parent shadow causes problems

[Valerie Morrison]

here’s the correct layout (without shadows):

[John Rofrano]

> They are all 3d source alpha tracks (for the z-axis rotation)… The only way I’ve found to do this is to use a parent/child relationship, thereby using the parent track 2d shadow.

Your problem is that you have thrown away the 3D information by adding a 2D shadow because you placed the parent track into 2D mode. You can’t do this. Both the Parent Track Motion and the Parent Composite Mode must remain in 3D mode for this to work (which eliminates using a 2D shadow) 🙁

BTW, Awesome use of 3D Track Motion and reflection. If you didn’t tell people you made this in Vegas, I’d bet that most of them would guess that was done in After Effects. Vegas is a powerful compositing application that not many people take advantage of… Bravo!

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Valerie Morrison]

Thanks John.

Guess I’ll have to fake it…possibly a solid box with some transparency and have it be a child of the PIP.

Val

[John Gordon]

Valerie, I was wondering if you could send me a veg of what you are doing. I’ve been toying with a similar concept but haven’t got it quite right and would like to see how you have set up that project.

John

[Valerie Morrison]

No problem John, I was able to get the shadow (faked in photoshop) done perfectly and I’m very pleased with the finished product. I will send you the veg once I get home, but you can watch the video here

Val

[Jim Kaye]

Hi Val,

I, too am really impressed with with what you did. Any chance you can email me a copy of the .veg file as well??

Thanks much.

Jim Kaye (jkaye@plasticpack.com)

[Valerie Morrison]

Hey Jim, I’d be happy to email it.

[John Gordon]

valerie, here is my email

John Gordon
johngordon@cox.net