Text Overlays — Lower Thirds, Captions, And Watermarks

Text on screen does more work than most editors give it credit for. A lower third tells the audience who is speaking. A caption keeps viewers engaged on muted social feeds. A title sets the scene, a watermark protects the work, and a kinetic on-screen quote turns a five-second clip into a shareable moment. Skrrol AI ships a full text overlay system with the typographic controls you'd expect from a design tool — multi-font support, weight, tracking, leading, drop shadows, outlines, gradient fills — combined with timeline-aware features like animated reveals, frame-accurate timing, and reusable style presets.

Under the hood, every text overlay is a vector layer that scales cleanly to any export resolution, so the same lower third looks crisp at 720p and at 4K. You can pin text to the safe area for broadcast delivery, set keyframes to animate position or opacity, and apply text effects like word-by-word reveal or character-stagger fade. Brand teams can save fonts, colors, and styles into a brand kit so every video uses the same lockup. And because every text style is a preset, you can apply your channel's signature lower third to a new project in one click without rebuilding it from scratch.