- In this video I'll show you how to make
a YouTube end card template for your video end screens.
Just like these animated ones on screen right now
in just a few minutes.
And then exactly how to use that fancy
new template of yours in your own video outros
step by step.
Hey, it's Justin Brown here from "Primal Video".
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So let's jump into it.
So YouTube end cards are a great way
to add more value to your viewers,
linking them to related content,
or resources, and driving more views
and traffic to your videos as well.
Now we released a tutorial on how to create
a simple static end screen video outro
a little while back.
But with tools that are available today,
you can now take that to a whole new level
and create a professional animated end screen
in just a few minutes.
So in this video we're gonna step you through
exactly how to build a custom animated end screen template
that looks super professional and matches your branding.
And exactly how to use it
in all your future YouTube videos.
Now just before we jump in
and create our end screen template,
I'm just gonna show you what it is we'll be creating.
And also give you an understanding
on how these end screens actually work,
and what the limitations are.
So I've got a sample video here.
I'll just select that.
Come down here to end screens,
this is where you can set up all of your end screens,
once they're created.
And this is what we're
gonna be building out to in this tutorial.
So if I hit play here,
you can see that we have some text on the screen here,
animating, the background image is animating.
We have some scribe text and we've got a link here
for a subscribe button,
and also for another video,
which we are referencing on screen, edit faster.
Now it's important to note that your end screens
are restricted to a maximum of 20 seconds,
and that 20 seconds has to be at the end of your video,
this can't appear anywhere in your video
except for the last 20 seconds.
But you don't need to have them on
for the entire 20 seconds.
You can have them on screen for less if you would like.
Now the clickable or interactive elements
that you can add onto your end screen,
you just add them at the top here.
So you can add multiple videos,
you can have up to two videos on screen at once.
You can link to a playlist,
you can link to a subscribe button,
you can link to a specific channel,
or you can link off to an approved website as well.
So if you're referencing a PDF download
or an opt in or something.
If it is an approved site or a verified site
then you can link directly to that
from your end screen as well.
And none of these elements can actually be positioned
outside of this white box area here.
So if we pick this one up and go to move it outside,
you can see that,
that border is restricting it from going any further.
Likewise there are some size restrictions as well.
This is as small as a video can be,
but we can make it a little bit bigger
up to this point here.
So this is as big as a video can be.
And you can see that our subscribe area here,
this red one has gone red,
and that's saying that there is overlap between them.
None of the elements can overlap.
So it actually won't let us save this.
You can see we've gone red down the bottom here.
Because we have elements overlapping.
So if I select this one here and just press the delete
on the keyboard we can remove that.
But it is important to know the different sizes
and positioning that you've got access to,
when you are crating your end screen or end card,
to make sure that you're building it,
or getting the template to match what you're after.
Okay, so now creating your end screen template.
The service that we use that we recommend for this,
it's gonna save you so much time, so much headaches,
and it's gonna create something awesome for you.
This service is called PlaceIt.
So you're gonna head over to the PlaceIt website,
come over to videos, and then down to YouTube videos.
Now just to pause for a second here.
You can see that this is so much more
than just YouTube videos.
Just under videos alone we've got Twitch screens,
promo videos, Instagram stories, animated logos,
video intros, this is our number one top pick
for creating an intro video for your videos.
Let alone any fancy slideshows or Instagram stories,
or anything like that as well.
But it's also so much more than just videos.
There's full logo design stuff in here and animated logos.
You can create designs for T-shirts
and all sorts of stuff in here.
So we're gonna focus just on
the YouTube end screens for this video,
but just know that there is so much more in here as well.
So, we're here under the YouTube video templates section.
And just scrolling through here.
You can see how many of these things there are
that you can use in your videos.
What we're interested in for this video
is the YouTube end cards.
So we'll come up here to end cards.
So if you scroll down here you can see
that there's lots of different options.
And all of these are animated
and are really easy for you to customize up
with your branding, your images,
your logos and things to make them work
for you and for your videos.
So you can see we got some simple ones here,
where there's not much going on,
but it's nice and clean.
And you can easily see the links and everything
to the next videos.
This next one across here.
There's a bit more going on
with the animated background there.
A lot more text on the screen.
Oh, this next ones here's also pretty clean as well.
Say thanks for watching, subscribe, and watch next.
We got some down here that are totally different.
So we've got lots of different options.
But for this one, I'm just gonna start with this one here.
Let's customize this one up.
So you can see we haven't even created an account yet,
we haven't even had to log in,
we can jump straight into customizing this up for free.
Now do note that in order to remove
their made with PlaceIt watermark,
you will need to pay the 9 dollars and 95.
As a one time fee to use this template.
Or if you jump on to their subscription,
you get access to all the markups,
designs, the video tools, and templates,
and logos, and everything for a monthly fee.
Which is ridiculously cheap
considering you get access to all of that stuff.
Okay, so this is the template we've selected
and you can see we have control over a lot of it.
So we'll go down here and just hit
this little replay button here.
And this is gonna show us our template again,
so thanks for watching, it's red,
and we got subscribe and watch next.
So the first thing I would do here
is lets change the text holder color from red,
and let's go a blue.
Something close to our primal video blue.
Obviously we can go in here a little deeper.
Hit more and actually key in our primal video blue color.
But for this we'll just pick something close.
As you can see straight away that blue we've selected
has already been applied to our template,
and we can see it here in our preview monitor.
And if we hit preview video that will give us
a preview or a playback of those modifications
as they happen.
