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michaelp12134904
michaelp12134904
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April 26, 2018
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Drop shadow for Captions? (Premiere Pro 14.9 and earlier)

  • April 26, 2018
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Hey all,

 

Super stumped with this but is it possible to add a drop shadow for captions? I know it's possible to add an edge, but a client of mine is specifically requesting a drop shadow.

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    Correct answer M O R G A N

    You can apply a drop shadow effect to open captions from the effects menu.

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    LeMarkD
    LeMarkD
    Participating Frequently
    November 8, 2021

    Highlight all the captions in the timeline, go to the essential graphics tab, look for background, then select both the color and opaque, translucent, or transparent at the bottom of the drop menu. You have to select both for a shadow box to show up! I apologize for the poor quality of photos as they were taken of the computer screen with my phone

     

      M O R G A N
      M O R G A NCorrect answer
      Participant
      May 14, 2018

      You can apply a drop shadow effect to open captions from the effects menu.

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        danielc53885310
        Participant
        June 19, 2018

        Morgan, were you really able to do that? How did you do it? Every time I drag the Drop Shadow effect to the captions it won't let me.

        Stan Jones
        Community Expert
        Stan JonesCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        September 10, 2018

        danielc53885310  wrote

        Morgan, were you really able to do that? How did you do it? Every time I drag the Drop Shadow effect to the captions it won't let me.

        You drag from the Effects panel to the Captions stream in the Timeline (not in the Captions panel).

        It creates a drop shadow on the background box.

          Richard van den Boogaard
          Community Expert
          Richard van den BoogaardCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          April 26, 2018

          Simple answer is no, you cannot add drop shadows to captions within the Captions option in Premiere Pro.

          You can manually create titles with that effect and use them as subtitles in your footage. However, you cannot export captions as separate text files (srt), as drop shadow is not part of any text format: it's a design choice.

          The only way to export the titles separately would be to export them out as a separate layer (on a transparent canvas) with transparancy enabled. Either as a complete video that matches the length of your destination sequence or as separate images files. With the latter, you would need some form of guidance to tell the player when which image should be displayed. This is typical for .idx and .sub formatting.

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