# 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="https://4122560492-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FWDn6n1C7MKZBHdDcmm6f%2Fuploads%2FpsjHmoVBh4zmG3EPe23m%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=02dc64a9-70fa-4e10-a574-18f4ea04f8cf" 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="https://4122560492-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FWDn6n1C7MKZBHdDcmm6f%2Fuploads%2FRPnOeXDyUHwZH9NTC90H%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=0fb109ec-3370-4a01-a5c3-c4c1fae63b16" 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="https://4122560492-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FWDn6n1C7MKZBHdDcmm6f%2Fuploads%2FPtATupc46hYybgvXQ1fS%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=3af6eba3-3824-4127-ac1c-341a1c8ca43b" 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.