Instructor: In this video, we're going to just walk
through designing a clean lower third title just like this.
I'm a very big fan of minimalistic titles
so using clean Sans Serif fonts that aren't fancy
that don't have the fancy edges
and bolds, lots of capitalization,
but also differentiating the title,
the name plus the descriptor down below.
This is what a typical lower third title,
even though it's not in the lower thirds,
which is the actual typical way to do it
is to put it in the lower third of the video.
So if you split your frame up into threes,
you have your top third, middle third
and lower third, you would add
that title to the bottom third.
But for me I break those rules
and I put my titles in different places.
But this is what we're going to be re-creating.
So let's go back to our other project.
That was the finalised project.
And let's go ahead and create that lower third for Anthony.
So I'm just going to select my titles bin
and say new item title.
Gonna call it lower third Anthony.
I just used the text LT.
Say OK.
Make sure you're on the right spot of the film.
You can actually scroll through here
and when you scroll you scroll through here,
you get the video in your title editor
which is good to know so that if you want
to edit a title so it matches a different
part of your video you have to be on
that part of your video in your time line.
But we're just gonna go to the start
where he's sitting down in his chair.
Let's take our text tool, type in
Anthony Carbajal.
You'll notice that I did not capitalise
it yet and that's okay.
I'm just going to use the font Helvetica.
Helvetica is a clean old school font
but it's nice and it's a Sans Serif font
and it looks really good on video.
Gonna make it a little bit smaller.
And then to make everything capitalised,
what I can do is just click this small caps button
and then actually increase the small caps size
to a hundred, or if everything's lower case
already, you can leave it at whatever percentage.
Then I'm going to change the colour from white to black.
Then I'm going to change the style from light,
up there or over here, to bold.
And make it a bit smaller just
using the corner and dragging in.
I'm also holding shift down so that
the aspect doesn't get squished.
And put it right over there.
I could click the text type tool up here
and then click here to create another text layer.
Instead I'm just going to duplicate
the Anthony Carbajal text right here
by selecting it and copying it, command C
and then pasting it, command V
and then dragging it down.
It's okay if it's not aligned because
we're going to use the align tools
to align them in just a second.
Then I'm just going to double click
inside, press command A to select all the text.
Delete it and then give the descriptor.
So the bottom part of your lower third is there
to give more description of who this person is.
Typically you have the name on top,
and then on the bottom you just have
a little more of a description of who they are,
especially in terms of what this video's about.
So for us, we're going to just
call it diagnosed
with ALS in 2014.
I could just put this underneath
right here but I like to differentiate
the size and the style of my top text
from my bottom text so I'm going to change
this from bold to
regular and then
the size, we're gonna go down a lot smaller.
Something like so.
And I tried to align it by eyeball
but that didn't work so I'm going
to select both.
I could just drag over and select or
just click one and then shift click the other one.
Then with my align tools I'm going to align
to the right so the right edges line up, like so.
So that looks pretty cool.
I could go in here and do something else if I wanted.
I can actually create a shape.
Let's just create a white shape.
Change the colour to white.
Then I'm going to actually arrange it.
So right click, arrange, send to back.
Then I'm going to select the diagnosed text
with that shape layer and vertical centre
and horizontal centre.
And then, maybe for this one, I would
just select all of them actually
and do vertical centre so they're
all aligned vertically in the centre.
That's another cool way to do a clean lower third.
You don't have to have a background for everything but
the white does make this bottom text pop out even more.
I like that so I'm gonna leave it like that.
Exit out of here, take my lower third
and put it onto my video track.
I do tend to try to have my graphics
all in one layer, so I'm just gonna
make my layer four my graphics layer.
Layer two or track two is my interview
A camera, track one is interview B camera,
track three is video and photo ,
track four is my graphics.
So I'm gonna extend it there.
Here's one title, there's the next title.
Thanks for watching.
That's how you create a clean lower third.
Go ahead and do that on your own for your own video.
And try to get creative.
Come up with something a little bit different than this
because at the end of this project
you're going to be posting it on
the course page for me to check out.
I can't wait to see what all the
students like you are coming up with.
Thanks and we'll see you in the next video.