How to use the free lower third matte in Adobe Premiere.

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1. Start Premiere, and import your footage, any Digital Hotcakes background, and the FreeLowerThird matte. Place your footage on Video 1, the Digital Hotcakes background movie on Video 2 and the FreeLowerThird matte on Video 3.

2. Right mouse click on Digital Hotcakes background movie in Video Track 2 to bring up the menu found below. Select Video Options>Transparency

3. Select Track Matte from the pull-down list of key types. Then press okay.

4. Render.

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