OpenShot Video Editor

Have Openshot generate solid color clips/backgrounds

Asked by Trevor

A feature request:

When dealing with odd clips dimensions (too tall or wide), the clip correctly maintains it's ratio. The problem with this is the black background is not always the desired colour.

It would be nice if Openshot was able to generate simple coloured solids, that defaults to each movie aspect. It is the same thing as creating a blue 720x486 gif and importing it. The only difference is, I don't have to maintain a repository of solid colour images, to change the background colour or basic animations with solid blocks.

If creating colour solids is outside of Openshot, may I suggest an optional package download, with pre-made backgrounds for different aspect ratios.

Overall, this should help new users start using openshot faster, without having to create basic stock files.

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Best Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#1

If you use the menu: Title->New Title, one of the templates is a "Solid Color", which automatically defaults to your projects's aspect ratio. Give it a try, and see how it works. Good luck!

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Trevor (trevorlangas) said : 		#2

Thanks Jonathan Thomas, that solved my question.

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TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers) said : 		#3

This doesn't solve the problem in my case. Is there a way to enforce a white background completely? I still get either left/right or top/bottom black parts during my video.

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TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers) said : 		#4

Note: It's the exported video I see this problem in, not the preview in OpenShot.

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Olivier Girard (eolinwen) said : 		#5

You can do that simply with the solid colour. Initially, he is black .You have a select chooser colour on your right, click on. Modify the value #000000 by the white colour i.e. #FFFFFF, apply and after, you see your solid colour in ....White. That's all.

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TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers) said : 		#6

Thanks Cenwen, you're correct. Exporting in .ogg format fixed my issue.

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James G. Garner (cominatyalive) said : 		#7

There is still a bug with animated titles background color. When choosing (Fly Towards Camera), the background should be black by default, but it is white and no way to change it. I have used Alpha 1.4.1 in AV Linux and there's no issue, but all other distros have this bug. This has ruined my openshot creativity & experience. Also, I noticed when choosing (Dissolve) I get an error message stating that Blender is not pointing to the executable blender. blender is listed in preferences as the executable. Why has this background issue has not been fixed? Thanks.