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Add Text to Video

Easily add text to videos online with custom fonts, colors, and styles. Use our video editor to create captions and video text overlays in a few clicks

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Write Text on Videos Easily in Different Styles

Use our online video editor to create stylish text overlays in customizable fonts and colors. Easily adjust the text’s size, timing, and position to engage your audience. The editor supports all major formats, so you can add text to videos online and export HD videos without watermarks. You can also write multiple texts on the video in different positions and sync them using a drag-and-drop slider. Additional features are also available to add subtitles, translate captions, and crop videos for any platform and format.

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How to Add Text to Videos in 4 Quick Steps

Step one: upload video file

1. Upload Your Video File

Select the media language and upload the video either from your computer or via URL from platforms like YouTube or Vimeo.

Step two: select the source the language

2. Create a Supertitle

Create a new supertitle to write text on videos. You can add multiple text overlays on video to increase engagement.

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3. Customize Your Text on Video

You can make the overlay text appealing by customizing its timing, font, size, color, background, outline, and overall style.

Step three: export the video

4. Download Your Video with Text Overlays

Export and download your video with engaging and perfectly synced text overlays in your preferred format.

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Watch How to Add Overlay Text on Videos

Follow this quick tutorial to see exactly how to upload, customize, and export your video with text overlays using SubtitleBee.

Add Text to Video with Precise Timing

With SubtitleBee, you can set text durations using the drag-and-drop slider or by entering precise start and end times to decide exactly when your text on video appears and disappears.

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Customize Fonts and Colors

Make the animated text stand out by choosing different fonts, adjusting sizes, and applying vibrant colors. Add backgrounds or outlines to ensure your message looks clear on every screen.

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Add and Style Multiple Overlay Text

Add multiple overlay texts to your video and style them with bold, italic, or underline toggles. You can also easily reposition the texts to match different durations in your video.

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Export and Download HD Videos

After finalizing the added text to the video, you can export and download it. SubtitleBee offers multiple export options to ensure your video is fully optimized for the target platform.

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SubtitleBee Features

Multiple Editing Options

Choose from a variety of fonts, colors, positions, and styles to create text overlays that match your brand’s aesthetics

Add Text to Video Online

No need to download any software. Everything runs online to ensure you can upload and add text to videos online using AI

User-Friendly Interface

SubtitleBee has a simple and user-friendly editor with drag-and-drop controls and toggles to make adding text to video easy

Safe and Secure

Your videos remain secure and private with SubtitleBee. We never share your data and you can always delete it from the storage

Custom Design

Fully customize overlay text with your logo and background to create a branded look that stands out on any platform

Additional Features

SubtitleBee offers additional features to help you crop videos, add subtitles, and translate captions to increase your reach

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What our users think of SubtitleBee

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I love this product. It is very easy to use, quick, and extremely helpful for those who wish to watch videos at a low volume at night!

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As a college professor, I find SubtitleBee very useful when creating content for our students. It offers everything we need in a subtitling service, including the ability to insert our school logo into the video.

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What an awesome app! It helps me a lot for school purposes. The customizable fonts really make my video presentations stand out. Thank you, dear developers, for making this easy to use and affordable. Keep it up!

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I love the options you can use with the editor. I can move the subtitle position on the video, change the font, and even adjust the background of the text. It makes my videos look professional.

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I am very glad that SubtitleBee allows me to upload audio files from my podcast and quickly transcribe them for me. Thanks!

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The translation from one language to another is amazingly accurate. I have suggested your service to quite a few colleagues, as it is a pleasure to use.

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SubtitleBee is one of the best tools we have for our marketing videos. The process of uploading, captioning, and exporting is very straightforward; it saves us a lot of time.

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Video cropping in SubtitleBee is just spot on! I can easily crop my videos depending on which social media platform I am uploading them to.

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The progress bar is superb for my Instagram videos. I love it!

FAQs

What is text overlay?

Text overlay is the method of placing text, such as titles or captions, directly on a video to highlight vital information. Text overlays play an important role in improving audience engagement and increasing reach.

How to put text on a video?

You can put text on a video using SubtitleBee’s video text editing capability. It has the dedicated “supertitle” title feature through which you can add text to videos online without downloading any software.

How to add text to video online for free?

You can try out SubtitleBee to add text to a video for free. All you need to do is sign up, upload your videos, and put text over videos with the user-friendly video text generator. You can also experiment with different fonts and designs for free. Once satisfied, upgrade to export and download the video with overlay text.

What type of video files can I upload to add text?

You can upload your video in various file formats, such as MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM, or WMV, to edit and add text to them. Moreover, you can upload an online video directly from YouTube, Vimeo, or a self-hosted platform via URL. In short, whether you want to create TikTok overlay text, add text to YouTube videos, or add text to MP4 videos for any other platform, you can do that with SubtitleBee.

Which fonts are available to add text to video?

SubtitleBee has 350+ fonts in the Business plan, so you have a massive library of fonts you can use to add text to videos.

Can I add different text at different times in a video?

Yes! You can create multiple supertitles in SubtitleBee, which simply means adding different text at different times in your video. Adjusting a text’s duration is easy through the drag-and-drop slider or by entering the start and end times.

Can I preview videos while writing text on them?

Yes. All of your changes are reflected in the video in real-time. So, you’ll be able to write and edit text on videos quickly and see all the changes before exporting and downloading the video.

Is the feature add text to video free?

You can try out the add to text to video online feature for free. Try out the video text editor and put text on video to see how your videos will look with text over them. If you are satisfied with the results, you can upgrade to a paid plan to export and download the video.

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