Lower Third / Location Caption

Lower third / Location caption

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In plain words

Show a name, place, or year small at the bottom or in a corner of the screen to give context without any explanation.

When to use it

Interview name tags, a chronicle where the place and year change every scene, or citing the source of a number.

Example videos

How To Make Lower Thirds In Premiere Pro - Lower Thirds Tutorial — Explainer: The basic way to make and animate a name tag at the bottom of the screen.
Make AMAZING Lower Thirds in Premiere (must know technique) — Explainer: See how to design your own lower third with motion graphics.

In AI video, like this

Don't ask the AI to draw text. At the start-frame stage, leave room for the caption (the upper third or one corner), and put on a Pillow PNG with overlay=enable='between(t,a,b)' and a fade. Use one design, like a brand-color plate, in the same position on every cut, and take it off before the next cut comes in over it. Keep it apart from the narration captions, one above and one below, so they don't overlap.

One-click prompt

Show a lower-third name or place caption from second 1 to second 4, using your own transparent PNG (never let the AI draw the text) and a calm area left empty in the shot: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -i name.png -filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]overlay=60:H-h-160:enable='between(t,1,4)'" -c:a copy out.mp4

See it in real films and ads

Wikipedia — Lower third

AI-made examples

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