FreeLower Thirds Maker

Animated lower thirds, free — a green-screen MP4 that keys in one filter.

Animated lower thirds for interviews, streams and vlogs. Type a name, a role and an optional third line, pick one of 7 styles, and the bar slides in, holds and cleanly leaves. It is drawn in your browser tab on flat #00B140 green, so a single Chroma Key in OBS, Ultra Key in Premiere Pro, Chroma key in CapCut or 3D Keyer in DaVinci Resolve drops it over your own footage. 720p is free, 1080p comes with any plan, and Pro renders a transparent ProRes 4444 .mov with no keying at all.

7
Lower third styles
Clean Bar, Newsroom, Boxed Tag, Podcast Pill, Glass Card, Neon Arena, Documentary.
19
Colourways
Two or three per style, plus ten accent presets and a custom hex.
4
Lengths
5, 8, 10 or 15 seconds — entrance, hold and a clean exit in every one.
4
Positions
Bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right or top left, at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1.
  • Flat #00B140 green — the shade chroma keyers expect
  • The last 0.55 seconds of every clip is an empty frame
  • Style cards render your own name over real footage
  • Transparent ProRes 4444 .mov on Pro and above

What it is

A lower thirds maker that hands you a video, not a PNG panel.

A lower third is the name-and-title bar that appears in the bottom corner of an interview, a vlog or a stream. This tool makes the animated kind: type a name of up to 40 characters, a role or title of up to 60 and an optional third line of up to 40 — a company, a handle, a LIVE tag — and the bar is rebuilt as you type, in the browser tab, with no render queue. Seven styles cover the looks this graphic actually comes in: Clean Bar, the white interview slab with an accent rule; Newsroom, the two-tier broadcast bar with a kicker tab and a light sweep; Boxed Tag, solid blocks that snap open; Podcast Pill, a capsule growing out of a round avatar; Glass Card, a frosted panel with a hairline edge; Neon Arena, a raked plate with a neon tube that flickers on; and Documentary, a serif name over an accent rule that wipes in. Nineteen colourways sit under those seven, and every style card in the tool is rendered with your own name over a real frame of footage, so you are choosing between finished shots rather than swatches. Set 5, 8, 10 or 15 seconds, 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, one of four corners and a small, medium or large size, and download. The file that comes out is a flat green-screen MP4 — the format the popular "free lower thirds green screen" clips on YouTube come in — and on Pro it can be a transparent ProRes 4444 .mov instead.

7 styles, 19 colourways — all previewable free 5, 8, 10 or 15 seconds at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 Free green-screen MP4; transparent ProRes on Pro

How it works

How to make animated lower thirds in three steps

01

Type the name, the role and a third line

Name up to 40 characters, role or title up to 60, and an optional third line up to 40 for a company, an @handle or a LIVE tag — leave it empty and you get a plain name-and-role bar. Add a logo or a headshot and it is cropped to a circle; pick an accent colour from ten presets or a custom hex, or leave it on Auto.

02

Pick a style, a corner and a length

Click through 7 style cards, each rendered with your own words over a real frame. Choose bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right or top left, a size step of S, M or L, 5, 8, 10 or 15 seconds, and 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Switch the background to Preview over footage to see it on a sample shot — the export stays green either way.

03

Download the green MP4 and key it in

Press Download green screen and save the clip. In OBS add it as a Media Source and apply Filters → Chroma Key → Green; in Premiere Pro drop it on the track above and use Effects → Ultra Key; in CapCut add it as an overlay and use Cutout → Chroma key; in DaVinci Resolve use the Colour page 3D Keyer. 720p is free.

7 styles

Interview slab, broadcast bar, podcast pill, stream neon

Each style is a different graphic, not a recolour of one bar — different plate, different type, different way of arriving. Open any of them straight in the tool: Clean Bar, Newsroom, Boxed Tag, Podcast Pill, Glass Card, Neon Arena or Documentary. Every one has two or three colourways — nineteen in total — and your accent colour overrides them on the rule, the tag and the tube.

