Add text to video with titles thatwrite themselves
Type the hook yourself, or let Shorz read your transcript and headline each segment. Either way you get real typography — any font on your machine, strokes, background boxes and entrance animations.
How to use the add text to video in three steps
The first two seconds decide whether anyone watches the rest, and the title is most of those two seconds. Shorz gives you two ways to get one: write it, or let the app read what you actually said and headline each segment for you. Both come with typography controls that web editors don't offer, because it's running on your own machine.
Write it or generate it
Manual mode takes exactly the text you type. AI mode reads the transcript and writes a headline for each segment of the video — useful when a ten-minute explainer needs eight on-screen titles.
Manual or AI-generated
Style it properly
Any font on your system, full colour control, stroke width, a background box, optional fullscreen backdrop, and inline emoji support. Set it once and it applies across the video.
Fonts · strokes · boxes · emoji
Animate and place it
Choose entrance and exit animations, control when the title appears and how long it holds, and place it anywhere in the frame — top-third hook, lower-third label, or dead centre.
Timing & placement
Find it in the app under Text panel → Title.
Why Add Text to Video in Shorz
Titles and subtitles, one panel
Titles carry the hook; subtitles carry the words. They share a panel and a design language, so a video ends up looking like one designed thing rather than two effects stacked on each other.
Matches your captions
Headlines from what you said
AI title mode reads the transcript and writes a headline per segment — so a long video gets chapter-style on-screen text without you pausing to think of eight of them.
AI headline mode
Who uses it, and for what
Opening hooks
The line that stops the scroll, on screen.
Chapter titles
Headline every segment of a long video.
Lower thirds
Name the speaker or the topic.
Ad callouts
Price, offer, deadline — big and legible.
Shorz speaks MCP
Shorz isn't a locked web app. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini and your assistant can drive it directly — one message instead of a panel full of clicks. You review before anything is published.
See how MCP automation works
You say
“Add an AI-generated hook title to each segment of this video in Anton, white with a black stroke, top third.”
Shorz does
- 1Enable AI title generation
- 2Set the font, colour and stroke
- 3Position titles in the top third
- 4Re-render the preview
Every tool ships with the same promises
They're not separate products with separate bills. One app, one credit balance, one export that belongs to you.
- No subscription — prepaid credits that never expire
- No watermark on anything you export, ever
- Full commercial rights on what you create
- A desktop app for Windows and Mac — your files stay on your machine
- Auto Edit and Clipping: 4 free videos a week, no card
- Drivable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini over MCP
Add Text to Video questions
Yes. AI title mode reads the transcript and generates a headline for each segment. Manual mode uses exactly the text you type, when you want control over the wording.
Any font installed on your computer. Because Shorz is a desktop app rather than a web editor, your entire font library is available — brand fonts, display faces, handwritten scripts, all of it.
Yes — entrance and exit animations, with control over timing, hold duration, position in the frame and an optional fullscreen backdrop behind the text.
No. Titles render locally and are free for everyone, including on free Auto Edit and Clipping runs.
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Put a hook on every video
Type the title yourself, or let Shorz headline each segment from your transcript. Any font on your PC, and it costs no credits.
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