- In this video, we're going through my method
on creating engaging YouTube introductions
that really sets up who you are as a creator
and gives your audience an idea
of what they're gonna find on your channel.
All right, let's get into it.
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All right, guys, we are talking about YouTube introductions.
Lemme just turn all the lights on.
Hey.
There we go.
We are here in the studio.
So I promise I'll do a video
that's gonna break down my background
and everything that I did to build out my studio
but today what we're talking about
is a YouTube introduction
and this video is sponsored by Pixel Film Studios
and I'm gonna be using their plugin called Glitch
which is an effect that I like to use
to give the footage kind of like glitchy quality.
And if you use code JEVENPIXEL,
you'll get 30% off this plugin.
It's a popular kind of style
to add onto your footage
and Pixel Film Studios makes it super easy
to tie into Final Cut Pro
but before we get into the computer
and start talking about how we're gonna do
this editing wise,
I just wanna talk about the reason
why you need a YouTube introduction on your videos.
But before we do that,
I just noticed that my background light is missing.
One second.
There we go.
Now it looks like I'm in the mountains or something
and there's a fire back there.
I don't, maybe I'm grilling something, I don't know.
So YouTube intro is that five to 10 seconds
that you see towards the beginning of my video.
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Typically how I do my videos
is that I do an introduction, a hook,
something that gets you into the video
that tells you what you're gonna find in my video,
especially for these kind of tutorials.
If I was doing like a vlog or something like that,
I'd probably do something
that's just exciting
that's gonna show what the video's about
and then I'll do my introduction
and in my introduction, I like to show you
that I'm a film maker, I like to do adventure
and I wanna give you a sense
of what you're gonna feel on this channel.
That's the whole reason why you do one of these intros.
It gives your video a sense of what they're gonna find
when they're watching your videos
in a quick five to 10-second little just burst
of footage and excitement
and energy really getting someone
to feel what your channel is.
You only have so many seconds
before someone's gonna click off
so you wanna first tell the viewer
what they're gonna find in the video
and then second, really give them a sense of who you are
and what you're gonna show them
to get them excited to watch your videos.
So before you even get into editing
and you start cutting, you wanna think
about what do you want your viewers
to walk away from your introduction feeling?
So for my channel,
I wanna have that sense of adventure.
I want you to feel like that this channel
is gonna take you outside into some extreme environments
and teach you film making
and teach you how to be a creator.
So what I'm gonna do is find different clips
that visually say exactly that and then also,
I'm gonna find some music that I think fits my theme.
When we're in the computer,
you could see I've pulled some clips.
I have a shot here with me holding a tripod on a boat.
I have me and an elephant.
I have a shot of me on the pier with a gimbal.
I have some alpacas fighting.
That was a pretty cool moment in Ecuador.
I just kinda pulled some different clips
that I think might cut together
to create this cool intro.
Now, for a five to 10 seconds,
you really aren't gonna be having that much footage
and also, it's gonna be cutting quick
so the more shots that you add into your intro,
the quicker it's gonna be cut.
And you also wanna have this sense of like boom, boom, boom,
you don't wanna bore your audience.
You don't want them to click away.
The whole game here is getting people excited
about your content.
So you want to have that sense of something big
is coming, I'm ready to do this, let's go.
The next step is audio
and you wanna find a song.
I use Soundstripe for all the music on my channel
and I'll put a link in the description
where you guys can check that out.
But you just wanna make sure
that you have music that's properly licensed for YouTube.
So I've already cut down the song into the section
that I wanna use but it is a little long.
So this is what I found so far.
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So it's got this kinda like tribal feel to it.
It has that sense of like adventure to it
but it is a little long.
So what I'm gonna do is cut this in half
and I'm gonna find a beat
where I can cut that it feels seamless.
So let's take the first like two to three seconds.
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And now let's find like the last two to three seconds.
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Let's trim that down a little bit more.
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Perfect.
So when it comes to music,
you really wanna cut on the beat
and you're definitely feel if the music is off
so if you're cutting at a moment
where the beat isn't continued on,
you're gonna feel like this jarring effect
with the music.
So this really comes down
to can you make the music seamless?
And so you wanna cut on a four count, an eight count.
You wanna find those moments
where you can cut and that's how you can move music around
and use the intro of one part of the song
and the outro of another
and then mix them together.
Now, I'm gonna add something to this
to make it even better and more dynamic.
So on the front half,
I have what's called a riser
and that's where the audio builds up
and so I want the audio to build up to that first beat.
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So what I do is I have the riser kinda building
underneath me talking at the intro.
