The Drop Shadow filter adds a background to an element optionally with soft edges and offset a little from the foreground. The default values creates the appearance of a shadow behind the subject:
This filter uses the input alpha channel. This means that it will not work as expected when used after a text filter on a video clip because that alpha channel is completely opaque. Rather, you must use a text clip on an upper track. However, this effect is not only for text. You can be overlaying a PNG or JSON Animation that has a transparent background, for example.
This filter was added in version 24.06.
Parameters
- Color is the color of the shadow or glow. The default is a 70% translucent black. Click the color block to open a color dialog to change it, or click the eye-dropper icon to pick a color from the screen.
- Blur is the softness of the edges of shadow. The default is a small amount.
- X and Y are the horizontal and vertical offset from the foreground.
Tip: you can also create a sort of glow effect by setting X and Y to 0 and increasing Blur.