Lower Third Title Graphics - Transparency, Animation, and More! - Video Switcher Tips

Dear Doug,

What is your fee for a Vulcan Mind Meld? I NEED everything in your brain to be in MY brain!!!

In addition to selecting which sources are routed to internal Program and Preview buses, is it practical to individually control which upstream and/or downstream keys appear on the Program and Preview buses? Reason being, on the ATEM Television Studio HD, the Preview bus can be output on AUX while the Program bus is output on PGM. It would be great if a separate downstream key could be assigned to each bus/output.

Fantastic titorial now that I took the time to watch til the end!

Great video. At our church, we use a Blackmagic Television Studio Pro 4K switcher and feeds from 5 different cameras. We want to put a lower third graphic as a background for song lyrics. Song lyrics are done with Luma key with a signal generated by ProPresenter. We want the lower third graphic to appear on all camera feeds and have the song lyrics overlaid on the lower third graphic.. The song lyrics DO appear on al camera feeds, currently. Is there a way to keep the lower third graphics appearing on all camera feeds until we switch it off (for the teaching part of the service)? I wasn't sure from your video if this could be done or how to do it..

Thank YOU for your Knowledge and Teaching.!!🙏

Hi Doug, are you familiar with the old Grass Valley Maestro control panel? We have one, it used to work fine but after we moved it to another location, it now has some problems, one of which is, the graphics layers produced by it is now in purplish, pinkish color. I tried looking all over the web but couldn't find any info related to this problem.

Why is EVERYTHING with this software a workaround?? Every other switcher on the planet uses the DSK for lower thirds. I fucking hate this piece of shit equipment. I'm sorry, but this ATEM is the Virtual Boy of video gear.

Excellent video. FYI... if using Power Point you can make those edits in realtime (while the slideshow output is live) and save having to start and stop. Of course you would need to do a side-by-side of the program and the presenter view but you would be able to bump that text/graphic around fantastically.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial

Hi, yes i am an quite new to your channel. and I really like your way too teaching.
Keep coming with more stuff. :)

Hey Doug—nice video! Care to make a video on how you are doing this program feed with the PC/Multi view, down camera and your slither camera on the right. Is that all done through the ATEM?

This is awesome! Thanks Doug great video

Simply the best video on how to perform lower thirds on a blackmagic device. Thank you, great job.

Hi Doug great video! I have been pre-recording my animation overlays (like titles) in Resolve in the Edit page using tracks 2 (graphics) and 3 (title text) with track 1 left clear, then delivering the output file as ProRes 4444 with alpha. I then FTP this across to the HyperDeck Studio Mini. On my Atem Mini Extreme I have the HyperDeck's 'Fill' connected to input 7 and 'Key' connected to input 8. I then set Upstream Key 1 to Luma and set fill to input 7 and key to input 8. That way I always get perfectly keyed animations without resorting to macros. Of course, I have to work fast to generate a new ProRes 4444 file if someone doesn't turn up and I need to change the names on these overlays, so I like the 'live PC' option using PowerPoint.

Nice video about titles thanks, could you please let me know where can get the mic you use it in this video?

Nice video, but why don’t use software like casparcg and key and fill ?

Hi Doug

You were talking about not being able to preview the downstream transparency but if you click TIE on your downstream key and select the same source as your PRG output in your PRV you will see the result and be able to tweak it without showing it live. ..... at least, that's the result i'm getting on an ATEM Mini Pro ISO

Thanks Doug. I'm running gfx right now via hdmi from a laptop using a chroma key into an atem and it works fine for the most part until i go to run an animated lower third or do a fade to a full screen graphic, I'm seeing a bit of green show through only as the animation or transition is taking place. Once it is up and completed, it's clean as can be. i doubt there is a work around for this but thought i would ask.

Great video. Have you worked with ProPresenter?

Great Content, One thing that I use that is different is HTML Graphics. Rather than PPT, you can make a transparent website and use CSS containers for the animations. This allows you to have a backend control panel. It also allows the use of JS to get RTD from items like scoreboards. A great open source program for this is CasparCG.

Great content!