Transform shutter angle + drop shadow bug?

[Mike Dziennik]

If I apply a drop shadow with a large softness and combine it with a transform effect: unchecking the "Use Composition's Shutter Angle", then the clip changes it's vertical position in the frame. Surely it should stay at the same height?

[Ann Bens]

I cannot reproduce your issue

Might want to thrah preferences.

[Mike Dziennik]

Tried trashing prefs, makes no difference.

Did you definitely have softness set to a high amount and drop shadow before the transform?

Here again from scratch without animation. Simply toggling the shutter angle checkbox changes the position.

[Ann Bens]

No I did not have softness set to full: now I can reproduce.

But it is not uncommon to change the order off effects to avoid issues.

[Mike Dziennik]

Great, glad it's not just me.

In a simple setup this, yes, I can workaround and just change effect order. Often though I have quite complex effect stacks and with carefully aligned positions etc. whereby I cannot change the effect order so easily. When I decide to uncheck the shutter-angle box in order to get motion blur it screws up my effect. In that case I usually have to rebuild the effect using some convoluted nesting stack.

Adobe, can you reproduce and escalate?

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

You will have to file a bugreport on this.

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

[Mike Dziennik]

Done!

[Richard van den Boogaard]

Have you tried nesting the clip (with the drop Shadow) and then applying the Transform effect?

I know that sometimes fixes things...

[Ann Bens]

That is something OP does not want to do, see post 4.