Drop Shadow Effect Crops Image Instead of Creating a Drop Shadow

Question

Hello All,I'm new to Adobe Premiere Pro and I've decided to create a slideshow of some pictures. I was following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDcMhIN090I have 15 images, and have done all the effects taught in the tutorial, except the white border and 3D effects as I don't need them, but I would really like the drop shadow effect. I follow the steps at around 04:39. However, when I apply the Drop Shadow effect, my images are cropped instead of them having a drop shadow. It worked ONCE. My first image has the effect as desired. So I copied the effect and pasted them to the rest of the images, which are now cropped.I manually deleted the effect from the cropped images and tried to apply the Drop Shadow effect manually and the problem remains. I've tried restarting Premiere and my computer, problem remains. Tried a new project with same images, problem remains. Tried starting Premiere with Shift-Alt and deleting the media file cache according to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2152942​, the problem remains. I've tried en/disabling GPU acceleration, same problem.Hopefully it's something I've overlooked as a noob. I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro 11.1.2 (22) according to the About dialog.Maybe because my images are huge? They are 9412x11953 (scans). But then why did it work once and then never again?Any help or scolding is appreciated, thanks in advance.

R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

That's not in the effects, right-click a clip/image, and choose "Set to Frame Size" or "Scale to Frame size"

"Set ... " displays the image to fit inside the current frame-size, so can leave letter boxing on sides or top bottom. You can then manually resize the image in the ECP ... effects control panel ... without issue.

"Scale" reduces the image within PrPro's project to the pixel-size of the sequence. At that point, if you try to enlarge, it will pixelate of course, as you're taking a small image and enlarging it mathematically.

Very different, those two.

And of course, you can resize any clip/image in the Effects Control Panel, the top section of "Motion" which includes Position and Scale.

Neil

Ermo_311 · Answer

I guess it was a noob mistake. I resized my images but now I have a problem similar to the person in this thread: Can't scale images w/drop shadow

It seems to be working ok except for that resizing issue. In that thread, the user josh9826460says to use transform first to scale but there is no scale under the Transform effet folder.

Hmm. Anyone else have another work around?

Thanks again.

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