What is the best way to add text to video?

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What is the best way to add text to video?

Post by rkstudio »

I'm curious about the best way to add text to a video in some clips. I'm making a tutorial video and I want to explain how to do certain things here and there. I already tried the subtitle editor and I never want to use it again! If you make a mistake it's almost impossible to correct and you have to play around with the timeline, hoping to get lucky enough to get rid of it. (that dreaded orange line)!
Can I just insert titles here and there within the video instead? I was trying to use the subtitle editor but you can only add text to the bottom but I want to put the text anywhere in some video clips like you can do with regular titles.
I hope this all makes sense. I will never use subtitles again, so I need to find another way.
Thanks.
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Yes just use ordinary titles - any where you want throughout the video - then just size them and put them any where you want on screen - title do not have to fill the screen
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The best way is to learn how to use the tool. the tool might have few variants and each will be the best if you try it and learn.
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Re: What is the best way to add text to video?

Post by rkstudio »

Thanks. I've used regular titles before and they worked fine but I just wanted to try the subtitle editor because there seems to be such a bid deal about it. But after seeing a pretty good video on it, I have it pretty well understood, but in a hurry, I'll just use regular titles.

Also, that is the best way to learn sometimes is by just playing around with it. But I found out many times that VS is not very forgiving if you make a mistake.

Thank you both very much.
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