Stroke, feather, glow, drop shadow for a clip

[gabonacorp]

Hi,

What do you think about add effects like stroke, feather, glow, drop shadow? Almost like in Photoshop.

Sometimes if we have a panormamic projection we use PiP for live input, or movies at an event. I usually use layer above the background layer for this, give it a 100% opacity, scale down and position it to it's place. It would be nice if I can give the clip border some effects to make it more independent from the background.

I found the drop shadow effect what you guys made years ago but it is just work if I use the crop effect so it works only "inside" the clip border, not outside. I hope I can make myself clear, sorry if it is hardly understandable. I don't want to use this effects for a loop with alpha, I would like to use all the pixels of the video content just add these effects to it's border.

Would it be difficult to add these features as effects?

thanks!

[Joris]

You can use the Drop Shadow effect for this, just reverse the order of effects and transformations: https://resolume.com/manual/en/r4/effects#render_order

That way the drop shadow will appear 'outside' your scaled clip.

[gabonacorp]

Thanks Joris, i tried it and it works! I am always impressed how many small details "hidden" in this amazing software.

thanks again!