How To Add Text In DaVinci Resolve Quick & Easy
DaVinci Resolve is slowly making its way to the top, as it has the potential of becoming the next big thing. Of course, it has some functionalities similar to Premiere Pro, so today we’ll look at how to add text in DaVinci Resolve.
Since it’s a very intuitive video-editing software, you will be able to find everything you’re looking for in a matter of seconds. Everything is as easy as possible, and you can’t miss any of the effects. If you already know how to add text in Premiere Pro, this will be very easy!
Quick overview
To add text in DaVinci Resolve is super simple.
- Just go to the “Edit” panel
- Go to the “Effect” library
- Drag & drop “Text” to your timeline
- Choose the text settings such as the Font, Size, and Content.
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Detailed guide
1. Import your video to the project
Of course, the first thing you want to do is add your video to DaVinci Resolve. You can simply do that by pressing “Ctrl-I” to import media, or go to “File,” “Import File” and then “Import Media.”
2. Create a new timeline then add your video to it
You must create a new timeline to start working on a new project in DaVinci Resolve. You can either do that by:
- Going to the “File” menu, then create a new timeline
- By clicking on your video and choosing “Created New Timeline Using Selected Clips”. A prompt will open, and you will be able to create your new timeline.
3. Click the “Edit” panel button
You can easily switch between different panels by using the control panel at the bottom of the screen.
4. Open the “Effects” library & create your text
In the “Effects Library”, you will be able to see all kinds of effects you can apply to your video. Right now, we are interested in the “Title” effects.
Drag and drop the “Text” effect on top of your video.
5. Choose the text settings such as Font, Size etc.
After you add the effect, it’s time to customize the text you’re adding. You can change everything, from the text to its size and color, to the background if you want it to have a background and its position.
In DaVinci Resolve, just like Premiere Pro, you can play with the keyframes and create something unique. For example, while making this tutorial, I added a zoom and fade effect on the text, so as the video plays, the text zooms in on the screen and disappears.
6. Create keyframes for your text to add animation
You will need to click on the small diamond-shaped button under the video to see your keyframes.
Adding keyframes in DaVinci Resolve
How to add Subtitles
Something I find very interesting about DaVinci Resolve is that it has the option to add subtitles very easily. You must drag and drop the “Subtitle” effect on your video and edit it there. You can edit the time in and out and the text.
7. Done!
Well, now you know how to add text in DaVinci Resolve, and you definitely can tell how much easier it is than other video-editing software out there!
Video tutorial – add text in DaVinci Resolve
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How To Add Text In DaVinci Resolve Quick & Easy
DaVinci Resolve is slowly making its way to the top, as it has the potential of becoming the next big thing. Of course, it has some functionalities similar to Premiere Pro, so today we’ll look at how to add text in DaVinci Resolve.
Since it’s a very intuitive video-editing software, you will be able to find everything you’re looking for in a matter of seconds. Everything is as easy as possible and you can’t miss any of the effects. If you already know how to add text in Premiere Pro, then this is going to be very easy!
To add text in DaVinci Resolve is super simple. Just go to the “Edit” panel, go to the “Effect” library, drag & drop “Text” to your timeline, choose the text settings such as the Font, Size, Content, then it’s done!
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1. Import your video to the project
Of course, the first thing you want to do is add your video in DaVinci Resolve. You can simply do that by pressing “Ctrl-I” to import media, or go to “File,” “Import File” and then “Import Media.”
2. Create a new timeline then add your video to it
In order to start working on a new project in DaVinci Resolve, you need to create a new timeline. You can either do that from the “File” menu, or by clicking on your video and choosing “Created New Timeline Using Selected Clips.” A prompt will open and you will be able to create your new timeline.
3. Click the “Edit” panel button
You can easily switch between different views by using the control panel at the bottom of the screen.
4. Open the “Effects” library & create your text
In the “Effects Library,” you will be able to see all kinds of effects you can apply to your video. Right now, we are interested in the “Title” effects. Drag and drop the “Text” effect on top of your video.
5. Choose the text settings such as Font, Size etc.
After you add the effect, it’s time to customize the text you’re adding. You can change everything, from the text, to its size and color, to the background if you want it to have a background, and its position.
