Title Safe Zone

[Paul2]

Hi all

I often have to put text or titles over video and notice that Shotcut does not have a title safe zone, at least not one that I know of.

Luckily it does have the “Overlay HTML” filter so one can easily be crafted with a bit of html+css.

The colour can be changed in the line border-color: red;
The type of line (dashed or solid) in border-style: solid;
and the line thickness in border-width: 7px;
The rest of the code is to adjust the boundaries of the safe zone.

Simply save the code below as a html file then use the Overlay HTML filter in Shotcut.
Don’t forget to disable it before exporting, else you will have a rectangle superimposed over your video.
It’s only meant as a guide whilst placing your text.

Hope it’s of use to others.

div {
     border-style: solid;
     border-color: red;
     border-width: 7px;
     width:80%;
    height:80%;
    position:fixed;
    top:10%;
    left:10%;
 }
 
 
 
 

I see the forum software is not showing the html parts of the code above and I have no idea how to properly post it.
Below a screen shot of what the whole code should be:

[DRM]

@Paul2

I often have to put text or titles over video and notice that Shotcut does not have a title safe zone, at least not one that I know of.

You’ll find two safe zone options in the newly added Grid feature that debuted last month. You can download it here.

[Paul2]

Thanks for the heads up @DRM
I’m running version 18.09.16, will have a look at the latest version.

EDIT:

Just went to look at the latest version, it says “The minimum macOS version has changed to 10.12.”

Oh well, that is me out, running 10.11.06 “El Capitan”.

[Hudson555x]

[Paul2]

Thanks @Hudson555x but that must be the new version which I can’t use due to my O.S as explained in my previous post.