So now I wanna also do this on the end.
I wanna have some sort of big hit,
some final like ending.
You can usually use the end of a song
but I also like to find like a deep hit.
So this is an effect called Deep Hit.
And we're gonna put this right on that last beat
and when you add this to the music,
it just adds a little bit more to the outro
kind of like boom, we're done.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so now I have the audio completely cleaned up.
And this is what I like to do before I get
into actually cutting the visuals.
Obviously, the visuals are the fun part
of creating things like this
but you have to make sure
that your audio is there
because that's gonna help drive what you're gonna do
with the visuals.
All right, so let's go through these shots.
When it starts, I'm gonna cut pretty much
on every beat.
So I've already marked with a marker tool where I want each
of these shots to happen so I can easily just go in here,
pull my shots and start cutting them
so that they match up.
So I wanna end on the shot of me with the camera.
Maybe we'll throw the alpacas in here.
So as you see on the markers,
I've already filled up my timeline every beat.
So it's ever boom, boom, boom there's a new shot.
Let's just watch this real quick.
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You can obviously dial this in
and really get in there and make sure
that everything's hitting on the beat
but what I wanna do now
is make this a little bit more engaging
and that's where Pixel Film Studios' effects come in.
They have a whole bunch of effects on their website
and the one in particular that we're using
for the video and what I use for my introduction
is called Glitch and you'll see this all over YouTube.
The whole Glitch style is very popular
because it really has that like video feel
where you just have like the video breaking apart,
you have like different colors coming in,
pixelation, it just has this sense
of video creators baked into it
and I think that's why a lot of people
have turned to this
to use it for different elements within their videos.
Now, with Glitch, you have tons of options
and the beauty is you have all of these different filters
and each of these filters is completely customizable,
so not only do you get a ton of filters with this plugin,
but every one of these filters
has a whole bunch of tools
that when you put it on your footage,
you can go through and change the distortion
or the pixelation or anything within the plugin
to make it your own
and that's the beauty of it
but they make it super simple.
So the next step to build my introduction
is I'm gonna use this plugin
to create transitions between all of this footage
so not only am I cutting on each of the beats
but you're gonna feel the glitchiness
and the video effects
as it goes through the entire introduction.
How this plugin works is you basically find an effect
that you wanna use and you just drag right
on top of your footage.
And it's gonna make the effect over the footage
that's underneath it.
So let's use Focus Blur.
We're gonna put this right here.
And I'm just gonna show you how this works.
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Now that I've put the focus blur on my footage,
you have some different effects here.
You have the zoom, so you can zoom in,
you can add more blur, you can add more grain,
you can randomize.
You can add some frequency.
And really, this is gonna just take tweaking
and playing around and finding settings
that best work for you.
There's no right or wrong way
to build an effect using this plugin.
It's just gonna be a sense of feel
and you have to play around until you find something
that makes sense for you
and something that you like visually.
So in the Glitch plugin,
you have access to a ton of different styles of effects.
You have what's called Datamosh,
Pixel Sorting, Digital Interference,
Color Channels, Overlays, Bad Signal,
Displacement, and Pixellate.
So using these, you can do a ton of different things
that combined give you some really interesting effects.
Now, like I was saying,
you can either drop this on top of your footage
as an overlay or if you have something like a logo
that has a transparent background,
you can use these as an effect just on the logo.
So I'm gonna use a flicker-level green artifact
and I'm just gonna drop it right onto the logo
and you can see, when you have a logo
over your footage,
it just affects the logo.
So two ways that you can work with this plugin
and like I said, I'm gonna drop mine on top
of the footage and create effects
that goes between shots
because I wanna mix everything together.
So what you do is you pull the effect on top
of your footage, you shrink it down to the size
that you need between each shot
and what I like to do is take the effects
and have it go from one shot to the next.
Now, you can double these up,
put other effects together
to create interesting combos
and you're gonna use your controls to tweak these
and change them and really make them your own.
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So using the Glitch effect,
you can really add a different quality
to your footage and it just makes it pop.
And one of the really cool things about this plugin
is that it is super fast to work with
and you're not waiting around for the effect to render.
So guys, I'll put a link down in the description
to Glitch where you guys can check that out.
More information about it.
There's also a discount code you can see here
on the screen and it'll also be down
in the description so make sure you guys pick that.
(buzzing)
So make sure you guys pick that up
because I think it's an awesome effect to use.
Not only in your introductions but in different parts
around your videos.
Looks like my light has died.
I definitely did not charge it enough
before I did this shoot.
But guys, that's it.
So I will see you on the next one.