Lower Third
Clean name plate for talking-head footage.
A lower third names whoever is speaking, or what is on screen, in the space along the bottom that footage usually leaves empty.
- Resolution
- 1280 × 720
- Duration
- 6s at 60fps
- Layers
- 4
- Animated
- 4
What you can edit
- Text:
- Title, Subtitle
- Shapes:
- Lower third, Accent
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Lower Third is built from 2 shapes and 2 text layers, using a 24-pixel backdrop blur behind frosted glass rimmed in white, a violet-to-blue gradient and a shadow 48 pixels deep. Its colours are near-black, white, blue, violet and grey. Type is set in Inter.
The lower third and accent slide in at 0.2s, the title and subtitle slide in at 0.3s. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits along the lower edge to the left of a 16:9 composition, spanning about 44% of the width at 560×96 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 controlsA lower third lives in exactly the strip the player takes back whenever somebody touches the screen.
- YouTube Lower Third MakerBuild your own name plate from nothing, sized for the screen most of your audience watches on.
- 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 Lower Third templates
- YouTube Editorial IdentityEditorial presenter identity with editable name, role and channel handle.
- Channel Lower ThirdChannel identity lower third
- Editorial SlabSolid slab with an accent edge and a masked text wipe.
- Frosted Name PlateFrosted pane that reads over bright and dark footage alike.
- Hairline RuleA rule that draws itself under a name. Nothing else.
- Bracket TitleTwo brackets that close in on the name and hold it.
- Stacked BlocksName and role on two offset blocks, arriving a beat apart.
- Ribbon FoldA ribbon with a folded corner and a soft drop.