Lower Third
Mono Caption
Monospace documentary caption with a blinking marker.
A lower third names whoever is speaking, or what is on screen, in the space along the bottom that footage usually leaves empty.
- Resolution
- 1920 × 1080
- Duration
- 6s at 60fps
- Layers
- 4
- Animated
- 4
What you can edit
- Text:
- Channel name, Role
- Shapes:
- Scrim, Marker
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Mono Caption is built from 2 shapes and 2 text layers, using a 16-pixel backdrop blur behind frosted glass and a shadow 20 pixels deep. Its colours are near-black, green and white. Type is set in IBM Plex Mono.
The marker fades up at 0.2s, the scrim scales up at 0.2s, the channel name and role 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 22% of the width at 431×162 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.
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