Lower Thirds

upde wrote on 8/31/2002, 4:41 PM

What do you all use for animated thirds. I.E. creating them. Is there any places for samples just to get ideas. I know about Digital Juice.

Thanks

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SonyDennis wrote on 9/2/2002, 11:19 PM

I usually build up full-screen abstract stuff using a combination of Add Noise with lots of various FX, and generators (such as gradient). Since lower thirds might want to match the look up the full-screen titles (I know the Juice ones do this), you can mask off a portion and maybe layer some "trim" on the edge so it doesn't just stop. Since the heavy FX can take time to compute, you should render these off as looping files that get used whereever you need them.
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Silver & Digital wrote on 9/3/2002, 12:47 AM

I would love to know what you are talking about, it sound interesting and have no idea what Lower Thirds are or means.
Can someone enlighten me?

Chienworks wrote on 9/3/2002, 7:15 AM

"Lower Thirds" is somewhat of a misnomer, but basically refers to having some sort of alternative display set into a portion of the screen. The most common example of this you have probably seen is the stock ticker or headlines or name of the person being interviewed shown at the bottom of the screen during the news (filling the lower third of the screen, so to speak). While these can be created with simple solid rectangular backgrounds, it's often nice to spice them up with some sort of logo or animated graphics.

Solocinema wrote on 9/9/2003, 5:29 PM

Does anybody know of a third-party add in that makes lower thirds a no-brainer? They're such a common effect I'm sure an add-in would be popular.

Bill Dyszel