  • Clean Bar · Newsroom · Boxed Tag · Podcast Pill · Glass Card · Neon Arena · Documentary
  • 19 colourways; ten accent presets and a custom hex on top
  • Style cards are rendered with your name over real footage, not swatches

Green in, keyed out

Flat #00B140 green, and the clip is empty when it leaves

The whole frame is the chroma green editors expect — no drop shadows, no outer glows, nothing that keys into a dark green fringe. The bar enters over 0.62 seconds, holds, then folds away, and the last 0.55 seconds of every clip is a completely empty frame, so the graphic disappears from your edit instead of cutting out. On the 8-second export we measured, the frame at 7.9 seconds is 0.000% non-green apart from the free plan's small corner mark. There is no audio track, so it lays over your own sound without touching it.

  • OBS Chroma Key · Premiere Ultra Key · CapCut Chroma key · Resolve 3D Keyer
  • In over 0.62 s, out over 0.46 s, then 0.55 s of clean frame
  • MP4 with no audio track (WebM where a browser cannot encode MP4)

Where it sits

Four corners, three frames, three sizes

Anchor the bar bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right or top left; it slides in from the nearest edge. Switch between 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 and the layout is rebuilt for that frame rather than cropped out of a wide one — on 9:16 the bar sits higher so it clears burned-in captions and the platform's own buttons. The S / M / L step scales the whole block, for when the bar has to sit under a busy shot.

  • bottom-left · bottom-centre · bottom-right · top-left
  • 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, each laid out for its own frame
  • S / M / L size step, and the deep link carries the corner

Transparent

ProRes 4444 with a real alpha channel, on Pro

Browsers cannot encode a video with an alpha channel, which is why the free file is green. When you need no keying at all — a glass panel over a bright shot, a neon tube whose glow you want to keep — tick Transparent in the download window and it renders on our servers as a ProRes 4444 .mov with a true alpha channel that drops straight onto your timeline. That is a Pro-and-above feature and runs as a cloud render: 5 credits per 20 seconds of output, so any lower third here costs one block.

  • ProRes 4444 .mov, alpha channel, Pro and above
  • Cloud render — 5 credits per 20 seconds of output
  • Best for Glass Card and Neon Arena, where translucency and glow leave a soft key

Inside the tool

Words on the left, the shot in the middle, seven styles on the right

There is no project to set up. The left rail holds the three text fields with their character counts, the avatar drop zone, the accent swatches and a How to use it block with the chroma-key recipe for OBS, Premiere Pro, CapCut and DaVinci Resolve. The stage plays the bar on a loop above a timeline. The right rail holds the seven style cards, the ratio, position, size and length buttons, the Background switch and a download block pinned to the bottom so it is in reach however far you scroll.

LazyKiwi · Lower Thirds Maker
The Lower Thirds Maker with Preview over footage turned on: Clean Bar · Light holding on an interview frame, the chip above the stage reminding you the file is still green, and all seven style cards redrawn with the same name.
  • Seven cards, your words, real footage

    Each card is a live render of that style over a frame it would really be used on — a café interview, a street, a podcast desk, a camera close-up, a light-painting shot, a city at night, a ridge walk. Premium styles wear a crown; you can still pick, edit and preview them.

  • Green screen, over footage, or transparent

    The Background switch has three settings. Green screen is what exports. Preview over footage changes only the preview, on one of four sample frames, and the chip above the stage says so. Transparent opens the download window for the ProRes route.

  • The keying recipe is in the tool

    How to use it lists all four, one line each: OBS Filters → Chroma Key → Green; Premiere Effects → Ultra Key with the eyedropper; CapCut Cutout → Chroma key, raise Intensity; Resolve Colour page → 3D Keyer, or the Fusion Delta Keyer for hair-fine edges.

All seven

Seven lower thirds, on the shots they are made for

Each tile is one style at 9:16, rendered exactly as the tool renders it, laid over a sample frame so you can see what it does to a real shot. Your download is the same animation on flat green — or, on Pro, on a transparent ProRes 4444 alpha channel.

Make my lower third

Clean Bar

White slab, accent rule, name and role — the interview standard. Free.

Newsroom

Two-tier broadcast bar, kicker tab and a light sweep across it.

Boxed Tag

Solid blocks that snap open from the edge, with an offset shadow block.

Podcast Pill

A capsule that grows out of a round avatar — name and @handle.

Glass Card

A frosted panel with a hairline edge and a light sweep gliding over it.

