Please outline shade option to text filter?

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So that it can contrast better with… everything?

Thanks!

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What do you mean? There’s already an outline option in the text filter.

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Oh I’m sorry, I’m new to editing and don’t know all the terminology
Outline means that the edges of the text can be colored yes?

I meant this …
shadowing effect?

I don’t know how to show.
Like fogging the area around the text a bit, so that you have greater contrast between the moving video and the unmoving text.

Where it mildly shades the area around the text, not a complete full color background to the text

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You mean like this?

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In ‘Text: Simple’ there’s only an outline option.
In ‘Text: HTML’ there is additional a shadowing option.

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You can create a shadow using

  1. Open Other > Text - change text color to black
  2. copy and paste filters
  3. add a Blur: Exponential filter and move it between the text filters
  4. change second Text: Simple - set foreground and outline color to the same and offset the position

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If you do not offset the position, then you can create a glow effect.

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For the record, I did my shadow (or “drop shadow” as it’s commonly called) in the image I posted in the same way that @shotcut described. I didn’t use Text: HTML.

If you want to move and resize that text with the drop shadow around as one whole object then after all those filters in the list add a Size & Position filter.