Add text to a video

Text overlay puts your own words on top of a video. It costs no credits.

Where to find it

• In the Workflow: the Text step, after Video. Press Add text and continue (Continue without text if you typed none).
• In a formula: turn on Text overlay in the run panel. With several products you can use the same text for every video, or different text for each product.

What you can set

• Up to 5 text boxes, each up to 120 characters. Press + Add text box for another.
• Bold outline or Boxed (a solid rounded box behind each line).
• Left, centre or right alignment, and a size from 24 to 160.
• Text colour, and outline or box colour, from nine colours each.
• Drag a box to move it, pull its sides to change its width, or its corner to scale the text.
• Insert {product} puts the product's short title in the text, so one design works for many products.

A switch under the preview, on from the start, keeps your text clear of the buttons and captions the TikTok app draws over a video. Turn it off to place text anywhere in the frame.

Presets

Save a look with Save as preset and use it again later. In the Workflow, Last used brings back your last text.

Good to know

• The text shows for the whole video. Emoji aren't supported and are left out.
• The clean video and the one with text are both kept in your Library.
• If the text fails to render, you still have the clean video, and nothing was charged.
• A workspace can add text to 200 videos a day.