Neon Arena

A raked plate with a neon tube that flickers on. Built for streams.

Documentary

Serif name, an accent rule that wipes in, spaced-out role. No plate.

Why LazyKiwi

Why make your lower thirds here

It moves, because it is a video

Most free lower third makers hand you a still PNG to fade in yourself. This one exports an MP4 in which the plate grows from the edge, the lines slide in 90 milliseconds apart, and the whole thing folds away at the end.

The exit is part of the clip

The bar leaves over 0.46 seconds and the last 0.55 seconds is an empty frame, so you can lay the clip on a track and forget it. Nothing has to be trimmed, faded or cut off by hand.

One filter in any editor

Flat #00B140 across the frame, no shadows or glows to fringe, and no audio track to mute. OBS, Premiere Pro, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut and iMovie all key it with their standard chroma tool.

You see your own name in every style

The seven style cards are live renders of your words over real footage, not sample brands on a green square. Change a letter and all seven redraw a moment later.

Nothing uploads to make it

The preview and the free export are drawn and encoded in your browser tab. A logo or headshot you drop in is read locally; it only reaches our servers if you sign in and save the project or choose cloud render.

A true alpha file when you need one

Keying is fine for a solid plate and awkward for frosted glass. Pro exports the same lower third as ProRes 4444 with a real alpha channel, rendered on our servers, so translucency and glow survive intact.

Animated clip, PNG panel or editing-suite template

Three ways people get a lower third, and what changes when the graphic is drawn live in your browser and handed over as a video. The other two columns describe the stream-graphics makers at maker.nerdordie.com and hi.own3d.pro, which we used in September 2026, and the .mogrt / After Effects lower-third packs sold on template marketplaces.

LazyKiwi Lower Thirds Maker

What you get here

  • A video: the bar arrives, holds and leaves, with the last 0.55 s an empty frame
  • Flat #00B140 green, keyed in one filter in OBS, Premiere, CapCut or Resolve
  • 7 styles and 19 colourways, each card rendered with your own name over real footage
  • 5, 8, 10 or 15 seconds at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, in four corners
  • Free 720p with a small mark; clean 1080p on any plan; transparent ProRes 4444 on Pro

A stream-graphics panel maker

Type a handle, download an image

  • Left rail of design knobs — font family, weight, size, stroke width, icon, colour — and a live preview
  • The panels and text plates download as static PNGs: no entrance, no exit, you animate it yourself
  • Static downloads are free without an account; the animated makers put a log-in in front of Download
  • Built around stream overlays and profile panels rather than interview name bars

A .mogrt or After Effects pack

Buy the template, open the editor

  • Large libraries of animated lower thirds sold as .mogrt or After Effects project files
  • You need the matching app: Essential Graphics in Premiere, or After Effects itself
  • Typing the name means opening a project and finding the text layers
  • Usually a subscription to the whole marketplace, not a per-graphic price

Pricing & limits

A free lower thirds maker, and what paying unlocks

Every style, colour, corner, length and ratio plays in the live preview before you make an account, and the free plan exports as many 720p green-screen MP4s as you like, with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use. A one-time credit pack removes the mark and unlocks the three premium styles; any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use; Pro and above add 4K, 60 fps and the transparent ProRes 4444 .mov, which renders in the cloud at 5 credits per 20 seconds.

Unlimited exports

Free · 720p

  • 720p MP4 with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use
  • Any plan or credit pack removes the mark
  • All 3 aspect ratios — 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
  • No card required to open, edit or preview
  • All 7 styles in the live preview — 3 premium ones need a credit pack or plan to export

1080p on any paid plan

1080p · 4K

  • Same clip, same edit, rendered clean at 1080p — commercial use included
  • 4K, 60 fps and transparent ProRes on Pro and above

No credits to export

Renders in your browser

  • Trying styles, retyping names and changing colours, corners or length re-render locally and spend no credits
  • No upload queue and no render wait to pay for
  • Optional cloud render, every frame stable: 5 credits per 20 seconds
See what credits cost

FAQ

Lower thirds questions, answered

What is a lower third?+

The name-and-title graphic that sits in the lower part of the frame while someone is speaking — traditionally in the bottom third, which is where the name comes from. It usually carries a name, a role or job title and sometimes a third line such as a company, a location or an @handle, and it stays on screen for a few seconds early in a shot. In broadcast it is also called a name plate, a chyron or a super.

