in this video i'll show you how to make
a professional animated video intro for
youtube using just your iphone or
android smartphone fast and easy
while animated intros like this might
look hard to do they're really quite
easy with some of the video info makers
and apps that are out there right now so
i'm going to show you our top
recommended apps and the process that we
recommend to do it right now end to end
and once we're done i'm also going to
share with you the number one tip that
you need to know when using a video
animation to make sure that you don't
kill your video engagement and your
watch time now these days there's a lot
of different app options out there to
help you create your animated video
intro having played with a lot of them
i've been able to narrow the massive
list down to just two top
recommendations that i'm sharing with
you in this video now both options are
totally different one of them is free
but it's got less options and less
things that you can customize up whereas
the other one is incredibly cheap but
has a lot more customizability and a lot
more templates to choose from so i
strongly recommend that you stick around
to hear out both options through to
completion so that you know you're
making the best call for what you're
after all right so option number one is
to use canva now canva is not just an
amazing graphic design and video
creation tool on desktop they've also
got a really powerful app on ios and
android as well so for this i'm going to
show you on an ipad because the screen's
bigger but this will also work on your
iphone or android device now when you
first open up the app it will ask you to
create a free account so you want to go
ahead and do that and then this is what
you'll see once you log in so to start
off you want to come up the top to
create a design and it's going to have
some presets and things in here for
videos but the one that we want for this
is intro so if we type in intro you'll
see here it's got a preset template here
for youtube intro so if we select on
that that's going to set up our project
and everything to be the right size and
it's also going to bring up the
templates on the side here that are
specific for a youtube video intro
there's lots of templates in here that
you can choose from you can customize up
and really dial in to match your
business or your brand and a big chunk
of them in here are free as well so this
is why we like canva this is a great
free option now there are some templates
in here that are marked as pro so you
can see this one here it's got the
little crown and pro written next to it
you will have to be on the pro plan or
get canva pro to unlock those now while
there is a lot of templates in here and
you can customize them up in comparison
to the next option these templates are
fairly basic so make sure you stick
around for the next option as well but
i'm going to go ahead and pick this one
here and let's customize this up so you
can see here that this is actually made
up of four pages essentially the scenes
to this little video intro we don't need
to add them all we can pick and choose
but i'm going to go ahead and pick apply
all four pages so we're going to start
off with their entire template and this
template also comes with a music track
as well for the purposes of this
recording i'm going to disable that or
delete it so that it is not in the
recording here so i'm just going to tap
on the music track here come up the top
to the trash can to remove that but if
you do want to add or use music in here
you can always come over to more down
the bottom and choose audio and there's
music tracks in there okay so now let's
start to customize this up let's say
that we don't want to have this big
smiley face in here we can just tap on
it to select it and we can come up to
the trash can here to delete it likewise
with these little stars down the bottom
here if we don't want those we can
select them we could just move it around
we could change the color of them if we
wanted to but let's remove those here
and with the text if we wanted to change
the text we can just double tap on it to
select it and we can either type in our
text say primal video we can resize this
box here so it all fits
we have the ability in here to change
the font so we could find primal video
font which is oswald we could make it
bold and start to dial in our brand that
way or in our case we do have the primal
video logo on my device here so i'm
going to go ahead and use that instead
so if we don't want this text again we
come up to the trash can and remove it
i'm going to now go over to the uploads
area this is where you'll upload any
images or videos or anything you want to
use in your template so i've already got
the primal video logo uploaded here but
you can just hit upload media to upload
your files so i'm going to add in our
primal video logo here and now let's do
something about this pink background
because pink's not really a primal video
color so if we select the background
here now then we can come up to the top
here to color and we can choose our
primal video blue now let's come across
and grab this other pink area here let's
change the color on that one come up to
color come down to the blue so you can
see how easy it is to customize this
stuff up we might also with this piece
selected move it across a little bit as
well just so it looks a little bit
different now let's edit up this text so
we'll double tap on this box here let's
select all the text in there and let's
say grow an audience
and scale your revenue now stretch out
this box so it all fits on one line and
then let's pick it up and move it across
so you can see how quick we're able to
build something and now let's say we
want to add some animation to these
things as our intro starts so let's
select our logo here let's come up the
top to animate and then here you've got
a few different presets that we can use
for each of the different elements to
animate them onto the screen i might go
this one here tumble and now let's pick
the next one down here this text box and
see how that one that can come into
screen so we might go rise for that one
and let's say that we wanted this arrow
to be animated as well let's select on
