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# 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.

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### ⚙️ Settings

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

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2. **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.&#x20;

#### **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\ <img src="/files/KQAmrknPSJsSez2VhSi6" alt="" data-size="line">
* 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\ <img src="/files/wi1va3kg41hMy9QhwbKG" alt="" data-size="line">
* 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\ <img src="/files/QYPL7kCmaKlZnemihH3I" alt="" data-size="line">
* 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.