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Drop Shadows, Standing effect?
Hey again Guys! Once again, i got more questiosn for final cut Pro…im usign a basic Text video generator. on a white Matte, with a Drop shadow….so it obviously looks as if the Sample text is Suspended from the ground a tad, or “floating”…now…wat i want to do…is make the drop shadow seem as if the Text was 3d, and the drop shadow to be spread on the ground,,,,as if the Text was standing upward in a box, and the sun was on the upper left corner of the box, making a shadow on teh boxes floor…idk hwo better to explain that..hehe..but for hwo to do it..and all i fidn is tuts on making the offset change, and thats obvious….but i just want the shadow, to be on the ground, not on the wall. like it s apicture frame. but like me standing outside, i look down on teh groudn at my shadow, i want the same effect for the text…sorry for long repeated explanations but idk hwo to word it to make sense on the effect i want, thanks for reading, and the help if you post it!
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[Ryan Rockwell] “.so it obviously looks as if the Sample text is Suspended from the ground a tad, or “floating”…now…wat i want to do…is make the drop shadow seem as if the Text was 3d, and the drop shadow to be spread on the ground,,,,as if the Text was standing upward in a box”
Use the Boris Title 3D tool instead, it has a more controllable shadow.
or use Motion.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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THANKS! i foudn wat you were tlkign about, quite expensive…nwo i use FInal Cut express, and i foudn Plugins for this…is there any free 3d title plugins on teh web i can download?
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WHOOOOO!!!! ok i foudn a solution, for those of you who dont have the boris Tool, just double the text, make one with a 3d rotation, ( the one behind the stacked text) and make it rotate to be UNDER the top text, then give it a black color, and a opactiy change, 🙂 u can distort it etc, as well :)its a bit longer of a way, but saves u a few hundred bucks for a toolkit 😛 .
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I’d probably go with Photoshop for this and you have that, I see. Make a text layer. Duplicate it. Merge lower layer down to a new blank layer so that it’s rasterized. Flip it vertically. Use Edit/Transform/Distort to make the shadow layer go the direction you want and expand to the degree that you want. Use the Effect/Blur/Lens Blur filter to make the shadow layer sharp when close to the text and fuzzier the further it gets from the text. Photoshop’s Help tells how to use a gradient channel to do this. Adjust transparency to taste. Is that the effect you’re looking for?
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ur amazing, i lvoe you for that expplanation and little tutorial u got goin on there, and yea thats the effect i want, now..ive kinda seen sumthgin in final cut, i was wondering if i save a photoshop image in PSD format, cna i u pload it in FInal cut, and actually edit the picture as if photshop was sitll open, thus framing the motion etc?
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You can of course do all this in FCP as well. Pretty much the same way. Distort tools and everything.
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In the Title 3D interface’s drop shadow tab, just choose “cast shadow”.
BTW, EVERYONE has Title 3D. No need to do anything advanced. Just use the Generator.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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