• Avid Media Composer

  Sapphire on Symphony

  Posted by Dubbs on April 29, 2005 at 1:35 pm

  I am using Avid Symphony and have created a title with the title tool. How and what order do I apply a sapphire drop shadow the the text layer? Do I need to use s_layer or make RGBA first? I am confused about the Sapphire workflow because everything I have tried leaves me with the wrong result in this case. Any suggestions??

  Thanks
  GDubbs

  Mike G. replied 21 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Beabout

  April 29, 2005 at 4:19 pm

  Yeah it is kindof a weird workflow.

  Use makeRGB first, then add whatever effect (i.e. glow, etc.), then you would normally add S_Layer to see back through your alpha. It so happens though that with Drop Shadow it “layers” it for you automatically.

  So in your case you would use S_MakeRGB then S_Drop Shadow. That should work… it’s still the only way I can add a soft drop to a graphic created elsewhere.

  -Todd Beabout
  Vazda Studios
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  Promopunkk

  April 29, 2005 at 4:53 pm

  make sure you alt drop your effects and layer (or drop shadow)

  the punk
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  Mike G.

  May 5, 2005 at 7:29 am

  Drop S-MakeRGBA onto the title, then alt-drop any applicable effect you like, then alt-drop S_LAYER. The GenArts website has a decent tutorial on this:
  https://www.genarts.com/sapphire-avx-support.html#rgba

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