How to add a border to a single videoclip I just started to use blender because Camtasia is crashing like ***** al the time and Techsmith doesn't seem to care.
I have a few thing tackled like adding text, resizing and i can make things move in and out by using keyframes.

The one thing i cant find any info on is borders, how can i add a border to a single videoclip?
With an image overlay i could emulate this but the problem is that i want the border on a single video clip, the video clip in question is rotated and moving around the screen by using keyframes.

In Camtasia you can just enable a border choose a thickness like 6px and choose a color, this wil add a 4sided border to the videoclip/picture.

I am thinking of 2 (untested) solutions richt now but they are time consuming.


Create a new scene, add the videoclip, add an image overlay (border) and add the scene to the mainscene.
Create a new project, add the videoclip, add an image overlay (border) render the project and import the rendered videoclip in the mainproject.


I hope someone can help me with this.
Blender can do all of those things but it takes a little bit of extra effort to set up. There is no "outline" tool, so you make it with a mask.


Create a mask in the UV/Image editor (render a frame from the video as a guide f-12), make sure that it is 'reversed' by clicking the Invert Mask button in the mask properties panel





Shift - A Add a "Color" effect strip above the video you want to highlight and apply a strip modifier in it's Strip Properties panel N key. Set the color strip's "Blend" type to Alpha Over or Over Drop.





To move them around the screen, (1) select both strips and combine them as a Metastrip ctrl-G. (2) Select the metastrip and add a Transform effect strip Shift-A. Select this new effect strip and change its "Blend" type to Alpha over or Over Drop the image or video (3) placed at the bottom of your stack. Use the properties panel to move and keyframe any animation.