What are Lower Thirds? (And How to Make Your Own)

Lower Thirds are an easy way to give your audience a little extra information.

In this video I show you what works and what doesn’t when it comes to Lower Thirds.

0:00 - Introduction
0:13 - Get information to your viewer quickly and clearly
0:38 - Why lower thirds?
1:01 - Example 1 & how to fix it
1:34 - Example 2 & how to fix it
2:04 - How to make a lower third
2:38 - Edit your text font, color and size in Camtasia
2:54 - Add an animation or transition to your lower third
3:35 - Repeat that process for the end of the lower third

[MaxDerhund]

And after you have that Lower Third tweaked and polished to your satisfaction, right-click on it (on the timeline) and choose "Add to Library". Then you can drag the complete package onto your timeline whenever you need it.

[techtubemarathi]

It was short but effective! No time wasted

[ewaoconnor]

Thank you ;) nice, simple and to the point

[markevansdj]

That bassline is very close to the Mary J Shackles bassline!

[stefanparksage]

Nice video. Considering son-screen captioning/subtitles would have been useful to include. I used lower thirds recently in a newsdesk-themed video. I had to set the 'lower third' text as high up as possible, otherwise there was a clash with the closed captioning.

[djthproductions]

You forgot to read it yourselfs slowly so people who does not read fast can read it too! I already made one a time ago with animations and notification the title/text will disappear in a moment. I added that to my library.