the arrow let's choose animate and we'll
go breathe with this one now you can see
you get access to some free ones in here
as well or for some of these other
effects then those are on the paid plan
okay so we've got some simple text we've
got our logo in there we've got some
basic animation happening what we can do
now is if we just select this entire
page so if we just tap somewhere on our
project then we can come up the top here
to the actual timing so this is how long
we want this first scene or first page
to be shown on our video intro so this
one here i'm just going to make it two
seconds to shorten that down a little
bit and let's go up the top here and
play this and just see what it looks
like already with only some basic stuff
changed okay so we had our title screen
come in then switching to two quick
video clips and then back to another
title screen so we come back over here
to close now again we don't need to have
these two video clips play we could just
hit the three little dots on them and
delete them or we can swap them out for
our own video footage so i'm going to
select number two here now come up and
select the video clip on it i'm going to
hit the trash can to remove their clip
and then i'm going to come over to
uploads i'm going to choose videos and
i'm going to upload a couple of video
files that we can use if you don't have
any video clips or images that you want
to use then you can come under elements
and there's lots of different graphics
and images and videos and things in here
that you can use in your projects so go
back to uploads and let's just pick this
first clip here let's scale it up so
that it fits and we don't want this
whole clip because it goes for 41
seconds so at the top here we want to
hit on the pair of scissors to trim this
down and we're going to choose the piece
that we want so just this piece here of
me on camera and let's pick this other
piece at the end here it's a really
short one second piece here obviously
we're seeing a low quality preview now
let's come across to the next one down
here and we'll do the same let's get rid
of their clip let's select it press the
trash can let's grab another one of our
clips
let's press this one here
scale it up so it fits
and come up the top here to the scissors
to pick an area of this that we want to
have in there now because these are only
the flash up quick between the titles
i'm going to add in another one so i'm
going to come down to the bottom here to
this plus press on this we're adding a
new page we can select the pink we can
remove it we can come over here and add
in another video clip let's go this one
then we can scale it up we can come up
here to the scissors again choose the
area that we like now we can come down
here we can pick this up and let's move
it before the last title so we have our
main intro title that we created we've
got three quick video clips they're
going to play for a second each and then
we've got our end that's going to show
up here so let's customize that up now
let's come over here let's again select
the pink areas and let's change the
color to be our primal video blue let's
remove some of these extra elements here
let's edit this text by double tapping
on it let's jump into it and let's make
that our primal video font oswald
bold let's make this arrow white now
let's deselect that by just tapping on
the screen here somewhere off our
template come up the top here where it
says 5.7 this is how long this slide is
going to go for let's try dropping this
down to about two seconds and now let's
check the animation on this so let's
the text box let's come up here to the
three little dots for more menu options
and we can see it's got the shift
animation applied to it again we could
pick a different animation if we want
i'm just going to go ahead and leave it
on shift for this one so let's deselect
that to get back out of it and let's go
ahead now and give this a play just to
preview it so we can see what we've
built so far let's go you want to come
up the top here to play it says the
total length is seven seconds it's going
to give us a low quality preview
okay not too bad maybe we'll make it a
little bit quicker so let's come back to
these three video clips
and let's make them much shorter they're
currently going for one second let's
maybe make them 0.3 seconds each
just as really quick
okay so it says now we're at five
seconds let's play this again it's gonna
be a low quality preview it's gonna play
back smoother on the finished one so
it's much punchier and we finish on
let's jump into it which is what i say
before we jump into the content of the
video so it's looking pretty good now
one thing i do like to add in here is if
we go to close back here is just to add
a blank page at the end and let's change
the color of this to be black and let's
have this show up for 0.1 seconds which
is the shortest amount of time so this
means that our videos is going to finish
on a complete blank screen so now let's
preview this this will animate out that
last slide as well then it disappears
and that's what will then cut to me in
the video continuing with the video now
obviously at this point there's so much
more inside of canva that you could do
to customize this up but when you're
done with it all we need to do is come
up the top here to the little download
button and it's giving the option here
to select your file type it's suggesting
mp4 because we've got a video so i'm
going to leave it as that we get to
choose we want to export all six pages
all six scenes that we created and then
let's go ahead and download that and
then we can save this to our device
so now we've got our animation saved on
our device that we can now use in any
video editing app and again for this one
i chose to have no audio there is audio
that you can use inside of canva here
under audio or where we go for audio for
things like this or for music for our
youtube videos is to epidemic sound or
to art list and i'll have links to those
in the description below
so that was option number one using
canva option number two is using a
service called place it now technically
playset isn't an app but it does work
really really well through your mobile
web browser so you want to head over to
placeit.net come up and create a free
