Add a Title or Lower Third to a Video

Put a title or lower third on your video

Type a caption, drop in a video, and this tool burns the text straight onto the picture — a big centered title card, a news-style lower third in the corner, a top banner, whatever you need. You control where the text sits (seven anchor presets), how big it is, its color, an optional semi-transparent background bar behind it, and exactly when it appears and disappears (start/end in seconds). Everything runs in your browser with ffmpeg; the video never leaves your device.

The caption is drawn literally — apostrophes, colons, ampersands, % and quotes all render as-is, no escaping and nothing to break. A clean bold sans-serif font is bundled in, so the result looks the same on every device.

Worked example

Upload a 1280×720 clip, type Jane Doe — CEO, pick Bottom left (lower third), leave the font at 48 px and the black bar at 0.5 opacity, and set the window to 0–5 s. The output is a same-size 1280×720 MP4 that looks identical to the source for the first 5 seconds except for a white Jane Doe — CEO caption on a half-transparent black bar near the bottom-left corner — then the caption disappears and the rest of the clip plays untouched. Prefer a big opening title instead? Set position Center, font size 80 and untick the background bar for plain white text over the middle of the frame.

Notes and limits

• Position offers seven anchors: top / center / bottom × left / center / right. Bottom-left and bottom-center are the classic lower-third spots.
• Timing: start and end are seconds from the beginning of the video. The caption is only drawn while start ≤ t < end, so 0–3 shows it for the first three seconds. end must be greater than start. If end is longer than the video, the caption simply stays until the clip ends.
• Font size is in pixels (8–400). The text does not auto-shrink, so a very long caption at a large size can run off the frame — shorten it or drop the size. Keep captions to one short line.
• Text color and background bar color take any CSS color name (white, black, navy, …) or hex like #FFCC00 / #fc0 — the same names ffmpeg itself understands. The swatch next to each field picks a hex visually; typing a name works too.
• The background bar is a box drawn behind the text with the padding built in; its opacity runs from 0 (invisible) to 1 (solid). Untick it for plain text with no bar.
• Videos up to 25 MB are supported. Video re-encodes as H.264 (medium preset, yuv420p). Audio is stream-copied when the input keeps its container (mp4/mov/m4v/mkv); other inputs (webm, …) are converted to MP4 and the audio is re-encoded to AAC. MP4/MOV outputs are written with +faststart so players can start streaming before the download finishes.

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