# Video with text

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The **Video with text** section lets you showcase a video and a copy side-by-side to promote your products, offer, or brand's message.

It's designed to display a video with standard controls that will play with sound.

## How to add a Video with text

{% hint style="success" %}
**Steps:**

1. From the theme editor (**Customize**), click **Add section**.
2. Select a **Video with text** section.
3. Make necessary changes.
4. **Save** the settings.
   {% endhint %}

## How to edit a Video with text

### Section settings

#### Video settings

* **Video**: Select a video from Shopify Files or insert a YouTube or Vimeo video URL.&#x20;
* **Cover image**: The image that displays before a customer plays the video.
* **Video ratio**: Set the ratio of the video.
* **Video alt text**: Describe the video for customers using screen readers.
* **Enable video autoplay**: Video are muted automatically to allow autoplay.
* **Enable video looping**: Video is looped automatically.
* **Desktop video placement**: Set where the video is placed compared to the content (Video first/ Video second) on desktop. For mobile view, the video comes first by default.&#x20;
* **Enable parallax effect**: Scroll the background and foreground layers at different speeds, creating vibrant animated scenes.
* **Parallax direction**: Vertical/ Horizontal/ Zoom.

#### Content settings

* **Text alignment**: Control whether your texts are centered, left-aligned, or right-aligned.

### Block settings

You can choose to edit the following elements:

* **Heading** - This will serve as the subject or title of your section. For this one, we suggest using a short, but clear title that will allow your customers to easily understand the message you're trying to convey.
* **Subheading** - This will serve as the subtitle of your section.
* **Text** - This is displayed below the heading. This offers a set of rich text functions that allow formatting of the text like adding styles, links, or lists. To learn more, see Shopify's [Rich Text Editor guide](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/rich-text-editor#format-text-with-the-rich-text-editor).
* **Button** - This is a call-to-action button allowing you to select a page or paste any link of your choice.

Drag to re-order any element you like within the section.