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Text-Based Video Editor

Easily edit video by editing text. With Kapwing’s text-based video editor, remove any parts of your video by deleting text from the transcript in seconds.

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Text-based video editing: a game changer

It’s time! Gain hours of editing video back with text-based editing. Quickly find highlights of your video through a text transcript, and trim out parts by deleting text from the video transcript itself. Save valuable time creating more content when you edit 10x faster with Kapwing’s text-based video editor.

How to Edit Video by Editing Text

Upload video
Start a new project and upload a video to Kapwing directly from your computer, phone, or tablet. Alternatively, paste a video URL link to upload to your project.
Generate video transcript
Open the “Transcript” tab in the left-hand sidebar, and auto-transcribe your video in seconds.
Edit text to edit video
Find the moments you want to keep in the transcript, then delete text to delete the parts you want to cut out of your video. As you delete text, the corresponding part in your video will be automatically trimmed out.

Every marketer’s favorite text-based video editor

A text-based video editor built for creators, marketers, teams – everyone

As video tools and AI strengthen, you do too. Kapwing’s text-based video editor is built for anyone to quickly find highlights in their video and edit accordingly. Collaborate with others when you invite them to your own workspace. Leave comments for each other and edit video with transcript in real time.

Backspace text, one space forward with text-based video editing

As you delete text and hit backspace on words in your transcript, you move your video one step forward to finishing. With Kapwing, you have full access to an entire video creation studio. This gives you access to 50+ video tools to create, edit, and share video with others completely online. No need to download video editing software here.

Text-based editing: perfect for podcasts, webinars, and talking head videos

Easily navigate through your video to find and capture the most valuable, interesting parts of your video. Find those “likes,” and “ums,” easily when you go through the text transcript of your video. Transcript editing has never been more productive than this.

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Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Subtitle Video

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

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Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is text-based video editing?

Text-based video editing is a type of video editing that allows users to cut out parts of a video by deleting text in its transcript. As you delete words from the transcript, those parts of the video will get automatically trimmed out. This makes it 10x faster and easier to edit video.

What are people calling video editors that let you edit video by editing text?

There are lots of ways people are describing text-based editing. Some people are referring to this video editing technique as “video text editing,” while others are calling it “trim with transcript” or “transcript editing.” The easiest way to describe text-based editing today is by referring to the action itself: editing video by editing text.

Can a text in video be edited?

Yes, of course! With Kapwing, you have full access to an entire video creation studio so you can edit text in a video or even edit a video by editing text. If you want to add text to video, upload custom fonts and customize video text with countless different styles and effects to choose from.

Where can I edit video with text?

Rated 4.9 with over 5,000 Google reviews, Kapwing is the best online video editor that allows you to edit video with text. Automatically generate video transcripts and edit your video by editing text. With 100+ video tools, you have full capability of creating a video you’re proud of – quickly and easily.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

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Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

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Information Services Freelancer

This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.

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Virtual Freelance Worker

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Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.

Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!

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CEO at MOXIE Nashville

Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.

Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com

It keeps getting better!

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Managing Partner at EPATHLON

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a Youtube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

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Youtuber

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Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

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Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

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Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

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Consultant