Lower Third Generator
Type a name and a title. Two coloured bars slide in, settle, and hold as long as you need before sliding out.
What Is the Name Lower Third?
A lower third names the person on screen. It is the graphic most videos need and fewest videos do well. This generator builds one from two fields, a name and a title, rendered as stacked bars that slide in from the edge, settle, hold for as long as you set, and slide out. Each bar has its own colour and its own width, which is the detail that separates a designed lower third from a text box with a background: letting the title bar sit shorter than the name bar gives the pair a deliberate shape. There is no template to buy, no motion software to open and no project file to keep track of.
How It Works
The name bar slides in and settles first, then the title bar follows a few frames behind, so the pair reads top to bottom in the order a viewer would say them. Text is centred within its own bar rather than across the pair, which stops a long title from dragging the short name off centre. Bar height is the single size control and the type scales from it. The hold is separate from the entrance, so the graphic can stay for two seconds or ten without changing how it arrives or leaves.
Best For
- -Naming yourself at the start of a video
- -Introducing a guest or interviewee
- -Podcast and panel clip identifiers
- -Expert, contributor and source credits
- -Any name and role that belongs on screen
Best Platforms for Name Lower Third
YouTube
Interview and podcast clips get reposted out of context constantly, and the lower third is what keeps the speaker identified when that happens. Matching it to the channel colours costs nothing and stops it looking like a stock template.
Instagram Reels
Talking-head Reels benefit from a name in the first two seconds, especially on accounts with several contributors. Two bars are compact enough to sit above the caption band without overlapping it.
What most lower third makers get wrong
Search for a lower third maker and the results split into two disappointing groups. The first is a motion-graphics template that needs After Effects, a project file and a working knowledge of keyframes, which is a real learning curve for a graphic carrying two words. The second is an online tool that outputs a static image, which is not a lower third at all, because a lower third is defined by how it enters and how it leaves. This generator sits deliberately between them: the entrance, hold and exit are real animation, and the whole thing takes two text fields and a colour. Nothing is installed, nothing is downloaded except the finished MP4, and there is no project to find again when you need the same graphic next week.
Colour, height and how long to leave it on screen
Three settings do most of the work. The two bar colours are independent, and the strongest result is usually a saturated brand colour on the name bar with a darker or neutral tone behind the title, so the name leads and the role supports it. Bar height is the single size control and everything including the type scales from it; keep it modest in a vertical frame, because a lower third filling a quarter of the screen has stopped being a lower third. The hold decides how long the graphic stays after it settles, and three to five seconds is the reliable range: long enough to read the name and role twice at a comfortable pace, short enough that it is not parked over the speaker for the whole clip.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before you start.
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