Text Compositing

Maverick wrote on 3/24/2004, 10:51 AM

Hi

Just read the latest issue of Tips Tricks and Scripts and set about playing with text compositing and got it all to work excepot one thing;

I can't seem to get a drop shadow to work. Although the tick box is set nothing happens. Is this option unavailable under these circumstances or is there something I have missed?

TIA

Comments

winrockpost wrote on 3/24/2004, 1:41 PM

Change the shadow color to an obnoxios bright red ,, then play with the sliders to get a feel for it. If you still dont see it , hmmmm,I dont know.

jetdv wrote on 3/24/2004, 2:03 PM

Apply the shadow on the track with the text.

Maverick wrote on 3/24/2004, 2:18 PM

Thanks risce1 & jetdv.

I cangedthe colour and it still didn't seem to make any difference so I changed the Offsets to ver high numbers. The result wasn't expected. The drop shadows were exact copies of the main text - with the parent video showing through and not the expected shadow colour.

All this is done in the Video Event FX dialogue of the text in the child track.

Cheers