<p>Take a look at Blender or Lightworks (both free). 
You can import footage and add text or shapes (simple one with Lightworks) to it.</p>

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2015-11-01T22:27:16.260Z
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CyanideBaby
<p>I an application demo video, I want to add annotations (Text notes, basic shapes etc) on already recorded video. Is there any free software available for that on Windows?
I found some, but they work on desktop screen capturing... but I want to work on existing video. I tried with Youtube. I'm able to add annotations but if I download the video from YouTube, they are not there / or downloaded as separate file. I need single video file with my annotation added to the same.</p>

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Adding annotation to existing video file
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# Adding annotation to existing video file

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-31)

I an application demo video, I want to add annotations (Text notes, basic shapes etc) on already recorded video. Is there any free software available for that on Windows?
I found some, but they work on desktop screen capturing... but I want to work on existing video. I tried with Youtube. I'm able to add annotations but if I download the video from YouTube, they are not there / or downloaded as separate file. I need single video file with my annotation added to the same.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-01. Score: 1

Take a look at Blender or Lightworks (both free).
You can import footage and add text or shapes (simple one with Lightworks) to it.


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