.

Okay, that helped resolve my issue. Now I'm running into something else frustrating with importing images. When I use a transition to change from video to a still or graphic, the image looks clear and crisp during the transition, but as soon as the transition is over the image or graphic becomes pixelated. Then during the transition back to video takes place, the image looks clear again. I'm guessing this has some relation to my previous issue, but I'm unsure.
Thanks again,
Preston

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into a PAL project will corrupt the file, so
that you cannot open it again. Sorry.
See this (9th post down) which showed that any file created in Photoshop with its type as ".psd", whether with or without transparency, will give this fault. However, a file created in Photoshop with .tif will be safe even if it has transparency.
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This file does not appear to be a photoshop file error.

Hello,
I know this has been covered a few times already, but none of the previous threads about it were able to help my situation.
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Now, if one Imports the JPEG with its extension changed to PSD as a Menu, then the Menu is created, including the necessary Layers. The Menu is NOW a PSD, and when Opened in PS will reflect the Layer structure (try this at home). If one had constructed Buttons in the JPEG, they would now only be graphics on that one single Background Layer in the JPEG. They would not function as Buttons, but could be useful graphics for other things. One would then need to add real Button Layer Sets to the PSD to be able to add any navigation.
Back in the post above, I suggested doing the Save_As to JPEG to see how things get changed. Use that in another test - Import that JPEG as a Menu. In Encore, try to Link to what had originally been Buttons in that Imported JPEG. What happens? Can you Link to them, even though you are now working with the created PSD?
Now, add a Button, or two, from the Library. Choose Edit in Photoshop, and look at the Layer and Layer Set structure. Things have changed from the original JPEG, with only the Background Layer. You now have that Library Button's Layer Set structure.
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The only way to Import that JPEG into Encore as a Menu would be to change the file extension to PSD, but what appear to be Buttons would NOT be Buttons, but just static pixels in the Background.
Message was edited by: Bill Hunt - Added graphics

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"This file does not appear to be a Photoshop file"

Ok, I used the first edition of Encore in the past, but I just installed the version that came with Premiere CS3. I used Photoshop 6.0 to do my menus in the past, but just installed the trial of Photoshop CS3.
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My old menus I created in Photoshop 6.0 won't import into the new Encore.
The new menus (I opened my old menus with CS3 and saved them out.) won't import into Encore either. In both cases, Encore says:
"This file does not appear to be a photoshop file."
The files are indeed all photoshop .PSD files and the Photoshop 6.0 files are actually menu files that were in the same .ncor project I used on the old Encore and opened on the new one.
Why won't Encore read these?
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Bummer,
I hoped that I had helped.
Let's play 20 Questions:
The PSD files were originally created in PS 6, and you have Opened them in PS-CS3, from which they were Saved. Correct?
Did CS3 throw any error messages?
You state that they were Menus in Encore. Which version, and did they function perfectly there?
I assume that when used in a previous ver. of Encore, they did function, but now you have Opened, worked on and Saved from PS-CS3. What changes were made?
Was the Color Mode, or Bit-Depth changed, or were Alpha Channels introduced?
Has your OS been changed?
Will these files still Open fine in PS-CS3?
I'm trying to find the point that they ceased to Import, as they should and find out what might have changed with them. You might want to do a bit of a timeline on the life of these files, i.e. 1.) created in PS6. 2.) used as Menus in Encore2. 3.) Opened and changed in PS-CS3 by doing X. 4.) Saved out as PSDs and attempted to Import into Encore CS3 with above error message...
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When I try to build my DVD from Encore, I get this error "This fiel does not appear to be a Photoshop file.
I created my menu in Photoshop CS4, imported it as a menu. When I preview in Encore it works fine?
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The 2 bit image object that shows up to the right of the buttons on the highlighted state still was a little too crisp, but
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