- You know those animated lower-thirds
that you see over here that's totally custom
with my name and my profile picture and my Instagram handle?
Well, how in the world do you actually create those
so they're completely custom?
Well, in this video, I'm going to answer
that exact question, because I got this question
in the Thriving Side Hustle Video Creator's Community
over on Facebook, that's my Facebook group.
This came from June, she said,
"Hey Meredith, do you have a tutorial
"on how to create this animated IG handle on YouTube?"
Well, as it happens, June,
I need to create a completely updated one,
because I recently switched my Instagram username
from vidpromom to meredithmarsh.co,
and if you're thinking, isn't that crazy?
All of your other YouTube videos
have the IG handle for vidpromom.
Yes, it's crazy, but that's what I did.
So meredithmarsh.co is my new Instagram handle,
and it's been years since I created
a new lower-third over here.
Or is it over here?
For my name, so I downloaded a couple of new ones here.
I want to show you how I did that, where I got them
and how I customize them for my name, my Instagram handle,
using Adobe After Effects,
but if you don't have After Effects
and you don't want to learn After Effects,
no big deal, I have another great hack for you.
You're gonna love it, it's gonna save you tons of time.
So I have purchased lots of animated graphics,
lower-thirds, audio files and things like that
through a company called Envato.
They have VideoHive.net, AudioJungle, GraphicsRiver,
I think it's called.
So what you're gonna do is come on over to VideoHive.net.
I put a direct link down in the description below this video
and then come on over and figure out exactly
what type of file you want to download.
So if you want to download an After Effects template
like I have done, then it's just a template.
All you have to do is open it up in After Effects
and make the adjustments.
I'll show you step-by-step how I did this.
In my case, what I did is I searched
for an After Effects template.
All I had to do was come down here and search lower-third.
We could do lower-third in After Effects,
and then you can get even more specific
and search for Instagram lower-third
or a title lower-third or something.
There's so many different options.
This is the one that I used for my title,
where it has my name and my website,
so you can see this one right here.
In this file that you download,
you can choose from any of these.
You can customize them, choose the one that you wanna use,
and then just export the one that you wanna use.
And then over here for social media lower-thirds,
you have all these different options here.
Now both of the designs that I'm using
are from mistro designs on VideoHive.net,
so I'll put a direct link to the exact ones
that I purchased and downloaded
so you can copy me if you want to.
I'm totally okay with that.
You just want to make sure when you're looking
at these options that you come down here,
and it will tell you what files are included.
So if you're looking for an After Effects template,
then make sure you're actually going to be
purchasing an After Effects template
and not a template for another program
that you're not using.
So I have After Effects open over here.
We don't have anything open in it,
so I'm just gonna come over to what I downloaded,
double-click.
You don't have to know what you're doing in After Effects
with animation and all that stuff
in order to customize these files.
The files are already created.
All you have to do is come in and add your name,
your logo and all that stuff.
And most of the files that you download
from Envado Market actually have tutorials
and step-by-step guides of how exactly to do this.
That's where I learned how to do it.
Now, if you don't want to learn how to use After Effects
or even how to just add a few skills to your resume
and just customizing a few After Effects files,
that's totally fine.
Trust me, I totally get it.
One thing you can do is actually use Fiverr,
and I love going to Fiverr for getting little things done.
So what you would actually do is download the file
that you would want to use and customize
from Envado Market or VideoHive.net.
Again, I put those links down below
in the description below this video.
So you would make that purchase,
download the file and then come over here to Fiverr.
If you're not familiar with Fiverr,
I put a link down in my profile
so that you can check it out for yourself.
Just create a free account, then log-in, come over here
and then you would just search for After Effects,
and what you're looking for is somebody
that you can pay a very affordable rate
to have them do what you need to have done in After Effects.
So this is a great way to get something done really quickly
without you having to figure out how to do it yourself.
So what I did is I found this guy here.
So what he says is,
"I will do anything in Adobe After Effects."
He has a good rating over here,
so I'm comfortable sending him $5
or however much it would cost.
I'm not asking for him
to create something completely from scratch,
so I'm going to actually send him an order
to do my Instagram lower-third
and have him working on that
while we work on my name lower-third.
Before I actually make this purchase, though,
what we wanna do is actually hit 'Contact Seller',
just to make sure that this is something that he can do
and wants to do for us since we're not really asking him
to create an After Effects animation from scratch.
So I'm gonna send him this message, we'll hit 'Send',
and then I'll come back when I hear back from him,
and we'll keep moving forward with this.
For those of you who do want to develop your skills,
your video-editing skills, your After Effects skills,
let's dive in to exactly how to customize these files
inside of Adobe After Effects.
So the first thing we're gonna do here
now that we have this loaded up.
Obviously, we want to work on one thing at a time here,
so under this file here called 'Main',
we're going to see which of these lower-thirds
that we want to edit so I need to choose one.
I think I'm gonna go with this one over here,
so I need to figure out, which one is that?
Not that one, is it this one?
Okay, so it is this one called LT07.
Double-click it so now I'm just looking
at this one lower-third and we can edit this.
So the first thing that we need to do here
is I'm going to put my...
Let's see, do I want my logo or my picture?
I think I'll do my picture here on this one.
So I just double-clicked on that,
and then I come down to this one that says 'Change Image'.
