How do I create a transparent text with a dynamic background?

[Norman Black]

To do something like your mockup example, make the text color transparent and your background color solid black. The text defaults to solid white with a transparent background.

[Edward Troxel]

I explain how to do that in my newsletters. Just click the link by my name.

Edward Troxel

[José Gomes]

Hey there, I searched around on your forum and wasn’t able to find what I needed. Can you link me it?

[José Gomes]

Im not working with the same entity. The shape and the text is separate so I dont think I would be able to do what you said.

I am also using Newblue titler with the text. Not sure if theres any option within that plugin to do this easily

[Roger Bansemer]

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/971090

This link will take you to a post that Grazie made.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Edward Troxel]

It’s in the Newsletter Archive section. The specific one is here:

https://www.jetdv.com/tts/TTS02-05.pdf

Look at the “Beginner’s Corner” section.

Edward Troxel

[José Gomes]

Thanks that helped but its not exatly what I wanted.

I want the text to “see through” a shape to a video like the image I posted in which the shape is the black bar. That way you mentioned it only makes the text directly to the video.

[John Rofrano]

[José Gomes] “I want the text to “see through” a shape to a video like the image I posted in which the shape is the black bar. That way you mentioned it only makes the text directly to the video.”

Well… you have to extend this a little but they gave you the basic tools to work with.

Here is what you need to do.

Setup 4 tracks:

Track 1: White Text Overlay with transparent background
Track 2: The background video
Track 3: The Shape that you the text to see through
Track 4: The background video

Instructions:

Step 1: Set Track 1 composite mode to Multiple (Mask).
Step 2: Make Track 2 a Compositing Child of Track 1

You’re done! The Background on track 2 will show through the track 1 text. The Shape on track 3 will be behind the text. The background on Track 4 will fill the rest of the frame giving the illusion that there is only one background with the text showing it through the shape.

~jr

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[José Gomes]

That worked! 🙂 Thanks. I have to study a bit more the properties of child tracks, it seems to give some cool new possibilities.

That will increase the render / project size by having 2 of the same video on 2 different tracks tho, wont it?

[John Rofrano]

[José Gomes] “That will increase the render / project size by having 2 of the same video on 2 different tracks tho, wont it?”

Yes the render time will increase but not because there is the same video on two tracks, it’s because you are compositing 4 tracks together. So even if you didn’t have the same video on two tracks you are still composting three tracks together.

It will not increase the project size because the video is only added to the project once and just referenced twice. Likewise the render will not be any bigger because the videos take up the same amount of time.

~jr

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