In DaVinci Resolve, just like Premiere Pro, you can play with the keyframes and create something unique. For example, while I made this tutorial, I added a zoom and fade effect on the text, so as the video plays, the text zooms in on the screen and then disappears.
6. Create keyframes for your text to add animated effects like fading
In order to see your keyframes, you will need to click on the small diamond-shaped button under the video. In this case, I have the text, and I want to see exactly where I added my keyframes.
This way you can add all kinds of texts, subtitles and basically play around with everything this software has to offer.
Something I find very interesting about DaVinci Resolve is the fact that it has the option to add subtitles in a very easy way. All you need to do is drag and drop the “Subtitle” effect on your video and edit it there. You can edit the time in and out, as well as the text.
7. Done!
Well, now you know how to add text in DaVinci Resolve, and you definitely can tell how much easier it is than other video-editing software out there!
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How to Add Text in DaVinci Resolve and Create Title Effects
Texts are very important elements when it comes to video editing. It helps deliver the content of your video in a way that your audience understands best. Aside from stunning visual effects and fantastic sound design, adding visually appealing texts to your edit takes your video to the next level as well.
There’s a saying that goes, everyone can be a singer, but not everyone is a great singer. In this same analogy, be one of the greatest video editors to exist starting by working with Davinci Resolve’s Text Settings and the revolutionary Fusion feature!
To give an overview, Davinci Resolve’s Fusion feature allows you to create amazing animated titles with 2D and 3D text tools. You get traditional text formatting controls along with 3D extrusion, the ability to add reflections, bump maps, shadows, and more. You can also use the follower tool to animate individual characters so they fly on and off, ripple glow effects through each letter, and more. With Fusion, the possibilities are endless!
However, let’s take things slow and talk about the basics.
Standard Titles
What’s great about Davinci Resolve is you can start with the absolute easiest type of title — literally with a few steps and a few clicks — and take that title really to the next level. You could create 3D text extrusions, backgrounds, and many more similar effects like that, and it’s all very fluid and intuitive.
But if you’re starting slow and want the simple things first, Davinci Resolve has Standard Texts which you can adjust and alter according to your liking and to the look that you want to achieve.
- Start by navigating over to the Effects Library, at the top left corner of your workspace, besides Media Pool.
- Then, navigate over to Toolbox, and come down to Titles.
- As you can see, there are 3 main categories that pops up right after selecting Titles. These are Titles, FusionTitles, and Subtitles, if you scroll down to the last.
The Titles category contains standard text titles that are built-in in Davinci Resolve. They have presets already placed and you can edit them the way that you want them to be. They are basically drag-and-drop titles that you can work with just a drag and drop of the mouse. You’ll notice that it drags and drops, much like a clip drag and drop from the media pool.
Before we tackle about putting clips and altering them, I’d first like to point out the fact that there are two texts named Text and Text+. As you’ve noticed, the Text is signified by the T icon and the Text+ is identified with the lightning bolt icon.
The reason for this is that Text with the icon T has standard, normal settings and Text+ with the lightning bolt icon has more advanced and more complex settings, which we can find in Inspector. It will help us differentiate the two.
Standard Text
- In order to edit your title, simply select the preset that you want and drag it down to your timeline. You can place it directly on top of your clip if you want to or place it right beside your clip. Here, I am using the standard Text (T).
- Then, let’s navigate to Inspector, found at the top right panel beside Metadata. As you can see, there are a lot of options and tools that we can work around with — everything from color, size, and so on and so forth.
- We also have the ability to change the font style and set them to be upper or lower case (to name a few) in the Font Case tab.
- We also have other options in here as well, like Drop shadow, Stroke and Background. This allows us to have a lot versatility inside of the Standard Text tool, inside of Davinci Resolve.
One thing thats also cool is the fact that when you hover over the Color option, you are immediately given the RGB color value by the pop up. That feature is very super helpful and very handy if you want to try and figure out what the color is, very quickly.
Safe Area
One thing that is also very useful in working with your text/s is turning on Safe Area. What this feature does is create borders around your video, so you can identify which places are safe to put your texts.
- All you have to do is navigate to View on the top of your workspace, in between Mark and Playback, and find Safe Area.
