- Do you want shiny, new, professional,
animated titles for your videos like these?
Well, in this video, we're gonna run through exactly
how to make animated titles for your videos
step-by-step, and it works
no matter what video editing software you're using.
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Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
where we help you amplify your business
and brand with video.
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and all the links to everything I mention in this video
you can find the link in the description box below.
So let's jump into it.
Now, creating professional titles for your videos
is not as hard as most people think.
You just need the right tools.
So with the process that we're gonna step through now,
you can easily create animated text and titles
for your videos, matching your brand and style
in just a few simple steps.
To create our initial titles,
which you can then reuse as much as you want,
we're gonna be using Adobe After Effects.
Now, don't worry whether you're on Mac or PC,
or if you don't already have access to After Effects,
there is a free trial that you can download
that will give you more than enough time
to create a ton of titles, and I'll put a link
to the trial version down in the description below.
It is an affiliate link, so we will get a commission
if you choose to continue your subscription.
Next up, we could start from scratch,
and build a professional looking template,
but that would take a ton of time and design skills
that I sure don't have,
so instead we're going to go and choose a template
that closely matches the style, the effects, and the theme
that we really wanna go for and start with that.
So VideoHive is the site that we use
for all our animated templates,
when we aren't using something entirely custom.
And the cool part is, there's a ton of options out there,
so if you're not exactly sure what you want immediately,
then go and check out some of the previews,
because you'll quickly find something
to give you awesome ideas,
or you might find something that you love straight away.
So we're gonna jump over to VideoHive now
and I'm gonna talk you through the process.
So, here we are at VideoHive,
and there's a heap of other stuff in here
as well as animated titles, things like,
stock 3D templates you can use, stock footage,
general motion graphic titles, not just titles but overlays,
graphic elements and infographics, and things that
are gonna work in most video editing software.
But there's also software dependent templates
in here as well for Apple Motion,
that are also gonna work in Final Cut.
There's now a new area on here as well for Adobe Premiere,
which has things like motion graphic elements,
infographics, titles as well, that you can use and edit
directly in Adobe Premiere and in After Effects,
which is what the focus of today's video is gonna be.
You can see we've got title templates in here.
We also have a heap of other things around
graphic elements and those sorts of things as well.
So, if you haven't checked it out yet,
then it's definitely worth checking out,
and links to everything that we're gonna cover
are in the description.
All right, so to start off with,
let's head up to After Effects then down to Titles,
and let's have a look at some of the awesome title packs
that you can get to customize up to use in your videos.
So you can see here that,
currently there's 4,950 After Effects templates
that are specific to title templates.
There's an absolute heap in here to choose from,
so it's just a matter of then going through
and putting your mouse over these and seeing if
there's anything in here that you like.
You can see, this one's $20, this one here's $18,
and these are all things that you can purchase
and use and reuse in your videos.
Now if you're looking in particular for title kits,
then I'd suggest that you look at things
like the title packs.
As you can see here, there's a heap of different options
or things like this one here, which is Modern Titles.
It's got a heap of different titles that you can use,
just drag and drop and customize up in After Effects
to save out and reuse in your videos.
Just as we go through here, you can see the average price,
18, 19,
20,
26,
19,
15,
20, 24,
20,
28.
So none of these are gonna break the bank.
This is incredibly cheap,
'cause it's gonna save you so much time.
Like I'd say, here's an example one.
This one's called Minimalist Lower Third,
if we press play on this, you can see the type of titles
that you're able to get here.
This is one of those packs where there's a heap
of different variations of these titles.
You can see some of them playing out with a thin line,
some of them with a background behind them,
some of them have no background.
So there's a few different variations on the titles
in this title pack.
Okay, so we're gonna go ahead and grab this one.
So once you've decided,
just before you hit the Buy Now button
or the Add to Cart button, just scroll down
and double-check that it does say After Effects,
that the version you're buying is the After Effects version.
All right, so once you've downloaded your template files,
it should be a ZIP file,
you're gonna extract that out, and open it up.
In here, you normally get at least two files,
but it might look a little bit different,
because each template is made by different people.
What you will have is an After Effect project file
and you'll have some sort of instruction or tutorial video
showing you how to use and edit your specific template.
Okay, so what you want to do is open up
the After Effects project files,
that's likely you'll get a message up on screen
saying that your project must be converted
from whatever version it was made in
to whatever version you're using now,
so just hit okay on that one.
