Need an efficient workflow for a Rounded Rectangle

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Hi all,I'm making some tutorial videos and often need to highlight an object or area of the screen. I'd like to use a rounded rectangle for this. However, Premiere's shape tools don't seem to have a good way to do this:- The regular Rectangle tool does not allow for a rounded radius- The Pen tool is imprecise and doesn't seem to have any snapping, or the ability to type in an exact curvature for consistency- In the Legacy Title panel, the Rounded Corner Rectangle distorts the corners and looks terrible- In the Legacy Title panel, the Rounded Rectangle is the wrong shape- If I import a shape from Illustrator or Photoshop, resizing it also resizes the cornersI want a good workflow, ideally entirely within Premiere, to create any size rounded rectangle, but with the same absolute corner radius regardless of rectangle size. The Legacy Title panel's Rounded Corner Rectangle *looks* like it should be able to do this, but appears to have a bug where the corners become disproportionately scaled quarter-ellipses instead of remaining quarter-circles.Is there really no way to do this besides custom-making every single shape in Photoshop or Illustrator? And if so, is there any easier way to get the exact right size other than exporting a frame grab, opening it in PS, drawing the round-rect, disabling the guide frame layer, saving the .psd, then importing THAT into Premiere? That just seems like an insane amount of work for what should be an extremely simple one-step operation.Any suggestions?Thanks,Matt

Carlos Ziade · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the tip Ann. That's still not quite what I need because with that approach, the radius of the rounded corner depends on the thickness of the stroke. For my purpose I need to be able to specify those two things independently, say, a 10px thick stroke with a 24px corner radius.

If not for the Legacy Title bug/regression in its Rounded Corner Rectangle shape, where the corners are incorrectly distorted, I would be using that.

As it is, I'm still not seeing any straightforward way to make a real round rectangle. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Matt

Dropbox - customizable rectangle.mogrt - Simplify your life

Attached is a mogrt I prepared for you, just import it

inside premiere pro's essential graphics, then drag

to the timeline and click edit in the essential graphics.

you can edit roundness, scale, position, colors, stroke etc...

explanation: you have to create it inside after effects if you have it, then export as a mogrt

and make sure to include all the properties you want to edit inside

premiere pro, just like the attached mogrt that I prepared...

Hope that helps

Carlos Ziade · Answer

Here is an updated version of customizable rectangle, after applying Expression Universalizer

for those who have non-english running systems:

Dropbox - Customizable Rectangle 02.mogrt - Simplify your life

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