Type a sentence, choose the words to mark and watch a highlighter sweep behind them. Download it as a 1080p MP4, made in your browser. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
How it works
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
1
Write the sentence, up to 140 characters; line breaks you type are kept. Add a small line above it if you like, such as Note to self or Tip #3.
2
Type the words to mark exactly as they appear in the sentence, capitals aside. Then choose how: Highlight, Underline, Circle, Box or Strike, in any color and three thicknesses.
3
Let the words rise in or start with them in place, choose the mark's speed, and wait up to 5 seconds before it starts. Then one of six looks, five typefaces and four frame shapes.
4
Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device, usually in a few seconds. No account, no watermark.
Ready-made versions
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
When a text highlight isn’t enough
Here you get one sentence marked on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you actually want, “highlight ‘three times faster’ in my caption as I say it, in our brand yellow”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video. Attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot and it matches them. Not right yet? Ask for the change in the chat.
Free text highlight
Rescroll
One sentence, one marked phrase
Any design you can describe, matched to your logo, fonts or a screenshot
A clip you overlay and key out yourself
Built on your own video, placed around you
You line it up in your editor
Marks the exact word you say, as you say it
Change it with the settings here
Change anything by asking in the chat
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
The basics
A text highlight animation is a short clip of a sentence in which a few words get marked as you watch: a highlighter swept behind them, a line drawn under them, a loop drawn round them or a line struck through them. It points the viewer at the part of a quote, a tip or a script that matters.
This maker draws the marks the way a hand would. The highlighter has a slanted tip, streaks and a little pooled ink where it landed, and at Medium and Bold the words under it switch to a color that reads on it as the tip passes. The pen marks swell and taper like ink, and no two lines wobble the same way. If the words you mark run onto a second line, each line gets its own stroke, drawn one after the other.
Keep the marked words short, two to five of them, so the mark lands quickly and reads at a glance. To line the mark up with a word in your voiceover, use “Wait before marking” to push it later.
In your editor
An MP4 has no transparent background, so the text highlight comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.
Download the text highlight on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key. If you made it on black instead, set the clip's blend mode to Screen.
Put the text highlight on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green. For a version on black, skip the key: in Effect Controls, set Opacity → Blend Mode to Screen.
Place the text highlight on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on. For a version on black, set Composite Mode to Screen in the Inspector instead.
Connect the text highlight above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself. For a version on black, set Blend Mode to Screen in the Video inspector.
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