Clean Lower Third — effect skill for headlines & callouts

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Name and role slide in at the lower left on a quiet bar, hold 3–5 s, then wipe out.

What it does

Built on Lower Third — Clean Bar by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A white or charcoal card with an accent tab; name in bold, role in a lighter weight at 60–80% size. Enters with a clip wipe, not a bounce.

When: Introduce the founder, a customer or an engineer the first time they speak.

Watch out: Do not place it inside the outer 10% of the frame or over the speaker's chin and hands.

Timing: In 0.4–0.5 s, hold 3–5 s (about 4 s for a short name), out 0.3 s.

Also called: name tag, speaker title, chyron

In FFmpeg

-vf "drawbox=x=192:y=850:w=560:h=110:[email protected]:t=fill:enable='between(t,3,7.5)',\
drawtext=text='Ada Park':x=220:y=868:fontsize=44:fontcolor=white:enable='between(t,3,7.5)'"

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add lt-clean-bar

<div data-composition-id="lt-clean-bar" data-composition-src="compositions/lt-clean-bar.html"
  data-variable-values='{"name":"Ada Park","role":"CTO, Acme"}'
  data-start="3" data-duration="4.5" data-track-index="3"></div>

In Remotion

const inP = spring({frame, fps, config:{damping:200}});
const clip = interpolate(inP,[0,1],[100,0]);
<div style={{clipPath:`inset(0 ${clip}% 0 0)`, position:'absolute', left:'10%', bottom:'12%'}}>…</div>

In CapCut

Text → Text templates → search "lower third" or "name"; set it at the lower left inside the guides, duration 4 s, Animation In "Wipe right".

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

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Install

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/0c3484606ca6/take-clean-lower-third.mp4 — The Lower Third — Clean Bar component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add lt-clean-bar), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Lower Third — Clean Bar, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/lt-clean-bar)

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