Hey everyone, I’m working on a video and want to add a glow to my text. The text appears on a black screen, and is white, and I want to add a blue glow around it, a regular outline won’t get the effect I want, is there any way to add a glow to text?
There are at least three good ways to make a glow.
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Enable GPU effects and apply the GPU glow effect to the text track, it works better than the regular cpu-glow.
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Filter “drop shadow”. The default shadow color is black, but you can change it to any other, including light, and instead of a shadow there will be a highlight.
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You can create a copy of the text track and place it under the main text, use blur on this track, try different blending modes. The result can be interesting.
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@Kirbo please note that if you use Drop Shadow, you need to put your text on a transparent clip above your black clip. If you add your text filter on the black clip, drop shadow won’t work.
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