- Are you wondering how to create
those fancy red progress bars that you've seen
in a ton of Instagram videos,
like Gary Vee's?
Or like this one right here?
Well, in this video we're going to show you exactly
how to add progress bars to your videos,
for any platform fast and easily.
And how you can easily take them to a whole new level
with a few simple tweaks.
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So let's jump into it.
These little progress bars are a great tool
for visually engaging your viewers,
and also help boost engagement as well,
while giving a feeling of real progress
as your viewers watch your content.
They're also a lot simpler to create than you might think.
So we're gonna show you exactly how to do it
in this tutorial,
and we're going to start out with a simple red progress bar,
like this one,
and then I'll show you how you can
take that one step further with a few simple tweaks,
to create something much more branded,
like this one.
Okay, so I'm over here now in Final Cut on a Mac,
but don't worry, if you're not using Final Cut,
or if you're not even on a Mac,
this process is going to be almost identical
in most video editing applications out there.
So you'll most likely find that the things I'm clicking on
and what I'm doing will be in different areas,
but you should still be able to find them
because this process is really simple.
So I've just got a basic timeline here
with some footage dropped in.
The idea is that you're adding in this progress bar
after you've completed your edit.
It's much easier to put in at the end
than to try and be reconfiguring it
all the way through your edit.
So let's pretend that this is one of our finished videos
down at the bottom here.
What I'm going to wanna do is to add in a solid color.
So this could be a JPEG that you're importing,
or it could be that you're creating a shape layer,
again, depending on the editing software that you're using.
Inside of Final Cut
we can come over here to generators,
and we can choose a solid.
I'm gonna pick a custom one, and I'm just gonna drag
that down into the timeline.
So this is gonna serve as that red progress bar
down at the bottom.
So the first thing we want to do is to, obviously,
make that red.
So I'm gonna come up here, I'm gonna change the color
of that to a red.
So if I've lost you, so far all you wanna do is
have a layer above your video that is red.
Then what we're gonna do is to either position
this where we want it, or to crop it down,
but to somehow make it smaller
and to be along the bottom of our video.
So as with really anything with video editing,
there's always lots of different ways to do things.
We could just come down here and position this
right down the bottom,
so that it's only showing at the bottom.
Or we could undo that and you could come down here
and you could crop the top of it
so that it, again, is only showing at the bottom.
Doesn't matter which way you go.
You just wanna have that red bar down at the bottom.
So now what you wanna do
is to come across to where you want this progress bar
to start.
It might at the start of your video,
or it might be where you're listing off some options
and those sorts of things in your video.
So if you wanted the progress bar to start from here
then you're gonna move that clip along to that section.
And then drag it out, or extend it out,
for the length that you want that progress bar running.
Now if this is something like an Instagram piece of content,
then they tend to start at the start
and go right through to the end of the video.
Now obviously as we scroll through this now
nothing is happening
because we haven't animated this on yet.
So you wanna make sure that that layer is selected.
Once again here there is a couple of different ways
that you can animate this on
depending on your video editing application.
So let's come across to the start,
where you want this progress bar to start,
and the first way that we can animate this on
is to use the transform tool for the positioning
of this red line.
So let's adjust the x position,
so that this is starting way back
off the end.
So it's absolute zero
or just so there's a tiny little bit of it on there.
And then you wanna add a keyframe for that position
so we can hit the little button here.
And then we wanna come across to the end
and we want to adjust that position
so that that bar is full.
Let's extend that all the way through,
and that automatically adds another key frame
at that point for us,
at the end point.
So, if we scrub through this now,
what we're seeing is at the start we've told that graphic
to be right off over this side somewhere,
and to progressively move on until the end of our clip.
So as we scrub through it,
we can see that that progress bar is filling up
all the way through.
So essentially that graphic is moving from here,
and moving across to the end.
So that's how you can use it using the transform tool
with just adjusting the position of that graphic.
Or, you could actually use the crop tool again,
and start back at that edge and animate it across
exactly the same using keyframes.
Or a third way that you could do it,
is by applying a transition to your clip.
So if we come over here to transitions,
the one that we're gonna look for is a wipe.
Let's grab this and drop it onto our timeline.
And again, this is pretty standard transition,
this is something that you should be able to find
in most video editing applications.
And zoom in down the bottom here.
Let's get rid of it from the end of our clip.
We only want this one here on the start.
Let's extend this out.
Drag it out for the length of our entire clip.
Zoom out again so you can see what I'm doing here.
The idea here is that this is wiping on
that red graphic from left to right.
Now you can see it's also got a fade effect
applied on there.
If we select on this transition,
or on this effect,
come up the top corner here,
and this is where we can change things like the angle.
We can change that edge,
so instead of it being feathered,
we can change that border down to zero,
and then we've got a hard edge
that then is progressively being filled out,
or is growing,
for the length of that effect.
So you can see it is pretty straightforward,
and pretty easy,
to be able to create just a simple graphic like this
to overlay on top of your videos.
