Add text, arrows and boxes
Callouts point things out on the video for as long as you choose: text, an arrow, a box or an icon. Add one at the playhead, then drag it into place on the preview.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- Pro
- Timeline
- +
- Callouts
- 1Move the playhead to where the callout should appear.
- 2Press + on the timeline and choose Text, Arrow, Box or Icon under Callouts.
- 3Drag it on the preview to place it. Type to change its words.
- 4Drag its ends on the callout lane to set how long it shows.
- Text
- Words with their own size and colour, optionally on a fill behind the glyphs.
- Arrow
- A straight or bent line. A filled head marks a spot, an open one shows direction, and no head makes a leader line. The tail can be plain or a dot, and the line dashed.
- Box
- A frame around something, filled with a colour wash, a frost or glass. Set its thickness to 0 for no edge.
- Icon
- A small symbol.
- Colour: None, Ink, White, Red, Amber, Teal or Blue.
- Turn rotates it, snapping every 15°.
- Choose how it fades in and out, or Cut to make it appear at once.
Read next
Click anything on the preview to change itClick your camera, the recording, the captions, your logo or a callout on the preview. Its settings open in the column, and you can drag it into place.Use the timelineThe timeline lays the video out left to right, with a lane for each kind of change. Drag the playhead to scrub, and zoom the timeline with + and −.
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