Now, if there's any specific fonts that've been used,
that you don't have installed,
then it might pop up asking you to install some fonts.
So all you need to do is tick the box in the top corner,
sync from Typekit, and then click Sync Fonts,
and those fonts are gonna be downloaded
and installed on your computer.
And just a little note here,
that we're definitely not gonna run through a full
After Effects tutorial, but I will show you everything
you need to know to get these titles up,
so that you can save them to use them in your videos.
Now, if your window layout here does look a little bit
different to mine, just come up here to Window,
go to Workspace, and you can choose different layouts here.
So, I'm just on the standard one here,
but we'll go, reset to standard,
just so it might closer match what yours looks like.
So up here under Projects, you've got a few folders here,
so in our case, we wanna look under the new folder
and then we've got a heap of different compositions in here.
Now if we open up 3D Board, you can see as we come down here
to the timeline and scrub across,
we've got this title animation happening.
So it's just a matter of going through here
and looking at all the different ones that came
in the title pack that you purchased,
and find the one that you want to use,
and then we'll start to edit it up from there.
Now it's also a good idea to hang on to these project files
because you might want to come back at a later date
and recreate more titles, just out of this title pack.
Now in the case of this actual project,
there is more templates under this projects folder.
So, we've got different banners, blocks, blocks with lines,
just the titles, vertical parallel lines,
so you can see there's heaps of different ones in here.
And each time we open one of these up
and scrub through the timeline here,
you can see that it's actually a different animation.
So let's just go this one here, a block with a line,
typography one.
We will actually include a link to this exact template
that we're using here now in case you wanted to download
and use this one in your videos.
So as you can see as we scrub across,
we've got the line appears,
the block comes out and so does the text.
We've got two lines of text in this one,
and we can customize it, we can turn things on and off,
we can change the fonts, change the colors.
So we have full control over what this is gonna look like.
So let's go along to the end here,
to where the tile is fully animated on,
and let's come down to our layers here
to start making some adjustments.
Now if you do see that there's not too many layers here,
then there's a good chance that some of these
might have been hidden.
So, you might need to come up and press the little,
it's called the Shy button here,
which will unhide any hidden layers.
So you can see now that I've pressed that,
we got a heap more layers in here.
So we come across to the point where the animation
is finished, come up the top here, and grab the Type tool,
and then we can select our text,
and then we can just type in what we'd like it to say.
Let's just go, Justin Brown.
Now if we select that text and we come over here
and choose the font.
Let's change it to our Primal Video font, Oswald Bold,
and we can do exactly the same for the second line of text,
where it says, civil designer.
We can double-click on that there
and type in Primal Video.
I probably want to change the font to be the same.
So we come back up here, Oswald Bold.
Obviously, you'd be changing it to your own fonts
and branding.
But we make it a little bit bigger here
and we'll probably make that Primal Video blue.
So, we'll click on the color here to change,
and we'll enter in our Primal Video color blue here,
and go OK, and the only thing we'll probably change here
is this pink line.
It's not really one of our colors.
So, in this case, it's down under Controls,
under Effects, Line color,
and you can see that they've got color for the lines.
If we press on that,
then we can, again, paste in our blue,
or you can pick your color from in here.
But, we'll paste in our blue and go OK.
And now when we scrub through this,
you can see the blue line comes on,
the title slides out with Justin Brown, Primal Video.
So, it's all in our font and in our branding.
So, in here you can pretty much do anything you'd like.
You can make the fonts bigger,
make them smaller, you can reposition them on there.
You can change the text.
You can even change the color of the background,
that was another thing that was down here,
which is down here under Block color.
So, we can change that there from black,
we could go to red, if red was your thing.
So we'll cancel out that one, and that's how easy it is
to change and customize out these templates.
So now that you've got your title customized up exactly
how you'd like it, then we're pretty much good to go.
The next step is to export or to save this out,
so that you can use it in your video editing application.
Once we've covered off the export settings,
I'm also gonna run through the top titles,
I suggest you make and save out, so that you're set to go,
so that you don't need to create new ones
every time you're creating new videos.
So, now for exporting or for saving out your videos
to use in your video editing application,
you wanna make sure that you're in the title
that you want to export, so that's open.
Then come up the top to Composition,
and down to Add to Render Queue.
