in this video I'm gonna show you how to
make a professional animated logo sting
or a video bumper or a video intro for
YouTube whatever you call this thing on
screen right now I'm gonna show you how
to do it fast and easily hey it's Justin
Brown here from primal video where we
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it animated video intros are an awesome
way to brand your videos and to create
an image of professionalism and
consistency across all of your online
content not only that it also builds
brand recognition and familiarity for
your viewers so how do you make one well
I'm going to show you 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 any
video animation to make sure that you're
not gonna kill your video engagement or
your watch time alright so how do you do
it well there's some awesome tools out
there right now that make creating a
professional custom intro super easy now
up until recently we usually recommended
grabbing a template from places like
videohive
and customizing that up so that you're
not starting from absolute scratch now
that's still a solid option but it does
require some advanced software like
Adobe After Effects to be able to
customize those templates up but now
there is a simple tool that you can use
to do it all without any of that
confusing professional software and it's
cold place it and it's actually made by
the same company that runs videohive
called Envato now while it doesn't have
anywhere near the full template catalog
that's available on video hive it does
have a lot in there to choose from and
you can customize the templates up right
on the website being able to add in text
change the fonts change the colors add
in images really customize them up for
your brand and for the look and feel
that you're after now the cool part is
it's also not just video intros it's for
social media content for YouTube end
cards for photo slideshows and a lot
more as well now just before I jump
across and introduce you to place it I
do want to address something really
quickly because I can already fill the
comments
the other option that you do have here
to be able to create a video intro or
some motion graphics is that you can
spend hours learning how to use motion
graphics software or compositing
software like Adobe After Effects or
Apple motion and build your own from
scratch but realistically unless you
have the hours required and the patience
required to learn all of those programs
then the whole process can really turn
itself into a real time vampire and
that's why I always recommend using
something like place it or like
videohive which gets you pretty much the
same result in far less time and far
less headaches as well so unless you're
interested in sitting down and learning
how to use software like Adobe After
Effects or Apple motion I would strongly
recommend going this other route and
believe me this is super simple and it's
going to be a game-changer for the stuff
that you're now going to be able to
create okay so this is place it you can
see on this menu across the top here
there's lots of stuff you can use this
for but what we're covering here is
videos and then again you can see so
many things in relation to videos that
you can customize up in here but the one
that we want is intros so you can see
here straight away intro maker for your
YouTube channel and as you go down here
you can see there are so many different
intros and things that you can use your
mouse over some of these so you can see
them and these are so simple for you to
customize up and they're crazy cheap as
well so the longest part of this entire
process is going to be picking and
finding which one of these is the one
that you want to use for this example
here I'm just gonna go something simple
let's go this one here with the smoke or
the dust effect and pricing wise you can
see here this template we can buy it for
9.95 or it's actually free if we're
using one of their subscription so I'm
gonna dive into the pricing now before I
show you how easy it is to customize
this up so you can either as I just
showed you you can buy the templates
outright if you only want one or two or
you can join their monthly subscription
1495 per month ninety nine ninety five
per year but it's not just the video
intros that you unlock you also get
access to their designs to mock-ups to
logos there is a heap of stuff
here says here hundreds of stunning
video templates or is he access to their
builder as well to customize up your
templates you can access over 2,000 free
music tracks and you've got the ability
to make slideshows and those kinds of
things as well so not just for YouTube
but the rest of your social media
strategy this can be a pretty powerful
tool now I also want to say at this
point that this video is definitely not
sponsored by them they have no idea that
we're even doing this this is just the
best way that I found right now to
create these animated video intros so
let's go back and let's customize up
this template so this one if we play
through it again you can see the smoke
or the dust or whatever it comes down
the logo appears and it fades out super
simple so here's all the stuff here that
we need or that we can access to
customize this up we can upload an image
so let's pick on here we'll pick our
primal video logo open that up we can
crop it or resize it if we need to
let's crop that down let's see over here
it's cropping previewing your change on
the optimal keyframe so this is a lower
quality preview let's just hit preview
video okay so that only took a few
seconds and we can see here that our
primal video logo is appearing from the
smoke
now we also get to customize up over
this side the background color and the
smoke color so let's actually choose a
blue smoke let's see what that looks
like to match more of our primal video
look you can see that this is happening
in almost real-time let's say if we
wanted actually a bright yellow or an
orange right you can see how powerful
this can be you don't need to download
and install the dhobi after-effects to
customize all this up pink why not let's
give it a go and see what that looks
like let's make the background then I
don't know let's go
something let's get the blue for the
background but you can see the power in
this right so we now got blue background
with pink coming let's go a preview here
and even the time for it to generate
these previews is just crazy fast giving
what it's actually doing
okay so here it is it's our blue
background with pink smoke coming
through you can see how easy that was to
create and you also get access up here
to add in some music or some audio
tracks you can hit edit here and go
through and select the type of music
track that you want to download or
purchase with your animation for us in
this example I'm going to click out of
that and disable it and we can also
adjust the playback speed so if we want
that effect of that animation to happen
slower we can select 0.5 speed or we can
speed it up to 1.5 speed all in here as
well once you're done you're gonna hit
download it's going to go through and is
