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Is there a way to add drop shadow to keyed figure?
I have a person I keyed out against a greenscreen background using ultrakey. I was hoping to add a drop shadow to separate him from the background plate I have him in front of. However, when I add a drop shadow it applies it to the full frame and not the alpha I’ve keyed out. Is there a way to have the shadow respond to the key or will it always respond to the full frame?
I am exporting this as an flv for a website, so I imagine I may be able to mimic something in flash if absolutely necessary, but I’d like to avoid it if I can.
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What did you do to bring in the drop shadow? Video effects under Perspective?
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That’s what I tried so far. Is there another way? I’ve always edited in FCP, but I decided to use Premiere on this since it has a superior keyer.
Dragzz
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Matt,
double-check two things…
1) In the Effects Control Panel make sure the Drop Shadow effect is below the Ultra Key filter. Premiere and After Effects apply their effects from the top down.
2) Also make sure Ultra Key’s output has been reset to Composite.
I hope that works for you.
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Hi Matt,
I just tested the keyer with a drop shadow under the keyer in the list of effects and it works as expected.
I don’t know why it would be behaving weirdly on your end? Do you have a “hacked” MPE GPU card using the Hardware MPE?
Otherwise try to nest the clip and add the shadow to the nest? You can right click on the clip and select Nest from the list for it to replace the clip in the timeline with the nested version.
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Drop the shadow to the keyed footage and turn up the opacity.
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No, it’s definitely not hacked. I’m running on a mac with a high end card and legal software. I’ll try what you said and see if it gives me a better result. I tried changing the drop shadow to red, and the entire frame gets a drop shadow, not the individual person who has had a green screen key applied to him.
Dragzz
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Stacking order was the issue. Thanks for the help!
Dragzz
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