You can see that it's loaded up the Render Queue
down at the bottom here,
and we've got our composition loaded in there.
Normally the only thing that you need to change here
is from Output Module, from Lossless,
to be Lossless with Alpha.
So alpha, as in regards to the transparency.
We've got transparency in the title,
so that our actual video footage
is gonna show through underneath it,
so you need to make sure that setting is selected.
And you can click over here,
where it says Not yet specified,
and choose where you wanna save your file.
In this case, we'll just put it on the desktop.
And because we're on Windows,
it's defaulting to an AVI file,
if you're on Mac, it will default to being
a QuickTime MOV file, either one is gonna work fine.
Just hit Save and come over here and hit Render,
and you can see it plays out,
or renders out your title animation.
And once that's done, your file is saved.
Then we can jump over to your video editing application.
In our case, we're going to open up Adobe Premiere.
Okay, so we're here in Adobe Premiere,
we just want to import our title now.
So, there it is, it opened.
So then, whenever we want to use this title,
in any of our videos, all we need to do is import it,
drag and drop it down into our timeline,
wherever we want it to appear.
Now if we play through this, you can see it animates on.
Now we also have the ability to pick it up,
to move it around and reposition it,
anywhere that you'd like.
So, it's just a separate video asset.
We can scale it up and we can scale it down,
you can use it however you'd like in your videos
from here on in.
So, if we play that through again,
you can see it animates on,
and there's our title there.
Now, one extra little trick that you can do,
is if your title animates in,
but it doesn't animate back off,
you can actually duplicate the title.
So just copy it, Command + C, Control + C,
and then you want to paste it right next to it.
And then you want to reverse the second one,
so right-click on it and choose Speed Duration,
and then tick the box to reverse speed, hit OK.
And then when you play through it now,
you'll see it'll animate on,
and then it'll play that clip backwards,
so that it animates back off.
So that's how easy it is to create these assets of titles
that you can just import,
and drop into multiple video editing projects,
and drag and reposition and customize them up further,
inside of your editing application,
without the need to create them every time.
There's one more thing that I do want to show you
back on VideoHive, so I'll bring that back up now.
Make it bigger.
So those were editable After Effects titles,
now as we did touch on earlier,
you can also get them for Adobe Premiere Pro.
So titles here, and also Apple Motion titles,
so if you are using Final Cut for your video editing,
then you can come in here and grab a title pack
that will work inside of Final Cut.
And these titles will be editable and customizable
inside of Final Cut.
Then, you don't even need After Effects
to be able to customize these up,
you can do everything directly from your timeline.
And exactly the same with the Premiere Pro titles as well.
You can get title packs in here that will let you
customize everything up directly on your timeline.
Now, these are only gonna work
if you're on Premiere Pro or if you're on Final Cut,
but for everybody else, on any editing application,
or for the largest range of templates,
then you'll want the After Effects ones,
and customize them up as we were showing you in this video.
And by doing it this way in After Effects,
you're saving them out as actual video files.
Then you can easily import them into your smartphone,
so if you're gonna be editing your videos
down on your smartphone,
you can export them, import them onto there,
and edit them into your videos on your smartphones as well.
So, now that you've got your template sorted and you know
how to create different versions of those titles,
for use in your videos over and over again.
Some of the ones I would recommend creating
would be ones that say things like,
Subscribe, links are in the description below.
I also suggest creating a title for numbered lists,
so you can animate in all the numbers,
and maybe the placeholders for the text
that's going to follow it.
Another really obvious one is a title card for your name,
or for your channel name, for the start of your videos,
and also you could look at doing something
for your logo, as well, if you've got one.
So the idea here, once again, is that you're creating titles
that you're going to use in almost every video,
then you're saving these out so you don't need
to recreate them every time.
So that your lower third, or your title card,
or your call to action,
to get someone to subscribe to your channel,
these are now just things that you can
drag and drop onto your timeline,
really, no matter what video editing software you're using.
So all of that is gonna speed up
your video editing process dramatically,
because you won't have to recreate these things,
and also wait for them to render out every time.
So now that you've got your professional looking titles
sorted, the next step is to get set up with
some awesome music, to take your content even further.
So check the link on-screen now for a video
showcasing royalty-free music sites that we use,
and what we'd recommend for you.
And I'll see you soon.