Adding text to any image has been found to increase understanding and memory retention. So
if you want to be super clear about your messaging and have your audience remember what you've said
for much longer you need to learn how to add text to video. So in this tutorial I'm
going to show you how easy it is to do this using my new favourite video editing tool.
And if you're a YouTuber make sure you keep watching because I'm going to show you how to use
this video editing tool to create a super simple subscribe button to add to your YouTube videos.
Welcome and welcome back to my channel, I'm Nicky Pasquier and I'm here to help you
successfully grow your business online using some of the best organic marketing tips and tricks.
So if this is something that interests you be sure to subscribe to my channel turn on that little
bell notification so that you don't miss out on any of my videos. To start off today's tutorial
all you need to do is type this URL into your browsers and open up a free account with Veed.
Click on the black 'Sign Up' button, use an email address or sign in with your Google account.
Now tell Veed what you're going to be using it for.
Then choose a suitable plan.
So from your Veed dashboard you'll want to begin
by uploading your first video. To do that you can either click on this button here
or you can click on this button. And I'm going to do that and then select 'Create Project'. Now I'm
going to upload my video snippet from my local device by clicking on this button right here.
If you want you can also drag and drop your video snippet into this portion here. I'm just
going to close this down because I've already got a video snippet uploaded so I'm just going
to click on it to open it up. You'll notice that you have a sidebar on the left hand side
with all the lovely editing features where you can add media, audio, subtitles, text, elements
and transitions as well as filters. Underneath you have your video timeline with your video playhead
and various editing tools right underneath. So to add your first lot of text overlay to your
video go back to the sidebar and click on 'Text' and you can now select whether to add a title,
some regular text or some handwritten text. Or you can use one of these pre-formatted
text combinations underneath. I'm going to go back and I'm going to add the first headline
to my video by clicking on the headline title and that brings the text overlay onto my video.
You can start editing the text by going over to the left hand side and adding your title.
To edit the text go underneath and find the text style. You have a pull-down menu here so
click on that and explore some of these fabulous fonts. I think I'm going to stick with Montserrat.
You can edit the text further by increasing or decreasing the size
changing the text colour
selecting whether to bold the text
add italics. I think I just want to bold my text. You can change the alignment by clicking on these
buttons here. So now you can see you've added some simple text overlay to your video. You can
edit the text holder by increasing the size so place your cursor over one of the corner buttons,
hold your cursor down and drag it out or back in again and to change the dimension of the text box
just click one of the sidebars and drag those out. You can change the position of your text overlay
by just holding your cursor over the text, hold the cursor down and drag the text into position.
Okay fabulous, so you've just added some simple text overlay to your video. If you go down to your
video timeline you can also see that the text has been placed over the top of the video right here.
Right now I want to make this text stand out against the video so to do that I'm going
to select the text box again, go back to the left hand side and click on this little menu
that says 'More options'. There's a downward arrow here which I'm going to click
and underneath you have some more text options, so you can adjust the text spacing
and the line height. And now to make the text really stand out I'm going to click on this
downward arrow and add a text box. So I can add a block of colour behind the text, that's a little
bit too much so going down I'm going to have a look to see what this 'Background Square' is like,
which is much better. Or there's a 'Background Rounded',
and that's much better I think. You can also change the colour of the text box
by clicking on this little button here and then selecting whichever colour you'd like.
I'm going to stick with black because that really contrasts nicely and makes the text stand out.
Okay so once you've gone through this the first time you can now go ahead and add some more text.
So I'm going to select the video background, go back to the text button on the left hand
side and click it, and now I'm going to add some regular text. I'll walk you through
this process again just so that you're absolutely clear on what you need to do.
Okay so now I have my title text and a subtitle on my video but I don't want them to appear at
exactly the same time so I'm now going to show you how to add text at specific points in your video.
To do that I'm going to go down to the video timeline and select the heading, which is
this one here. I want the heading to appear one second into my video and finish at five seconds.
There are two ways you can do this; you can either grab a hold of one of these sidebars
with your cursor, still holding your cursor down drag the sidebar to the right position,
so that's one second in, and I'll drag the end sidebar to the five second mark.
Perfect! Now let me show you another way you can do this which is probably easier. I want to now
have the subtitle appear seven seconds into my video and ending at 10. So with the text
selected on my timeline I'm going to go right up to the top of this column here
where I have two stopwatches; this is the start stopwatch and this is the end stopwatch. I'm
going to go back down to the video timeline and I'm going to grab a hold of the video playhead
and drag it along to the seven second mark. Then I'm going to go back up to the stopwatch
the start stopwatch and click on it and you'll see that my text has moved along
to this seven second mark. I know this doesn't look right at the minute but bear with me. Now
I'm going to drag the video playhead to 10 seconds which is where I want the subheading to end
and I'm going to go back up to the top and click on the end stopwatch. And that's perfect, you can
see how now my subtitle starts at seven seconds and finishes at 10. So you can use whichever
method you prefer. So let me just play this video back by dragging the timeline back to the start
let's see what the text looks like that's my headline text.
And that's my sub-heading - whoops! I think i'm going to drag this down to the bottom of my video,
and that looks much better. Fantastic! And once you've done your text you can have a little bit
of fun by adding perhaps some animation to it. I'm going to click on the text to select it,
go to the left hand side of my desktop and click on the animation
tab. If you don't know what the animations look like just hover your mouse over the
little thumbnail image to get an idea of how the text will appear on your screen.
I think I'm going to stick with 'Slide Right'. So to add the animation to my text all I need to do
is click on the thumbnail. So that is all there is to adding text to a video using Veed. Now let me
show you how to easily create that subscribe button for your youtube videos using Veed.
Next time I'm going to take things a step further by showing you how to easily create subtitles for
your videos using Veed, so if you want to learn how to do this just give me a 'SUBTITLES' in the
comments box below. If you want to learn how to use Canva to add text to videos all you need to do
is click on this link here and I will take you through the whole process.
If you've not done so already please consider subscribing to my channel
thank you so much for watching and for your time and I will see you next week.