This is where the lower third serves as a great tool. Other times you just want to add additional information to form a more complete picture of what you’re trying to communicate. However, there can be times where you don’t have a soundbite or visual to use. Or, you could use a visual to communicate the identity, such as a shot of a name tag or a nameplate sitting on a desk. During production you can ask the interviewee for an introduction, which you can include as a soundbite in your final edit. Remember that there are a variety of ways to communicate the identity of an interview subject. In this case, a lower third could be very useful, maybe even necessary. Does the interview subject’s name add anything to your story? Perhaps they’re an expert discussing a very specific aspect of their industry. Let’s say, as an example, that you’re working on a documentary and you’re cutting together soundbites from an interview. The decision you need to make is whether to include the information via a lower third or not.

Naturally, you can use text to communicate nearly anything, including a name, job title, time, weather, location, etc. Your lower thirds should be engaging and on-brand. Whether it’s a name, place, or some other tidbit of information, the lower third is a powerful filmmaking tool. When used properly, a lower third should supplement the main visuals, giving the viewer added context. A combination of text and graphical elements, an 元 is simply another way to provide an audience with information. But there’s much more to a lower third than meets the eye.

In this joint After Effects/Premiere Pro tutorial, we’ll look at create a beautiful and smooth lower third animation graphic in After Effects from scratch and then we’ll save the file out and import it into Premiere Pro and use the tools in Premiere Pro to load in and edit the text in the After Effects Composition and then talk about duplicate instances of the lower third so we can have multiple lower thirds across our video project, but also so all of our lower thirds automatically update if we change something in After Effects thanks to the Dynamic Link connection between After Effects and Premiere Pro.Lower thirds (also known as 元s) are usually only on screen for a few seconds. Premiere Pro Starts at: 14:05 Tutorial Overview DOWNLOAD THE FREE LOWER THIRD AFTER EFFECTS FILE HERE CREATE A SMOOTH LOWER THIRD IN AFTER EFFECTS! | We will also put the lower third in a video project in Premiere Pro and look at Text Templates in Premiere Pro.

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