Glass Subscribe Lower Third
The widescreen subscribe ask, shaped as a lower third rather than a card. A frosted bar rises with your photo in a ring, the cursor clicks, and the glass button flips to your colour reading SUBSCRIBED. It occupies the strip a lower third already owns, so nothing above it moves.
What it's for
The widescreen subscribe ask, shaped as a lower third rather than a card. A frosted bar rises with your photo in a ring, the cursor clicks, and the glass button flips to your colour reading SUBSCRIBED. It occupies the strip a lower third already owns, so nothing above it moves.
Reach for it when
- A YouTube talking-head video, roughly a third of the way in
- Podcast or interview footage where the top two thirds are framed on faces
- Any 16:9 cut where a centred card would cover the subject
How it plays
Lower-third geometry is doing real work: it stays under the eyeline, so the ask arrives without competing with the face that is talking. The ring around the photo is what stops the bar reading as a generic banner — it borrows the visual grammar of an avatar, which viewers already parse as an identity.
Not the right pick when
Vertical video, where the strip is too wide to fit the safe area. Use the Glass Subscribe Card for the 9:16 build.
The GLASS family
GLASS panels are frosted dark — translucent charcoal with a blurred edge and a hairline border. They sit on darker, contrastier footage: night streets, studio setups with a lit subject on a dark ground, gameplay, screen recordings. On a bright white kitchen they vanish, which is exactly why FROST exists.
Format and export
- Aspect
- Landscape (16:9) · 1920 × 1080
- Runs for
- 8 seconds
- Built for
- Darker, contrastier footage — night, studio, gameplay
- Publishes to
- YouTube, Vimeo, embedded video
- Exports as
- ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, MP4
- Background
- Transparent
- Plan
- Creator Pro and up
Edit it in the iReelz Studio — the transparent exports drop straight onto a timeline in Premiere Pro, CapCut, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.