Answers.Body: <p>Just use an affine transform for the title </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Create a title with the text</li>
  <li>Put the video on track 2</li>
  <li>Put the title on track 1</li>
  <li>Combine them with an affine transformation</li>
  <li>On the affine transformation, add 4 key frames for a title of 5 seconds, at 0 / 1 / 4 / 5 seconds</li>
  <li>Set the opacity for keyframe at second 0 and second 5 to 0. Keyframes at second 1 and 4 keep 100% opacity</li>
  <li>Play. The title fades in for a second, stays for 3 seconds and fades out for a second.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Screencast: <a href="http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/kdenlive-lower-third.htm" rel="nofollow">http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/kdenlive-lower-third.htm</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: thank you for the very desciptive answer, as well as the video !
  This really seems like a nice and straight forward solution.
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Body: <p>With the composite transition in kdenlive I am already able to let the the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_third" rel="nofollow">lower third</a> (with the name and a line of additional information, just like in the news) appear. Now I want it to fade in (or some other effect), but kdenlive only allows to add one transition.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to avoid this dilemma?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I don't know kdenlive, but the bar you are referring to is often called a lower third.
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Comments.Text: thank you, that really could help, since i am not a native speaker obviously and had a little trouble finding the name of it.
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Title: How do I make a news-like lower third in kdenlive?
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ThreadText: # How do I make a news-like lower third in kdenlive?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-25)
  
  With the composite transition in kdenlive I am already able to let the the [lower third](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_third) (with the name and a line of additional information, just like in the news) appear. Now I want it to fade in (or some other effect), but kdenlive only allows to add one transition.
  
  Is there a way to avoid this dilemma?
  
  **Tags:** video, editing
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I don't know kdenlive, but the bar you are referring to is often called a lower third.  
  > **username_0**: thank you, that really could help, since i am not a native speaker obviously and had a little trouble finding the name of it.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-04-03. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  Just use an affine transform for the title
  
  1. Create a title with the text
  2. Put the video on track 2
  3. Put the title on track 1
  4. Combine them with an affine transformation
  5. On the affine transformation, add 4 key frames for a title of 5 seconds, at 0 / 1 / 4 / 5 seconds
  6. Set the opacity for keyframe at second 0 and second 5 to 0. Keyframes at second 1 and 4 keep 100% opacity
  7. Play. The title fades in for a second, stays for 3 seconds and fades out for a second.
  
  Screencast: <http://username_2.de/tagebuch/kdenlive-lower-third.htm>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: thank you for the very desciptive answer, as well as the video ! This really seems like a nice and straight forward solution.  
  
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