- [Dee] I'm gonna show you how to make a video intro
for YouTube, using your smartphone, that looks like this.
(upbeat music)
Or this.
(rapid fire)
Or something like my personal favorite, this one,
because pizza.
To do this, we're gonna use PlaceIt
and there's a link down in the description below,
that will take you to PlaceIt,
so click on that link and follow along.
When you first open up PlaceIt, look on the second row
and you're gonna see a tab called designs, tap on that.
Once designs opens up, we're gonna go down
to the third layer and we're gonna scroll to the right,
until we see YouTube templates.
But as you start to scroll,
you see they have T shirt designs,
T shirt labels, Instagram posts, Instagram stories.
I'm gonna pass this up right here, flyers, Twitch templates,
business cards, Facebook posts, Facebook covers,
banner ads, album covers, podcast covers,
they have all sorts of templates here,
but we're gonna focus on making a YouTube intro,
so we're gonna go back and tap on YouTube templates.
Once the YouTube templates page opens up,
tap right here and it's gonna give you options
to choose between YouTube banners, YouTube end cards,
YouTube intros and outros, or YouTube thumbnails.
We're gonna tap on intros and outros.
Once the next page loads up, you can scroll down
and you can start looking through the intros,
or you can tap on filters, right here, at the top
and you can go down to tags
and you can search by your channel niche,
or niche, however you wanna pronounce that,
or you can search by tags that have a certain vibe,
or a look that you're going for.
Now, I'm not gonna use filters for this one,
so I'm gonna tap off.
Now, if you continue to scroll down,
you're gonna see all of these templates
and they look really good
and if you scroll down to the bottom,
you can see there's 14 plus pages of YouTube intros.
Now, I'm not gonna show you all of these templates,
this is for you to dig into and find the right one for you,
but I am gonna go back and select the one
that I showed you at the beginning of this video
and that's that one right there
and I'm gonna double tap on it.
Now, if your Internet's slow,
this might take a while for the page to load,
because there's a lot going on here,
a lot of options that you can change,
so make sure you're connected to your WiFi
to get the fastest internet possible.
Once the page is completely loaded up,
you're gonna see a play button in the middle,
but we're not gonna tap on that just yet.
I want you to look just a little bit above it
and you're gonna see a music track.
Now, I don't want this music track,
so I'm not gonna play it,
but you see the blue check icon over on the left,
if you don't want music, you can tap on that
and it's not gonna add this music track to the intro,
however, if you do want it, keep that checked
and you can actually change the songs
by tapping on the pencil icon over here, to the right
and it's gonna load up their audio library
that is absolutely packed with great songs
that you can use in your intro.
Now, these songs are copyright free,
you're not gonna have any issues with them.
PlaceIt does allow you to use these songs in your intro
and you don't have to worry about a copyright claim,
or a copyright strike
and I'm gonna get into licensing and how all of this works,
to make sure you're safe, at the end of this video.
Once the audio library opens up, you can tap on filter
and search for the right vibe, or mood
that you're looking for,
or you can simply scroll around and tap on the songs
and listen to them.
Now, if you're signed in, it gives you the option
to save those tracks by tapping on the star icon
on the far left, but I don't need music
for this particular intro,
so I'm gonna make sure that that's turned off
and then I'm gonna scroll down to the bottom
and explain some of the other things here on the page.
Now, what I want you to do is play the video
to see what it looks like.
(upbeat music)
And you see where it says your amazing brand name
and it has a logo, you can change that logo
and you can change the text
and in order to do that, you wanna scroll down
to the bottom and you see, it says your amazing brand name
and by the way, whatever template you work on,
it's gonna work the same way.
It might not say your amazing brand name,
but every part of it, you can edit and tweak it
and make it your own.
So I'm gonna go ahead and edit the text,
then it's gonna replace their text with my text,
or your text and once your intro is ready,
it's either gonna start playing automatically,
or you can tap the re-watch icon here on the bottom left
and it's gonna start playing with your added text.
(upbeat music)
Now that looks great, but it's still a little bit different
than what I showed you at the beginning of this video,
so let me keep adding some changes to make it look right.
