Add Text to Video

Put Text on Your Video Free

Describe the title, the timing, the look — the agent places it. No credit card required.

How to Add Text to a Video with Valmera

1. 1
   Upload your video

   Sign up free at valmera.io and upload your video — up to 2GB or 3 hours. Valmera analyzes it once with visible progress, including a transcript, so you can time text to moments or to the words you say.
2. 2
   Type what the text should say — and where

   Describe it like you'd brief an editor: "add a title that says SUMMER SALE at the start", "put a lower third with Sara Chen, Product Lead during the first ten seconds", or "show a big number 3 when I say three reasons". The agent picks the template, places it, and times it.
3. 3
   Preview, adjust, export

   Watch the preview and adjust by replying: "make it bigger", "typewriter entrance", "move it to the top right", "add a backing box". Export renders a full-quality H.264 MP4 from your original upload with the text baked into the picture.

The one-time analysis of a long video takes a while and shows visible progress. Every text change after that is a single message.

7 Designed Text Templates

Instead of a blank text box, you ask for a role and get a design: title for openers, subtitle for supporting lines, lower third for names and roles, callout for pointing at what matters, big number for stats and countdowns, quote for pull-quotes, and chapter for section breaks.

Each element holds up to 200 characters and lives exactly where you say — any position in the frame, any time window, with a size scale, custom and accent colors, an optional backing box for legibility over busy footage, and uppercase styling when you want it loud. Details live in the text and overlays documentation.

Animated Entrances and Exits — Including Typewriter

Static text reads as an afterthought; animated text reads as design. Every element can enter and exit with fade, pop, slide-up, blur-in, whip, rise, or drop — and entrances add typewriter, which types your title on character by character. Ask for it the way you'd say it: "typewriter the title in", "pop the callout when the product appears", "fade the quote out before the cut".

Because the agent makes the change and Valmera's honesty layer verifies every reply against the edit actually performed, you're never told an animation was applied when it wasn't — what the chat says happened is what the preview shows.

12 Fonts and Full Color Control

The bundled font library spans loud and refined: Inter Display in Black, ExtraBold, and Bold, Anton, Bebas Neue, Archivo Black, Poppins Black, Syne ExtraBold, Playfair Display Black, Instrument Serif, DM Serif Display, and Montserrat. Pair any of them with custom text and accent colors — brand hex codes included — and the backing box when footage gets busy. The honest limit: you can't upload your own font files, so exact brand typography means choosing the nearest of the 12.

Text works beyond regular videos, too: on canvas projects — slideshows built from images and music with no main video — the same templates label sections and title cards.

Text for Speech Belongs to Captions

A useful rule: if the words are spoken, caption them; if the words are written, text them. Spoken words get word-accurate treatment from the caption generator — including karaoke word-by-word highlighting — or plain readable lines from the auto subtitle generator. Written words — the hook title, the speaker's name, the "3 reasons" chapter cards — come from this tool. A finished video usually uses both, and in Valmera that's two sentences in the same chat.

Who Adds Text This Way

Creators opening every video with a hook title. Interviewers and podcasters introducing guests with lower thirds. Marketers calling out the price, the date, the offer. Course builders chaptering long lessons. Anyone who has fought a timeline's text tool knows the appeal: here, "add a title that says WELCOME, top center, typewriter" is the entire workflow.

Brief It Like an Editor

Say what the text says, where it sits, how it enters. The agent does the rest. Free to try.

More Than a Text-on-Video Tool

Titles are one request inside a full agentic editor: the same conversation can cut silences, caption speech, add music with automatic ducking, punch in zooms, and grade color — with every claim verified by the honesty layer. See all the AI video editing tools, read the captions documentation for the speech side of on-screen words, or check plans and pricing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Add Text to Your Video

7 templates, 12 fonts, animated entrances — placed by request, burned into a source-quality export. Free plan, no credit card.