How to Add Text to Video for Free on Windows 11/10

How to add text to video? How to add titles and credits to video? How to add captions to video? This guide explains how to add text to video with MiniTool MovieMaker.

The Function of Text in Video

Videos with text are popular on many social media platforms. You may wonder why text has become extremely important in videos.

Firstly, the text usually appearing as a caption is an extra cue to help viewers understand the information in the video much better. Next, every video always involves key sections that are important for viewers to notice. Text can make a mark in a video to highlight the key sections. Furthermore, it’s convenient for viewers who open the mute mode in public when watching videos.

The title appears at the beginning of a video. If you have an attractive title, it will draw the attention of the audience and your video will get more views. Additionally, credits at the end of a video are a list of who worked on the video and what they did. The credits can make viewers know who they are in the video and who other workers are behind the scenes.

Why Use MiniTool MovieMaker

MiniTool MovieMaker, a free, easy-to-use, and feature-rich video editor, supports importing many video formats and exporting high-quality video without a watermark. It allows you to add transitions, filter effects, motion effects, animated elements, and text to videos to generate wonderful and stylish videos.

MiniTool MovieMaker offers a wide range of text templates, including titles, captions, and credits. It lets you edit the text by adjusting the text font, size, line spacing, alignment, text color, text highlight color, and text opacity to meet your diverse need.

How to Add Text to Video with MiniTool MovieMaker

Here’s the guide for adding text to video with MiniTool MovieMaker.

Step 1. Download and install MiniTool MovieMaker on your Windows 11/10. Then Open MiniTool MovieMaker, and close the pop-up window.

Step 2. Click on Import Media Files to import the videos you’d like to edit.

Step 3. Choose a video and click + on the bottom right corner of the video or drag it to the timeline.

Step 4. Add text to video.

Case 1: Add caption to video

· Select a video where you want to add caption in the timeline, go to the Text tab, click Caption and choose a caption template you preferred between 25 caption templates.

· Click + in the lower right corner of the caption or drag it to the text track.

· To change the duration of the captions, drag either edge of the text track to the right or left.

· Under Text Property, enter your caption and adjust the font, size, line spacing, alignment, text color, text highlight color, and text opacity.

Note: You can start from scratch by tapping the Reset button.

Case 2: Add title to video

· Drag the blue playhead to the beginning of the video, go to Text and click the Title and choose a title you like between 14 title styles.

· Click + in the lower right corner of the title, or drag it to the text track.

· From the Text Property window, enter your title and edit them as you like.

Case 3: Add credits to video

· Drag the blue playhead to the end of the video, click on Credits under the Text tab, and choose a credit between 10 credit styles.

· Click + in the lower right corner of the credits, or drag it to the text track.

· From the Text Property window, enter your credits and edit them as you like.

Delete the text (caption, title, credits)

You have two options to delete the text.

Option 1. Select the caption track, the title card, or the end credits on the timeline, right-click on it and choose Delete from the pop-up window or press Delete on your keyboard.

Option 2. Select the caption track, the title card, or the end credits on the timeline on the timeline, and tap on the trash icon.

Step 5. After you add text to video, you can add transitions, filter effects, motion effects, and animated elements to the video selectively.

Step 6. Export the video.

· Once you have finished editing your video, you can save it to your PC or device.

· Click Export on the toolbar

· Complete the export settings, involving the name, format, storage location, quality, encoder, resolution, and bite rate.

· Click Export.

Conclusion

This post offers a step-by-step guide on how to add text to video with this free video editing software. You can follow the steps above to add text to video. Hope it will help you.