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Lower third — news boxes

Broadcast style: a tight headline box with a hard accent shadow, a sub-line box beneath and an optional tag above.

  • broadcast/lt-news
  • Broadcast
  • lower third
  • Overlay with alpha
  • 6 s (3–30 s)
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Lower third — news boxes at 16:9
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Playing live with volito/browser, the engine a render uses. Each tab lays the item out again for that shape, not a crop. The graphic is transparent; the grey stands in for your footage.

Render it

npx volito render broadcast/lt-news --prop tag="Exclusive" --prop headline="Creators switch to AI editing" --out lt-news.mov

That writes ProRes 4444 with alpha, ready to drop over footage. The same item in another shape, brand or format:

volito render broadcast/lt-news --aspect 9:16 --style cobalt --out lt-news-9x16.mov
volito render broadcast/lt-news --format mp4 --out lt-news.mp4
volito still broadcast/lt-news --t 3 --out lt-news.png
volito info broadcast/lt-news     # every prop and part
volito add broadcast/lt-news      # copy its source into ./motion to edit

From Node:

import { findItem, renderVideo } from "volito";

await renderVideo(findItem("broadcast/lt-news"), { props: { tag: "Exclusive", headline: "Creators switch to AI editing" }, out: "lt-news.mov" });

Or ask an agent with the MCP server connected: “Render the Volito lower third — news boxes (broadcast/lt-news) in 9:16, in our brand.”

Props

Set each with --prop name=value, or all at once with --props and a JSON object.

PropTypeDefaultTakes
tagtextExclusive≤ 16 chars
headlinetextCreators switch to AI editing≤ 48 chars
sub
Sub-line
textStudios report three times the output≤ 56 chars

Parts

Each part takes any move, ease or idle: --motion tag.in=pop.

PartWhat it is
tagthe tag above
headlinethe headline box and its words
subthe sub-line box and its words

Tags: lower-third, overlay, news, broadcast

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