When you’re satisfied wih how your text look like, you can also apply some cool effects to it. You do this by just changing the “Offset” on the X. One thing to mention is the shadow, I’ve found that in order for it to show you have to change a bit on the position of it. This has to do with keyframes, which I explain further down below when talking about effects you can apply! On the leftside of the “arrow circle” as we call it here at Video With Jens, you maybe noticed the small rectangular symbol. Or if you want to undo everything in on that particular setting just hit that “Arrow Circle” on the right side. I f something happens just press CTRL+Z or Command+Z and you undo it. I think you already know what most of this thing does and if you do no harm in just testing them. So everything in this menu has to do with the appearance of the text. Under its “Font face” choose which one you like.

Then it’s the “Font family”, this is what text type you want which decides how it’s going to look like. What you write in this one is what the text will say in the video as well. The first thing you notice in the inspector is the “Rich Text” or that black box. (It’s in the right corner, with the “Metadata” and “Mixer”. If you cannot see the “Inspector” tab, you’ll have to open it manually by clicking on it. This is where the magic happens! From here you can adjust almost everything you want! When you click on the text you’ll notice the “Inspector” tab opens on the right side.

You’ve added the text to the timeline and it looks something like this: We’ll now go over the most important ones to know. So after adding the text to the timeline there is a lot of different options on what you can do to it. So if you’re interested in learning how and what you can do, read on! How to Edit Text But you can do a lot of stuff to it now that you’ve added it to your timeline. Now you know how to add the text to your timeline, this is the straight forward and easiest way to do it. Click on it and edit in the “Inspector” (Right side).Locate the one named only “Text” and drag it into your timeline.So let’s not waste more of your time and get to it! Here is the straightforward way to add basic text: In this article, I will show you how to add text in Davinci Resolve along with some other very useful things.

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