Ours
Lower third
A name and a role on a clean card with an accent tab.
16:9 · 4 s · You change: name, roleTemplates
Lower third templates
A name and a role that slide in over the footage, then get out of the way.
A lower third is the caption bar in the bottom third of the frame that says who is speaking. Each template here animates in, holds, and animates out; you type the name and role, it takes your video's accent colour and font, and it renders as a transparent overlay on top of your clip.
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All 16 lower thirds
Open Graphics in the editor to change any of them, see it play, and render it into your video.
OursLower third, cardless
A vertical accent rule beside a bold name and its role, for bright footage too.
16:9 · 4 s · You change: name, role
OursCallout tag
A pill with a label and a line, for a tip, a price or a warning.
16:9 · 3 s · You change: tag, textLower Third — Clean Bar
Minimal white-card lower third for podcasts/interviews: accent tab, name + role, clip-wipe entrance
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Dark Card
Charcoal card lower third for bright footage: name, drawn accent underline, role; slide-up entrance
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, roleLower Third — Kicker Name
Cardless lower third with an accent eyebrow/kicker tag, heavy name, and a drawn baseline; for footage
16:9 · 5 s · You change: kicker, nameLower Third — Soft Pill
Rounded white pill lower third for podcasts/interviews: status dot, name + role, scale-pop entrance
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Side Rule
Cardless lower third with a vertical accent bar; condensed display name + mono role, text-shadowed for footage
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Accent Underline
Cardless lower third for footage overlay: name rises, an accent rule draws left-to-right, role fades in; text-shadowed for legibility
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Bold Block
High-energy podcast lower third: solid dark block wipes in, uppercase name slams up, accent tag pops
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, tag
Lower Third — Color Block
High-energy lower third: bold accent-color block slides in with overshoot, condensed name + mono role
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Mask Reveal
Cardless lower third: an accent sweep crosses and clip-path-reveals a heavy name, role fades up; for footage
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — Stack Bars
Two stacked bars: a dark name bar wipes from the left, an accent role bar wipes from the right
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role
Lower Third — BILD Style
News-style lower third with tight-fit text boxes: white headline bar with red drop-shadow, red sub-line with white drop-shadow.
16:9 · 8 s · You change: txt_main_1_line, txt_sub
News Ticker
Premium broadcast-style lower-third ticker with live label, headline ribbon, and scrolling news crawl.
16:9 · 7 s · You change: time, label
Neon Border
Two arcs of light travel the edge of a rounded panel and snap corner to corner, trailing a soft three-layer bloom. A lower third for a name and role.
16:9 · 5 s · You change: name, role, accent, movement…
Blocks marked Ours are UGCLive's. The rest are from HeyGen's open-source HyperFrames registry (Apache-2.0, commit 1c3fcf4), with their authors' descriptions.
Pick a style that matches the footage
Bright, busy footage needs a solid card so the name stays readable: the clean bar, the dark card or the color block. Calm interview shots can carry a lighter touch, like the side rule or the accent underline, which leave most of the picture showing.
News and documentary edits often want a kicker line above the name (the kicker name) or a ticker running along the bottom. Podcasts filmed on two cameras usually use the same lower third for both hosts, with a different role line.
How it gets on your video
- 1
Open Graphics
In the editor's tools rail, open Graphics and search "lower third".
- 2
Type the words
The name and the role go into the template's text slots. Your accent and font are already set.
- 3
Render it
It renders on our servers as a transparent overlay and lands over the clip at the playhead.
- 4
Move or retime it
Drag it on the timeline. Select it and press Edit graphic to change the words; it renders again in place.
Shorts and vertical video
Most broadcast lower thirds are drawn for a 16:9 frame. In a 9:16 Short the editor places a 16:9 lower third across the width of the frame, above the captions' band, so it never sits under TikTok's or YouTube's buttons and never covers the subtitles.
Keep the role line short on phones: three or four words read at a glance, a full job title does not.
Or ask the chat
You don't have to find the template yourself. Tell our AI who is on screen and when, and it adds the lower third, renders it and puts it in place, listed as one change you can undo.
Add a lower third for Maya Chen, marine biologist, when she first appears
Done. Here's what changed:
Undo, one click for the whole request- Added a lower third (Lower third) at 0:04: "Maya Chen", "Marine biologist"
- Rendered it as a transparent overlay, 4 s
Questions
What is a lower third in video?
The text graphic in the lower part of the frame that names the person speaking, their role, or a place. It comes from TV news, where it fills roughly the bottom third of the screen.
Can I change the colour and font?
Yes. A new lower third takes your video's accent colour and font, and you can change both, along with the words and how long it stays on screen, before or after it's rendered.
Is the background transparent?
Yes. Lower thirds render as an overlay with a clear background, so the footage shows around them.
Do these work for podcasts and interviews?
That's what most of them are for: ten of them are tagged for podcast and interview edits, with a name line and a role line.
Keep reading
- Lower thirds explainedA lower third is the name-and-title graphic in the bottom part of the frame. What it's for, the styles, timing rules and how to add one in seconds.
- Text animationsAnimated titles, kinetic words, typewriter text, handwritten titles and chapter cards. Type your words and render them into your video.
- Podcast clipsCut the best minute of an episode into a vertical clip: the dead air removed, captions word by word, the guest's name in a lower third, ready to post.
- Chat editingType the edit in plain words: cut the pauses, add captions, swap the music, add a lower third. Our AI makes it on a real timeline, with one Undo.
- Photo carouselsCircle, orbit, path and 3D carousels that put your photos in motion, with or without a title. Swap in your pictures and add the carousel to your video.
Updated 29 October 2026
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