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Welcome back.
So we're going to talk about video design in the definition of lower third design.
So when you look up video design, I'm gonna go over that real quick.
If you look it up on Wikipedia, it's gonna be completely different than what my intention is.
OK.
So video design or projection design is a creative field of stagecraft, concerned with creation, integration
of film, motion graphics and live camera feeds in the fields of theater, opera, dance, fashion shows,
concerts and other live events.
So video design is something that I worked in for almost 10 years.
I was a video engineer and I was operating like a video switch and that kind of thing.
But while we're talking about it in this course and I'm I am going to do a course on that later, but
not right now when I'm talking about in this course is we're using the terminology of video design.
But really what I'm talking about is designing graphics for video.
So when you have.
When you have an image like this of a gentleman talking and then there's a graphic below.
That's what I'm talking about when I say video design, because what you're doing is you're creating
a lower third graphic that identifies the person speaking to you given a visual aid.
OK.
This is Jimmy Wales with the Foundation.
OK.
So that's what I'm talking about when I'm saying video design.
But this is gonna be a lot of fun because I really love creating lower thirds and I really love video.
So you're gonna have a great time with me on this.
But I just want to clear up any confusion so I don't I don't want to mess you up too much.
I want to keep it simple.
So in the television industry, a lower third is a graphic overlay placed in the title safe lower area
of the screen, though not necessarily the entire lower third of it, as the name suggests.
So what were the terminology of lower third comes from as you're using the lower third of the screen
to display a graphic and they do have like safe zones that you need to work within.
And I'll show you that when we set up the project, because if you were to put the graphic, for example,
this image right here, I'll click on it.
If we were to put this graphic over here, it would cut off on some TV's and monitors.
So you want to have it in a safe place and that's why they have a safe zone.
So that way, if you're displaying in a multiple different TV's and different resolutions, like, you
know, I called half HD 720 P and maintain a 10 ATP and add for C++ AKCA.
If you have it in the safe zone, it'll it'll display on all of them.
That's the idea.
So.
It's kind of like responsive design with Web sites, but it's a different type of terminology.
But the same idea.
OK, so lower thirds can be created using basic home video editing software, a professional level equipment.
These equipments make the use of videos alpha channel to determine what parts of the graphic or text
should be transparent, allowing the video in the background to show through.
So that's exactly what this is right here.
They're using the Alpha Channel to show transparency where they want it.
OK.
So again, we'll get more in-depth in this when we get to the project.
But I just wanted to show you that because it's really cool.
One more thing.
Terminology lower thirds are also often known as C.G. from character generator or captions.
Sometimes Cronin's in North America do the popular acronym corporation, a character generation.
An earlier digital solution developed in the 1970s for rendering lower thirds other common terms includes
some super bars or Simple's supers named Strap's or Aston's for asked him broadcast system.
In the UK, video with lower thirds is known as a program as a broadcast or dirty video without lower
thirds is known as a clean feed or text less for international distribution.
Programs often include Texas elements on the master tape.
These are also the shots that the lower third and digital onscreen graphics have been applied to plays
and and so engineers can make a clean master if necessary.
So what they're saying is when they record.
A lot of times they won't include this in their master.
That way, when I if I hand you a file of a master of me, Appian, I'm a YouTube channel and I want
you to add a lower third than you can.
But what you're doing is you're creating a video that doesn't have that graphic on it.
That way, it's a clean master.
So if it does have a graphic on it, then it's not a clean master, which is fine, too.
It works both ways.
But as a rule of thumb, for me personally, what I like to do is have a clean master.
That way I can edit it and change it to whatever I want.
OK.
So that is video design slash lower third design.
So thanks for watching and I'll see in the next video.