Drop shadow on garbage matte

Happy New Year All. I may be missing something obvious. I made a hole in an animated background with a matte. It is static. An HD interview video is placed behind. It looks like a photo with straight edges and I did it to fake a mild zoom in out on the video. I want a drop shadow on the "photo". Possibly too much Holiday cheer but I can't think of a way to put a drop shadow on the rectangular matte in Motion 4. I guess that I could bring in a shadow made in some other app but would like to stay in Motion. Thoughts? Thanks.

As you can see in this picture, the image is larger is larger than what is visible. The drop shadow follows the mask, not the outline of the picture.
What are you doing differently?
Patrick

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The drop shadow is being applied to the whole frame. Which is why you can't see it.
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is there a way to add a dropshadow with css? (specifically to
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Thanks!

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quote:
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> No, drop shadows are implemented as filters, not styles.
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> matt horn
> flex docs
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> Although Matt's reply is true with respect to label
components, which is
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