By fancy, I mean that we can create a graphic with a logo, text, colors, shapes, you name it. Now we’re going to make a fancy lower third. While this seems like an onerous process, it can actually be accomplished in less than a minute once you’ve done it a few times. Here’s what the video looks like with the yellow lower third added in: The new Lower Third overlaid on live video When we’re done, we have just the yellow letters on a gray (transparent) background: Yellow text on a transparent backgroundīack in OBS - or whatever video streaming or recording app we’re using - we can now add the PNG file as an image source.
The inside of the “d”, “e”, and “o” in the word video are still white, so we need to use the Instant Alpha tool to highlight the white areas and make them transparent. This eliminates the white background, which now becomes gray to show its transparency. The pink background is replaced with an animated “marching ants” dotted line surrounding the outside of the text box and the letters: The text selected by the Instant Alpha toolġ0 – Press the Delete key on your keyboard. When you believe you’ve selected most of the background, the Preview window looks something like this: The pink area is what is selected with the Instant Alpha tool to become transparent
If you drag too far, even the yellow letters will be selected, so be careful… Drag the tool across the white background and it turns a pinkish color. It looks like a “magic wand”, and is used to change a color background to a transparent alpha channel. The toolbar now looks like this: The Preview Toolbar, with the Instant Alpha tool highlighted in red.ĩ – We want to use the Instant Alpha tool, which is highlighted in red in the image above. This will help in the next step.Ĩ – Select View > Show Markup Toolbar in Preview. You see something like this in Preview: The text captured from Pages by taking a screenshot, now opened in Preview.ħ – You may want to use the Scale Document Up button (in the toolbar, looks like a magnifying glass with a + in it) to make your image larger. Double-click the screenshot to open it in Preview. Here I pressed Command (⌘) – Shift – 5 to bring up the tool, selected “Capture selected portion”, dragged a selection box around the styled text, and pressed return.Ħ – Now comes the fun part, getting rid of the white background and turning it to a transparent “alpha channel”. Fortunately, macOS comes with a really good screenshot tool.
In this example, I typed the words “Fun With Video”, changed the font to Impact, increased the size to 40 point, and changed the color to yellow.ĥ – Next, we want to capture that text as a PNG image so we can apply transparency to everything but the text. This allows you to style your text any way you wish. Select your new text, then make sure that you’ve clicked the Format button in the upper right of the Pages window and the Text pane is showing. It appears as a rectangle with “handles” around the sides for resizing or rotating the text, with the words “Type to enter text” in it.ģ – Double-click on the text to select it, then type the words you want on your text-only lower third.Ĥ – Now you can start having some fun.
VIDEO OVERLAYS FOR MAC MAC
Why Pages? It’s free, it’s available to every Mac owner, and it is remarkably powerful.ġ – To begin, launch Pages and create a new blank document.Ģ – Click the “Text” box at the top of the document to create a text container. Let’s make a text-only lower third in Pages. A lower third created using the Text source in OBS
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