Add text to any video the easy way with Descript. Just upload your video or record your webcam, get an automatic transcript, and highlight the moments where you want to add text or animated captions in your choice of colors, fonts, backgrounds, animations, and styles.
Subtitles are captions that provide a translation if the program is to be made accessible to deaf or hearing-impaired audiences, or available in other languages and countries. While the use cases may differ, for creators’ purposes, video captions and subtitles are the same thing.
Drop your video file into a Descript project to upload and transcribe it. You can use this transcript to edit your video, generate captions, and highlight the moments where you want to add text overlays or create title scenes.
Navigate to the text tool and click on the area of the video where you want the text to appear. Type your desired text into the textbox that appears on screen. You can adjust the font, size, color, and positioning of the text to match the style and tone of your video. Use the text settings to fine-tune the appearance.
Make any final adjustments to the text or video as needed. When satisfied, export your video by choosing the appropriate file format and resolution. You can then download the finished video to your device or share it directly from Descript to your desired platform.
Subtitles are captions that provide a translation if the program is to be made accessible to deaf or hearing-impaired audiences, or available in other languages and countries. While the use cases may differ, for creators’ purposes, video captions and subtitles are the same thing.
You can add captions with pretty much any video editing tool. We’re going to tell you how to do it in Descript because a) we think it’s the best, and b) this is our website.
With Descript’s automatic transcription and Fancy Captions you can add open captions to your videos in seconds.
Before you apply Fancy Captions decide if you want to add captions to your entire video, or only a portion. Either way, it’s easy.
You will notice a Fancy Captions icon — a T in a purple box — at the beginning of your transcription. This indicates where your caption begins, which you will see as a separate track on your timeline. You can drag and drop that icon anywhere in the script, wherever you want captions to start.
If you click on the icon, or on the purple captions track in the timeline, you can you then click on the Clip Inspector (in the top right of the app) to change any of your captions’ properties, including the font, size, or color. You can also add animations and shadows.
What if you only want to add captions or subtitles to particular sections of your video project? You can insert them by highlighting just the part you want to caption, then following the second and third steps above. Once you’ve added them, you can expand or shrink the section with subtitles using your Fancy Captions track (the purple line). Just use your mouse:
You can also repurpose short clips of your video to for social-media promotion — complete with animated captions. It couldn’t be much simpler:
Here again, you can change the color, size, or font of your captions, add animations, or throw in some scroll-stopping animations like waveforms or progress bars.
Add text to any video the easy way with Descript. Just upload your video or record your webcam, get an automatic transcript, and highlight the moments where you want to add text or animated captions in your choice of colors, fonts, backgrounds, animations, and styles.
Drop your video file into a Descript project to upload and transcribe it. You can use this transcript to edit your video, generate captions, and highlight the moments where you want to add text overlays or create title scenes.
Navigate to the text tool and click on the area of the video where you want the text to appear. Type your desired text into the textbox that appears on screen. You can adjust the font, size, color, and positioning of the text to match the style and tone of your video. Use the text settings to fine-tune the appearance.
Make any final adjustments to the text or video as needed. When satisfied, export your video by choosing the appropriate file format and resolution. You can then download the finished video to your device or share it directly from Descript to your desired platform.
Descript intelligently syncs your transcript with the corresponding audio and video, making it easy to find the perfect moments to enhance with text, or add title cards in between scenes.
Capture more eyeballs with a wide range of text elements you can add to your videos. Like engaging title cards, animated captions that keep viewers hooked, custom watermarks for branding, lower-thirds overlays, rolling credits, and much more.
Make your text pop with Descript's collection of scroll-stopping text effects and templates. With just a few clicks, you can apply dynamic animations, stylish fonts, and bold colors to grab your audience's attention. Create your own templates to save your font styles or use one of our many templates for title cards, captions, rolling credits, and more.
To add text to your video in Descript:
1. Select the clip or highlight the portion of the transcript where you want the text to appear
2. Click the Text button in the toolbar
3. Type your desired text in the panel on the right
4. Use the options to customize the font, color, size, position and timing
Yes, you can! Descript offers a wide selection of popular fonts to choose from on all plans. With a Creator plan starting at just $24/month, you can upload your own custom fonts and start creating branded templates.
Descript makes it easy to add narration with text-to-speech. Just paste in or type out your script, assign an AI voice to it with '@', and begin the voice generation process. You can then adjust the timing, volume and other settings just like a regular audio clip.
