Text, subtitles, stickers
Writing headlines, choosing fonts and styles, importing SRT/VTT, and adding stickers.
5 min
Text is the cheapest and most powerful thing you can add to a video. One headline tells the viewer what they're looking at, and subtitles make the whole thing work with the sound off — which is how most people scroll social feeds.
In the studio, text is just another clip: it takes up space on the timeline and can be moved, split and animated like anything else. Stickers work the same way.
Adding text
Open the “Text” tab
The “Text” tab in the media panel on the left holds a few ready-made styles — plain text, a big title, neon and so on. Each one arrives with its font, size and animation already set.
Drop it on the timeline
Drag a style onto a video track (or just click it — it lands where the playhead is). A text clip appears and shows up in the preview straight away.
Type your words
With the clip selected, a text box sits in the properties panel on the right. Whatever you type shows up in the preview immediately. Press Enter for a new line.
Font and style
The properties panel offers a small font catalogue: Inter, Roboto, Montserrat, Oswald, Playfair Display, Bebas Neue, Caveat. They speak in different tones of voice — Bebas Neue shouts a headline, Playfair Display is serious and elegant, Caveat looks handwritten.
- Colour and size. Size is measured in project pixels — in a vertical Reel a headline usually lands somewhere around 60–100 px.
- Outline. A line around the letters; you set its colour and thickness.
- Shadow. With colour, blur and offset. A soft dark shadow makes text readable over almost any background.
- Background. A filled box behind the words — the most bulletproof way to stay legible.
- Alignment. Left, centre or right — it matters once you have more than one line.
Placing it in the preview
Don't position text with sliders — do it straight in the preview: select the clip, then drag the words where you want them. The handles around them rotate and stretch.
- Locks dragging to one axis; snaps rotation to 15° steps
- Shift
- Full-screen preview — for checking your placement on a big screen
- F
Bringing text to life
Text that simply pops into existence looks crude. The “Animation” list in the inspector gives you 23 presets, among them: fade in, slides from all four sides, pop, zoom in, bounce, spin, typewriter (letter by letter), wave and pulse. Most are entrances — they play once and settle; wave and pulse keep going.
When a preset isn't enough, use keyframes. A keyframe is a marker saying “at this moment the text is here, at this size”; put down two and the studio works out the movement in between. That's how you drift text across the frame, grow it slowly, or turn it. The “Transform and keyframes” guide covers this properly.
Importing subtitles
If you already have a subtitle file (.srt or .vtt — plain text files listing times and lines), don't retype any of it. Press “Subtitles” in the media panel and choose the file.
Each line lands on the timeline as its own text clip, already sitting at the right moment. From then on they're just text: restyle them, move them, delete the ones you don't want, fix the typos.
Spreading one style across a track
Imported subtitles arrive looking plain and identical. Styling them one by one means choosing a font, a colour and an outline fifty times over fifty clips. Nobody has the patience for that.
Get one subtitle exactly right
Pick any one of them and dress it up: font, size, colour, outline, shadow, background, position in the frame, animation. That one is your template.
Press “Apply to track”
The button sits in the “Text” section of the properties panel. One press and EVERY text clip on that track takes on the same look.
Karaoke subtitles
That subtitle you know from TikTok and Reels: the whole line sits on screen, but the word being spoken right now lights up — it changes colour and swells. The eye locks onto the line, and the viewer watches to the end even with the sound off.
Get the subtitles onto one track
Karaoke is applied to a whole TRACK — if you imported an SRT, they're already sitting that way.
“Make karaoke” in the track menu
Press the ⋮ button on the track header and choose “Make karaoke”. Every subtitle on the track is broken into words and each word is given its moment.
Choose the highlight colour
Select a subtitle clip and an “Active word colour” picker appears in the properties panel. Yellow and cyan are the usual picks — they cut sharply against white text.
Which leads to one practical rule: make the subtitle clips line up with the speech. If a clip outlasts the sentence, the words light up late. Don't cram several sentences into one clip — short cues of 3–8 words give the best result.
- The preview and the export match. The highlight is drawn into the frame itself, so the file looks exactly the same.
- It plays nicely with your styling. Karaoke doesn't cancel the font, outline, shadow or background — it just picks out the word being said.
- It's easy to take back. The same ⋮ menu now offers “Remove karaoke”. Or press
Ctrl+Z.
Exporting subtitles as SRT
A subtitle burned into the picture can't be read by YouTube, can't be switched off by the viewer, and can't be found by a search engine. So quite often you need the subtitles as a separate file as well.
The ⋮ menu on a text track has an “Export as SRT” command. Press it and an .srt file is downloaded: every text clip becomes one subtitle entry, with its own timing. Hand it to YouTube, to Premiere, or to any other editor.
Fonts and working offline
Fonts are fetched from Google Fonts at runtime — they don't ship inside the studio. With no connection, your text is drawn in a system fallback font instead: the letters look different and the width changes, but the text is still there and nothing breaks.
Stickers
The “Sticker” tab in the media panel holds 12 ready-made animations. They aren't files — they're drawn procedurally into the frame, so there's nothing to download, and the export looks exactly like the preview.
Celebration
Confetti, hearts, sparkles, fireworks — for a win, a congratulation, a punchline.
Atmosphere
Bubbles, snow, stars, glow — quiet movement that fills a frame without shouting.
Interface
A lower third (the name-and-title bar), a progress bar, rings and a spinner — the bits that make a video look produced.
A sticker is a normal clip too: drag it in the preview, scale it, rotate it, animate it with keyframes. Some of them can be recoloured — a colour picker shows up in the inspector when they can.
Common questions
My text isn't showing in the preview.
Check that the playhead is actually over the text clip. Or the text may be hidden under another clip — move it to a higher track, since upper tracks draw over lower ones.
Do the fonts handle Uzbek and Cyrillic letters?
Yes. When a font loads, it's asked for exactly the characters in your text, so the right set arrives. If one letter still looks off, that font simply doesn't have that glyph — pick another one.
My subtitle timings are slightly off.
Imported subtitles are ordinary clips — select them all with Ctrl and drag the whole set together, or nudge a single one into place on its own.
What if I need the same styled text over and over?
Select the finished text clip and press Ctrl+D — you get a copy and only have to change the words. The style, font and animation come along with it. To bring a whole track into one style, use “Apply to track”.
The karaoke words light up ahead of — or behind — the voice.
The word timings are derived from the clip's duration, so the clip has to match the sentence. Trim its edges to the speech; if it still drifts, split a long cue in two — the estimate is far tighter on a short subtitle.
Does turning on karaoke break the SRT export?
No. The SRT is built from the clips' text and timings, while karaoke only changes how they're drawn into the frame. The two live happily side by side.