Can AI add text to video automatically?

Yes. Give Sparki the footage and the goal — "sell this course, mention the price, end with an enrolment card" — and it decides which text cards the video needs, writes them and places them. You can also supply the exact wording for every card yourself and leave only the placement and timing to Sparki.

Can I change the wording or move the text later?

Yes. Text content and position both stay editable across revisions: ask to reword a card, move it, hold it on screen longer or take it off, and Sparki changes that card without disturbing the rest of the edit.

Does Sparki animate the text?

No. Cards appear and disappear at set points on the timeline, but there are no entrance or exit animations, motion presets or text effects yet — that upgrade is in development. If you need animated text today, export the Sparki cut and add the motion in another tool.

Can I save my brand fonts and layouts as templates?

Not yet. Reusable multi-element brand templates — a fixed headline, subhead and CTA layout shared across a video series — are still in development. For now, wording, placement and timing are set per video, and you can describe the layout you want each time.

Will the text cover what is happening in the frame?

Sparki places each card where it stays readable and leaves the main action visible, and no placement is permanent — if a card sits over something important, say so and it moves where you point.

Add Text to Video

Good cuts need words on screen: a title that says what the viewer is looking at, the selling points under the product, a price, a closing call to action. Describe them in chat and Sparki writes the wording, puts each card where it belongs in the frame and times it to your edit — no text boxes to drag, no timeline scrubbing.

How Text Gets Onto Your Footage

You describe the cards, Sparki handles the wording, the placement and the timing.

Describe The Text And Sparki Places It

Tell Sparki what the video needs: a title for the first three seconds, the three reasons this gadget is worth buying, the price, a booking card at the end. It drafts the wording if you have not written it, puts each card in a spot where it stays readable against the picture, and lines every card up with the shots it belongs to. Anything off — a clunky sentence, a card in the wrong corner — is one message to fix.

Wording And Position Stay Editable

Text stays editable across as many rounds of revision as you need. Ask to move the price card lower, shorten the title, swap "Order now" for "Book a table", or drop the second selling point entirely — Sparki changes that one card and the rest of the edit stays as it is. Useful when a client keeps suggesting wording changes: paste their notes into the chat and send the revisions through one by one.

Every Card Is Timed To The Edit

Text that lingers past its shot looks broken. Sparki ties each card to the timeline: the title holds for the length of the opening shot, a chapter label appears when the section starts and leaves when it ends, the call to action waits until the final frames. If a card should run longer or end sooner, say so and its timing changes without touching anything else.

Text Sparki Can Put On Your Video

Six kinds of on-screen text, each placed and timed against your footage.

Titles & Headlines

Openers, hook lines

Any video that opens cold — product demos, vlogs, walkthroughs, explainers — where the viewer needs one line saying what they are about to watch. Sparki drafts the title from your brief, places it where it reads cleanly against the opening shot and holds it long enough to be read before taking it off. The first three seconds, where most viewers decide whether to keep watching.

Chapter markers

Steps, sections, parts

Tutorials, recipes, routines and guides that move through distinct steps a viewer may want to follow or come back to. Sparki labels each section as it starts — "Step 1: Brew the concentrate", "Part 2: Backyard setup" — and takes the label off when the next section begins. Explainers and how-tos where the structure needs to be visible on screen.

Selling-point overlays

Features, benefits, specs

Product close-ups, demos and before-and-afters where the picture shows the feature but nobody says it out loud. Sparki writes each point in a few words, shows one card at a time and syncs it to the shot that demonstrates it, so the claim lands with the proof. Ads and organic product posts where most viewers watch with the sound off.

Price & promo cards

Prices, offers, deadlines

Menu shots, product tables, service walkthroughs — any clip where the cost or the offer is what decides the sale. Sparki gives the price or the offer its own card instead of burying it in a sentence, and keeps it up for the whole shot it applies to. Local business promos, ecommerce ads and limited-time offers.

End-screen CTA

Book, order, follow

The final seconds of any promotional video, where the viewer should do one specific thing next. Sparki writes the call to action and holds it on a clean card through the outro, keeping the wording to one instruction instead of three competing ones. Turning a view into a booking, an order or a follow.

Caption-style text

Quotes, notes, disclaimers

Testimonial clips, screen recordings and talking heads where a quoted line, a definition or a disclaimer should appear on screen — text you choose, not transcribed speech. Sparki formats the line to sit like a caption — short, readable, out of the speaker's way — and times it to the moment it refers to. Stressing a spoken line or adding context without a voiceover. Speech-to-text captions are a separate capability: ask for captions and Sparki generates those from the audio.

Who Adds Text With Sparki

Four people who need words on screen and no design tool.

Ecommerce marketer

Product cuts that play silent

Knows most viewers watch with the sound off, so the pitch has to be on screen. Sparki puts the three selling points over the shots that show them and the price on its own card, then trims the wording until every line reads in one glance.

Tutorial and course creator

Multi-step videos that need structure

Records long walkthroughs where viewers get lost halfway through. Sparki labels each section as it starts and keeps the labels consistent, so the video is easy to follow and easy to come back to mid-series.

Airbnb host

Check-in guides guests actually follow

Films the walk from the street door to the apartment once and reuses it for every booking. Sparki adds the welcome title, a card per step — lockbox, lift, parking — and a quiet closing line asking guests to message with any questions.

Real-estate agent

Listings that need the facts on screen

Walks through a property on camera and wants beds, baths, price and the viewing CTA stated in text rather than spoken. Sparki places each fact on the shot that shows it and holds a "Book a viewing" card through the outro.

How To Add Text To A Video In 3 Steps

Upload the cut, describe the cards, export with the text in place.

1
Upload The Video
Drop in a file or paste a link, in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. Sparki runs in the cloud on a raw cut or on footage you have already edited, and the existing picture and audio stay untouched.
2
Tell Sparki The Text You Need
Name the cards and the exact wording, or describe what each one is for and let Sparki draft it. It places every card in a suitable spot in the frame and times each one to the shots it belongs to.
3
Adjust And Export
Ask for wording, position or timing changes card by card — Sparki revises each one across as many rounds as you need — then export the finished cut with the text in place.

Explore More Sparki Tools

Text overlays are one layer. Sound effects, music and style cloning work the same way, on the same upload.

Add Text To Video FAQ

Upload the video and describe the text you need — a title for the opening, the price on its own card, a call to action at the end. Sparki drafts the wording if you have not written it, places each card in a readable spot in the frame and times it to the right shots. You revise any card by describing the change in chat.

Put The Right Words On Every Cut

Upload a video, say which titles, prices and calls to action it needs, and Sparki writes them, places them and times them — then revises any card until the wording is right.

Add text to your video for free