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Creating Lower thirds.
Any one have any tutorials? Also I was looking on the Digital juice site and they had “animated lower third mattes” that looks pretty cool, any tutorials on those? ( https://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=120 )
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The digital juice ones are things you buy and just drop into a project. They have alpha channels so you just lay it on top of what you want and add titles.
As for creating your own… wow — well, the sky’s the limit!! It’s as simple as adding a colored solid and bringing it down to size changing it’s opacity and adding text. Or as complicated as building it from a new comp with multiple layers and effects and motion and text.
AE7 has some great graphic presets that you can mess with too that will easily give you some great lower 3rd effects. Just load them in and go. Bringing them in via Bridge is a great addition too.
Remember… if you want something that nobody’s seen before you are going to need to create it yourself. Take the time. Each graphic is a mini-masterpiece…
CaptM
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On American television right now, you are not even limited to a lower “third.” Today, your lower third can reach out, intrude into and cover up half or more of the screen.
;o)
You can make it a contest between you, the designer, and your audience. See how much of the show you can hide from your audience. If you know the show that your lower “third” will be used for and can get your timing right, you can even hide entire key moments wherein the on-screen talent or setting could have been seen during important times of story and character development (and other unimportant things like that). But thanks to the Lower Third Set Free To Build Its Self-Esteem
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HAHAHAHA!!!
Yes, and the reporter says, “As you can see at the bottom of your screen the tornado sightings are THIS CLOSE to THIS town!!! You better run for your lives!!”
Meanwhile, in another part of the studio, the AE artist is trying to impress the spectacularly looking intern by saying, “Yes, I do the lower thirds for all the weather grids. You’ll notice that mine are the biggest lower thirds on network TV!!”
Capt (Enjoying HIS freedom coffee this fine AM and NOT watching the morning shows) Mench
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