So now we're going to take this one step further
and show you how you can create something
along the bottom here,
another progress bar,
that is more branded.
So it's gonna look a little bit better,
and it's gonna match your overall branding
for your videos.
Now to do that you can pretty much
use any graphic design tool out there.
It could be Photoshop,
it could be Canva,
for us I'm a big fan of Snappa.
And we'll jump across and show you
how to create this in Snappa.
Now, Snappa is very similar to Canva,
but you can see on their free plan here,
you get access to one user, the heap of templates,
and you also get three free downloads per month.
So once you've created your free account,
come over to your dashboard,
and this is where we're gonna create a new graphic.
Now you wanna make sure that this is the same size
as the video that you are creating.
So whether your video is 1080p or 4k,
or even 720p,
you wanna make sure you're typing in the correct width
and height at this point.
So, if you're doing 1080p videos,
that is 1920
by 1080.
And we'll hit create.
All right, so this is our canvas area here,
think of this as your video.
We're going to come across to shapes,
go to rectangle,
and I'm gonna move this down the bottom here somewhere
and stretch this out.
Again, all of this is personal preference,
and you used your own colors and your own branding,
and fonts and things to make it look how you would like.
But I'm gonna show you how you can knock something out
really quick that's going to look great in your videos.
All right, so we might make this our Primal Video blue.
So that's on brand.
It's easy.
Very simply, so far we just have a big blue line.
Let's come across and add some text.
Let's go add a heading.
Let's change the text here to option one,
and let's make that selected list.
Change the fonts, so you want to, again,
tailor this up to your brand,
how everything looks for you.
Let's go Oswald, which is the one we normally use.
Bold.
Again, it lets you control of the letter spacing
and line height and all of that kind of stuff.
Let's change the color to white.
It's gonna disappear then.
The idea here is that we're seeing this
when it's down the bottom here.
Maybe we'll make the text a little bit smaller,
something like this.
Option one, position it around where we want it.
And now we can duplicate that layer
for however many options,
or however many segments,
you're going to have in your video.
So with that text selected
you want to come up the top here to duplicate layer,
and we've then got a second version of it.
Let's move it across here somewhere.
Double click on it, let's change it to option two.
Over here, duplicate,
let's move it across.
Again, option three.
And duplicate.
We'll go five for this video.
Option four, and duplicate.
And let's put in option five as well.
Okay, so now that we've got the right amount
of text in there,
let's position these out so they're
a little bit more central.
So now it's just a matter of moving them around
to position them where you'd like it.
If you'd like to turn on the grid,
there is a grid here that might help you with positioning
these things.
But I'm just gonna keep it pretty rough for this.
I'm gonna turn that grid back off,
just to give you an idea of what you can create.
Now I wanna add a little separator between each one of them.
So we'll come over here to shapes,
lets go to a line,
let's rotate this line and grab that little rotate bar.
It's gonna snap back there to 90 degrees,
or straight up and down.
Let's shorten this down.
And let's pick it up and move it down here somewhere.
You might even like to have it a little bit taller,
a little bit higher,
so that it is breaking up your video a bit more.
And once again we'll select that,
let's duplicate it.
And we will reposition that across here
wherever the next one is.
Now again, with this stuff,
we wanna stress that this is personal preference,
what you actually choose to have down here,
and whether everything is spread out evenly,
or whether you know that option two,
when you're talking about it in your video,
goes for longer than option one.
So you might actually wanna drag out option two across here
and center that up that way,
because you know that in the overall video
you're gonna cover option two
for a much longer period of time.
Maybe option three might be a short one.
So, let's duplicate that one,
select it, and duplicate.
And let's put that a little bit closer in there.
Add another line here.
Let's say option four is another big one,
let's duplicate that.
Option four can be a massive one.
And you might also like to have another one
on the end to close it out.
Duplicate layer,
and move that across to the end.
There.
Okay, so my apologies if your OCD is playing up
if this isn't so accurate for you.
But I wanna show you the principles here.
So what we need to do then,
is come up the top here to save it,
obviously you're gonna save it.
We're gonna go download,
and we're going to choose transparent background.
You definitely wanna make sure that you have that ticked,
and then you wanna choose high res PNG.
That's gonna save somewhere to your computer.
In our case here, let's just put it on the desktop,
let's call it progress,
and hit save.
Now we jump back into Final Cut,
and we're going to import that in.
So we just go file,
import,
media,
find our graphic.
Here it is, progress,
and hit import.
Let's grab it
and drop it down on our timeline.
Now we'll get rid of that red progress bar
that we created earlier,
just so that we have our new one here.
And you can see that that fits perfectly in there,
because we created it at the right size.
So now the process from here is actually very similar
to what we did with the red bar.
Let's just extend this clip out of this title,
out all the way to the end,
or obviously for whatever area that you'd like
to have this used in your video.
