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How do I add a border ?
Hello all,
Sorry but I can’t find a previous thread for this.
I have a full-screen video clip, shrunk down to about 60 % of it’s size.
All I want to do, is, to create a border around it ( in any solid color ).
How do I do this ? It’s infuriating me !!
Many thanks for any help. -
6 Replies
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the vegas effect should work.
make sure it is set to trace image contours. then, in the rendering settings of the effect, set the mid-point and end opacities to 1.000 to give you a solid line, and set the color and width as needed.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
[stevie003497] “I have a full-screen video clip, shrunk down to about 60 % of it’s size.”
If you’re shrinking a layer down you should have a transparent border around it already, then it should be easy to add a solid layer behind this one (any color you want) making sure it’s the size of the comp. Insta-border. It’s simple but that sounds like it’s what you’re looking for.
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Vegas is cool but that and Roughen Edges (Color) both add the border to the inside of the video.
Radial Shadow adds the border to the outside.
First you need to Grow Bounds with Image Control Grow Bounds (AE 6.5, might be somewhere else in AE7). Make it 50 or whatever is your largest border (in pixels).
Effect>Perspective>Radial Shadow
Shadow Color: Choose your color
Opacity: 100%
Light Source: Center it on the layer with this expression applied the property, Light Source (Alt Click the Light Source Stop Watch and Paste). This just centers the Light source on the layer:[width/2,height/2]
Projection Distance: Controls the Thickness of the border
Softness: 0 for a hard edgeNow if you select the Grow Bounds, the Radial Shadow Effect and the Light Source expression, then save as a Preset (Animation> Save Animation Preset), you can just apply that preset on any layer or multiple layers (Animation>Apply Animation Preset)and you’ve got your sharp colored border, if that’s what you want.
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If you want rounded corners on your border, you can use Render>Scribble. You will need a mask for Scribble to adhere to so select the video layer then double click the Rectangular Mask Tool in the Tools Palette. Then add Grow Bounds and then Scribble.
Scribble
Fill Type: Outside Edge
Stroke Options
Curviness: 0
Curviness Variation: 0
Spacing: .01
Spacing Variation: . 01
Path Overlap: 0Wiggle Type: Static
Composite: On Original ImageIt also makes a nice Scribble Border with the default settings for the Stroke Options.
Again, you can make an Animation Preset, even selecting the mask before making the preset. It will add a mask when the preset is applied, but unfortunately the mask will be the same size as when it was first created, so if you have different sized footage you’d need to make a preset for each footage size, not so hard really. The Scribble effect will stay on the outside edge of the video clips as it is resized. And once again with scribble you get nice rounded edges.
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Thanks everyone for all your help. I have heaps of options, now.
I appreciate your time and effort, in helping me.
With best regards -
Hi.
Ancient old post, but a simple solution would be:
Choose the layer needed, manually just add a square mask, make sure it sits on the very edges of the frame.
On mask settings, choose “none” just to make sure it does not crop anything.
Now add stroke in effects and choose the mask you just made and play with the settings.Everything can also be animated.
Best regards
Morten Orre
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