Channel Bar
Classic Bar Top
The white pill high in the frame, above the subtitle band and clear of the controls.
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
- 6
- Animated
- 6
What you can edit
- Text:
- Channel name, Subscribers, Subscribe label
- Images:
- Avatar
- Shapes:
- Bar, Subscribe
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Classic Bar Top is built from 3 text layers, 2 shapes and 1 image, using a shadow 60 pixels deep. Its colours are white, near-black, grey and red. Type is set in Inter.
The avatar, bar and channel name rise into place at 0.1s. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits across the upper third of a 16:9 composition, spanning about 61% of the width at 1180×200 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
- Classic Bar HandleDark bar with the handle leading and the channel name under it.
- Classic Bar TaglineThree lines: the name, what the channel is about, and the count.
- Classic Bar CountThe subscriber number climbing as the button is pressed.
- Classic Bar GhostOutlined rather than filled, for footage too bright to take a white plate.
- Classic StackThe same parts stood upright at the edge, leaving the width of the frame alone.
- Classic Corner TagAvatar, handle and a live dot, small enough to sit through a whole video.
- Classic Bar VerifiedThe tick beside the name, the count and the button in one tight row.
- Creator Bar NightThe full creator segment on a dark plate, for footage too bright to take white.