Now, going back down to the bottom, we're on text,
but to change the colors,
we're gonna tap on the colors icon and the detail color
is currently a pinkish red color
and that's not the color I want,
because that's not a color that I use a lot on my channel,
so I'm gonna tap on that and then I'm gonna go through
and I'm gonna find the right color, which is a blue color,
I'm gonna tap on that and then I'm gonna close it down
and it's gonna re-render the video once again
and when it's ready, it's gonna show a play icon
and then tell you to preview the video.
Now, I don't need to watch the intro again
because I know what the blue's gonna look like
and you can see right here, in the preview window,
that it added the blue, so we're gonna go ahead and continue
tweaking the intro.
Next over from colors, you see visuals, tap on visuals
and this is where you get to upload your own personal logo,
which I'm not going to do, or you can change the background
and that is what I'm going to do.
So to edit the background, I'm gonna tap on edit background
and you see right here, at the top, in the search bar,
it says urban.
Now, that's the keyword that it used to find the pictures
that I could add to the background,
but that's not what I want, so I'm gonna go back
and I'm gonna change that to the one that I use in the intro
in this video.
I'm gonna type in phone and then I'm gonna go in
and find an image of somebody holding a phone
and by the way, you can use all of these images as well
and you're not gonna have any issues with copyright.
So let me scroll here and find the image that I wanna use.
Okay, I wanna use this one right here,
so I'm gonna tap on that image
and it's gonna re-render the intro once more.
Now, you can see the preview video button is showing,
that means it's ready,
however, I'm not gonna tap it just yet.
I'm gonna go over one more time to options
and then here's the playback speed
and this part is important
and here's something that I want you to think about.
People are not coming to your YouTube channel
for your intro.
That means keep it short and keep it sweet.
So if you do have your intro
and you're finding that it's playing a little bit too slow,
you can crank up the speed to 1.5
and that's what I'm gonna do for this intro.
So now I have the speed selected, the visuals in place,
the colors in place and the text in place,
then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna tap on preview video,
then it's gonna re-render the video one more time
and playback the video with all the changes that I've made
and as a heads up,
sometimes this takes a little bit of time,
based on their server load
and how fast your internet connection is.
Now, this one is six seconds long, I love it
and you could also speed it up inside your video editor,
so if you drop it in there and you find that it's still
a little bit too long, you can speed it up
and make it end even sooner,
reducing the time to four seconds, or five seconds,
or something like that.
It's entirely up to you, just keep it short and sweet.
Now, when you have your intro ready
and everything looks perfect, tap on the download button,
then they're gonna give you a couple of options
to better suit what it is that you need as a creator.
The first option is a single video purchase.
That means that you only purchase this intro
and depending on your needs,
this route could be the more expensive route to go.
If you need a lot of templates for various things,
a subscription might be better, but if you just need one,
then this is the way to go.
And the second option is to get the unlimited subscription.
That's the one that I use.
Now, you have two options here.
You can go with the monthly option,
or you can go with an annual option,
but if you click on the link down below,
if you got to PlaceIt by clicking on the link down below,
you should see a cheaper price here,
you should see a 15% discount, if you clicked on that link.
If you don't see that, let me know in the comments.
Now, let's talk about licensing and what exactly you can do
with whatever you make inside of PlaceIt
and they've made this incredibly easy to understand,
but the most important one is, up here in the top right,
it says you can publish, broadcast, display and distribute
the content that you make with PlaceIt.
That includes the T shirt mock ups, any banners, any ads,
anything you make inside of PlaceIt,
you can use it and you're not gonna have any issues
with copyright claims, or copyright strikes.
Or you can take it a step further
and look over here on the left.
It says that you're free to create content for a client
and sell it for a fee,
so if your business model involves clients
and you're making art for them, you're making mock ups,
or headers, or banners, or any sort of advertisements,
you can make them inside of PlaceIt
and then sell them to your customers
and you can apply to register trademarks
with the designs and logos that you make inside of PlaceIt
and you can put your final designs on any type of product
and then sell that product
and for those of you who have seen pictures of my merch
that I just started selling,
I made all of those designs inside of PlaceIt
and there's links to those down in the description, as well.
If you wanna learn even more about how to make graphics,
or how to edit video with your smartphone,
go ahead and tap on either one of the videos
that are showing on the screen right now.
Both of these tutorials will help you do that.
Thank you so much for watching,
I do appreciate it and I'll see you in the next video.