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Add a lower third to input.mp4 Name: Jordan K. Role: Verified customer
Several videos, several effects, one ask
Put your clips in the folder, mention them with @, and ask for everything at once. Claude runs one tested script after another on each clip, then joins them.
Add a lower third to @clip1.mp4, put a sale badge on @clip2.mp4, give @clip3.mp4 a VHS look, then join all three with crossfades.
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| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
NAME | Jordan K. | First line. |
ROLE | Verified customer | Second line. |
START | 0.5 | Second the card starts sliding in. |
SLIDE | 0.4 | Seconds the slide takes. |
In other editors
From each editor’s own help pages, in our words. We haven’t run these ourselves.
Built in: Lower Third Maker
- Upload your video, or start from a lower-third template.
- Use the Text tool to add a heading and subheading.
- Place them lower left or right, slightly above the bottom edge.
- To animate, click animations on the text and choose a style.
Source: Lower Third Maker - Add Text and Graphics (VEED), checked October 22, 2026.
Closest built-in: Lower thirds text
- Upload your video, or start from stock footage.
- Pick a text style as a reference, then add your lines.
- Adjust font, color, size, position and timing on the timeline.
- Animate it with a built-in template, or keyframe position, scale, rotation and opacity.
Page covers generic text for speaker names; it describes no name card with a colored edge sliding in.
Source: Add Text to Video Online Free | Titles, Captions & Animated Text (InVideo), checked October 22, 2026.
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Add a lower third to input.mp4: a white card with a red (230, 40, 60) strip on its left edge, showing "Jordan K." in black bold and "Verified customer" in grey under it, sliding in from off the left edge at 0.5 seconds over 0.4 seconds (fast then slowing), stopping 5% in from the left with its top 80% of the way down. Use Python with Pillow to draw it and ffmpeg to put it on the video (don't rely on ffmpeg's drawtext filter), keep the audio, and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact script we tested. Save it as lower-third.py and run:
python3 lower-third.py input.mp4 output.mp4Show the script
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Lower third: a name card slides in from the left edge near the bottom of the frame and stays.
Usage: python3 lower-third.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg and Pillow (pip install pillow).
"""
import json
import math
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
NAME = "Jordan K."
ROLE = "Verified customer"
START = 0.5 # second the card starts sliding in
SLIDE = 0.4 # seconds the slide takes
Y = 0.80 # top of the card (0 = top, 1 = bottom)
ACCENT = (230, 40, 60) # color of the strip on the card's left edge
FONTS = ["/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf", # macOS
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf", # Linux
"C:/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf"] # Windows
FONT_FILE = next((f for f in FONTS if Path(f).exists()), None) or sys.exit("No bold font found: add one to FONTS")
def card():
big = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(w * 0.06))
small = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(w * 0.036))
pad, strip = round(w * 0.03), round(w * 0.018)
width = round(max(big.getlength(NAME), small.getlength(ROLE))) + 2 * pad + strip
height = big.size + small.size + 3 * pad // 2 + pad // 2
img = Image.new("RGBA", (width, height))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.rectangle([0, 0, width, height], fill="white")
draw.rectangle([0, 0, strip, height], fill=ACCENT)
draw.text((strip + pad, pad), NAME, font=big, fill="black")
draw.text((strip + pad, pad + big.size + pad // 2), ROLE, font=small, fill=(90, 90, 90))
return img
def overlay(t):
img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h))
if t >= START:
p = min(1, (t - START) / SLIDE)
p = 1 - (1 - p) ** 3 # fast at first, gentle as it lands
margin = round(w * 0.05)
x = round(-panel.width + (panel.width + margin) * p)
img.paste(panel, (x, round(h * Y)))
return img
def probe(path):
info = json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_entries",
"stream=width,height,r_frame_rate:format=duration", "-of", "json", path]))
s = info["streams"][0]
num, den = s["r_frame_rate"].split("/")
return s["width"], s["height"], s["r_frame_rate"], float(num) / float(den), float(info["format"]["duration"])
def render(src, out):
"""Draw overlay(t) on every frame of src and save to out, keeping the audio."""
ff = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-v", "error", "-i", src,
"-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgba", "-s", f"{w}x{h}", "-r", rate, "-i", "-",
"-filter_complex", "[0:v][1:v]overlay=shortest=1,format=yuv420p[v]",
"-map", "[v]", "-map", "0:a?", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "18", "-c:a", "copy", out],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
for i in range(math.ceil(duration * fps)):
ff.stdin.write(overlay(i / fps).tobytes())
ff.stdin.close()
if ff.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps, duration = probe(src)
panel = card()
render(src, out)