You see now that when we play it back
that blue is applied,
we've also got some music tracks in there as well.
But what I would recommend
is that you actually turn this off.
Because we're gonna be dropping this back
into our video editing software
after this is complete,
so we can add any music or anything that we want in there,
instead of using their music in here.
Okay, so now that we got that blue text outline in there,
next up we can pretty much customize anything else.
We can change the text if we want.
So instead of saying watch next,
if you actually know what that video is
that you're going to tell your viewers
to watch next,
then you can enter some text in here about that video.
So it could be something like, edit faster,
and we'll see that, that will apply here.
So we go right now, it says edit faster.
So we would mention a video here,
where we're showing people how to edit faster.
Likewise you get the ability to change the color on there
if we really want that to stand out,
we can make it maybe a red or something,
or again in your branding,
we can make that the primal video blue.
And you can see there that it's updated already.
So in this case I actually don't mind
the thanks for watching,
so I'd probably leave that as is.
I would change this over to a our primal video font.
So you have the ability to go through
and select your branded fonts,
or the fonts that you like the look of here,
for all of this stuff as well.
Customize up the colors.
And the next thing that I will customize up here
on this template though,
is the background image.
You can see it's just got the default one over here.
Now you can go through and pick
and use one of their custom preset images there,
or if you do have your own,
you can upload it here as well.
So we're gonna go custom image or video,
I have an image here that we've used
inside of our accelerator training.
We can adjust the scale or the crop of that.
Let's hit crop,
and now image is now applied to the background.
So lets go ahead and preview this now.
So you can see we just made som really minor changes
just to the some of the text,
just a couple of the colors,
and the background image,
and this is already starting to look
a lot more like something
that is branded for us at primal video.
And you've also got the ability to control
the playback speed down here as well.
To speed up or slow down this animation or this video.
So you can leave it here at one speed,
which is standard,
and it says here it's gonna go for nine seconds.
You can also slow it down by half.
So it's gonna give you twice the amount of video
or 18 second video.
Or you can speed it up to 1.5 speed as well.
So what we're gonna do,
because this is an end card animation
I actually want this to go for longer than 9 seconds.
So in this case, I'm gonna switch this here to .5,
so that it is gonna go for twice as long
when I save it out.
So once you go through and you've customized this up
how you'd like it, you're gonna come up the top here,
and hit save, or save draft.
This is where you can create an account and sign up.
Or if you have an account you can log in here as well.
So once you're logged in, we hit save,
that's now saved as one of your drafts,
and then to save this or download it to your computer
you just gotta come up to the big download button
at the top here.
And we'll go render all slides.
Now in my experience the longest
that I've had to wait for this is around a minute.
So it's not gonna be too long
for it to build your custom video intro here,
based on all the settings and everything
that you have entered.
Okay, and once that's finished playing through,
you can see that our download button here
is now bright blue instead of a grayed out blue.
And we can hit the download button
to save it to our computer.
And once that's done it'll just say
at the top corner processing finished,
click here to download.
Now we'll go ahead and open up our editing application,
add this to the end of one our videos.
Okay, so I'm over here in final cut now.
And I've got one of our YouTube videos here
down in the timeline,
so we want to go up here,
and we want to import our new end screen template.
So, we'll select that here, import that in,
and we could see that we got our video here now.
I'll click on that and drag it down to our timeline,
into that last ending section of our video.
So in this case I would be saying something like,
if you're interested in editing your videos faster,
then linked on screen is a video
to help you do just that.
And I'll see you in the next video.
So obviously I'm referencing that edit faster video there.
So this new end screen
is then shown on screen instead of me.
But obviously the audio here is still coming through too.
Now you will want to shorten this.
So that it finishes at the same time as your video,
or as your audio in this case.
And again remember that this should be on screen
for no more than 20 seconds.
And the other thing that you can do
is add some sort of simple transition to this
if you don't just want it appearing,
you can see that I'm talking here,
and then it just appears.
You can add some sort of effect or transition onto this
if you'd like that to transition on.
So if we come over here to transitions,
let's go down to wipes, then we grab a wipe,
and we drag it to the style of the clip here.
And we'll see that our end screen will transition on.
So, really really simple.
Now all we need to do is to save this video out,
go over to YouTube, and add in our edit faster,
and our subscribe button to the end of this video,
in under the end card settings.
Okay, so we're over on YouTube now in the dashboard area
under videos, once you're video is uploaded,
just come across and select on it.
Come down to end screen
and hit your little edit button here,
and then I want you to do is come up here to element,
and we're going to add a subscribe button,
which is that circle,
then we're gonna position this over
our circle here so that,
that lines up, and we're also going to add in a video.
So lets go element, let's add a video,
now in this case we mentioned a specific video
around editing faster.
So we'll choose a specific video,
we can search through our videos.
Lets go edit faster and here we are.
Best video editing tips to edit faster.
We can then grab that and move it over here
into that area on the video.
So if we play through this now,
we can see that we've got our subscribe button,
and we've got our edit faster video here.
All with our animations
and everything going on underneath it.
Now for your template, if you do need to extend,
or shorten the length of time that these subscribe buttons
or video buttons are on the screen,
you can do that down the bottom here as well.
But again, you do have that
hard maximum time limit of 20 seconds.
Once you're done just hit save
and that's now applied to your video.
So now that you've upped your end screen game,
why not level up your thumbnail creation too?
Check out the video linked on screen,
in our animated end screen,
and I'll see you in the next one.