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Online annotation maker

Even if unedited videos can also find their audience, even the simplest changes will significantly increase viewers’ attention. This is, for example, how video annotations work – they make content more informative, structured, and accessible to different audiences and purposes. Therefore, many may be interested in how to do annotations in videos.

It’s actually very simple. In addition to specialized annotation makers, many modern editors have similar features. In some, you can find built-in forms and templates for annotations, and sometimes it’s enough to simply add captions to bring attention to something in the video.

If you are looking for a similar annotator tool, our video editor will help you! Thanks to the built-in media libraries, you can make annotations very easily and quickly with it. And if necessary, you can also edit other aspects of your video.

How to annotate a video

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Upload a video

Click "Get started", then add the clip you need from your device or cloud storage account. If you want to add various shapes or arrows, open the "Elements" tab in the menu on the left. There, you can find and use whichever one you like in the section with the corresponding name.

Step

Annotate the video

To arrange the shapes you’ve added, click and drag them in the player. Select and resize them by manually dragging their corners, and change their color and other settings in the tab that opens when they’re selected. To add captions, choose any preset in the "Text" tab, then write and customize the text.

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Save the video

When you finish editing, click "Export" at the top right and choose the option that suits you. After that, you can check the preview to see how the video looks with annotations. If you like it, click "Download" to save it to your device or your cloud storage.

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