Edit Your Video · Updated 2 Nov 2026
How to edit the hook and add text overlays in Jupitrr
The hook is a title card at the start of your video, and text overlays are titles, lists and highlighted phrases on top of it. Both live in the Text tab. If the Hook toggle is on, the hook appears at the beginning of the video; open Text to rewrite it, restyle it, change when it shows or switch it off. Add Text Overlay places a new overlay at the playhead, and each overlay keeps its own text, timing and style.
Step-by-step guide
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Open the Text tab
Select Text in the left rail. Hook is at the top, with its switch, timing and text. Text Overlay lists every overlay in order, each with its start and end time.
An eye icon with a line through it on an overlay means subtitles are hidden while that overlay shows. The icons on the right duplicate or delete the overlay.
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Rewrite the hook and change its timing
Click the hook card. Type the new hook in the text field, and change the start and end under Time. Select Done to go back to the list.
The hook holds up to 50 characters. Anything longer is cut off as you type.
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Restyle the hook
In the same editor, pick a look from the style grid. Then set the font, size and colours, and drag Width and Position Y to place it.
Under Advanced, Match Subtitle Colour keeps the hook the same colour as the subtitles, and Show Subtitles With Hook keeps subtitles running underneath while the hook shows.
Some styles use fixed layered text, so their size is set by the design.
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Switch the hook off
In Text, turn off the switch next to Hook. The hook disappears from the video.
Your hook text is kept. Turn the switch back on and the same hook returns.
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Add a text overlay
Move the playhead to where the text should appear, then select Add Text Overlay at the bottom of the list. A new overlay is placed at the playhead and its editor opens. Type your text.
- A new overlay starts with the word "Text" and runs for 2 seconds (3 on landscape videos). If you delete all of its text and close it, the overlay is removed.
- On the timeline, click an empty spot on the text row and select Add Text to place one there.
- To make an overlay from words you already say, select them in Subtitles > Transcript and select Text overlay. See How to add and edit subtitles.
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Style and place an overlay
In the Text Overlay editor, choose a style group (Static, List, Animated or Marker) and a look within it. Set the timing under Time, then adjust size, colour, Width, Position Y and Position X.
- List styles show bullet points. Each item gets its own field; select Add item for another.
- Animated and Marker styles are highlights: they mark your own words as you say them. They have a Case control, where Aa keeps your text as typed and AA shows it in capitals.
- Static and List styles add a font menu, text and card colour swatches, and Pop-up Animation. Under Advanced, Blur Words hides some words until a set moment, and Match Subtitle Colour uses your subtitle colour.
- Hide Subtitles While Showing stops subtitles and the overlay from overlapping.
- Apply to all copies this look to your other overlays of the same kind. The button reads Apply to all highlights, Apply to all lists or Apply to all text overlays.
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Duplicate or delete an overlay
In the list, select the copy icon on an overlay (Duplicate Text Overlay) to place a copy at the playhead, or the bin icon (Delete) to remove it. You can also open the overlay and select Delete in its editor.
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Or ask Levio
In the Levio tab, you can ask for a text overlay in plain language, for example "add a title that says 3 numbers every founder should know from 0:05 to 0:09". Levio can add an overlay, change its text, timing, position, colour and size, or remove it. Pick a List, Animated or Marker style yourself in Text. See How to edit a video with Levio.
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Change or remove emojis
Under Emojis, at the bottom of the Text tab, use the switch to turn emojis on or off for the whole video, or click an emoji to change, move or remove it.
What Jupitrr does automatically
- A hook at the start, when the Hook toggle is on
- Text overlays taken from your own words, unless a format such as Tier List covers the screen: short highlighted phrases (one may get a hand-drawn underline, circle or highlighter), a numbered list when you go through several points, and a title for a named idea or number
- No automatic overlays during the hook or the last two seconds
What you can edit
- Hook text, timing, style, size, colours and position
- Whether the hook shows at all
- Each overlay's text, timing, style and position
- Whether subtitles hide while an overlay shows
- Emojis, one by one or all at once
Limits and requirements
- The hook holds up to 50 characters.
- Overlays keep their own text. Fixing a word in Subtitles doesn't update an overlay that shows the same words.
- Overlays are placed with the Width, Position Y and Position X sliders, not by dragging them on the preview.
- Text size goes from 2% to 20% of the video height.
Troubleshooting
My hook is cut off as I type.
The hook holds up to 50 characters. Shorten it, or move the rest of the message into a text overlay.
An overlay shows old wording after I fixed the transcript.
Overlays are separate from subtitles. Open the overlay in Text and edit its text there.
Subtitles and an overlay overlap.
Open the overlay and turn on Hide Subtitles While Showing, or move it with Position Y.
My new overlay disappeared.
An overlay with no text is removed when you close it. Add it again and keep some text in it before selecting Done.
The hook is gone from my video.
Check the switch next to Hook in Text. If it is off, turn it on and your hook text returns.