Is this lower thirds maker free?+

Yes, to use and for personal use. Every style, colourway, length, corner and ratio plays in the live preview with no account, and a free account exports as many 720p green-screen MP4s as you want, with a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner. Three of the seven styles are premium and need a one-time credit pack or a paid plan to export — you can still pick, edit and preview them. Any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, and Pro adds 4K, 60 fps and the transparent ProRes 4444 .mov.

How do I use a green screen lower third in OBS?+

Download the MP4 and add it to your scene as a Media Source, on top of the camera or capture you want it over. Then open Filters on that source, add an Effect Filter → Chroma Key, and set Key Colour Type to Green — the clip is flat #00B140, so the default similarity settings key it straight away. Leave Loop unchecked so it plays once, and fire the source when you want the name on screen. A 15-second export gives you a comfortable hold; the last 0.55 seconds is an empty frame, so the scene clears itself.

How do I add lower thirds in Premiere Pro, CapCut or DaVinci Resolve?+

Premiere Pro: drop the clip on the video track above your footage, then Effects → Ultra Key, and pick the green with the eyedropper. CapCut: add it as an overlay, then Cutout → Chroma key, pick the green and raise Intensity. DaVinci Resolve: Colour page → 3D Keyer, or the Fusion Delta Keyer if you want hair-fine edges. Final Cut Pro has a Keyer effect and iMovie a Green/Blue Screen one; both work the same way. The clip has no audio track, so it never touches your sound.

Can I export lower thirds with a transparent background?+

Yes, on Pro and above. Browsers cannot encode video with an alpha channel, so the free in-browser export is green instead. Tick Transparent in the download window and the same lower third renders on our servers as a ProRes 4444 .mov with a true alpha channel, which drops onto a timeline in Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut or After Effects with nothing to key. It is a cloud render and costs 5 credits per 20 seconds of output, so a lower third of 15 seconds or less is one block of 5.

How long should a lower third stay on screen?+

Long enough to read twice, which for a name and a job title is roughly four to eight seconds on screen. The lengths here are 5, 8, 10 and 15 seconds and they include the movement: the bar takes about 0.62 seconds to arrive, holds for the middle, then leaves over 0.46 seconds, finishing 0.55 seconds before the clip ends. Eight seconds is the default and suits most interview cuts; 15 is for streams and long panels where the name stays up through an answer.

Can I put a logo or a headshot on it?+

Yes. Drop in a PNG, SVG, JPEG, WebP or GIF and it is cropped to a circle and scaled down locally in your browser. Podcast Pill is built around it — the capsule grows out of the avatar — and Clean Bar and Glass Card use it when there is one. The other four styles are typographic by design and ignore it, so if you have uploaded a logo and switched to Newsroom, that is why it has gone. With no image at all, Podcast Pill falls back to the initials of the name.

Can I change the colours and where the bar sits?+

Each style ships with two or three colourways — nineteen across the seven — and on top of that there are ten accent presets and a custom hex picker, which recolour the rule, the tag and the neon tube. Auto puts the colourway's own accent back. For position, pick bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right or top left; the bar slides in from the nearest edge. Inside the block the layout does not mirror — the accent rule stays on the left and the text stays left-aligned even in the right-hand corner, which is how most template packs handle it too.

Do these work for vertical video and Shorts?+

Yes. Switch to 9:16 and the layout is rebuilt for that frame rather than cropped out of a widescreen render, and the bar is anchored higher up so it clears burned-in captions and the platform's own buttons on TikTok, Reels and Shorts. 1:1 is there for feed posts. The green-screen file keys the same way in CapCut, which is where most vertical edits happen.

Which styles are premium, and what does that mean?+

Newsroom, Glass Card and Neon Arena. Premium only affects downloading: you can select them, retype the name, change the colourway and watch them play in full, and the paywall appears when you press Download. A one-time credit pack or any paid plan unlocks them, and the same purchase removes the watermark. The default Clean Bar is never locked, and Boxed Tag, Podcast Pill and Documentary are free to export too.

