How to Make Lower Thirds in Canva for Livestream (Including Templates)

In this video, I’ll show you how to create several kinds of lower thirds overlays from scratch using Canva for livestream in Restream and OBS. This video includes step-by-step details, not assuming you know how to design in Canva.
Make Lower Thirds in Canva (Step-By-Step)
Show notes:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 02:30 Step-overlay (Step 1, 2, 3, etc. a series of overlays for presenters and speakers)
- 08:30 Author overlay with book cover
- 11:10: Podcast/Livestream overlay
- 12:40: Where to find all the logos, emojis and more in Canva
- 12:30 How to line up icons and visual elements in Canva
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Fei WuFei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.
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