Add text overlay in the editor

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Add text overlays to your video to identify speakers, show chapter titles on-screen, emphasize certain captions, and more. 

Plan: All plans
Device: Computer browser

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Step by step

  • From the toolbar

    1. Log in to your Riverside account.
    2. Open a recording in the editor or upload an external file to start editing.
    3. On the timeline, move the playhead to the desired location.
    4. In the editing toolbar, click Text.
    5. From the Text panel, click your desired text style to add it to the video canvas. 
    6. Click the text on the video canvas to open the menu bar. From the menu bar you can:
      • Ask Co-Creator to alter your text.
      • Change font.
      • Change text size.
      • Add text effects: shadow, 3D shadow, outline, background, background invert.
      • Add animations: choose In to animate text as it enters or Out to animate it as it exits.
        • Click an animation icon to apply it.
        • In the animation panel, under Duration, drag the scrubber to adjust the animation’s length or manually enter a precise value of up to 5 seconds.
      • Change font color.
      • Change capitalization.
      • Change alignment.
      • Cick ••• [the three dots] to change the text's layer, duplicate, or remove it.
    7. Adjust the text overlay's duration on the timeline.

  • From the transcript

    1. Log in to your Riverside account.
    2. Open a recording in the editor or upload an external file to start editing.
    3. Double click the part of transcript where you want the text to appear.
    4. On the context menu, click add_element-plus.svg Add and choose Text.
    5. From the Text panel, click your desired text style to add it to the video canvas. 
    6. Click the text on the video canvas to open the menu bar. From the menu bar you can:
      • Ask Co-Creator to alter your text.
      • Change font.
      • Change text size.
      • Add text effects: shadow, 3D shadow, outline, background, background invert.
      • Add animations: choose In to animate text as it enters or Out to animate it as it exits.
        • Click an animation icon to apply it.
        • In the animation panel, under Duration, drag the scrubber to adjust the animation’s length or manually enter a precise value of up to 5 seconds.
      • Change font color.
      • Change capitalization.
      • Change alignment.
      • Cick ••• [the three dots] to change the text's layer, duplicate, or remove it.
    7. Adjust the text overlay's duration on the timeline.

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