So now what we need to do
is to animate this in,
to bring on this graphic at the time
so it lines up with our video.
So that when we're talking through option one,
by the time we finish,
it is moving on to option two,
that it's lined up perfectly with our video.
So the method for doing this,
the one I would recommend,
is that you use the crop effect,
or the crop tool.
Again, this is something that
most video editing software has.
So the idea here is that we are cropping
this back to nothing,
and then we're animating this on
for the length of when we're talking about option one,
and then progressing to the next piece,
and we're animating that on,
to show option two,
and so on until we reach the end of all of our options here.
Now there is one more thing I wanna mention at this point.
You could just animate your progress bars on like this,
where they're just appearing as they go,
or being built out as they go,
on top of your video,
but what we've found to be a lot more effective
in your videos is to actually duplicate this layer,
and to have a washed out version,
or an opaque version,
of your progress bar on screen the entire time,
and having that filled out.
So, I'm gonna show you how to do that.
Let's just remove this crop,
so we're back to it's entirety,
so what we wanna do here is to duplicate our progress bar.
So you could be copying and pasting,
command c, command v,
or control c and control v,
if you're on PC.
Or you could actually just import another version of that
onto your timeline.
So I'm just gonna copy and paste,
and I'm just gonna move it outta the way for now.
But really you can see that we have two versions,
or two copies,
of this progress bar.
So this one here being the one that we're going to leave
on screen at all times,
let's just make some adjustments to it.
So in our case here, in Final Cut,
I wanna come up to the color palette,
or the color tools,
depending on the software you're using
you might need to apply a color grade effect,
but go into the area of your editing software
where you're going to adjust your color controls
or color effects.
So in our case here, I wanna come up to saturation,
and let's lower that down
to make the whole thing gray,
so there's no colors in it at this point.
I also wanna come up here and make it more opaque.
So we're gonna adjust the opacity here
to make it more transparent,
so that it's visible in our video,
but it's not as bold,
or it doesn't stand out as much as our completed,
or filled-in version,
of this progress bar.
So now that we've made those simple tweaks
to this bottom layer,
we now wanna bring our completed one back over the top,
or on the layer above it.
So now when we come up here
and we start to apply this right crop,
you can see that we are seeing this transparent version,
and as we animate through these options
as we're talking through them on-screen
and we're animating this in,
that we are filling up that progress bar,
so people can see the whole lot,
they can see how much is left,
how much is coming,
and they can clearly see where they're up to in the video
and for those specific sections.
So this is so much more powerful.
Okay, so then in regards to animating this on,
very similar to the process I showed you earlier.
We're gonna come back to the end here,
to where it is not filled out at all.
Let's go to where we want option one to start,
let's say in this case it's at the very start of the video.
We're going to add a keyframe at that point.
Now let's say that we talk through option one
all the way through to about here.
So at this point, we then want to make an adjustment
to that right hand crop to where option one finishes.
So if we scrub through this now,
option one is starting at zero,
that progress bar is filling out until we reach the end.
Now at this point we haven't told it to do anything else,
we haven't set anymore keyframes,
so it stops at that point.
Okay, so let's say from this point,
option two,
it looks like a bigger one,
that it goes across to about here somewhere.
Obviously you're timing this up with what you're saying
in your videos at this point,
but then we just simply, again,
make a change to this right hand crop area.
So let's say that at that point we wanna come across
to the end here,
cause that's the end of option two.
And again, the keyframes are automatically added.
So if we scrub through this now,
option one fills out,
then option two,
and you can see it's actually filling out
a little bit slower,
because we talk about it for longer.
So this is a matter of going through
and doing the same for the remaining options.
Say option three was about there somewhere,
we adjust that fill to be about there.
And we'll go ahead and finish this off.
So option four looks like it was a pretty big one.
Let's say it goes to about here somewhere,
again adjust that right hand crop,
somewhere around here.
And for option five,
let's say that that went through right to the very end
of the video.
So extend that right through until it's at the end.
Really, really simple.
So if we come back here to the start now,
you can see that as we're playing this through,
obviously I'm scrubbing through,
we're filling out option one,
option two,
option three,
and so on,
based on that graphic that we created in Snappa.
And obviously here, this is where you can go nuts
with your creativity.
You don't have to have option one, option two,
option three.
In most cases in the videos that we have,
we will actually name what option one is
while it's being highlighted.
So it might have something like Final Cut Pro,
or Adobe Premiere,
or Filmora if we were doing a video editing tutorial
and talking through those options.
But the idea here is that this process
of revealing your progress bar
and having it fill out at the right times in your videos
is exactly the same no matter what you've got here
being revealed.
So that's how easy it is to create those fancy progress bars
so that you can use them in your video content as well.
Now if you're looking for the most efficient way
to edit your videos down with minimal wasted time
and re-work,
then check out the video linked on screen for our complete
video editing process,
showing you the most efficient and effective way
to edit your videos down.
And I'll see you in the next one.