in this tutorial I'll be showing you a step-by-step how to create a stunning social media
overlay for your YouTube videos that will help you stand out from the crowd and increase engagement
with your audience hey guys my name is RJ Martinez and in this video we'll be talking about how to
make social media overlays with your YouTube videos with canva if you're a content creator
that wants to make your content more engaging and interactive then this tutorial is for you
before we get started let's talk about how social media overlays are very important for your videos
social media overlays are a great way to Showcase your social media handles promote your content and
create a better experience for your viewer by adding social media overlays to your videos you
can increase the engagement grow your social media following and create a stronger brand identity
alright so if you guys are on unaware what is canva okay canva is a basically online design tool
okay and they have a ton of templates back there drag and drop and you can post on social media too
as well so you can post your content through canva and they have a ton of like awesome features from
different elements the templates just everything you can possibly think of okay so it's an awesome
tool and it's it's you can use it for free they have like a seven day trial or 14 day trial for
the camera Pro and then obviously one of the cool things that I personally like to do is link this
to my team okay my Outsource a lot of stuff for my business to you know help obviously helping
me my business grow so I always Outsource little things that I can do within my business to help
perform and be more productive at the level I want to be and canvas an awesome tool to use as far as
you know creating social media content creating thumbnails creating you know overlays what I'm
going to show you in this video and creating social different types of social media posts
and even designing like t-shirts stuff like that all right so I'm signed in over here to my canva
account and what we're gonna do is like I said create a social media overlay so we're gonna do
is come over create a design so let's say if you want to create certain things like you can do the
search right here it's gonna it's gonna basically show you all the different types of templates
that you can use over here okay YouTube display ad YouTube channel YouTube Banner live stream
video okay YouTube profile shorts thumbnail video chapters and the list of YouTube Fitness YouTube
Banner so on and so forth so you can see right here it says 300 by 60 pixels okay so if we click
on this right we come over here it's basically gonna create the template for us for our overlay
right which is really really awesome because you can do a lot with this right here so even
with these templates right you want to come in here and add a template right and you can create
a simple one say promote promo only valid today get it now our new earphone 30 okay so let's say
get it now new ebook Okay let's say eat ebook let's say we want to use just this one for an
example right we switched a little thing switch little things up inside of here we're gonna use
that let's say 50 right probably about only today today again discount up to 50 okay boom let's say
we want to use this one so we already and there's obviously there's a few different ones inside over
here that you can use as a template but we'll we'll say we'll go ahead and we'll test one out
like this one one of the templates and then I will personally create one to show you exactly
like say for a social media handle let's say yeah like you're you or like follow you on a tick tock
Instagram Twitter whatever it is and basically your receipt you'll repeat that same process
for every single social media handle right but this one to say we're cool with this one we like
this one we're gonna go ahead and PNG okay we're gonna do the PNG leave it as is and we're gonna
hit download okay so we downloaded that onto the computer right it's downloading boom done okay
your downloads go to right that's up to you you go from there so we have one created right and then
we're gonna go ahead and create one from scratch so we're gonna just basically you can see how easy
this is I can just delete everything right there right now on the left hand column let's say like
select an element you can see obviously I recently created one with the Instagram but we'll go ahead
and we'll do like uh we do Twitter we'll do a tick tock one right so I'll put this element
inside of here what is this okay let me go ahead let's redo this all over let's go back back back
back back back undo everything let's go back from the beginning right there okay so I went back to
the very beginning where it was blank and I'm just going to go ahead and drag and drop okay
me dragging and dropping in here is bringing this in to what we want to do okay so let's
say we want to take up let's say let's try this out take up this space right here but we're gonna
leave a little part of it blank right here let's say we're going to add in our like our tick tock
logo I'm going to type that in up here and there's a ton of stuff you can do remember you can upload
your own logo you can you can put in your like different texts there's different texts that you
can go into here there's just a ton that can be done in here okay so we'll go to elements we got
the logo right there you can even just use the tick tock or this logo let's see that one yeah
