[Neil Anderson] "Is there any way to render a photoshop sequence with layers?"
Not that I know of. This would be a great
feature request [link], though.
[Neil Anderson] "I want to run a photoshop action on all the frames in a clip, but require a mask layer. Since AFAIK photoshop actions can't grab the mask from another file (in an automated way) I need to have the mask for each frame available in the same PSD file on a different layer."
Perhaps you can accomplish what you need with Photoshop Extended's
video layers [link]?
[Neil Anderson] "The filmstrip format would also make this possible, but I can't seem to find that in the output modules."
Filmstrip has been deprecated.
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