Free news headline animation maker
A tag slams in and your headline rises into a slanted bar under it, set in capitals, with no ticker underneath. Download it as a 1080p MP4. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
The basics
What is a news headline animation?
A news headline animation is a short clip of a headline arriving on screen the way it does on TV news: a tag lands first, then the headline appears in a bar below it and stays there. It works as a punchline in a skit, a title for a story you're about to tell, or an announcement to your viewers.
This one uses the Angled style, with slanted bars and leaning letters, and shows the tag and the headline only. The JUST IN tag slams in with a flash and a shake, the bar sweeps out behind it, and the headline rises in line by line, in capitals.
Headlines read fastest when they're short. Up to 90 characters fit, and the text gets smaller as it gets longer, so a punchy line of six or eight words stays large.
To put it on your video, see how to add a news banner in CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro.
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.
How it works
How to make a news headline animation.
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
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
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
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
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.
More versions
Make a different one.
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
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
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
Questions
News headline animation: your questions, answered.
How do I make a news headline animation?
Can I show the headline without the ticker?
How do I make the tag slam in?
Can the headline be in normal case instead of capitals?
Is the breaking news video maker free?
What format and resolution is the video?
Can I get the news banner with a transparent background?
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
Can I use the news banner in client work, ads or monetized videos?
Can I match my brand, add my logo or change the design?
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Where to go next.
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.
Make your first graphicPart of Pro, Ultimate and Scale · Export is free · Failed builds are refunded