Rescroll

Free breaking news video maker

Type a headline and a few ticker lines and download a TV-style breaking news banner as a 1080p MP4, for a skit, a parody or a channel announcement. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.

How it works

How to make a breaking news banner.

Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.

  1. 1

    Write the story

    Choose what to show: headline and ticker, the headline alone, or the ticker alone. Type a tag of up to 24 characters, a headline of up to 90, and up to 8 lines for the ticker.

  2. 2

    Choose a style

    Classic has square bars and a light headline bar, Modern has rounded cards, Angled has slanted bars. Pick the tag color, and turn the LIVE badge and the clock on or off.

  3. 3

    Set the motion and the look

    Choose whether the tag slams or wipes in, how fast the ticker scrolls, and how long the banner stays on screen. Then one of six looks, or a green background to key it over your footage.

  4. 4

    Download the MP4

    Press Download. The banner is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device, usually in a few seconds. No account, no watermark.

Ready-made versions

Start from the one you came for.

Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.

News ticker

A single scrolling strip with a LATEST tag and a LIVE badge, running for ten seconds. For streams, announcements and channel news.

News headline animation

A JUST IN tag that slams in over a slanted headline bar, set in capitals. Tag and headline only, no ticker.

When a news banner isn’t enough

The free news banner is the starting point.

Here you get a news banner on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you actually want, such as “a breaking news banner that slams in as I say ‘big announcement’, with our logo in the tag and the launch date in the ticker”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video. Attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot and it matches them, and you change anything by asking in the chat.

Free news banner

Rescroll

One banner, in your colors

Any design you can describe, matched to your logo, fonts or a screenshot

A clip you overlay and key out yourself

Built on your own video, placed around you

You line it up in your editor

Lands on the exact word you say

Change it with the settings here

Change anything by asking in the chat

Make it yours in RescrollSee AI motion graphics

Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

Sponsor read. Brand, code and sticker, on the words.
Posts and chat. Two posts slide in, then the chat answers.

Both built in Rescroll from a description.

The basics

What is a breaking news banner?

A breaking news banner is the graphic a TV news channel runs across the bottom of the screen during a big story: a bold tag such as BREAKING NEWS, a bar with the headline, and often a ticker of other lines scrolling underneath. Creators borrow it for skits, parodies, channel announcements and “this just in” moments.

This maker builds all three parts and animates them in order. The tag slams in with a flash and a small shake (or wipes open, if you prefer), the headline bar sweeps out behind it, the lines of the headline rise into place, and the ticker unfolds underneath and keeps scrolling. A LIVE badge with a pulsing dot and a clock sit at the top right.

The design is a generic studio look in three styles, with no channel's logo. Pick the tag color yourself: red reads as news straight away, but your own brand color works as well for channel branding.

What you download

Price
Free. No sign-up, no email, no watermark.
Format
MP4 (H.264), no audio
Resolution
1080p: 1080×1920, 1920×1080, 1080×1080 or 1080×1350
Frame rate
30 or 60 fps
Parts
A tag, a headline bar and a scrolling ticker, or the headline or the ticker alone
Text
Tag up to 24 characters, headline up to 90, 1 to 8 ticker lines of up to 80
Styles
Classic, Modern or Angled, with any tag color, a LIVE badge and a clock
Length
A 1.4-second entrance, then 1 to 30 seconds on screen, with an optional exit
Colors
Six looks, or any text color on any background color
Overlay
Green background for chroma key
Where it runs
In your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

In your editor

Put the news banner on your video.

An MP4 has no transparent background, so the news banner comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key.

How to add a news banner in CapCut

Download the news banner on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key.

How to add a news banner in Premiere Pro

Put the news banner on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green.

How to add a news banner in DaVinci Resolve

Place the news banner on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on.

How to add a news banner in Final Cut Pro

Connect the news banner above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself.

Questions

Breaking news banner: your questions, answered.

How do I make a breaking news video?

Type your headline and ticker lines into the breaking news maker at the top of this page, pick a style and a tag color, and press Download. You get a 1080p MP4 of the banner animating in, made in your browser with no sign-up and no watermark.

Can I put the breaking news banner over my own video?

Yes. Set the background to green, download the banner, put it on the track above your footage in your editor and remove the green with chroma key. The bars are solid, so they key out cleanly and stay readable over any picture.

Can I use a news banner for a skit or a parody?

Yes, that's what it's for: skits, parody, announcements to your viewers and channel branding. Don't present a made-up story as real news, and don't put words in the mouth of a real person or organization. Keep it clearly a joke or clearly about you.

Does the banner copy a real news channel?

No. It's a generic studio design with no logos, and the tag color is yours to choose. It reads as “news” because of its layout, not because it borrows anyone's branding.

Can I change “BREAKING NEWS” to something else?

Yes. The tag takes up to 24 characters and is always set in capitals: JUST IN, UPDATE, LIVE, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. Leave it empty for no tag at all.

How do I make a scrolling news ticker?

Add your lines under Ticker, up to 8 of them, and pick a speed. They scroll right to left under the headline and loop for the whole clip. Set Show to Ticker for the strip on its own.

What's the difference between Classic, Modern and Angled?

Classic stacks square bars: a light headline bar between the tag and a dark ticker. Modern floats rounded cards apart, with the headline in the look's colors. Angled slants every bar and leans the letters, like a sports desk.

How long can the headline be?

Up to 90 characters. It wraps onto two lines, or three on the tall 9:16 and 4:5 frames, and the text gets smaller as the headline gets longer so it always fits the bar.

Does the clock show the real time?

No. It shows whatever you type, up to 8 characters, such as 18:00 or 6:00 PM, and it doesn't change during the clip. Leave it empty to hide it.

How long does the banner stay on screen?

It takes 1.4 seconds to animate in, then stays for 1 to 30 seconds, which you set with Time on screen. The ticker keeps scrolling all the while. Turn on “Animate out at the end” and the banner clears itself away in the last 0.7 seconds.

Does the breaking news video have sound?

No. The MP4 is video only, so it's silent. Add a news sting or music in your editor.

Is the breaking news video maker free?

Yes. It's free to use and free to download, with no account, no email address and no watermark on the video. There's no limit on how many you make.

What format and resolution is the video?

An MP4 with H.264 video, at 1080p in the shape you choose: 1080×1920 (9:16) for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1920×1080 (16:9) for YouTube, 1080×1080 (1:1), or 1080×1350 (4:5) for the Instagram feed. You can export at 30 or 60 frames per second.

Can I get the news banner with a transparent background?

MP4 can't store transparency, so the news banner comes ready to key instead. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key in your editor. Only the news banner is left over your footage.

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

No. The news banner is drawn and encoded on your own device, using your browser's built-in video encoder. Nothing is sent to a server and there's no render queue.

Which browsers does it work in?

It needs a browser that can encode video with the WebCodecs API: current versions of Chrome, Edge and Safari, and Firefox on a computer. If your browser can't, the page tells you before you start.

Can I use the news banner in client work, ads or monetized videos?

Yes. The video you download is yours to use in personal and commercial projects, with no attribution needed.

Can I match my brand, add my logo or change the design?

Not in the free maker, which is deliberately simple. That's what Rescroll's AI motion graphics are for: describe the graphic you want in plain English, attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot of your style, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the word you say. Ask for any change in the chat. It's part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

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Your next video,
edited like the top 1%.

Drop it in. Say what should appear. Read the plan, press Build, and export the finished video — no After Effects, no editor, no template.

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