How to Edit Title Text in PowerDirector
Type it, style it, and save the look so you never build it twice.
Updated Aug. 21, 2026 · 5 min read
In a hurry? Use the title text quick guide instead.
Text is the one thing in a video that has to be readable at a glance, on a phone, sometimes with the sound off. PowerDirector puts everything that decides that into one Quick Edit panel: the words, the font, the color, and how it sits in the frame.
- Open the Titles tab, drag a template onto the timeline, and double-click it.
- Type your words in the text box, or straight into the preview.
- Set the font, size and color, then the alignment and spacing underneath.
- Or start from a preset style, then place it in the frame.
- Click Save As to keep the look. It lands under Custom in the Titles tab.
Steps to Edit a Title
Prefer to watch? Here's the whole thing in a three and a half minute video, or follow the written sections below.
Step 1: Add a Title and Open It
Go to the Titles tab in the library, pick a template, and drag it onto the timeline. Templates are a starting point rather than a commitment: everything about one can be changed, so choose on rough shape and worry about the details afterwards.
Double-click the clip and the Quick Edit panel opens at the top left. Type into the text box, or click straight into the words in the preview window, whichever feels more natural.
Step 2: Set the Font, Size, and Color
The row under the text box holds the three things that matter most. The font list is long, so use the funnel icon beside it to filter by language, which cuts a several-hundred-item list down to the ones that can actually render your text.
Size takes a typed number, or the small increase and decrease icons next to it for nudging. Nudging is the better habit here, because title size is something you judge against the frame rather than calculate.
Click the color block to open the Color window, the same picker PowerDirector uses everywhere, complete with the eyedropper and hex field. Pulling a color out of the footage with the eyedropper is the quickest way to make a title look like it belongs in the shot rather than on top of it.
Step 3: Lay the Text Out
Two icons in the same row make the text bold or italic. The row below handles arrangement rather than appearance: text direction for vertical scripts, alignment, and the two spacing controls. Line spacing and character spacing are the ones worth touching on any title that runs to more than a couple of words, because default spacing is set for body text, not for something read in two seconds.
Step 4: Use a Preset Style or an Effect
If you are not sure what the text should look like, the grid of preset styles under the controls is faster than building a look by hand. Click one and it applies wholesale, and you can still adjust anything afterwards.
Beside them sits a second row of text effects, which do something different: they add treatment on top of the style rather than replacing it.
Lower down, blur, opacity, border, shadow and blend mode each sit behind their own tick box. Border and shadow are the two that earn their keep on almost any title, because they are what keeps text readable when the footage behind it changes brightness mid-shot.
Step 5: Place It in the Frame
At the bottom of the panel are size, position and rotation as numbers. You can also do all three by hand in the preview: hover the edge of the text until the cursor becomes a cross and drag to move it, pull the white handles to resize, or move just outside a handle until the cursor becomes a curved arrow and drag to rotate.
Style Only Part of the Text
This one is easy to miss and it is what people usually want. Select part of the text in the preview window, not the text box, and any change you make from then on applies only to that selection. One word in a different color, or a line at a different size, without splitting the title into two clips.
Save the Look as Your Own Template
Once the title looks right, click Save As at the bottom left and give it a name. It appears under Custom in the Titles tab, and from then on the same look is one drag away.
Do this before you make the second title, not after the tenth. Titles in one video are supposed to match, and matching them by rebuilding the settings each time is where the mismatches come from.
Haven't got PowerDirector yet? Everything that decides whether text is readable sits in one Quick Edit panel, so this is a short thing to try.
Download PowerDirector Free →FAQ About Title Text
Yes. Select just that word in the preview window rather than in the text box, then change the color. Only the selected text changes, so a whole title can carry two or three treatments without being split into separate clips.
Click the funnel icon beside the font name and filter by language. That drops the list to fonts that can actually render your characters, which on a non-Latin script is the difference between a usable list and an unusable one.
Build one, then click Save As at the bottom left of the panel. It is stored under Custom in the Titles tab and behaves like any other template, so every later title starts already matching.