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Text Border and Shadow question (subtitles)
I am able to create nice effects and text animations in AE, but for the heck of me, I can’t figure out how to put borders around a text WITHOUT using 3rd party plugins like “Boris FX TitleToolkit”, like you see on subtitles in the movies.
Just using the “Stroke Over Fill” doesn’t seem to give it a nice feathery border on the text like in the movies.
How is this done?
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4 Replies
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if it’s not an outline that you want, you could try these effects:
Effects/ Stylize / Glow
Effects / Perspective / Drop Shadow (with “Distance = 0”)s.
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Dropshadow with 0 distance just hides the whole shadow. Anything else will not make a unified shadow, rather, it will be just like it’s supposed to be… a shadow… only casting color to one side.
The glow was a little better but there is no way to completly remove the feathering so it’s just a sharp text border. Also, it requires tweaking the glow settings. I can’t imagine that there is no simple text border to apply to text like there is in Photoshop and even in premiere pro.
Does anyone know how they apply the text borders on the subtitles in the movies?
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maybe i got you wrong in your first post, but if you want a clean outline for your text and no feathered soft one, then “Fill over Stroke” is the way to do it. (not “Stroke over Fill”).
s.
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you are correct. I guess when I used the fill over stroke originaly, I wasn’t using a good font, so it looked jaggy.
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