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The BEST way to add a stroke around your video in Premiere Pro

February 9, 2023 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

Once I learned this trick, I had to go slap myself. Seriously. Ignore my earlier post about this topic because this one is much better.

Let’s get started.

Once you have your photo or video adequately sized and placed, you do this.

Add the Drop Shadow effect from the Effects Panel to the clip you want a border around.

First, change your shadow color to what you want. I picked yellow. Then make the Direction 0, and make the Opacity 100%. Finally, change the distance to something like 10.

Now copy and paste that drop shadow effect three times. So you should have four drop shadow effects.

Next, change the Direction in each of the effects to 0, 90, 180, and 270.

Here’s a screenshot that shows the settings for each effect.

Once you get this effect stack set up, you can save it as a preset. And use it in so many different ways.

I also made a video tutorial walking you through the steps and added more information about how versatile this can be for adding a border to your clips in Premiere Pro.

Filed Under: Effects

How to Add a Border to a Video Clip in Premiere Pro

October 22, 2021 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

I’ll be first to admit that this should be way easier than it is. And perhaps I’ve missed something along the way. But it should be easy to add a border around a video clip or a still image in Premiere Pro.


So here are two Premiere Pro tips that will show you how to add a border to a video clip. The first one is using a video effect called Grid. The second is using the Essential Graphics Panel.


As always, you’ll need to be working inside a project and have some footage. My project setting is 1920×1080, and my footage is also 1920×1080. I’m also working in Premiere Pro 2021.

Adding a Border to a Video Clip Using the Grid Effect


Find the video clip you want to add a border to in your sequence timeline and then go to your Effects Panel (Shift+7) and locate the Grid effect in the Video Effects folder > Obsolete folder. By the way, you can search “Grid” in the search field next to the eye-glass, and it should pop up.


I know this is an obsolete effect, but let’s live dangerously, shall we.

Drop that effect on your clip.

Open up your Effect Controls panel (Shift+5)

In the Grid effect change the Anchor to 1920.0, 1080.0 (Note: This needs to be the same size as your video clip)
Set Corner to 0.0, 0.0
Set Border to what thickness you want
Set the color to what you want
And change the Blending Mode from None to Normal.

And now you have a border attached to your video clip. If you scale and change the position of the clip, the border should follow and size dynamically.

I learned that this doesn’t work great for clips where the project settings are different from clip settings. For example, if you are working with a 1920×1080 project but using a clip that’s 1280×720.

Adding a Border to a Video Clip Using The Essential Graphics Panel

Now I’ll show you the second way you can add a border to a video clip.

I’ll skip the setup stuff because I know you have your smarty pants on.

It might be slightly helpful to turn on “Snap in Program Monitor,” which you can find by clicking the wrench icon in the program monitor.

Open your Essential Graphics panel

Add a rectangle shape. Turn off fill and then turn on stroke. Give some more width to your liking and color it as you wish.

Change the Anchor Points of the rectangle shape to -5.0, -5.0

Change the position to 0.0, 0.0, and now your rectangle should be at the top left corner.

Now drag the lower right corner of your rectangle down to the bottom right corner of Program Monitor. You don’t need to be exact just yet; we will zoom in and place it just right.

Zoom your Program monitor into something like 200% and use the position bars on the bottom and right side of the program monitor so you can see the bottom right corner.

And now click and drag that corner of your rectangle into place.

Ok, you are nearing the end.

Reset the zoom level of your Program Monitor.

Make sure your essential graphic layer is the length of the clip you are using.

To make this stick to the video layer, if you want to change the scale or something like for a picture in picture effect, we need to nest the clips together.

Select both clips. Right-click and choose Nest…

And now, if you scale down the nested sequence that you just created the video and the border should scale nicely together.

There you have it. I hope that helps you.

Filed Under: Effects, Sequence, Titles, Uncategorized

Closing all your Effects Parameters at Once in Premiere Pro

May 4, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

Sometimes I want to see all the effects I have stacked up on a clip when editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. If you hold down your Option Key (Alt) and click the twirl down arrow, “>” then all of your effects will twirl up at once. Additionally, you can do the same thing to open every single effect and parameter in your effects stack after you have closed them all.

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How to Quickly Find Effects in Adobe Premiere Pro

February 27, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

The quickest way to find an effect in your Adobe Premiere Pro Effects Panel is using the search bar. Just start searching for the effect you want and Adobe will start filtering through the Effects list as you type. It’s not only handy, but it will speed things up for you a lot!

Effects Panel Search Bar

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How to make a great looking tilt-shift effect in Adobe Premiere Pro

December 28, 2017 By Premiere Pro Tricks Leave a Comment

In this tutorial I break down how I use the Compound Blur affect and a blur map to make what I think is a better looking tilt-shift effect in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Filed Under: Effects Tagged With: Blur, Compound Blur, Tilt-shift

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