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SOLUTION: Better way to stroke / add border in Adobe Premiere!
I searched Google for a solution to this and found a lot of archaic methods (dating from 2009) with lots of steps. I’ve found a better solution, and I always appreciate it when people post solutions to problems they discover, so I’m simply returning the favor here in hopes that someone will find it useful:
1. Simply add Video Effects -> Generate -> Paint Bucket to whichever layer you want the border on.
That’s it! Then adjust the following settings:
Fill Selector: Opacity
Tolerance: 35 (adjust higher if needed)
Stroke: Stroke
Stroke Width: > 1 (obviously, otherwise it won’t be visible)
Opacity: 100%
Blend Mode: NormalThere you have it. A simple way to add a stroke to a layer without fiddling with nested sequences, titles or weird adjustment layers.
Hope someone finds this helpful when feverishly Googling a solution at 4 AM one day like I was!
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Thanks. Just found this. Definitely works. Karma points granted 🙂
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Great and simple solution! Thanks a lot!
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This is such an amazing solution that I signed up here just to respond and say thank you so much, you are a God
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Can’t seem to get this puppy to work in CC2015.
Any other suggestions? I use that radial shadow fill sometimes, but it’s not very accurate.
Thanks!
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I had trouble using this in CC15 as well, and what worked for me was all the same settings except using “alpha channel” for the Fill Selector. Hope this works for you!
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Hello, Did you ever get this to work in CC6?
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Here’s an updated version of this that works in CC as of 2016 (tested this with a transparent PNG file with a complex transparency shape, seems to work fine):
Add: Effects -> Paint Bucket, then use the following settings:
Fill Selector: [opacity]
Tolerance: [60 – adjust until appropriate]
Stroke: [Stroke]
Stroke Width: [15 – whatever you want]
Color: [whatever you want]
Opacity: [100%]
Blending Mode: [Normal]Caveat: make sure the image safe area (any area you want stroked) is completely enveloped in the transparent area, because the transparency won’t apply to the border of the actual PNG/video file (confirmed this works with MOV files with exported alpha), just the transparent pixels. It’s easy to add a transparent border to any image.
Note: if you find it stroking pixels inside your image that you don’t want, just turn up the tolerance up to 255. It’ll stick to the outside of the image rather than “holes” you may have inside.
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Hello, Thank you for your reply.
I’m not sure where I am going wrong. I added the paint bucket effect to the clip, and followed your settings. The clip becomes a solid clock of colour, until stroke is selected, and the the clip just looks as normal, with no stroke, or colour at all.
Could it be that I shouldn’t add the effect to the clip, and should add it to something else?
Many thanks again.
Pam
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Works perfectly, thank you!!
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Works but Radial Shadow renders a slightly cleaner border (when diagonal line). Also, when using it with radial wipe the border disappears if wiping on. It just suddenly appears/disappears in the middle of the keyframed wipe.
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