I have several photos that move onto the screen during a video and I would very much like to place a drop shadow behind them to set them apart from the background.
I see no way to do this in Magix Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus Download Version.
Please tell me that I didn't pay $99.99 for video software that's not capable of this simple task.
I otherwise absolutely LOVE MEP and rarely every use anything else.
Can this be done?
Lightwave10,
Magix Photo Designer, which comes with MEP (or can be downloaded free) has quite a few options. First set it as the default photo editor under settings, [Y] key shortcut, path settings so you can right click on an image and have it transfered to the program. Do what you want and when you save and close the photo editor your transformed images as now on the timeline -- replacing the original including any effects applied there like size and position. Of course you have a backup copy of the original!
I've been using 'Effects' >> 'Other effects' >> 'Highlight' which creates a beveled plinth rather than a drop shadow. but it does set images off from their background. The help file lists an 'Apply shadow' but I've not looked at it.
ADDED: Seems drop shadows are for placing an object on another image within the photo designer, but I suspect there could a way of exporting the shadow part as an alpha mask so that it would work back in MEP.
Roll you own... Within MEP try duplicating your image and line the two up one above the other on two timelines. Offset the upper (back) one a bit and apply something like 'Sand'
Regards,
Carl