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Black BG in PP2 Titler
To get a black background in a title, I normally create a black rectangle object slightly bigger than the title’s safe margins. I then arrange the rectangle to the back and then place text in the front of the object.
Is there a way to tell the titler to not superimpose the title by making the BG opaque instead of transparent?
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3 Replies
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What you are doing should work but another way if you want a black BG – put the title you create over a Black Matte.
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I typically just use a black video clip…it actually gives you a bit more flexibility as you can fade title before the video fades in…keeping the text and the talent’s face from occupying the screen over the top of each other, which I find annoying.
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Wouldn’t it be simpler to just have an option to click “opaque” or simply select a color that you want the BG to be if you don’t want it transparent.
The problem with a black matte underneath is one, if you have a lot of these kinds of titles you have to move and manage two clips now, secondly when you make a dissolve or a scene transition, you have to make it for both the matte and title.
Going back to creating a black rectangle in the BG for a second. This also has a few problems. it’s easy to click the BG instead of your font and have to then to find your fonts buried beneath the rectangle. But with the rectangle I don’t need to create a black matte — but, when these titles come over someone’s picture, I then have to create a matte or it won’t fade out properly.
An option to have a colored BG and not a transparent BG would really be handy, a lot of titlers have this option.
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