Drop shadow

[JC]

Is there a way to put a drop shadow under an object? It's a text
object, and I don't want the shadow on the text itself (I know how to
do that) but on the text box to which I've assigned a fill. I want the
text box to float above the movie and be separated from it by the
shadow. I don't see anything in the filters gallery for that. Are
there some third party filters I can download somewhere?

thank you,
Jack

[JC]

Anybody know how to do this?

thanks,
Jack

[Martin Wennerberg]

There is no automatic function for general drop shadows. It's easy to
add it for text using the font panel, but for video clips you need to
do some extra work.

One way to do it is to add a copy of the clip in a separate track and
position it below the first one. You can then add some filters to the
background clip to for instance blur it, make it darker and to remove
the colors.

Martin