Missing drop shadows with text blocks

[fussylizard]

For some reason I am losing drop shadows on text blocks when I add a Solid Color background. Why is this? Here's my setup:


Layer 3 - PNG image file source with a green drop shadow
Layer 2 - Text block with a green drop shadow
Layer 1 - Solid color (red)

If I stop the layer 1 solid red color, I can see both drop shadows.
If I turn on the red background in layer 1, I still see the drop shadow on the PNG, but I don't see the drop shadow on the text block any more.

Layers 2 and 3 clips are super simple, just a PNG image or a text block followed by a transform followed by a drop shadow effect.

This has been driving me crazy, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? TIA

[Christoph]

You use the 'Text Block'-effect on a video router set to affect layers below.
This means your effects will be applied on the layers below, the text will be written on top of your solid color and the whole solid color will become a drop shadow (try to scale down your solid color video router a bit and you should immediately see your drop shadow affecting the boundaries).

I am not sure if there is a specific reason why you are using the 'Text Block' and 'Solid Color' from the video effects? Both of these also exist as a generator under the 'Sources'-tab, if you use the 'Text Block'-source instead of the effect you don't need a video router and should be able to get the desired result.

[fussylizard]

I am not sure if there is a specific reason why you are using the 'Text Block' and 'Solid Color' from the video effects? Both of these also exist as a generator under the 'Sources'-tab, if you use the 'Text Block'-source instead of the effect you don't need a video router and should be able to get the desired result.

That was it! I don't know how I managed to find Text Block under Effects instead of Sources. I switched over to using the generator version and everything is working as I would expect. Thank you, I spent hours and hours trying to make this work...!