I'm gonna double-click on that,
and it's going to open up this square here,
and this is where we wanna put our actual image.
So I'm going to actually select this here
and then just hit 'Delete',
we're gonna remove that text from the screen,
'cause we don't want it to say 'Your Image',
we want to actually have our image in there.
Then I'm gonna come up here to this assets folder right here
and we need to actually add our image to that folder.
So I know that I have an image here
that I could maybe drop and drag?
Yes, that works.
So now I'm going to take this image,
I'm going to drag it down here,
and it's going to create this image
on this After Effects timeline for us.
Now if we go back over to this LT07 tab over here,
there's our image, but we need to edit this a little bit,
so I'm gonna go back here to this image one,
hit 'Change Image' and I'm going to right-click
and come down to transform and then scale,
and we're going to scale this up.
Ooh, let's go back a little bit.
So you can see how it's still staying within that circle,
and that's exactly what we want it to do.
So I'm gonna scale it up
and make sure you hit that little preview checkbox
so you can actually see what it looks like over here,
and then hit okay.
So now we need to change our name.
You can see down here where we changed the image
and then we have photography vlogger,
so that's this little title down here,
so we need to change that,
but then we also need to change the name,
because my name's definitely not Diane Sherman.
I'm going to double-click on this,
it's gonna highlight for me here.
I'm gonna select all
and then just start typing my name like that,
and it fits perfectly there, so that's pretty good.
If I wanted to, I could change the font
to something different.
I could change the size, I could do...
Well, that doesn't make any sense.
I could do pretty much anything I want here.
I usually like to use Avenir.
Something about Avenir I tend to stick with.
If I choose Avenir Next or Avenir Next Condensed,
then it's a little bit smaller.
I do usually like to have mine in all caps.
Not bold, all caps, there we go.
But we need it to be a little bit darker,
so let's try medium.
Yeah, I think that works out okay,
and then we can change the size.
Something like this,
and then I think I'm good with that.
I think that looks pretty good the way that it is.
So coming down to change photography vlogger.
Let me double-click on that,
and I think what I'm gonna do is just put vidpromom.com.
Let's make sure I get an actual dot in there.
Vidpromom.com, and I'm gonna just make this really simple
and just give this a few spaces so that my 'M' and my 'V'
actually line up with each other over there.
So to see how this looks all together,
if you just bring this scrubber bar, current time indicator,
and just bring it all the way back on the timeline,
and you can just scrub through this
to see what it looks like.
Now obviously, I need to change the color.
If I hit the space bar, it'll also just play
just like any regular video-editing software would.
Now to change the color of all these things,
we want to come over here to this main project here,
and under 'Effects Control' we wanna make sure
that we have this 'Color Control' selected right here,
and you can see how we have reds and whites,
and we have this dark, almost like a black, color.
What we wanna do is I'm gonna grab the code
for my blue color that I use a lot of times,
and I'm gonna make sure that I put that in for the red,
and we'll see what this looks like.
So anything that was red I'm making this aqua color here.
Ooh, yeah, I really like that.
I'm not gonna worry about all the rest of these,
'cause I'm only gonna use
this one lower-third for right now,
and I actually really like those colors.
The white is fine, that black color is totally fine.
So now everything is colored the way
that I want it to be colored.
My lower-third here, I think this looks great.
I love this animation.
So when you're happy with this
and you think you are good to go,
what you're gonna do is come up here under 'File'
and then 'Export', choose 'Add to Render Queue'.
This is gonna open up the render queue,
which is going to be a little box down here,
and you wanna come in and make sure under 'Output Module',
you're going to select lossless.
Open this up, make sure it is a QuickTime format,
that is going to create a .mov file.
That is how we want it to be,
and then you also want to select, for 'Channels',
you want to select RGB + Alpha,
and then come down here and we don't have any audio,
so we don't need to worry about that.
So we're just gonna hit OK.
Make sure this is selected over here under render,
and then just hit render,
and we're gonna see how this turns out on the other end.
It may take just a few minutes
for this to actually create the file for you.
So over here in Final Cut Pro,
I have this file here on my desktop.
I'm just gonna drag it down
so we can see what this looks like.
And yeah, there's my lower-third, my brand new lower-third.
All right, good news.
I heard back from this fellow over on Fiverr,
and he responded that he could in fact
go ahead and do the request that I asked him for,
to create social media, my Instagram, lower-third.
And we'll make this payment, he'll get the order.
I'll send him the files, and then we will be good to go.
Hit play on this, we'll see what it looks like.
Yeah!
So you already saw these in action,
but here is my name lower-third,
and then here is my Instagram handle lower-third.
Those are the two ones that I use
in conjunction with the subscribe lower-third,
but that ones not actually customized.
I'll put a link down below
to where I downloaded that file as well.
So you don't even have to customize it,
you can download it and use it just the way it is.
It even has its own sound effects.
And if you're totally new to editing videos,
creating videos for YouTube, a total video-editing newbie,
you're in the right spot, I've got you covered.
I have a whole playlist over here covering
all kinds of different tips and tricks and tutorials
for beginner video-editing,
but I put my top ten tips in my Edit Like A Pro Cheat Sheet,
which I'll link to you down in the description.
So you can implement those tips
and come off as a little more polished
and a little less amateur in your next YouTube video.