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Overlay Video

Focus your videos with custom overlays

Add video on video, text, and logo overlays in an online studio

Precision overlays without complex editing

Create engaging content with an overlay video editor built for speed and simplicity. Kapwing's Overlay Video tool helps you add text, image, and video on video overlays to change the look and focus of your content.

Apply video overlay effects like film grain and glitch. Overlay aesthetic backgrounds for videos. Add custom lower-thirds, logos, and watermarks. Fill out your video with a talking head, reaction video, or B-roll inset. Create TikTok video overlays, then ensure they're always visible with built-in Safe Zones.

Kapwing's drag-and-drop interface includes a multi-layer timeline so you can adjust duration, position, transitions, and opacity on every overlaid element.

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Built into a professional video editing studio

Go beyond video overlays with a video editing studio designed for content creators and marketers. Customize overlays, then complete your video with professional editing tools.

Apply AI tools to enhance video and audio quality, fix eye contact, split into scenes, and stabilize shaky footage. Adjust color and saturation, apply filters, and add subtitles.

Automatically resize for any platform, then share directly to social media without leaving your browser.

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Real teams creating on Kapwing

Already transforming video creation across industries

Hear directly from the teams who publish faster, collaborate better, and stay ahead.

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It just works!

Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.

Eunice Park

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!

Vannesia Darby

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!

Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.

Panos Papagapiou

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.

Kerry-lee Farla

Youtuber

Kapwing is my secret weapon!

This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.

Gracie Peng

Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As an 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.

Heidi Rae

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!

Natasha Ball

Consultant

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 :)

Mitch Rawlings

Information Services Freelancer

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

I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, there is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Dina Segovia

Virtual Freelance Worker

●Step by Step

How to Overlay Videos

Step 1
Upload video
Create a new project in the Kapwing studio and click to upload your video.
Step 2
Add overlay
Use the left sidebar to add text, music, video, or image overlays. Adjust with sliders.
Step 3
Edit and download
Apply any of Kapwing's video editing tools, then download your video overlay as MP4, MOV, or WebM.

●Thoughtfully Unique

What's different about Kapwing?

Six reasons creators stay in flow: faster edits, smarter tools, and collaboration that actually keeps projects moving.

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.

Collaborative

Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments in shared workspaces. Save assets to your Brand Kit for easy access.

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

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

AI-Powered

Kapwing uses the latest advanced AI models to power generative AI and one-click editing tools.

●Just the FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We have answers to the most common questions that our users ask.

Is the Overlay Video tool free?

Yes, Kapwing's video overlay tool is free for all users.

Is there a watermark on exports?

If you use Kapwing on a Free account, then all exports — including from the Video Overlay tool — contain a watermark. Once you upgrade to a Pro account, the watermark is completely removed from your creations.

How to overlay an image or video on video

To overlay video on video or image on video, create a project in the Kapwing studio and click to upload your images and videos. Add them to the same canvas, then use the overlay video editor's drag and drop controls to adjust the position and appearance. To change which image or video appears on top, right click, then select "Send forward" or "Send backward."

Can I add film grain or old film video overlays?

Yes, you can add a video effect like a film grain video overlay or old film video overlay by layering a textured image or video on top of your main video. Adjust the opacity of the top layer by dragging the slider.

How to overlay video on mobile

To overlay image, text, or video on video on your phone or tablet, open the Kapwing studio in your mobile browser. Click to upload your media, then drag to adjust size and position. When you're ready, click "Export Project" to download your overlaid video in high resolution.

What is a video overlay?

A video overlay is any visual or audio element layered on top of a base video to add context, branding, or style. Common overlays include a text overlay on video, logos, images, GIFs, effects, music, or even another video.

Creators use video overlays to improve clarity, highlight key moments, add an overlay background for video, or create more engaging content without re-recording footage.

Can I add music or audio as an overlay?

Yes. You can easily overlay music on video by uploading audio or choosing from Kapwing’s built-in stock library. Audio layers can be trimmed, faded, and balanced with your original sound.

This makes it simple to add background music, sound effects, or voiceovers without disrupting your existing video track.

Can I make TikTok video overlays?

Yes. Kapwing is built for social media, including TikTok video overlay creation. Built-in Safe Zones help ensure your overlays stay visible and aren’t covered by UI elements.

You can design once, then resize and adapt your overlays for vertical, square, or horizontal formats in just a few clicks.

Can I use Kapwing to add fun or aesthetic overlays?

Yes. In addition to professional tools, Kapwing works well for creative styling like cute video overlays, animated stickers, GIFs, and playful text.

Whether you’re making memes, vlogs, or casual social posts, you can mix fun overlays with polished editing for a look that fits your brand or personality.

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Discover Resources

Tips, templates, and deep dives to help you create faster and share with confidence.

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Online video editor

Edit your videos with our fast, powerful video editor. Accessible for beginners, feature-rich for pros. Available on any device.

Magic subtitles

Add word-by-word captions to any video with Kapwing's subtitle generator. Change colors, fonts, and add animations or transitions.

Generative AI

Text to video is here. Create videos with a simple text prompt that include stock clips, music, subtitles, and transitions.

Collaborative editing

Organize footage and files with a shared workspace. Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments.

Edit video with text

Edit a video just by editing text. Trim videos or clip sections by removing text from the video's auto-generated transcript.

Automatic resize

Crop, flip, or resize videos to fit any platform. Built-in social media Safe Zones ensure your content always fits correctly.

Instant transcripts

Transcribe video to text with a single click. Repurpose audio or video content into articles and text posts, or convert to subtitles.

Translation & dubbing

Reach a global audience and translate videos in 100+ languages. Accurate translation for video subtitles and voice overs.

Enhance audio quality

Clean audio in seconds, remove background noise from videos, add music and effects, and split or merge audio with our built-in audio editor.

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Get started with your first video in just a few clicks. Join over 35 million creators who trust Kapwing to create more content in less time.

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