Lower Third Creator: Make Free Lower Thirds for Videos [Social & News Lower Thirds]

Have you ever noticed the information placed on the bottom of the screen when watching documentaries, news, or any sports show, and even some video on social media platforms? I know you've seen it, and we all have. But I'm sure most of you guys don't know that that information has a professional name called lower thirds.

Lower thirds play an essential part in reaching the audiences in video production. FlexClip's free online lower third generator makes it pretty easy to create lower thirds for your video, whether it's a social media lower third or news lower third.

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Video Templates with Lower Thirds Free Download

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News Lower Thirds

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Part 1 Best Free Online Lower Third Maker

Adding a lower third to your videos can be pretty easy if you choose the right lower third maker. Here, we share a powerful free online video lower third maker, FlexClip, to you for creating news lower thirds, social media lower thirds, and more with great ease.

FlexClip's video lower third maker provides you with pre-made lower third templates, including the general lower thirds, news lower thirds, social lower thirds, to help you make your own one in a snap. What's more, it comes with with a handpicked collection of text animations, various fonts, and colors that you can use to customize the lower third for your video as you wish.

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Part 2 How to Create Lower Thirds Online for Free

With FlexClip's lower third generator, you can easily create the custom lower thirds with its free template for your video in simple clicks, whether it's a general lower third, social media lower third, or news lower third. Let's turn to FlexClip and get started now:

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2.1 How to Make General Lower Thirds

Here are various pre-made lower third templates in FlexClip, and you can use them to create your lower third in mins.

Step 1 Import Media

First, go to the Media option to import your footage from Local Files or you phone, you can also drag and drop your footage to the media section directly. Then apply them to the timeline.

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Step 2 Select the Lower Third Template

Next, go to the Text option, browse through the text effects, and select the Lower Third to pick the desired lower third effect to create your own lower third.

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Step 3 Enter the Lower Third Message and Customize

Then enter the lower third message by double-clicking the textbox: the person's name and title, a locale where the interview is taking place, or any other helpful information.

Once you've entered the text, you can make some adjustments to change the text's font, size, color and adjust the motion.

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Step 4 Move the Text to the Lower Third

Finally, when you're satisfied with the text's display effect, it's time to move them to the lower third part of the screen: simply drag the text block to the desired position.

Here, also remember to go to the timeline and select the text overlay to adjust the duration of your lower third to control the time when it appear and disappear.

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2.2 How to Make Social Media Lower Thirds

Want to use the social media lower thirds in your video to promote your channel and get more followers? You can also try FlexClip's social media lower third template to easily add a custom one in your video.

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News Lower Thirds

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Social Media Lower Thirds

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FlexClip's text library offers various effect for you to try out. Besides the general lower thirds we introduces above, here are also some beautiful social media lower third graphics you can try in your video, including the YouTube lower thirds, TikTok lower thirds, Instargam lower thirds, and more for most of the social media platforms.

FlexClip Social Media Lower Third Template

Simply go to the Text option and find the Social Media section, then pick your desired social graphic, replace the default text, edit the color, size, and motion, and move the final one to the lower third part of the screen.

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2.3 How to Make News Lower Thirds

Are you a broadcaster or someone who runs a News channel trying to make your video look more professional? Then consider adding a news lower third to your video just like the ones below, which is pretty easy and fast to do!

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News Lower Thirds

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Social Media Lower Thirds

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As shown above, FlexClip also offers various free news lower third templates for you to customize your own one in any of your news project.

FlexClip News Lower Third Template

Also, go to the Text option, browse through those text effects, and select the News Title to pick your desired effect to create your own news lower third.

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Besides making lower thirds for your video, you can make more edits to your video with FlexClip:

• Set background music, add transition effects, filter effects.
• Change video speed, do the voice-over, add a logo.
• Add funny emojis/stickers, subscribe buttons, speech bubbles.

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Has 4-year of professional photographing experience. Very much into recording every detail of life. She is passionate about all things related to video production, and loves to exploring tips and tricks about it.