How do I add a drop shadow to a masked image?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 17, 2017
2 replies
11597 views

Simple question really, how do I add a drop shadow to a mask? I have an image super imposed over a video that I have masked into a square and would like to add a drop shadow to it. Simply adding the drop shadow effect to the image does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this? It seems that there would be.

Correct answer Meg The Dog

Nest the clip with the mask, then apply the drop shadow to the nest.

Select the clip on the timeline, go to the Clip menu > Nest...

MtD

M

Meg The DogCorrect answer

Inspiring

Nest the clip with the mask, then apply the drop shadow to the nest.

Select the clip on the timeline, go to the Clip menu > Nest...

MtD

AndrewTheGreat

Known Participant

And what if nesting is not a good way for me? I have a whole bunch of different materials having masks, the materials are different and are on different tracks, so nesting the whole track of parts of is not a way out since I work on the materials, change them and having a ton of nests in my project is inapproprieate. Any solutuion?

Stop trying to edit and EDIT!

J

Julian Petschek

Participating Frequently

This is super annoying that you can't do this in Premiere. I also am working on a project where nesting would over-complicate the workflow. Let me just tell the drop shadow effect to respond to the layer's mask.

E

excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Maybe try cropping the image in Photoshop in place of the Mask in PP?

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded