Animating Drop Shadows in Final Cut Pro 5

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This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to show you how to animate a drop shadow. Go over to the motion tab, click the drop shadow button. You can see it instantly added a drop shadow. Look how much nicer that already looks with this drop shadow. Go back to the viewer and I will pull down the drop shadow menu and we are going to animate this. So click a key frame for offset, angle and that's it. You just need those two. We will leave all the other values the same including the color black. All right so, now go to another point and click key frames for offset and angle as well. So now let's make some motion out of this. Go back to that first frame. Let's pick a first spot. Let's have it to where there is no drop shadow so put the offset to 0 and your angle can be whatever you want. Now go the next key frame and now let's change the offset to a little farther away and let's ramp up the rotation to 360. So you know what in fact why don't you go head back to that first frame and put that angle up to 0 here. Go back to that third frame and instead of 360, let's drag it down to a slightly off centered from it, about right there. So 465 should be good. So it is going to go one full rotation and then it is going to fall down back at 465. Now if you watch this, this is what you get. Okay, so that is a little bit rotating so just kind of rotates around it now. That's cool. Now we are going to go ahead and just get rid of the rotation. So go to the rotation key frame, the angle key frames and just kind of take them off and we are just going to change the offset. So it starts at 0, go to the later key frame and set it to; first let's change your angle to make it about 140 and you can just change it to 30, that's fine. If you watch this it goes from 0 to 30 just like that so it kind of gives an illusion that it is getting larger; we are going to set key frames up here for up at the top here for scale. So go to the same key frame for your beginning offset of your drop shadow, set a key frame of scale and then go to your second key frame for offset and set down the key frame for scale. We are going to take it from the first key frame of scale being a 100 to a second key frame of scale being larger at 182. Now this is going to complete the look. Watch this. So it actually looks like it is getting larger, coming towards you. Shadows are growing bigger and so is the text. So usually moving the drop shadow by itself is not always effective but when you move the text around with it, it is very effective.

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