How Create Overlappping Text With A Stroke

[prosavage311169038cj1]

Dear Adobe Community, I have trouble trying to overlap text and then add a stroke. For example click the image below.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @prosavage311169038cj1,

I got your message. See if tracking might do this. In the tracking controls, slide the slider to the left until it shows a negative number. It can go up to -200 in my test.

Thanks,
Kevin

[prosavage311169038cj1]

Hi @Kevin-Monahan 

Thank You for the suggestion but when i try that it comes out kinda squished with the stroke looking hidden. (Heres An Image For A Better Example)

[Kevin-Monahan]

Sure. If that is not working for you, you can put the individual letters on separate layers and reposition them. Would that work?

Thanks,
Kevin

[prosavage311169038cj1]

Yes that works, but i am trying to use it as auto generated captions, which would take forever to type out ever single letter.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Sorry about that. It's the only solution I can think of. Perhaps you can seek out a plug-in that does this.

Thanks,
Kevin

[prosavage311169038cj1]

No Worries, Do you have any suggestions on where i could possibly find a plugin that may do something like this?

[Stan Jones]

After Effects may be the way. Use the "Upgrade Caption to Graphic" option, then take to AE. Once converted, you can only burn in the captions, not export as srt etc.

Here is a script for AE that will break out individual letters. I have used several of his scripts. Website says $19.99 but has a free trial.

https://aescripts.com/textexploder/

See Upgrade Caption to Graphic in this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/can-t-change-opacity-for-text-color-of-open-...

Note that using only PR, I can get close to single word captions via settings in the Create Captions step. But not single letters.

Stan

[prosavage311169038cj1]

Thanks for the suggestion, But after effects already does what i need. The only problem is after effects doesnt have auto generated captions.. I just want to see if im able to get that type of stroke on premiere pro.