How to Add Text to YouTube Video in Two Ways?

Step1. Visit YouTube and sign into your account.

Step2. Click on your avatar and select your channel and enter a new interface. Click the blue-button “YOUTUBE STUDIO” in the upper right corner.

Step3. In the YouTube menu list, click "Subtitles", and then in your video list, select the video you want to add text to (just click on the video) and go to a new window. In this new window, click again on the blue button "ADD LANGUAGE" to select the language you want, and finally click on "ADD" in "Subtitles" in the language list to enter the add subtitle page.

Step4. Click “Create new subtitles or CC” and in the box on the upper left corner, type subtitles then press enter. Or you can choose “Upload a file” from your computer to add text on YouTube video. Finally, hit the blue button “Publish” on the upper right corner. In this way, you can see the text you added.

Tips. YouTube may have automatically created subtitles for your video through its voice recognition technology. If so, you will see a message on the right side of the video similar to the post: English (automatic). If the automatically generated subtitles are incorrect, you can edit them to improve accuracy. Select the line to be modified for editing.

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Step1. Launch the Program and Import Files

Open the software and click “Converter” on the main UI and then enter a new interface. On this new interface, click the “Add Files” button on the upper left corner to import a video or you can directly drag a video to the interface.

Step2. Put Text to YouTube Video in This Program

Click the stamp symbol in the menu below the video to text editing window. On this window, type your text in the box on the left, then press the add button and the text will appear in the preview video above. Click the text area in the preview video to change the position at will. Click the gear symbol next to the input text box to select the font and color of the text. Next to the gear symbol, you can change the opacity and angle of the text by dragging the round slider on the progress bar. After setting, click play to preview the added text effect. After applying the text effect in the way you like, click the blue “OK” button below to save the text addition.

Tips. WonderFox Free HD Video Converter also supports adding subtitles to YouTube video.

Step3. Start to Add Text

Click the inverted triangle symbol below to choose an output folder. Lastly, hit “Run” in blue to start to add text on YouTube video. Before it is done, you need to wait a few seconds.

Tips. Before starting the fourth step, you can click the output format icon on the right to select a video format supported by YouTube, such as MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, etc. If you don’t want to change the video format, just click on the format of your original video on this page.