Chrome Relief Bar
Mirror-chrome lettering over a cool graphite plate.
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
- 9
- Animated
- 9
What you can edit
- Text:
- Channel handle, Subscribe label
- Images:
- Play glyph, Channel name 3D
- Shapes:
- Bar plate, Play mark, Subscribe button, Press ring
- Effects:
- cursor
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Chrome Relief Bar is built from 4 shapes, 2 text layers, 1 image and 1 3D layer, using a grey-to-charcoal gradient, the word "YouBrand" extruded in chrome under softbox light and a shadow 80 pixels deep. Its colours are white, grey, charcoal, near-black and pale blue. Type is set in Inter.
The bar plate rises into place at 0.2s, the channel name 3D scales up at 0.6s, the play mark rises into place at 0.6s, the play glyph fades up at 0.7s, and 5 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 60% of the width at 1152×188 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
- Neon Glass ReliefClear glass letters lit from both sides by magenta and cyan.
- Billet BarThe plate itself is milled steel, lit and turning, not a painted gradient.
- Liquid Glass BarNo fill at all — the shot itself, magnified and bent through the glass.
- Cast Glass BarThicker glass: the shot compresses into the rim instead of merely bending at it.
- 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.