How to Add Text to Moving Video in DaVinci Resolve Easy Planar Tracking in 1 Minute

Want to add text that follows movement in your videos?
In this quick and beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll show you how to attach text to a moving object or surface or video using the Planar Tracker tool in DaVinci Resolve — all in just 1 minute!

This method is perfect for:

Adding location names that stay in place

Pinning titles to walls, floors, cars, or any surface

Creating cinematic, professional-looking motion graphics

We’ll walk through the full process step-by-step:

Setting up MediaIn, Text+, and MediaOut nodes

Adding and configuring the Planar Tracker

Tracking the movement

Creating the Planar Transform

Linking the Text+ to the tracked motion

Final result — your text stays locked in place, even as the camera moves!

This is all done inside DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion tab, using only built-in tools — no third-party plugins required.

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