Design Your Own Broadcast Lower Thirds

Design Your Own Broadcast Lower Thirds

on Jun 23rd 2011 with 16 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 43:25 min
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In this tutorial we are going to focus mostly on the simple built in tools in After Effects to create a nice broadcast looking lower third design. You are going to see how can create awesome designs using masks, gradients, shadows and bevels and more.

Tutorial

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File size: 150.1 MB

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I'm a 21 years old motion graphics designer from Bulgaria. I have 2 years of professional experience behind my back. Most of my time I spend working for a small TV company. In my spare time I work as a freelancer and create video tutorials related to After Effects for our site.  

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Discussion 16 Comments

  1. saher says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:35 am

    this is what i was looking for
    Thanks :)

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  2. Umer says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Yea baby now we talkin…. need more broadcast stuff..

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  3. Lyndon says:
    June 23, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    now that is sexy man, good job! nice to see you keep gaining skills homie :)

    Reply
  4. Nikolay Kolev says:
    June 25, 2011 at 4:18 am

    great design good job !

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  5. Curtis says:
    June 25, 2011 at 4:35 am

    So not broadcast, in-fact, its not even in the tv safe zone. The top graphic would be cut out of frame view through an actual tv…

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  6. Nehale says:
    June 25, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    Great tutorial. Can you also explain how you create the scrolling text at the top in you original example

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  7. frankyframe says:
    June 26, 2011 at 11:42 am

    great stuff!
    but the Optical Flare Part could be done by simple shapes.

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  8. bpwwhirl says:
    June 28, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    Where can I find the expression that you applied to the Logo layer at 27:10? I am not a Tuts+ member.. do I have to be one in order to get the expression?

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  9. Nehale says:
    June 28, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    the link is at the top bpwwhirl, here it is again http://aetuts.s3.amazonaws.com/599_lower/Broadcast_Lower_Third_Expressions.txt

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  10. Israel says:
    July 27, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Can’t get the Source Files, the link is broken.

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  11. Daniel Iyageh says:
    December 18, 2011 at 6:02 am

    Link is broken, please fix it becuz we are paying for this tutor!

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  12. coolguy says:
    January 7, 2012 at 12:21 am

    how do we setup the render so we can use it with other video editing software?
    i mean how do we export it so we can use say with sony vegas or so ?

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  13. Goqor says:
    January 26, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    nice tutorial THANK YOU very much

    Reply

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