More ramblings…
As well as the drop shadow, I was also unhappy with the slight colour difference of the static frames. I realised this was because I’d saved the frame in the default jpg format instead of png in Adobe Premiere. I’ll be changing this over the weekend so hopefully that’ll finally be the end credits sorted and I can get back to piecing the episodes together.
Also, the new version of Topaz has a new algorithm for increasing frame rates. I had a quick play with this today. I think most people will think this is some kind of sacrilege, but some of the space ship scenes (particularly the X-Bomber sequence towards the end of the intro) look really nice at 100fps. The software seems to make a really nice job of interpolating the extra frames and the ship movement is really smooth. Anyway, fear not, I’m concentrating on 25fps for now, but I might stick a 100fps example on YouTube at some point.
I’ll shut up now.