Lower third generator
Lower thirds you make once and fill forty times
A lower third is a name-and-role caption that slides in, holds and leaves. The hard part is never the first one; it is the fortieth. Premation's templates expose the text as fields, batch-fill them from a table, and export the result with alpha or as a Premation template package.
Free · AGPL-3.0-only · macOS & Windows
The panel that does it
The editor’s own panel, rebuilt on its chrome. It works: drag, toggle, queue.
How to do it
- 01
Start from the Lower Third template
Start screen ▸ Templates ▸ Lower Third: a name and role caption with an accent bar, already animated in and out.
- 02
Make it yours
Change the fonts in the Character panel, the colours in Swatches, and the timing in the timeline. The in and out are ordinary keyframes.
- 03
Expose the fields
A template is a composition with selected properties exposed as named fields. The name and role are already exposed; mark any other property exposed and it becomes a field too.
- 04
Fill and render
Data-driven rendering fills one composition per CSV row and queues them all. Or export with alpha as WebM / ProRes so an editor drops it on a timeline.
Questions
- Can the editor change the name without opening Premation?
- Yes: render one file per CSV row and hand over the files. The template package Premation exports opens in Premation; it is not an Adobe .mogrt, so the fields do not appear in Premiere's Essential Graphics panel.
- Can I automate it from a script?
- Yes. The premation CLI renders a template with per-row fills from a terminal.