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

1. Theme: Decide how your titles will look when generated. You can also modify the theme later.

1. 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.