Cast Glass Bar
Thicker glass: the shot compresses into the rim instead of merely bending at it.
A channel bar sits along the lower edge of the frame and carries your name and mark without covering the shot. It is the graphic a viewer sees most often, so it is the one worth making yours.
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Duration
- 6s at 60fps
- Layers
- 8
- Animated
- 8
What you can edit
- Text:
- Channel, Handle, Subscribe label
- Images:
- Play glyph
- Shapes:
- Glass pane, Play mark, Subscribe button
- Effects:
- cursor
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Cast Glass Bar is built from 3 shapes, 3 text layers, 1 image and 1 pointer, using a 2-pixel backdrop blur behind frosted glass with a refracted rim and a shadow 70 pixels deep. Its colours are near-black, white and deep blue. Type is set in Inter.
The glass pane scales up at 0.2s, the play glyph and play mark scale up at 0.9s, the channel rises into place at 1.1s, the handle rises into place at 1.2s, and 2 further beats follow before the end. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits through the middle of the frame of a 16:9 composition, spanning about 61% of the width at 1180×196 pixels.
What to do with it
- Make it yoursChange the words, the colours and the timing without breaking the animation that was built for the shape.
- Export it with transparencyWhich format your editor actually reads, and why a black rectangle behind your graphic means the wrong one was chosen.
- Keep it out of the controlsYouTube draws its progress bar and controls over the bottom of the picture. A bar pinned flush to the edge is the one that gets covered.
- What exporting costsOpening this template, changing it and watching it back are free. Getting the finished file out is $5 once for this project, or a plan if you make them often.
More Channel Bar templates
- Optic Glass BarClear, not frosted: the shot swells through the middle and wraps the rounded ends.
- Obsidian BarDeep black glass with a lensed rim and a red mark.
- Titanium BarBrushed metal with a cool sheen and a machined button.
- Porcelain BarWarm matte ceramic, soft shadow, ink lettering.
- Aurora BarFrosted pane over a violet-to-teal gradient edge.
- Ember BarDark bronze with a warm glow behind the mark.
- Machined BarMilled titanium with a real sheen band and a lit top edge.
- Anodised BarAnodised indigo, hard rim light, machined key.