Machined Bar
Milled titanium with a real sheen band and a lit top edge.
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
- Shapes:
- Bar plate, Play mark, Press ring, 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
Machined Bar is built from 4 shapes, 3 text layers, 1 image and 1 pointer, using a charcoal gradient and a shadow 80 pixels deep. Its colours are white, charcoal, near-black, grey and deep blue. Type is set in Inter.
The bar plate rises into place at 0.2s, the play glyph and play mark scale up at 0.8s, the channel rises into place at 1s, the handle rises into place at 1.1s, and 3 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 52% of the width at 992×188 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
- Anodised BarAnodised indigo, hard rim light, machined key.
- Milk Glass BarWarm frosted pane that takes its colour from the shot.
- Channel Row MinimalChannel name, count and subscribe — no avatar.
- Classic Bar TopThe white pill high in the frame, above the subtitle band and clear of the controls.
- 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.