Bug 465912

Summary: Title outline effect covers up the text itself
Product: [Applications] kdenlive Reporter: zcxvcb2 <zcxvcb2>
Component: Video Effects & TransitionsAssignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 22.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Flatpak   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: I just don't see how this is intended.

Description zcxvcb2@gmail.com 2023-02-17 11:13:52 UTC
Created attachment 156359 [details]
I just don't see how this is intended.

SUMMARY
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The outline effect in Title Clip will cover up the text it's trying to outline,
It should only go outward, not inward.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a title clip and input some random texts.
2. Adding the value to the outline property.

OBSERVED RESULT
The 0utline devour its message.
At best it makes the texts thinner then they're supposed to,
At worst the original colour got eaten up completely.

EXPECTED RESULT
The outline simply acts like a background layer for the text to sit on.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is literally the only app I know that have this behaviour with outline, and I've used a lot of apps.
If this is somehow intended effect, please at least provides an option to toggle.
It would be even better to be able to chain multiple outlines, set up gradients, 
Or using them as some kind of masks and setting them up with some kind of material node system,
But for now all I want is being able to have an outline that makes my texts pop, 
without me having to constantly checking if some character got distorted too much to read without distraction.
Comment 1 zcxvcb2@gmail.com 2023-06-20 04:52:39 UTC
Was fixed in 2023.04.
https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/1550