Adding Titles & Text
FilmCraft has a real text engine with proper fonts, kerning, and ligatures — text stays sharp at any size or rotation.
The text tools
On the Program monitor you have Type, Shape, and Pen tools:
- Type — click to type, edit with a caret and selection.
- Shape — drag out rectangles and ellipses.
- Pen — draw free paths.
Adding a title
- Select the Type tool (or press the shortcut).
- Click in the Program monitor and type your text.
- Use the Properties panel to set font, size, color, fill, stroke, background, and shadow.
Graphic clips hold text and shape layers. Every property — position, scale, opacity — can be keyframed for animation.
Essential Graphics & Motion
Text and shapes live on a video track like any clip. Add them to V2 (above your footage on V1) and they’ll appear on top. Adjust Motion (position, scale, rotation) in the Effect Controls.
Captions & subtitles
FilmCraft supports caption tracks in Subtitle, CEA-608, CEA-708, and Teletext formats. Import and export SRT, WebVTT, and SCC with frame-exact timing, edit captions in the Text panel, and burn them into your export.
Try it yourself
Add a title on V2 over a clip, change its font and color, then keyframe its scale from small to large for a simple zoom-in animation.
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