gonna render out your video for you but
do note that you are going to have a
watermark in the bottom corner unless
you pay the nine dollars 95 still this
is crazy cheap considering what this is
letting you do and how fast you're able
to get it okay so that rendering is done
we're now able to hit download and to
download but you can see down the bottom
here that we have the watermark made
with place it so I'm gonna go back now
I'm going to pick a totally different
template something with more text on it
so you can see the level of control you
get with some of the more advanced
templates as well
and let's pick this one here it says
cyber monday but we can customize this
up okay straight into the editor you can
see that we actually get control here to
upload a logo and three photos with this
one once again you can see that they're
selling this one for 9.95
where you get control over the text
let's change this to primal video we can
select a font here or change the font if
we want we can change the color of the
text let's just pick a blue and I'll
click off that we also can upload our
logo so go through and find our logo
again upload that one I can't crop it
down obviously here for the best quality
you want to upload the correct size logo
and not really rely on this crop feature
too much so our logo is uploading there
now now these three photos photo 1 photo
2 and photo 3 were the three photos that
animating through in the background we
can customize those up and obviously
upload our own three images again we've
got control over the playback speed how
fast or how slow we want this to
playback we've got our audio track over
here and we can customize up the
background color as well so maybe we
change the background from purple to be
a darker blue and for the lines we can
leave them as black let's just go
preview now and here we go that's hidden
play primal video primal video nice you
see how quick and how simple this was
and obviously those other images in the
background we can swap these out with
our own branded images as well but how
awesome is that and how fast is this to
create these things you don't need to
worry about After Effects or buying a
template and then have to pay someone on
Fiverr to customize it up for you you
can do it all literally straight on
their website and for nine dollars 95
that is insanely cheap now in regards to
licensing with this stuff this is always
something you should look into but they
make it super simple they've created a
human readable summary of their license
terms in relation to place it and they
clearly outline here all the things you
can do and all the things you can't do
to keep it super simple but the one here
you can publish broadcast display and
distribute the content you create with
place it that's the main one we're
looking at so you are free to use this
on YouTube and inside of your videos but
it's always worth looking at this stuff
and knowing what you can and can't do
with anything like this so you can see
how fast and easy it is to quickly pick
a template to quickly customize it up to
add in your logos your fonts your colors
to make it yours for your brand and for
your videos this is by far the fastest
way that I have found to create a
professional-looking a great-looking
video animation or a logo animation for
your videos so this is going to be
perfect for anyone who is interested in
creating this stuff fast without any of
the additional work or headaches that
come with either creating one from
scratch or even going through and
finding a template on videohive
downloading that and customizing it up
manually and then saving and rendering
it out from there or even paying someone
on places like
up work or fiver to do that for you so
place it is hands down the simplest
solution but if you're someone who is
after more control or more customized
ability in those templates then that's
where starting a video - going down that
route is going to be a better option for
you or if you're someone who doesn't
even want to look at pre-built templates
as a starting point to customize up and
build from and wants to start from
absolute zero then your best bet is
going to be to try and find a motion
graphics person to build that for you
again to save you spending the massive
amount of time to be able to get up to
speed creating something that looks
great yourself I'm a big believer and a
big advocate for using templates because
there are some amazing ones out there
people have already done the work and
you can customize these up really really
fast and really really simply as we've
shown you in this video to get the
outcome that you want in the fastest
amount of time now the start of this
video I mentioned I'd also be sharing
with you my number one tip when you're
using animations and graphics like this
so that you don't kill your watch time
or your engagement with your viewers and
that tip is to not put your shiny new
video intro at the very beginning of
your video what that's going to do is to
drive people away from your video before
they even know if they're in the right
place or not and this is something that
we see all the time people starting with
an awesome intro animation explaining
the channel on the types of content they
have but you've got to look at this from
the perspective of the viewer they've
found your video on YouTube they want to
know if your video is the one that is
going to answer their pain or problem or
to cover the content that you've said
you're going to in your title and
description so you want to hook them in
and let them know first that that's
exactly what you are going to do in your
video then place your awesome intro
animation immediately after that the
start of this video I opened with in
this video I'm going to show you how to
make a professional animated logo sting
or a video bumper or a video intro for
YouTube whatever you call this thing on
screen right now I'm gonna show you how
to do it fast and easily so that way you
watching this video were able to know
exactly what I was going to be covering
inside the video then knowing that
you're in the
right place if you're interested in
watching that you'll stick around so
instead of potentially wasting your time
and showing an awesome intro animation
upfront when you still might be
questioning if this is the right video
that you should be putting your
attention towards and waiting for all of
that to finish I'm able to hit on those
points straight away and say this is
exactly what we're going to show you in
this video then immediately after that
is the perfect place to put your new
video intro because you've already told
the viewers that they are in the right
place if that's what they're interested
in learning or watching so now that
you've got your awesome video in fro
solid and you know exactly where to put
it inside your video for maximum impact
if you want to take this one step
further and level up the titles that
you're adding into your videos to make
those look a lot better as well then
check out the video linked on-screen and
I'll see you in the next video