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Add Text to Video

Burn text or title cards into a video permanently.

Choose video file or drop it anywhere on this page MP4 · MOV · WEBM · MKV · AVI · WMV · FLV · M4V · 3GP · MPEG · +3 Processed on your device — never uploaded

How to add text to video

  1. Drop a video in.
  2. Type the text and set font, size, colour and position.
  3. Set the time range if the text should only appear during part of the clip, then process.

About this tool

Burning text into a video is the most permanent way to caption or label footage. Unlike a separate subtitle track that relies on the player to render it, burned-in text is part of the pixel data and appears everywhere — in downloaded files, in screenshots, on devices that do not handle embedded subtitle tracks. For title cards, attribution, and simple captions it is also significantly simpler to implement and share.

The trade-off is permanence: there is no "turn subtitles off" for burned-in text. For professional video production where accessibility and multi-language support matter, a proper subtitle workflow with SRT files is the right approach. For personal projects, social clips, and simple labels, burning in text is perfectly practical.

Questions

Is this for adding proper subtitles?
This tool burns text permanently into the video pixels — it is for title cards, captions and simple labels. For proper subtitle tracks that can be toggled on and off, the text needs to be stored in a separate SRT or VTT file and attached as a subtitle stream, which is a different operation. Burning is simpler and guaranteed to be visible regardless of the player.
Can I add multiple text labels to the same video?
Currently the tool adds one text element per render pass. For multiple labels at different positions or timings, download the output and run it through the tool again. This means multiple re-encode generations — if quality matters, plan your text layout before processing.