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In my latest FCE project, I made a solid color matte clip (dark blue) to set below my titles to give the text a colored background (these titles are not overlaid on video clips, so without the colored matte, the background would be the default black of the Timeline, and I don't want black).
Anyway, so here I have this nice white text overlaid on a dark blue background, looking pretty good, and now I'd like to put a decorative rectangular white border around the text, a thin white line, or a maybe a double white line, sort of like a pinstripe, to elegantly (I hope) enclose the text in a sort of box.
What would be the best way to create such a border? Could I make one on a transparent layer in Photoshop (I have CS-2,) and then import it into FCE as a clip to set the text above? Or is there a simpler way to do it, within FCE?
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Tom

The only option I see on that PieroF webpage is to download it as a .zip file. When I download it and double-click on the icon, I get that zoom-out effect like it's opening, but it doesn't open. Dropping its icon onto the Stuffit icons doesn't do anything either.
Anyway, I just experimented with masking off a colored matte in the way you mentioned, and I think I see how to do it: create a color matte and then lay two masks on top of it, an inner one and an (inverted) outer one, which leaves only a thin line of the color matte still showing. Is that it? For a double pinstripe, I suppose I would do that twice, i.e. create two masked-off mattes, one a little larger than the other, and stack them up on the video tracks?
It's more trouble than the Piero frame generator, no doubt, but effective. Thanks!
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