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How To Add Text On Video Clips In Shotcut | Shotcut Tutorial
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Apr 15, 2025
#videoediting In this tutorial i show you how to add text to your video clips in shotcut video editor. WATCH: https://youtu.be/S-7iJycoQOg Shotcut is a free to use open source video editing program that you can download and use on your Windows computer or Macbook to edit high quality videos while offline and download them. Download Shotcut today: https://www.shotcut.org/ #shotcut #videoediting
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in this video I'm going to show you how
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you can add text to your video in
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Shortcut so I have here two clips in my
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shortcut video editor but I like to add
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the word meditation to this first clip
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that you can see here so I have two
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clips this and this so I only want to
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add to this so to do so far select the
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clip that you want then go ahead and tap
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on this filter option and then tap on
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this plus here to add a filter
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alternatively instead of going to
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filters here you have filters option
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here if you also tap here it will take
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you to filters as well so from here tap
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on this plus icon to add a filter now we
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are interested in text or adding text so
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just go ahead and tap here text and as
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you can see we have two formats of text
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the text rich and the simple text so to
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make just a simple text just go ahead
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and tap on text simple so if you tap on
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text simple you can see we have some
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writings here so to edit this text go
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and identify text box which is here put
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your cursor at the end of it then
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backspace to delete and now write what
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you want so I want to write
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meditation so I'll write in capital
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letter meditation great so if you look
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here you can see the word meditation has
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correctly been written however it is too
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big so to resize your text size it is
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pretty simple you can see at the edges
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we have an option to drag or to size
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this text box so if you drag from
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here or from here or even from up to
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down or vice versa you'll be able to
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resize this text so I can resize it like
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this at the center here you can see this
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dot if you hover over it you can now see
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that icon and now you can resize it or
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you can move it to whatever you want so
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if you want to move it up or down go
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ahead and do it for instance maybe you
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want to change the color from white say
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to yellow for that just use the font
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here and this will open the color
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dialogue from which you can go ahead and
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choose your favorite color so if I go
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ahead and choose yellow you can see
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yellow is here i'll go ahead and tap on
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it and I can choose the variation if I
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want to increase the hue the saturation
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you can do it all here you can also go
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ahead and enter the hex code for the
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color and it will be applied immediately
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you can also choose the variation of the
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color by just tapping or using this bar
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here and it will show you the intensity
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of the color that you have just chosen
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so if you want it more lighter you can
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leave it at that and then just go ahead
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and tap okay and immediately I tapped on
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okay the color changed so once you're
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done just leave it at that don't worry
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of these edges you are seeing here they
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will not be applied to your final
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product so if I go ahead and play it you
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can see that was only applied to that
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one clip that I just chose and here we
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go if you go to the second clip the
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writing the text is not there now
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suppose you want just to add a text to a
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very small section of your clip or to a
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specific section of your clip go ahead
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and select that specific section for
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instance I want to add text between here
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and here i'll only select this clip then
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go ahead and add my text just type in
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text and I have here choose text simple
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i like simple because it keeps
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everything pretty simple and you can
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make all the controls from here and then
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go ahead and again edit this and write
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anything you want so I can go ahead also
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and resize this and then move it to any
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place that I want if I want it here I
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can leave it at that now finally let me
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show you how you can use the rich text
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option now in as much as simple text
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keeps everything simple you can go ahead
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and use it you can also apply text using
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the rich text style now the rich text
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style gives you more control for
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instance let's go ahead and add a rich
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text here if we go ahead and tap on this
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plus and type here text now instead of
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simple choose rich you can see now the
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rich text will have more control in
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within the box so for us to write here
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you can see now the text box is not here
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we are told to click in the rectangle at
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top the video to edit the text so we can
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go ahead and start writing it just by
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clicking inside here and then now we can
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now write anything so I'll write
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meditation again so you can't see the
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text because of the color it is here but
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the font makes it not visible so we can
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go ahead and change this by selecting it
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if I select on it you can now see the
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text and we can now have control here to
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choose the text color in within here and
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this time I can choose red and choose
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the variation of red I want and once
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done I'll tap on okay and now look at
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that we can also go ahead and make it
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bold from here so this gives you more
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control if you want to bolden it you can
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do it here it is now more bold if you
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want to enlarge it you can increase the
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font size you can just use this text
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size to increase the size of the text
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using this option and then if you also
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want to move it anywhere in your video
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you can just drag this at this center
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and then move it should you also want to
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resize this you can resize it but it
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will not affect the size of the text
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however if you want to resize the text
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size you can go ahead and reduce the
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text size by increasing or reducing it
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and that is it so you can go ahead and
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play around with these options to edit
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your text or to make your text as you
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wish if you want to underline we have
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the underline option here and if you tap
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on it it will go ahead and underline to
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undo it you can still tap on it and the
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underline will be gone so that's how you
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add text in shortcut if this video was
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let's meet in the next video