[Richard Christy]

It is a screen, but we’re not chroma keying. We’re going for a desired effect and the current lighting setup proves to get us what we need. The lack of shadow is the unwanted bi-product.

I under this is a manual process of adding the shadow back in, and I’m willing to give it a try. That’s actually why I’m posting. I just need to know WHAT method. Not sure how to go about it…

My assumption is that, at some point, someone has ran into a similar problem and fixed it in AE after wards. I just need to find this method so I can give it a try.

My Google searches always return results for shadows in a chroma key environment (and not really the same thing in this case).

[Richard Christy]

It’s hard to describe the studio setup other than, the current setup is what we have to work with. We have neither the resources or the room to bring in any more lights, or move the subject. I know the conventional wisdom is to always adjust issues at the time instead of after the fact, but in this case, it’s inevitable.

However, I should mention the foreground subject does not move. They are always in a stationary position for the duration of the video.

I have seen AE plug ins that let you designate an area you wish to focus on (IE: using a simple, circular mask type cursor) and it generates the desired effect in and around this area.

Are you saying there is no such method that will allow to generate the key-light shadow?