• Adobe After Effects

  Crappy Drop Shadow in AE

  Posted by Austin Ray on December 19, 2005 at 8:49 am

  Hi!

  I got some problems with the Drop Shadow Effect in AE 6.5 Pro.

  Have a look at this JPEG which is a stillframe from the animated Composition: https://www.cineshire.com/MAPWS720x576.jpg

  The first time I experienced the problem was on the other layer, the white 3D stroke on the same map. I got rid of this problem by accidentally enabling/disabling the Adjustment Layer button in timeline. Now I thought maybe I could do the same on this one, but it didn

  Austin Ray replied 20 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Al

  December 19, 2005 at 1:01 pm

  it looks as though your transfer mode is set to dissolve… but this would effect the entire layer and not just the drop shadow… hmmmm… have you tried just duplicating your layer and offsetting it to simulate a shadow? it’s not the answer but a workaround anyway…
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  Michael Szalapski

  December 19, 2005 at 5:07 pm

  If the layer’s blending mode is set to dissolve you only notice the difference in the areas not 100% opaque.
  I agree, this looks as though your layer’s blending mode is dissolve. Set it back to normal and you should be fine.

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  Austin Ray

  December 21, 2005 at 11:48 am

  That helped a lot. Thanks!

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