Solid background colour with text

Kircard2000

Hi All,

I would like to know how to add a solid background to my text so as to cover text that is on a video.

Example, I made a video on another program some years back but I want to use it but cover the old text at the bottom of the screen.

Is there a way to select a solid background colour to take up the text box.

Palacono

Not directly.

Make a New Plane, cover the old text with that.

Then make a new Text Layer and put that on top of the Plane.

Order of planes in your composite shot from top to bottom will be Text, Plane, Video.

Kircard2000

of course!!!!!!!

thank you so much :-)

Sometimes I concentrate on the problem without looking at the obvious.

I appreciate your time, cheers

Palacono

No worries.

Parent the Text to the Plane (or vice versa) and if you need to move it about a little you only need to do it to one of them. Or you could make the pair of them a Composite and they'd be a single entity on the timeline. Inside that Comp you could add things like keyframed Opacity changes so it fades up and down (or do it to that single timeline entity; 6 of one, half a dozen of the other).

You could then duplicate the Composite in the Media section, give it a new name and edit the text in each version and slap the new one on the new place in the timeline for each place the text changes, move it around a bit if required and Bob's your Dad's brother.

fin150

but there is no way to add a background to the text you created? i want to add a solid background to text so i can key the text out and be left with a keyhole effect, but i can't find a way to have a black background for it...

CleverTagline

@fin150: Are you saying that you want to see some other background -- either a solid color or perhaps another image -- inside the shape of the text?  To do that, you need to use the Set Matte effect.  @HitFilmSensei recently posted a tutorial on how to do this:

 

Yeremyah

Thanks for that link @jsbarrett , I love @HitFilmSensi , he makes me laugh, I like his presentation style  And that's a good helpful tutorial.

FilmSensei

Thanks guys!

Yeremyah

Yeremyah gives @HitfilmSensei a soft karate chop to the arm as a "you're welcome"

fin150

@jsbarrett YES! thank you so much! this was exactly what i was looking for. 

damienchew

I'm making subtitles. But how do I choose to have backgrounds for the the subtitles? It is similar to having shadows/outline for texts, just that instead of that, I want those texts in a box-shaped background with the option for custom adjustments of that box's dimensions.

I do not want to manually adjust the 'box' dimensions for every line of subtitle texts I key in.

Thanks a lot if this is possible! Cheers..

damienchew

An example of what I wanted to create for my subtitle background. How to get it automated/customised?

CleverTagline

@damienchew A similar question came up a while back. If I can find it, I will merge your messages with that thread so they’re not tacked onto a nearly-four-year-old conversation.

Long story short, there’s no easy way to pull this off, if it’s even possible. I played around with a method that I thought might work, but never got results that I liked. I might play a bit more if/when I have some time.