How to Remove Outline Text in Adobe Premiere
Professional and hobbyist alike turn to Adobe Premiere as a robust digital video editing platform to complete sophisticated video productions. Premiere includes a title creation module that allows you to add titles and text elements that can be full frame, or superimposed over video elements. If you are working with an existing project that contains outlined text, removing the outlines require a working knowledge of Premiere's title generator. Adobe may use terms unfamiliar to television editors borrowed from software designed for the print industry. Knowing these terms will help you find the controls needed to remove text outlines.
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Instructions
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Start Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Locate the title file in the project tab containing the text you want to modify. Double click on the title to open the text in the title window. If the title element opens in the preview window, you are not working with a title created in Adobe Premiere. You will need to open the program originally used to create the file. If the title window did open, proceed to step 3.
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Use your mouse to right click on the file containing the text element, then click on the "Edit Original" sub-menu selection. The program associated with the file will open. Use the font properties menu for the program to remove the outline from the text. Adobe Photoshop is a popular program used to created titles used in Adobe Premiere. If the title is a Photoshop file (PSD), use the text properties menu similar to the one found in Adobe Premiere and borrow from the following steps to remove the outline.
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Highlight the text with the outline in the Adobe Premiere title window and go to the "Title Properties" tab on the right side of the dialogue box. The key to understanding outlines in Adobe is knowing they are referred toas "strokes." Stroke is a reference used within the print production community. Find the "Strokes" section in the "Title Properties" tab and uncheck the box under the "Outer Strokes" heading. The outline on the text you highlighted will now be removed.
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Tips & Warnings
The Outer and Inner Strokes controls can be used to create interesting text effects. The color of the outlines can be changed and faded into the background. You can also create a thinner outline without removing it entirely.
To save the title in a separate file to be used in another Adobe Premiere project, choose "File" then "Export" then "Title" from the menu. You can then name the file and select a folder to save it in. Exported Adobe Premiere Pro titles use the PRTL extension.
