So many people that are new to YouTube are always asking about how they can get a really
cool intro for their YouTube channel or to animate the logo of their business or their
podcast. And on this video, I'm going to show you the easiest, quickest and cheapest way.
There are many ways that you can make an animated logo or a stinger or a bumper. An intro for
your YouTube channel, but some things to have in mind before you get to making it is that
you want to make sure to keep it really short. You want to include maybe some pictures or
a little video B roll or something like that, but nothing longer than 15 seconds, I would
even say 10 seconds is better than 15. We want to keep it really short so that you
can keep your viewers. Engaged and not bored of that. We want to really get to the content
and the meat of our video as quick as possible. So one of the most common ways that people
new to YouTube will create an intro for their channel is they go to fiverr.com and have
somebody do it for them, or they'll watch hours and hours of tutorial videos on YouTube
and try to learn complicated graphics programs like after effects or things like that.
But I am always on the lookout for easy, quick, but also really impressive solutions for things
like video intros or graphic design or social media sharing. And one of the favorites. That
I've found recently is a website called place. It, you can do all of the design and everything
you need to do actually on the website, let's hop over in there and you can follow along
step-by-step to make your own channel intro within minutes.
But before we hop over to there, if you are interested in growing your brand and expanding
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Let's jump into places. Okay. So first we just go to you, place it.net and
above the top here, you'll find videos and under videos we have intros, but just take
a look at all the other things it has for videos. It has slide shows, promo videos,
YouTube videos, all sorts of different things that you can make here on place. But we're
just going to look at intros for this. Video. You'll see. The first thing that comes
up actually says free. So there are some free options here and you can actually, if you
go to videos, you can look right here where it says freebies, and you can find lots of
different free options of different graphics. You can create very quickly and easily here
on place it, but let's go back to videos and intros, and I'm going to find an intro that
I think kind of matches the. Style of my YouTube channel. Let's see. I
really like this one here. It's already pretty close to our brand colors and I think this
would look really cool for our YouTube channel here at the pod sound school. So I just click
on it and now you see it's super easy, super intuitive to start customizing it right here.
You can add in some text. So here I will just say pod and sound. And school like that, and
it will start loading a preview for you, which is really cool. And then you can actually
choose to have the playback speed be half the time or even double the time. Remember,
I liked to make sure that we keep our intros really quick.
So I'm going to do a 1.5 playback speed here. And then here, I'll go to the next slide.
You can also add slides and continue to customize this more and more, and it says your. Logo
image. So I'm actually going to upload an image. I'll go to my desktop here. And I have
this image that is kind of our logo image we use for everything.
And you can crop it the way you want. Um, it looks like it's wants it to be about like
this. We want to completely fill the space that it's asking us to fill and we'll go ahead
and crop it. And now it will show us. What that looks like as a preview here, it will
take a moment and you'll see, it says cropping so place.
It does everything from your browser here. You never have to download an application.
You never really even have to learn how to use a complicated application. And it does
everything really quick. So once you're done, and once you've done that, you can also adjust
it. Your colors here, you can choose whatever colors you want or what I really love.
If you come down here and click on more, you can actually type in your brand colors. So
we have our yellow color here. I'll type that in. And then we can use our own pink color
that we have. So you say more and I'll type in our own pink color. Oh. And now it's asking
me to see, continue editing to sign up, and this is something you'll want to do.
So I'm going to go ahead and say. Sign up. And once you've created an account, you'll
be able to continue editing and I will go here two more as well. And I'm going to go
ahead and add our Navy blue color. Okay. Now, how cool is that? That I have are branded
pod sound school colors here right inside of this.
That is really great. So now I can say play all and it will show you what you've done.
You can also choose from many of the music selections. It has. Tons of different music.
If you press the edit button here, that you can choose music that you can also use in
your designs. If you're looking to have music for your video intro as well, Kyle fun.
So now I'll just say, play all here. And it says your video is being processed. This can
take a minute or two, considering everything that it is doing in the background here. This
is really fast. So
that is really cool. As you can see, I thought that looks. Great. Now I can download it.
And it says there's two ways to purchase. I can buy just this video for $10, which is
great. If you compare that to what you'd pay somebody on Fiverr. So you want to make sure
that you have it just right the way you like it and buy this for $10.
Or as you can see here, it shows you some of the other pricing options where you can
have mock-ups designs, logos, videos, everything you need, and you can see, you can play it.
$12 a month. So I love that they have single video purchases. So if you're just looking
for a one-off video, you can do that. So I would purchase this if I wanted to download
it, or I would sign up if I wanted to download it, maybe I wasn't happy so I can continue
editing. I could also save the draft here before downloading,
which is nice. And the other thing you can do when you're looking at video designs, intro
designs, and you're just kind of going through and finding the best one that you want is
you can create favorites. So let's say I liked this one as a favorite, and maybe I like some
of these ones that show your slogan like this right here, shows your slogan.
That's another favorite. And then you can actually look at your favorite. So as you
can see, there are tons of templates. There's a ton of freebies also that you can play around
with place. It is really fun. I think it's super intuitive, really easy to use and get
you up and going with professional looking graphics without having to break the bait.
And there you go. Pretty cool solution. Right? What did you think about place it? What did
you think about this video? Here at the pod sound school, we are here to help you elevate
your brand and your business and to make something big happen with whatever creative endeavor
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