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Can someone explain for me the “Eliminate” fill in Title Designer?
I thought I had an idea of what it did, as it might be a crude wat to mask stuff. But it doesn’t seem to work the way I thought it would. What exactly is it? Thanks!
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“Specifies that no fill or shadow is rendered”.
Basically, it makes them transparent. If you want letters to be a mask, use the title as a track matte.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
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Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
OK. I was hoping “Eliminate” would be a sexy way to mask inside a title. I’m trying to create a template to do Mugshots for our news broadcast. I was going to have the frame layer on top, but my mugshots aren’t always the right aspect-ratio, so I would need some sort of mask inside the title tool. Sounds like I’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way. No biggie. Thanks for the help.
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Ah, you can do that. There are templates that have a graphic that “punches through” to an alpha channel. Find one and copy the object over to your title and use it that way. You can change it’s type, but it is easy to copy, and difficult to make an object do that. I know how, but it involves messing with the text file that defines the title.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
Got it to work. It was trouble because I had to punch a hole in the animated background. Then I put the TGA file frame over that, and then the name layer. The bottom layer is the actual picture, which peaks through the animated background through the window. Thanks for the help (and inspiration).
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