In this tutorial, I show you how to quickly create white, grey or black borders around the clips you overlay in your Shotcut projects. This method only requires one track and three filters per clip.
Thank you @Musicalbox for this very informative tutorial.
I never thought it was possible to do this with this technique.
The text blocks with integrated progress bar are also very original.
Great job!
@musicalbox - congratulations for a truly outstanding tutorial. Love it! Your presentation is wonderful and so precise. The graphic effects are first-class. From experience of making tutorials I can’t think how many hours it took. An amazing amount of work has gone into this. Bravo. Yes, the time sliders on the text boxes is a great idea, giving the user the expectation of when the box is about to disappear. And I really like having the mouse-click sounds.
I wouldn’t have thought of using the mask filter to create the borders, but it’s an ingenious method and I can’t wait to find time to try this out. Great work!
PS I was surprised you spelled “Grey” the British way (not “Gray”). Is “Grey” the Canadian way too?
To be honest, maybe a bit too much work for such a simple effect
I was almost done with the tutorial almost a week ago, but I kept adding things.
I feel now that a more simpler, straight to the point tutorial may have been preferable for this.
Live and learn
Being a French Canadian, it’s Gris for me
But I don’t know, grey feels more natural to me than gray.
And according to grammarly.com:
Here’s a tip:Gray is more common in the United States, and grey is more common in the rest of the English-speaking world.
Not for me … I think it’s the folks who need to be educated that in video editing, even seemingly simple effects take a lot of effort! You did a FANTASTIC job!
This is a YouTube feature. I don’t remember exactly where to go to add this. But once you set it, it will appear on all your videos.
I’m on my phone right now, when I get back on the PC, I’ll email you more infos.
Superb! I echo everything said above, especially about the use of subtitles with a progress bar and all the work that went into editing this. Did you generate the subtitles and other graphics in Shotcut, or from another program, or a combination of both? Regardless, very well done indeed.
But I do have one question: can we get more colors?
Oh, wait, strike that … what I meant to say was, I loved the humor!
