HTML Overlay with Shotcut

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Hi and welcome, sometimes it is required to show the scrolling text, subtitles or simple text over the video. Though, Shotcut do not support inbuilt subtitle feature, still it is planned for future, still the time line is not decided. Still, we have a workaround for this. If want to show static simple background, you can use an image file, or you can use a solid color. However, there are 3 filters for this in Shotcut which are 3D Text, Overlay HTML, and Text. The filters should be applied on your clip or track.

This video is about the Overlay HTML filter in Shotcut which includes a simply What you see is what you get or visual HTML editor accessible through the Edit button on this filter’s control panel. We will talk more about this later.

Let’s get started

Create a new project in Shotcut or open an existing project in which you want to create html overlay.

In order, to create an html overlay we need to pre-prepare our html to get it displayed on video clip.

There are two ways of creating HTML first inside Shotcut and another outside Shotcut. Whichever, may be the method the underlying html code will remain the same. We have used generic notepad for the session.

Open notepad and type in the desired code. for example, use marquee for scrolling text. Adjust the font size, color, background, style of the text and save the HTML at desired location.

After saving the HTML open Shotcut, drag or copy video clip, image on the timeline on which you want text overlay. Select the clip on the time line and open filter window from view. In filter panel select Overlay HTML filter. Click open button as we have already created our HTML file and browser to the HTML file location. Select the HTML file by double clicking the HTML file or Single click and open button. After selecting the HTML file. The HTML file name is displayed. Click reload button on HTML overlay. This will refresh the time line and the text will be displayed on the video. To fine tune the HTML, click Edit on HTML Overlay filter. An in-built editor will open in separate new window of Shotcut. Reload the changes and done.

Well Done! you have successfully, created and HTML overlay on your video. To recap we have learned the use of HTML overlay and how to use it on the video. Now you can create scrolling text, basic html based image display etc. on your video.

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