• Adobe After Effects

  Hard Shadow renders instead of soft

  Posted by Jarrod Boord on December 13, 2019 at 4:23 am

  Hello
  Ive tried searching online and cant find a solution to this. Im not a very experienced in AE, but I cannot seem to get my shadows to render as shown in the composition. Ive made them soft, but when I export it, the shadows are hard with no soft edge. Can someone help please?
  Thanks in advance.

  Shadow is soft in composition
  

  Shadow is hard when exporting
  

  Jarrod Boord replied 6 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Luca Zecchi

  December 13, 2019 at 11:39 am

  Hi,
  Are you sure to export the right composition? What output format are you using?
  How you make the soft shadow? (using fast blur? drop shadow effect? drop shadow layer style? other method?)
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  Jarrod Boord

  December 13, 2019 at 9:37 pm

  I worked it out. I had softened the shadow and it looked fine when the project was zoomed out. But when I zoomed in the shadow was hard again. So it was a weird preview thing.

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