- This is what your edit will look like if you turn Safe Area on.
The Text+ works similarly to the standard text (T), in a way that you can drag it or drop it down to your timeline.
- The Text+ is a little bit different. If you navigate to Inspector, you can see that we have access to a lot more parameters than we did inside of the standard text (T) tool.
We even have the ability to write on our text if we want to. We can come down to some advanced controls as well.
What’s more important is we can adjust and come in and start adjusting things like layout, etc., and even get in and add transformation to specific characters as well.
These features are what made Text+ much more advanced and more complex than the standard text (T) tool.
Take your work to the next level by taking your text to Fusion!
Another cool feature in Davinci Resolve is Fusion, as we’ve introduced earlier in this topic. We can immediately add these texts in Fusion and add cool effects such as blur, adjust its brightness and contrast, and many more.
- We can work our texts in Fusion, for example, by simply selecting the blur icon at the center bar with a number of icons. You can adjust its settings at the top right corner of your workspace.
- When you go back to the edit page, the changes will automatically update.
- As you’ve noticed, there’s no blur option added in the Inspector once you go back to the Edit page. This is because any changes made in Fusion can only be edited in Fusion. You can always have the option to manually adjust the blur option back to the Fusion page.
That’s everything about the difference in standard Text (T) and Text+. If your video doesn’t need a lot of complicated and complex texts or titles, I recommend using standard text (T). Despite using simple, less complex texts, it can be very effective if it suits the look that you want to achieve. But, if you want to spice things up and want to add more visually appealing text and titles, I recommend using Text+. You just need to familiarize these settings, and it’s only a matter of time before you become a full-fledged video editor!
Fusion Titles
Another thing that I’d also like to point out when we navigated to the Titles page in our Toolbox under Effects Library, is the fact that among with Titles and Subtitles, there is also the category Fusion Titles.
Fusion Titles are basically titles that have been pre-made that ship with Davinci resolve which you can take, drop unto your projects and basically step into inspector and alter the way you need them. It works just the same with Standard Titles, but at the same time, quite different in a lot of ways.
Let’s find out why.
Let’s navigate back into the Toolbox and select Titles. Then, under Fusion Titles category, we can choose any one of the presets Davinci Resolve has in store. In this example, I selected 3D Title in A Box and dragged it and dropped it down to my timeline. Here’s what the title looks like:
Since we have the ability to hover to Inspector, we can have the title selected, and come down into the Main Text Controls and edit the content of your text. After you do so, it immediately renders, as signified by the blue line on top of the text. Really quick and super simple as well.
One thing that’s also very cool is that when we navigate back into the Inspector, not only do we have control over the type of font, etc., found in Main Text, but we also have the ability to edit Main and Back Lighting, Box Material and even Motion Blur Controls as well.
Literally with a drag of a mouse, we’ve taken this title and altered it from what it was:
To what it is now:
Not only do we have control over our timeline, we also, with it selected, have now the ability to now come in to Fusion and to actually see how this title was made.
You’ll notice that when we navigate over to the stack and double click on it, we can see all the nodes that make up this title.
One thing that’s also very cool about this is not only the fact that we can alter this title, but it also serves as a fantastic learning tool. This is a great way to take a look at animation and we can go in and reverse engineer it, to see exactly what went into making this title. With that, we can start taking things one step further by working with titles in Fusion.
I’d also like to add a very important matter that we should always remember when working with texts in Fusion. Since Standard Texts and Text+ are 2D elements, and Fusion Titles are 3D Elements, you won’t be able to add 3D effects if you decide to add one in a 2D text.
This is because, in the world of Davinci Resolve, 2D and 3D texts are whole different elements, thus, they have different processes as well.
Hopefully, with those in mind, you will be able to create visually stunning text designs with Davinci Resolve. Remember to be patient and allow yourself time to absorb and learn new things!
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Adding text to video is one of the most commonly utilized tools for media content creation. In this article, I’ll be showing you how to add text to your video content using DaVinci Resolve 17. Additionally, I’ll be covering how to change the font, as well as add your own custom font. Finally, I’ll be briefly covering how to add a basic fading transition effect to your text to make it feel more professional.