Can I use these lower thirds commercially?+

On any paid plan, yes. Those exports are 1080p or better, with no watermark, cleared for commercial use — monetised channels, sponsored videos, ads and graphics you make for clients. Free 720p exports, and clean exports bought with a credit pack alone, are for personal use. If the video earns money, promotes a business, or the lower third is for a client, export it from a paid plan.

Use cases

Who uses this lower thirds maker

Interviews and talking heads

Name, role, company — the bar every interview cut needs, in the white slab people recognise. Set 8 seconds, drop it in after the first answer starts, and it leaves on its own. Open Clean Bar

News-style and explainer channels

A two-tier broadcast bar with a kicker tab above the name and a light sweep across it — the news-desk look those green-screen lower third clips on YouTube are cut from. Open Newsroom

Streamers on OBS

A raked plate with a neon tube that flickers on, exported at 15 seconds for a Media Source you can fire between segments. One Chroma Key filter and it is in the scene. Open Neon Arena

Podcast and interview clips

A capsule that grows out of a round avatar with the guest's name and @handle — made for the square and vertical clips that come off an episode. Open Podcast Pill

Street vlogs and social cuts

Solid blocks that snap open one after another in your brand colour, sized for 9:16 so they sit above the captions on Shorts, Reels and TikTok. Open Boxed Tag

Documentary and client work

A serif name with an accent rule that wipes in, or a frosted glass panel for product and gear pieces. Client work is commercial use, so export it on a paid plan: clean 1080p, no mark. Documentary · Glass Card

More answers

More about animated lower thirds

Why green, and not a transparent WebM?+

Because no browser can encode a video with an alpha channel today — the encoders built into Chrome, Edge and Safari all drop it. Rather than ship a half-working file, the in-browser export is a flat #00B140 green that every editor keys in one filter, and true alpha is handled by the cloud renderer as ProRes 4444 on Pro. That is also why the whole library avoids drop shadows and outer glows: a shadow falling on green keys into a dark green fringe.

Glass Card and Neon Arena leave a soft edge when I key them — is that a bug?+

No, it is what a chroma key is supposed to do with translucency. A frosted panel and a neon bloom are partly see-through, so the keyer keeps part of the green showing through them; laid over your own footage they look right, but in the green preview they can read as a green-tinted panel. If you want them perfectly clean over a bright shot, use the transparent ProRes export on Pro, which has no key step at all. The tool flags this under the download button when one of those two styles is selected.

Can I link straight to a style or a corner?+

Yes — the tool's address takes both. Add &style= with one of clean-bar, newsroom, boxed-tag, pill-cast, glass-card, neon-arena or doc-serif, and &position= with bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right or top-left. Newsroom in the top-left corner, for example, opens ready to type into. An unknown value falls back to Clean Bar in the bottom-left corner rather than erroring.

Can I change the font?+

Not on its own. The typeface is part of each style — a grotesque for Clean Bar and Newsroom, a condensed face for Neon Arena, a serif for Documentary — so switching styles is how you change the type. That is the deliberate difference from the panel makers, which give you a font list, a weight slider and a stroke width and leave the composition to you. If you want free typography rather than a name bar, the Animated Text Generator is the tool for it.

Does this make Twitch panels or a whole stream overlay?+

No. Profile panels are static images and a full overlay pack is a set of scene layouts, which is what a stream overlay maker is for; this tool makes one moving graphic — the name bar — and exports it as a clip you drop into OBS as a Media Source. Neon Arena is the style built for that use, and a 15-second export gives you a long enough hold to fire between segments.

What exactly do I get in the file?+

An MP4 named like lazykiwi-lower-third-clean-bar-greenscreen-720.mp4, at 1280×720 on the free plan, 30 frames a second, no audio track, holding the full entrance, hold and exit of the length you chose — our test export measured 8.00 seconds for an 8-second setting. Browsers without an MP4 encoder get a WebM instead. On Pro with Transparent ticked it is a ProRes 4444 .mov rendered on our servers. Need a plain green background to key against instead of a graphic? The Black Screen Video tool makes one at any length.

Your name, your title, on a clip that leaves cleanly.

Type three lines, pick one of seven styles and download a green-screen MP4 at 720p for free — Clean Bar for interviews, Newsroom for explainers, Neon Arena for streams. Clean 1080p on any plan; transparent ProRes 4444 on Pro.

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