 Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is Chris Pike. My friends call me Bigsy. I'm back in action today. We're in HitFilm Express, and I'm gonna show you how to add text to your video. This is a very, very cool technique. But before I go into that, the reason why we're using HitFilm Express, if you're new to this series is, here's the thing, it is a free video editor. It's free software, and this software is industrial grade, and you guys, if you're either new to YouTube, or you're new to video editing, or even even thinking about getting started as a video editor, and you're not sure where to get started, and you think it's gonna be hard to do, et cetera, I'm here to tell you it's not hard to do, and we're gonna teach you front to back. All right, as you'll see here, I've got some video of this little French bulldog, and he's getting rubbins, and you'll see here that I've added in this text, okay? So let me just show you how to do this. We're not gonna animate the text or do any of that fancy stuff. We'll save that for a future video, but just adding in text is very simple. All right, so I'm gonna remove all this. I'm just gonna left click and remove it, and we're gonna start from scratch. So you'll see exactly how it is from the beginning. Okay, fresh installation here. I'm gonna left click on my internet, or pardon me, my Windows Explorer, and I'm gonna select that video. I'm gonna left click on it, drag it, drop it into the media panel, just like that. Now, I'm gonna move my playhead to the beginning, just in case. I'm gonna left click on the old pupper dog, and I'm gonna drag and drop it onto the timeline. I'm gonna drag and drop it onto video track one. Oops, let's try again, Curtis. Let's see if you can do this. All right, there she goes, video track one. So we're gonna be using video track two for the text, but let's just take a look at what we got here. So I'm gonna hit space bar to preview, and yes, where we go. We've got our video, we've loaded it in. We are on our way. The next step is you wanna make sure that you select the track. So here, I've selected the video track here in video track one. I've selected the video. And then I'm gonna go up here to the viewer. You might be on export if you've exported in the past, but just click on viewer, and then next click on this little text tool. I know it looks simple, but a lot of people just don't see it or they're in the wrong screen and they miss it. So left click on the text tool, and now I'm just gonna text, I'm just gonna click, pardon me, anywhere on the video that I want my text. I'm gonna left click right here. When I do that, I get a little blinky cursor, and I'm gonna type in Kingston. And it is kinda good, but it's a little bit too big, or it's a little bit too far off, so I'm gonna go back to the selection tool, and then I'm just going to move it. So I'm gonna make sure that it's selected, and then I'm gonna move it to something like that. Okay, cool. Now, I've got the text starting right at the beginning, but if I wanted to say start the text at, like, I don't know, the one second mark, I can just go ahead and when I get the green parenthesis there, I'm just gonna pull that and drag it, and then you're gonna see here that I've got nothing, it's just a doggy, and then the text pops in, and then the text pops out. You can go ahead and increase and decrease where the text starts and stops and the duration of it or the length of it just by moving this along in the, well, not that one, pardon me, pardon me, moving this along in the timeline like that, or you can just pull them in like that. So you can just do basic little edits like this. Okay, I want it for this amount of time. So this is how you work with text. However, there's a very good chance that the text is either the wrong color, or it's the wrong size, wrong font. In fact, a 99.9% chance that that's the case. Making sure that you're selected on text like I am here. I'm gonna go over to the left side here, and you're gonna most likely default with media. What you wanna do is you wanna go over here to the text window. There's a chance that if you've started it out like this, you may not actually see the text window. So if that's the case, just make sure that you can see it, and then presto, you'll open this up, and this is what you're gonna see. Now for me, it defaults to aerial, and it defaults normally to 48 points, but I've got it reset. So I'm gonna select a new font. So let's say that I'm a big fan of what are you guys like? Let's go with, I don't know, do you guys like impact? Let's go with impact. That sounds pretty wild. Okay, impact. We're going with impact. Yes, make an impact, Curtis. Cool, so you see how we can go ahead and change the font. We can also change it if there was like bold and italic, it would show up here. And this is the most important one. You can go ahead and adjust the size. So if I want this to be, I don't know, something like that, 201 pixels, great. I'll move it over and you'll see here that I'm just slowly making adjustments. And this is how you add text, manipulate text, adjust it. I can adjust the color. This is also very, very important. Right now I've got it set to white. But if I wanted it to be blue for some bloody reason, I would just select blue, and then I would, okay. And it's blue. All right, you see where this is going? The last couple of other things I will show you is you can add a little bit of fancy stuff to your text. If you left click on add outline, for example, it allows you to adjust the size of the outline. So it's kind of like a outside stroke and you can adjust the color. So if I wanted this to be blue and friggin' yellow, I don't know, I left click on okay. And there you go, we've got Kingston and blue and yellow. And then you can of course drag this and increase the size and do all sorts of really neat things just using these options. Again, you guys can go in there and take a look around, under fill, over fill, et cetera, et cetera, and making adjustments to the leading and the kerning and the track and the height and all that stuff. But that is how you add text, adjust it, manipulate it, change the colors, change the font, change the duration, change how, where it starts, where it stops. All of that in just a couple of minutes, guys. Thanks for watching this tutorial. I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned, be back soon.