• Adobe After Effects

  Render on transparent, using “Drop Shadow” pretty please

  Posted by Ellen Pollard on February 11, 2014 at 10:59 am

  Hello dear after effects experts!

  I need to make subtitles for an animation.
  To make them easy to read, I use the layer style “Drop shadow”.
  When I render on transparent, quicktime, animation codec, “RGB + Alpha”, it doesn’t work 🙁
  Without the layer style it works perfectly.

  Please please help me with a solution 🙂

  Thanks! Ellen

  Ellen Pollard replied 12 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  February 11, 2014 at 1:58 pm

  What do you mean by “it doesn’t work?”

  Can you describe exactly what steps you’re taking, what you expect to see, and what you’re actually seeing?

  Walter Soyka
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  John Cuevas

  February 11, 2014 at 3:07 pm

  I just created one and it worked fine, where isn’t it working for you, in an NLE? Have you tried importing the graphic back into AE and checking there—cause some NLE’s can be finicky about how you bring in alpha’s.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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  Ellen Pollard

  February 11, 2014 at 3:12 pm

  Hello all!

  Thank you so much for the responds.
  There is one episode in which it wouldn’t work.. As soon as I tried it in the other ones it was fine with codec “animation” and RGB+Alpha.
  So just made the first one again.

  tsss computers 😉

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