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Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 17
Table of Contents
The Process –
Before you can add text to your video project, you first need to be in edit mode. You can access edit mode by clicking on the edit mode button, located at the very bottom of the video editor:
Once in here, you’ll need to select “Effects Library”, which is located at the top left secondary navigation menu within the interface:
In the new window that appeared in the lower-left corner (by default), you’ll see a small, collapsed list:
- Toolbox
- Open FX
- Audio FX
To add text to the video, you need to expand the Toolbox menu, where you’ll find the titles menu. Click on it, and you’ll see a huge variety of text template tools to add to your video to the right of the menu:
Before you do anything else though, you’ll want to create a new video layer for the text to reside in. The reason is in how text is designed to work in a video editor. In case you’re curious, text works in video editors by creating a fake video that contains the text itself – you then layer the text “video clip” in its own video layer, one that is situated above the primary video track.
Note the V1 and V2 (Video layer 1, and Video Layer 2). I’ve renamed the label to make editing easier.
You can adjust the duration of the text appearing on screen, and apply effects and transitions to it like the video itself, which I’ll cover in the next section. With that said, this is all you need to know to add text to DaVinci Resolve 17.
Selecting the Font Used
The Window appears on the right side of your screen.
You can easily change the font used from the font family dropdown selector – The circular arrow to the right of it will revert your selection to the default font assigned to the title object. Take some time to familiarize yourself with all the settings in here, so you can learn how to manipulate and master the use of text in your videos.
With that said, less is usually more – as long as the text serves its purpose in the video, then you don’t need to spend a lot of time manipulating it.
Adding Custom Fonts to DaVinci Resolve 17
Adding text to your content is all well and good, but what about the fonts?
Well, you can easily add your own fonts to DaVinci Resolve, just be sure that the fonts you use are safe for commercial use/media use if you plan to use them on YouTube and monetize the video. Trust me when I say you don’t want to mess with copyright law – violations can lead to copyright strikes, which can lead to your channel being shut down.
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To add fonts to DaVinci Resolve 17:
- Find a font you want to use:
- etc.
- Ensure the permissions allow for monetization/media use
- Download the font
- Extract the font to somewhere
- Double click on the .ttf or whatever type of font it is
- Select “Install”
- Restart DaVinci Resolve 17
- Select the font that is in the list
- Not seeing the font? Refer to this thread on the Black Magic Design forums that shows you how to get your font into the correct folder in Windows 10.
How to Make A Basic Text Fade In/Out in DaVinci Resolve 17
The most basic transition you can do for text is to make it fade in and out. This is also one of the most commonly used methods of easing text into a video, and the duration of the fade – how quickly it goes from invisible to visible, is the main part that changes the “feel”.
A slow fade is often used for dramatic effect, and that effect is amplified when accompanied by complementary music.
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As for a quick fade, that just makes it look a fair bit more professional than just “popping into and out of existence”.
To accomplish this basic fade-in, hover over the top left corner of the video clip until it looks like two arrows pointing left and right.
Note the shield-shaped icons – these are the fade indicators.
Now, all you need to do is to left-click and hold, while dragging to the left/right and adjust the fade itself until it shows a darkened portion, like on the right. I recommend keeping your fade-in and out the same duration unless you want to try experimenting.
Now, there are more advanced methods of fading your content, including creating custom transitions with motion blur and things like this, but this is easily the most time-efficient method, and it works plenty well for most applications. I’ll be covering the custom transitions in another article soon, so look forward to that!
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How to Add Text in DaVinci Resolve 18 (+ Animate it)
Let’s look at how to add text to your video in DaVinci Resolve.
Gladly, this is an effortless and straightforward thing to do!
I will also show you how to edit the text and add animation. Doing this will make your video look more professional and engaging to watch.
How to Add Text in DaVinci Resolve
Quick Version
To add text to your video in DaVinci Resolve, go to the “Edit” page, and then open “Effects” (top left-hand corner) > “Titles.” Next, drag the “Text+” generator to the timeline, and drop it one track above your video clip. To edit the text, click on the text generator, and open the “Inspector” tab.
Detailed Version
Start by opening the “Edit” page, found in the menu bar at the bottom of Resolve:
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