Adding white border on picture inserts?

I am adding reaction shots to a presentation using inserts lower right. I was wondering if there is an easy and quick way of adding a white border to the insert??? I created a white shape (layer) and placed the insert over it, a bit time consuming though. Cheers Phil UK

Hey Phil

Video Filters > Border > Basic Border...





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Thanks Ben.

Basic Border is obviously the first choice, but it doesn't work if you're using crop tools on the picture-in-picture (eg. FCP's own Crop, Mask Shape etc.). However, if you use Basic 3D, Digital Heaven's DH_Box or Mask Shape to resize the image, you can then copy those filters to a white Color Matte and then adjust the size to slightly larger than the image on top. It'd be faster than repositioning the white shape by hand.


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if cropping is the issue you can use my Andy's Simple Crop filter if that helps ... lets you have a border that follows the crop

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Ah thanks Andy was looking for that link and got sidetracked... schweeet!



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