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

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 and drag the desired text onto the video canvas to add it to your edit.
  Or, click the text.
6. From the menu bar, change the text overlay's style, typeface, font size, color, capitalization, and alignment.
7. To animate the text, select Animation from the menu bar.
8. From the animation panel, choose In to animate text as it enters or Out to animate it as it exits.
9. Pick an animation preset from the available options.
  Hover over an animation icon to preview it.
10. 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.
11. On the Text menu, click ••• [the three dots] to change the text's layer, duplicate, or remove it.
12. 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. Click the part of transcript where you want the text to appear.
4. On the context menu, click Add and choose Text.
5. From the Text panel, click and drag the desired text onto the video canvas to add it to your edit.
  Or, click the text.
6. From the menu bar, change the text overlay's style, typeface, font size, color, capitalization, and alignment.
7. To animate the text, select Animation from the menu bar.
8. From the animation panel, choose In to animate text as it enters or Out to animate it as it exits.
9. Pick an animation preset from the available options.
  Hover over an animation icon to preview it.
10. 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.
11. On the Text menu, click ••• [the three dots] to change the text's layer, duplicate, or remove it.
12. Adjust the text overlay's duration on the timeline.