account at the top here
or you can log in if you've already got
an account and then you want to come up
to videos and then intros and outros so
again there is so much more in here than
just what i'm showing you but this is an
amazing service for really high quality
professional looking video intros and
outros and graphics and animations and
things that you can use in your videos
so you can see here just by previewing
some of these these are next level on
what you get access to inside of canva
and again you have the ability to
customize these up with your fonts your
logos and graphics and things all from
within your web browser here so you can
see some of the templates here are just
logo animations or text animated others
have images others have video so you
really have a lot of different templates
and presets in here that you can start
with to customize up i'm going to go
ahead and pick this one here it's got a
cool glitch effect that matches a lot of
the titles that we use in our videos and
again you can see you've got the same
sort of slide system down the bottom
here just as we saw in canva okay so
straight out with this one let's change
the tagline
let's go grow an audience and scale your
revenue now we'll upload our logo so
we'll go upload image
and choose browse pick the square one
this time we can crop it
now to preview this one we're going to
go down the bottom to play all this is
going to go through and process our
videos that we're able to see a preview
of it this is a little bit slower than
canva but again the templates and
graphics and stuff are definitely next
level
okay really simple that was really quick
to create so we'll back out of this now
obviously we've still got the music
enabled on here as well we can change
that over on the side here we can turn
it on and off we can also customize up
our background here too but let's say
that we wanted to take this a little bit
further and we wanted to add another
slide let's go add a slide you can see
that we're not just limited to adding
the same sorts of slides we can really
add in anything that we want here based
on these presets let's go ahead and pick
this one so we can add some video clips
and images and things in in terms of
text for this one let's just remove the
text we don't need to have any text on
this one
let's remove the text from the next box
as well and we can go ahead and upload
our own videos and images in here as
well so let's go to our photo library so
this one here says it's for image two
we've got image one over here so we can
also upload one over here for image one
so we come over here to playback speed
and we can up this from one to 1.5 and
we'll probably do that for scene number
one as well so select on that go back
over here adjust the playback speed to
be 1.5 that's going to speed things up a
bit now you could just use either one of
these you don't need to have two scenes
or you might even find that scene one
here might play better or flow better
after scene number two so we could swap
those around so now let's come down the
bottom here let's go to play all let's
see what that looks like
okay that's looking pretty good now
obviously i've just dropped in some
random video clips here you could
actually have things that really
showcase your business your brand your
youtube channel but you can see how easy
and how fast this is just by picking a
few random clips that these templates
are so polished and so easy to customize
up you can create something awesome in
just a matter of minutes that's a good
idea to come up the top here and hit
save draft just so you've got a backup
in case something happens and once
you're done before you can download your
video you will need to go down to the
bottom left and hit play all so we can
go through and process your video now
you can download your creation for free
but it will have the made with playset
watermark on it which you can see on
screen there now or to remove the
watermark and download a full high
quality version of your creation you can
either purchase it as a one-time
purchase where you're just buying that
one-off creation or the other option is
to jump on their monthly or annual
subscription which is going to give you
access to all of their templates all of
their graphics and everything inside of
place it for either a monthly fee or an
annual fee which is ridiculously cheap
from there when your video is ready to
download you'll receive an email saying
it's good to go and it'll also show up
at the top here under my download so you
can see here we can click here to
download this now we can save it to our
device to using any video editing app or
device and typically in my experience
this download process takes no more than
a couple of minutes so for those of you
that are just after something pretty
basic then that's where canva could be a
good option but for those of you that
are looking for the next level templates
then you really can't go past place it
so that's how easy it is to create an
amazing video intro using canva and
place it now earlier in this video i
said i'd also share with you my number
one tip to not kill your video
engagement when you're using an animated
video intro and that tip is to not use
your video intro right at the start of
your video you'll be driving people away
from your video before they even know if
they're in the right place so if you
think back to the start of this video i
didn't play a video animation straight
up in this video i'll show you how to
make a professional animated video intro
for youtube using just your iphone or
android smartphone fast and easy instead
start your video off with a quick
sentence or two talking about what the
video is about you want to hook your
viewers into your content first before
showing them your fancy video intro
that's what we're covering in this video
so i strongly recommend that you're
starting off first with a hook and then
lead into your new intro animation and
now that you have your video intro
sorted if you're looking for where you
can get amazing royalty-free music and
royalty free stock video footage for
your videos then check out the two
videos i've got linked on screen now
covering both of those topics and i'll
see you in the next one