- Here's how to create animated titles quickly and easily.
In this video I'm gonna run through exactly
how to make professional animated titles step-by-step.
Plus I'll also share the three animated titles
or motion graphics
that every creator should have ready to go
to help speed up your video creation.
Now these days there's lots of different tools
and apps and things that you can use
to create motion graphics and animated titles
and the process is so much easier
than last time we made a video on the same topic.
So in this video, I'm gonna take you through
a few different methods
to help you create your animated titles
and I would strongly suggest that you stick around
to see all the methods out through to completion
so that you can pick the best method for you.
And yes, some of these processes are super simple
so even if you're an absolute beginner,
I got you covered in here right through to some
that are a little more advanced as well.
So I'm gonna start off with probably the easiest method
which is just using the built-in preset animated titles
in your video editing software.
Now, obviously, this is gonna change
no matter which software you're using.
Some of them will come with a ton of built-in titles
and animations and presets and things.
Others, you won't have too many.
But I wanna cover this one quickly first
because this might do everything you need.
So the example I've got here is just on iMovie,
free software on Mac.
If we come up the top here to go and add a title,
you can see that we've got quite a few animated titles here
that we can literally just drag and drop onto our project
and we can customize them up.
So I've got everything from full screen titles
to even some lower thirds or some name tag titles
that you'd have just down the bottom of your video.
So let's just grab this title.
Let's drag it down onto our editing timeline here.
We can double click on it to bring up the text edit box
and we can type in whatever we'd like
and now we play this through.
We'll see that we have some motion graphics
or some animation that's happening.
And again, you'll probably find
there's lots of different ones to choose from.
Now, some video editing applications like Filmora
will let you take this one step further
and they'll have their own dedicated shop
or area where you can purchase and download
a lot more effects and titles and transitions and things.
Even apps like KineMaster have this as well.
So option number one here
is just to check what you've already got built-in
to your editing application.
Option number two builds upon that,
and again, it's a very simple method
that's gonna work with most video editing software or apps
and that is to add titles or text to your video
and then animate them within the application itself
or add effects to make them look good.
So I'm over in Final Cut now
because there's a few more effects
and examples in here that I can show you.
We're just gonna go ahead and add in a basic title.
And again, you can follow this process
in pretty much any video editing tool.
Again, we've got a lot of the presets and things
that we talked about in the first option.
But we're just gonna go ahead and grab a basic title here
and click and drag that down to our timeline.
Again, I'm just gonna double click on it
so that we can edit the text.
Let's type in Justin Brown.
We can pick it up and we can move it down the bottom here.
We can customize this up
so we can change the font to be Oswald
which is our Primal Video font.
We can make it bigger
and we can customize this up to match our brand.
So as it is right now,
we've just got a title that just appears on screen
and then disappears.
So there's no animation, no movement,
or anything happening.
So this is where we can come over here now
and add in a video transition to this
so that it will appear on screen
a little bit better than just flashing on screen.
So let's grab this wipe transition.
Let's pick it up.
Let's drag it onto our clip here.
And if we come back here now and preview this,
we can see now our title is going to wipe on screen
so you can see already we can start to customize things up
for the way that we want them to look.
Now, if I actually play that, you'll see it's pretty quick.
We can adjust the speed of this
by extending or shortening that transition
and if we select the transition,
we can even make adjustments to the edge of the transition.
So if I come back here,
you can see that it's kind of a blurred edge
coming on screen.
We can actually adjust that up here
so that it's a hard edge if we'd like.
So now it's a much cleaner wipe
bringing this text on the screen.
Now in here, obviously,
there's a lot of different transitions and things
that you can use to bring your text on screen
and to create some really cool animations,
but we can even take this easily one step further
by adding a shape or a graphic in behind this.
And again, while you might be clicking somewhere different
in your own software,
the process here is gonna be exactly the same.
So I'm gonna come up here to generators,
and I'm gonna grab
a solid custom background image essentially,
and I'm gonna put it down beneath our text here.
Now I'm gonna select on it.
I'm gonna come up the top here,
and I'm gonna change the size of it
so we can either scale it down or crop it down,
move it to where we want it to go.
We can change the color of it over here,
maybe something close to our Primal Video blue.
Now, if we just preview it as it is right now,
we can see that the background appears
and then the text is going to appear over the top of it.
But we can also add that same animation here
onto our background as well
so that the two of them line up.
