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How do I put video inside of text and add a stroke border?
I have two layers, top is text, bottom is video. I changed the track matte to the video to alpha matte, and it works great. But I can’t get a stroke border around the text. I got it to work by duplicating layers and messing with the transfer modes but the edges are really jaggedy. Is there a simple solution to this?
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How about duping the text layer and setting the dupe to stroke with no fill?
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I can’t believe I didn’t think about that.
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if you are in CS4 you could just use the stroke layer effect.
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can you expand on how to do this please? im still having trouble. i got up to changing the track to alpha matte and have the video i want playing inside, but still cant get a boarder around the text.
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after you did that track-matte thingee you select the video layer and got to: layer -> layer styles -> stroke.
if you then twirl down your layer in the timeline, you have another instance under the transform parameters. you guessed it: layer styles. you can then modify the stroke’s parameters there.
you might want to precompose that, because i think there’s some issues with layer styles und certain circumstances. unfortunately i can’t recall what they were.
hope that sorts that out for you.
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