Olive: Shadow under the video.

[dma3000]

I think it would be useful to make a shadow effect under the video.

[DaniSeeh]

Could you be a bit more specific? Like, in the UI? Or add an effect that would generate a drop shadow? You could already do this pretty easily by duplicating the clip, scaling it over, and changing the color to black and making it transparent. I could show you how if you need a quick tutorial

[dma3000]

You could already do this pretty easily by duplicating the clip, scaling it over, and changing the color to black and making it transparent.

Yes, you can do it, but if the clip moves, then the shadow needs to be moved.
I think it is better to make exactly the effect that allows you to create a shadow for the clip.

[itsmattkc]

There is actually a work-in-progress effect of this nature, but it does require an extra hook in the effect processing code so that the whole video gets shadowed rather than just the contents inside it. But yeah, it's coming, no ETA yet though.

[Symbian9]

TL;DR: There is an easy solution by just create such effect using "image with shadow" and combine sequences by including one to another.

I would publish example later today.

[Symbian9]

Here is frame of video exported from Olive that include example on adding shadow for video frame using external image file

Unpack both files from ZIP into same folder and open project file (*.ove) in Olive

• https://0x0.st/z8HT.zip

P.S.: Image used as shadow could be created using any image editor that has blur effect and support transparency; I create it using AzPainter

• https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter

[itsmattkc]

This will be addressed in the node rewrite.