So we can either come over here,
grab that same transition and apply it here again
or we can normally just select that effect
or that transition.
We can copy it.
Going up to edit copy,
and then we can paste it on that clip
using the keyboard shortcuts
or we can choose edit paste.
Now, when we play this back,
we can see that we've now got a decent looking title
very, very simply just using our editing tools.
There's lots of other transitions
and things that you could have:
you could have your text blur onto the screen,
you could have it fade in,
you could even do something simple
like just adjusting the start times on these two clips
so that maybe the background comes in first
and the text comes in just a little bit later.
So it's really not too hard
to start to build out these sorts of things yourself,
and once you've got them made,
you can just copy and paste them
between all of your different editing projects.
so you're not having to start again from scratch each time.
Now, if you're somebody who's looking to take things
to the next level
or you're not interested
in building out your titles yourself
then this is where a service like Placeit
is really, really powerful.
So this isn't a free option
but it is incredibly cheap.
So we can just come up the top here
and we can search for titles
and you can see we've got title intro, video title.
I'm just gonna go title.
And there's lots of different presets and templates in here
that we can customize up and use in our videos
and edit the text and everything live here
on the Placeit website.
So we can pick something simple like this one here,
minimalistic intro,
and it's gonna give us a live preview here.
And so these titles here are designed
to be full screen titles
but there is a little work around on here
to be able to use these as overlay titles
on your video as well.
So if you don't want the background here
or you wanna be able to move the title around
in your editing application,
I'm gonna show you that too.
But all we need to do is to come over here
and just start typing in our text
so we can go Justin in this one.
Maybe we'll go Brown in this one.
And let's just see what the preview looks like.
So you can see fully animated custom title
just made in a few seconds.
I mean, I'm not a big fan of the brown color
so we could come over here
and we could change that
to maybe, again, something similar to our Primal Video blue.
We can turn on or off the music that comes with it
so we might want to turn that off.
We can adjust the playback speed
so if we want this to happen faster or slower
we've got all of that in here.
We can also adjust the fonts.
So again, we could make this something similar
to our Primal Video font,
and we can even pick the different background images,
again, if we want to use this as a full screen title.
Now it's very faint there
but you can see that there is currently
a Placeit watermark on here.
That's because we are currently
not even logged into an account.
So you can jump on here,
you can have a play around,
you can build these things out,
and see what works for you
without even needing to create an account.
Now, in terms of pricing,
if we do come up the top here
to go to download this,
it's gonna give us two options.
We can buy this title as a single video purchase in full HD
with no watermark and commercial usage and everything,
is all good.
We can buy it once for $9.99 US
or we can jump on the Placeit subscription
for 14.95 per month
or 89.69 per year
which is gonna give us unlimited access
to everything that Placeit offers,
which isn't just limited to the video templates
and things that I've shown you.
There's heaps of stuff in here
for creating mockups for designs and merchandise
helping you build things like Instagram posts
or PDF downloads
and even logo design as well.
So I already have an account.
I'm gonna go ahead and log in
and download this
and we can see what it looks like
in our editing applications.
So now that's downloaded,
we can drop it in to our editing timeline
and this is what it looks like.
So I just love how fast and easy it is
to create awesome looking titles like this in Placeit.
Now, this is obviously a full screen title.
If we just want the text piece,
we can do that in Placeit as well
for most of their templates.
We wanna come back over to Placeit.
We want to remove our background image.
We wanna change our background color here
where it says image color.
We wanna change that to a bright green or a bright blue:
a solid color that you haven't used
in the rest of your video here.
Once you've applied that,
download the file again
then take it back into your video editing application.
So now when we bring this title in,
you can see it's just got a plain green background.
We can easily remove that green
just applying a green screen effect
or a chroma key effect.
So you wanna find that effect in your editing application.
So for me on Final Cut,
it's over here, under effects,
down under keying,
and then we've got keyer.
So I can just drag this onto there
and you can see it's automatically removed the green for me.
Now that process might be a little bit different
in your application,
but it'll be really simple
to apply that green screen effect.
And then from here, we can just move this
to wherever we want to have it play.
We can even adjust the position of it.
Say, if we wanna move it down the bottom here.
And now when we hit play,
we can see this play out in its entirety.
So again, I love this that we can just create this once,
we can use it in multiple videos
so you don't have to create it every single time.
So Placeit is an amazing tool for creating motion graphics
and titles and things like this.
