Add titles
❓ What is it?
Adding animated text to your videos is a great way to keep viewers engaged and emphasize key points. The Add titles feature automatically identifies important phrases in your speech and turns them into highly customizable, animated text titles.
🤔 How does it work?
The "Add titles" feature works by analysing your speech and finding suggested titles directly onto your video.
First, you choose a default theme for your titles and hit "Go" to start the analysis (Hint: You can hover over the themes to see their animations).
FireCut will analyse your speech and automatically highlight phrases that would make great animated titles.
You are then presented with a list of titles overlaid over your transcript where you can review, resize, and edit the titles before adding them onto your sequence.
Alternatively, you can use Manual mode to bypass the automatic analysis and individually add titles at any specific point in your video.
⚙️ Settings
Theme: Decide how your titles will look when generated. You can also modify the theme later.
Scope: Whether to analyze your full sequence, or just in/out points.
✏️ Transcript and title editor
Once the analysis is complete, you can use the transcript editor to fine-tune your titles.
To edit which words from your transcript are used for titles:
Turn on the "Edit mode" button in the Transcript section so it is green
Make changes in the transcript editor following the instructions under "Transcript" — you can make various changes such as changing which words are highlighted, changing emphasis levels for words, or even splitting/deleting titles by using the right-click context menu
To edit specific titles:
Turn off the "Edit mode" button in the Transcript section so it is gray
Select the title you want to edit by either hovering on it in the transcript, or using the right/left arrow buttons to cycle through the titles
Use the title editor window to make changes — you can change the text, appearance and animation
💡 Tips for best outcomes
Confirm the visuals of the titles before adding them to your sequence to save time on the edit.
Use In/Out points (hotkeys: I and O) to limit analysis to the most relevant part of your video.
Make sure your audio does not have long silences, and any music / sound effects are muted.
🙋♂️ Common questions, issues, watch-outs
This is a brand new beta feature that we're trying out! Please share your feedback.
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