How to add Hebrew text to a photo video without it coming out backwards

Why Hebrew breaks in so many video apps

Some video apps assume text runs left to right. If you've seen Hebrew come out wrong, it is usually one of these:

• The words come out in reverse order. The line reads from left to right, so the first word of the sentence ends up at the far end.
• Punctuation lands on the wrong side. A full stop, a comma or a quotation mark appears at the start of the line instead of the end.
• Numbers and English words jump. A year or a name in Latin letters sits in the wrong place in an otherwise Hebrew line.
• The font has no Hebrew letters. The app falls back to empty boxes or to a font you didn't choose.

For a family video, where the text is a name, a year or a few warm words, it should simply work.

Where you can put text in an Echoes video

A photo video from Echoes can carry text in four places, and all of them accept Hebrew.

1. The opening. A title at the start, for example a name and a date. You can place it over a plain color, one of your photos or a short video, and drag and resize the text box behind it.
2. The closing. A few words at the end, from you or from the family.
3. Text slides between parts. When a video combines more than one part, for example a Growing part and a Classic part, a full-screen text slide can introduce any part after the first. It suits a line such as "The army years" or "The years in Haifa".
4. A label over one animation. A short text that stays on screen for that one animation, for example "Age 1", "גיל 5" or "2005". It changes when the next animation starts, so a Growing video can count the years as the person grows.

The text box is the same everywhere. You choose the font, size, colors and whether there is a box behind the text, and the text direction sits in the same toolbar.

How to do it

1. Make the animations first. Upload your photos in order and let the animating finish. The text goes on at the finishing stage.
2. Open Finalize. The hub has separate editors for the animations, the opening, the closing and the music, and you can use them in any order.
3. Type the text. Type in Hebrew as you normally would. The direction follows the first letter you typed, so a line that starts in Hebrew is set right to left. Alignment is a separate control.
4. Pick a font that has Hebrew letters. The font list in the text toolbar includes fonts with Hebrew support. Look at the preview to see that every letter shows.
5. Add labels over the animations. In Animations & order, tap Text under an animation and type the age or year. The next label keeps the look of the last one, so after the first you usually type only the words.
6. Preview, then compile. Play the video, fix any line that looks off, and compile again as many times as you need.

Mixed Hebrew and English

Real family videos mix the two. A line like "החתונה של Dana ושל Michael, 1998" has Hebrew words, English names and a number in one line.

Mixed lines are the hardest to get right, so look at them in the preview. A line that starts with a Latin letter is read as left to right, even if the rest is Hebrew. If the order looks wrong:

• Switch the direction. The toolbar has a Left to right and a Right to left switch. Try the other one.
• Split the line. Put the name on one line and the year on the next. Short lines rarely go wrong.
• Keep it short. A short title is easier to read on a screen across a room anyway.

Make it readable on the screen

Text in a video is read from a distance, often in a hall with the lights down.

• Contrast first. Use light text on a dark background or the other way round, and use the box behind the text if you put it over a photo.
• Time to read. The closing slide has a length setting, so give a long line enough seconds.
• Short labels. An age or a year reads in a glance. A full sentence over a moving face does not.
• No emoji. They don't appear in the video, so write the words.

The guide on showing a video gift at an event covers checking titles on the real screen, and the one on video gifts for grandparents abroad shows Hebrew and English titles in practice.

A short example

For a bar mitzvah video, one setup that works:

• Opening: the boy's name and the date, over a photo from his first year.
• Labels: "גיל 1", "גיל 5", "גיל 9", "גיל 13" over the animations at those ages.
• Closing: "מזל טוב" and the family's names.

That gives three kinds of Hebrew text in one video, all set right to left, with no editing software. The bar mitzvah video gift guide has the rest of the walk-through, and the guide on choosing photos helps with the first step.

Your photos stay private

Your photos are private to you, stored securely, and never used to train AI models. They're only used to make your video, and you can delete them from your dashboard whenever you want.

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What makes Echoes different

Echoes turns photos from across the years into one continuous video of a life. Each photo flows into the next, so a baby grows into a bar mitzvah boy, or a couple ages together over decades, in a single unbroken shot. Echoes then finishes it as a gift, ready to play at the event.

1. Growing videos. You add dozens of photos of the same person or couple, and Echoes morphs each one into the next. It isn't a slideshow or a set of separate animations: you watch someone grow up or grow old in one continuous video. It fits bar and bat mitzvahs, anniversaries, and family tributes.
2. Automated, but guided. Echoes does the heavy lifting: it picks the AI models, writes the prompts, generates the animations, and stitches everything into one finished video. You still decide everything that matters. It walks you step by step through ordering your photos, reviewing each animation (with a full set of free retries), and choosing the opening, the ending, and the music. You get the result of a skilled AI video workflow without having to learn one.
3. A finished gift, not a tool. The result is a complete video with titles, an ending, a soundtrack, and a share link. It's priced by the length of the finished video, not by credits or tokens: a one-time purchase, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Create your video with Echoes.