And if you go back over to Placeit,
they do have some lower third titles
or some name banners here
that are already on the green background for you
so that you can just click in, customize, change colors,
change the fonts,
and you're gonna be good to go.
Now, the last method I've got for you
is a little bit more complicated
but it does have more customization
and I also think they've probably got
the best looking motion graphic titles,
and animations and things
and that is using services like VideoHive and Motion Array,
those are my top two picks,
and purchasing and downloading a title animation pack.
Now in here, we can see at the top,
we've got a menu here for After Effects, Adobe Premier,
Apple Motion, which is Final Cut as well,
and DaVinci Resolve.
There's also an extra option here
just for generic motion graphics
and these will work in any video editing app or software
but they're not customizable like these other ones here are.
Now, if you're not using one of these applications
and you are looking for custom graphics like this
first thing to do would be
to Google your video editing software name
and motion graphics
and just see if there is any preset templates and things
that you can buy and customize up
like you'll find here on VideoHive.
Now the other option is you could grab one of these
After Effects title templates
and then find someone on places like Fiverr or Upwork
to customize it up for you.
Now we do have an older video on our channel
which I will link in the description box below
taking you through the process of manually customizing up
one of those templates.
So if that's something that you're interested in,
and again, you're not using one of these applications
then definitely check out that video.
But for now, I'm gonna go up to Adobe Premier Pro,
down to titles,
and we can start to see the type of titles
and animations and graphics and stuff in here.
So you can see this one title pack here for $29.
It says it's got 900 plus titles and graphics in here.
Next one, across here, lower thirds.
We've got a lot of different options in this one as well.
Same with this next one here,
hand drawn brush titles.
Again, all of these are fully customizable.
You can change all this stuff up
and there's literally drag and drop
once you've got it installed in your editing application.
If we scroll down,
you can see there is just pages and pages of options here.
So I'm gonna go ahead and click on this one here.
I'm gonna purchase it
and I'm gonna install it into Adobe Premier.
Now for this template in the download file,
this is what we've got.
There's some help files here
telling you how to install this plug-in,
how to actually use it.
There's even a step-by-step video tutorial
that comes with it as well
and we've got the files to install.
So for this specific one in Premier
all we need to do is come up to graphics and titles,
install motion graphics templates.
We go and find our graphic packs here.
We can select our glitch title.
I'm just gonna pick glitch one here at the moment.
Now that's opened up our essential graphics area here
or motion graphics area in Adobe Premier.
Let's just search for that.
It was called glitch
and we can see we've got our title here.
Now, all I need to do is click and drag on that title,
drop it down into our timeline.
And if we just play through this now,
we can see that we've got that animated title in there.
Now we can edit this up,
again, fully customizable.
We can change the text on the top here
to Primal Video and the bottom one here to Justin Brown.
We can change all the fonts
and the sizing and everything on here.
Maybe we'll scale it down
and maybe we'll drop it down a little bit lower as well.
Maybe we'll center it on my shirt here.
So let's just hit play on this.
Again, minimal customization
and it already looks pretty good.
Now, obviously, this is just a normal video clip on here
so we can cut it,
we can shorten it,
we can extend it,
we can really do anything we'd like with this
but we've just saved ourselves so much time
in going to manually create all of this ourselves.
So that's how easy it is
to add great looking animated titles and graphics
to your videos.
Now earlier in the video, I said,
I'd also share with you three motion graphics
or three animated titles
that every video creator should have
to help you speed up your creation process.
These are titles that you're likely gonna be using
in every one of your videos
so having these pre-made and ready to go means
that you can just copy and paste
or just drag and drop them in
saving you a ton of time trying to create these things
for every single project.
So the three titles I'd recommend you create,
the first one is your name card or your lower third.
This is something that you'll likely use
towards the start of every one of your videos
when you come on screen.
The second one is a title screen
or a title template
that you can use to have the title of your video,
the topic of your video showing up inside the video itself.
And that's something that you can easily
just change the text on
for each one of your videos.
And the third one will be your calls to action.
So asking people to give your video thumbs up,
or asking them to subscribe,
or to visit your website,
whatever your standard calls to action are,
then create titles and animations for those two.
Now, while this is something that sounds so simple
it's really gonna be something
that's gonna save you a ton of time
not having to worry about these things
once you've spent the time creating them once.
So now that you've got some
awesome professional titles ready to go,
make sure you check out the video linked on screen
all around the best royalty free stock music sites
to help you find amazing background music
for your videos too.
I'll see you in there.