Lower third

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Lower thirds can be created using basic home-video editing software or professional-level equipment.

Lower thirds are also often known as "CG" (from character generator) or captions, and sometimes chyrons in North America, due to the popularity of Chyron Corporation's Chiron I character generator, an early digital solution developed in the 1970s for rendering lower thirds.

[3] For international distribution programs often include textless elements on the master tape: these are all the shots that lower thirds and digital on-screen graphics have been applied to, placed end-to-end so engineers can make a clean master if necessary.

Lower thirds are usually arranged in tiers, or lines: Lower thirds increasingly include elements such as news tickers, time and date, weather information, stock quotes, or sports scores.