Other motion effects: Transform, Basic 3D, and Camera View: Lesson 10-6
If you use the Motion effect to apply rotation to your shadow and clip, the shadow will rotate with the clip as a single unit. That's unrealistic. It should always fall away from the rotating clip in the same direction. To get a realistic drop shadow with rotation applied to a clip, you can use the Transform, Basic 3D or Camera View video effects.To skew your clipstilt them to give them a 3D lookuse Basic 3D or Camera View.
1. | Open the Lesson 10 Practice sequence. |
2. | Drag the video clip from the Video 1 track straight up to the Video 2 track above it. |
3. | Drag Gray Matte from the Project panel to the Video 1 track directly below the clip on the Video 2 track.The matte will let you see the clip's shadow. |
4. | Drag the Lesson 10-6 Motion preset (Presets folder) to the clip. |
5. | Drag Drop Shadow to the clip and change the Distance parameter to the slider's maximum value of 120 (you can exceed that by changing the numeric value). |
6. | Play the clip and note how the shadow sticks to the clip. |
NoteThe Drop Shadow behaves as if its light source were attached to the clip. That's because the Motion effect is the last effect applied to a clip. Drop Shadow becomes part of the clip and Motion rotates the clip and its shadow as a unit.

7. | Turn off all Motion's keyframes and click the Reset button. |
8. | Drag the Lesson 10-6 Transform preset (Presets folder) to the Effect Controls panel above Drop Shadow. Placing it above Drop Shadow means you first Transform the clip, then apply a Drop Shadow. |
NoteThis is the clip-based effect the developers of Premiere Pro used as the foundation for the Motion fixed effect. It has Motion's parameters plus a few others: Skew, Skew Axis, Opacity and Shutter Angle.
NoteHaving both crosshair targets display makes it easier to make adjustments. But it takes some extra effort to differentiate between the two targets. Motion is easier to work with but Transform gives you all of Motion's parameters along with a visual reference to the Anchor Point.

Get a glint with Basic 3D
Basic 3D can swivel and tilt your clip to give the impression it's moving through 3D space. What makes it even more fun is its Specular Highlighta glint on the surface of the image that moves as you animate the clip.
NoteThe highlight gets very bright when centered on the clip. When using Basic 3D, it's best to swivel and tilt the clip such that the specular highlight moves along the edge of the clip.

Camera Viewextra features
Camera View warrants special mention. This effect gives the impression of a camera looking at your clip from different angles. It works a lot like the Basic 3D effect in that it rotates, flips, and zooms a clip. What makes it stand out from Basic 3D is that it gives immediate feedback in its Settings dialog box.The Camera View effect also lets viewers see the clips below it on the sequence. Instead of offering only a solid color for the screen areas exposed when it's moved from full screen, you can click its Setup button in the Effect Controls panel and uncheck Fill Alpha Channel, making that space transparent. I cover other effects with transparent alpha channels in the compositing lessons.