okay well okay this also to us so this we can do messing with this is the background color right
we can change the background color let's just do it all black okay for this example come back over
here take that Tick Tock logo right it's gonna make it big nice and big so you can see it okay
boom nice we got the tick tock logo going even that one too like if you even like this one it's
real simple you just grab this one you can see how I'm dragging and just you know expanding it making
it bigger right so if you don't like the certain logo you didn't like that one we didn't like that
one let's say we wanted to make sure they see that it says Tick Tock and you can see how I'm
dragging it right and it's putting it in place to how we want it to be right which is really cool
you can do a lot with this like this really really cool let's bring it over a little bit over then
we're gonna come over here to text we can put it like when you put in your consumer you put
in your text right here don't worry about that you just add a heading right and then you can
edit any of the font text that you want to edit inside of here okay there's a ton of
different fonts you can choose from okay let's sell so let's say I'm making it for my personal
social RJ hustles right I'm for getting the H in there I can't forget the H and the hustles
right so we have RJ hustles right let me put the capitalize.j right there so we got RJ hustles and
then I'm just going to expand this right here to make it even bigger right which is really cool
and let's say it wanted to add like a little Dash right here at the beginning
Dash oh my God I don't like that Dash let's put RJ hustles okay oh make it look nice and pretty
and big make this a little bit bigger boom okay like it looking good decent I'm gonna say I want
to switch the font up right here on this one right go up to code Pro let's use that that phone right
d okay and I think it looks pretty good looks good okay so we're good we're happy with that
I'm gonna go ahead and download this okay boom we gotta download it and I can literally let's say I
want to add another page okay so like duplicate this I can even duplicate it right let's say
I want to duplicate it like let's say the whole thing I want to duplicate the whole thing you can
literally just duplicate the whole thing change this out right let's say like YouTube let's say
YouTube elements up here that's where the elements do you poop logo right oh there we go hit the logo
okay we want to take this out and we want to add this one in here right it's literally that simple
okay it's that simple to do that now let's say we're cool with that let's make sure we're lined
up correctly here okay I think we're good okay we'll say we're we're happy with that and we can
download this one too as well download page two okay one two H2 because we downloaded the first
one already right so it's downloading page two okay now I'm gonna come over here so we have these
icons I'm gonna come over here to a video that I haven't even messed with yet but we're gonna go
ahead and just add these into so it doesn't matter what type of video editing software that you're
using you can use any type of video editing software I'm using Wonder Sheriff Lenore on
and basically what I'm going to do is grab those three overlays we created right and just drag and
drop them in here okay and you can see that I'm bringing it in here right and I'm gonna make it
a little smaller so as I make it a little smaller it's going to be you know it looks a little it
looked a little pixelated when I brought it up you maybe want to mess with the the pixels right
you may be a little bit bigger but as we get it smaller it looks better right you can see that so
for example let's go we have this already in there right we have one of the overlays that popped into
there so we want to put it here okay and then it goes over to the next one we'll do the same exact
thing okay bring it to there and then the same exact thing with this one make it a little smaller
and bring it to there right and then what's inside here too you can mess with like you know you can
mess with like a image you can mess with the animation so if I hit that you can see how that
works out right there and then the next one I'm gonna say I want to do a different animation for
that one and then this one I do want to do that one too as well okay so let's say as I'm talking
videos making sales right now and you can use this for Amazon merch on demand
Redbubble or Etsy or whatever print-on-demand platform platform you're selling on okay so you
see how that overlay can work and then you just mess with this how the way you would
like it and maybe instead of like because and maybe instead of the the default come back over
here at the default I think it's where's the pixel app for this thing should show it here
I think the default if we come back over here the default shows are 300 by 60 pixels so maybe
we do a custom one you can do a custom one which would be you can do like 300
by a hundred right and that may you know make it a little bit better unless pixelated when
it comes to that okay now you're messing with the pixels right there and just trying to make
it human that way it's not boring but as you bring it down you can see how it looks which
looks really cool let's go ahead and try it one more time boom and then also to another
cool thing to us and don't always don't forget to as you're doing certain things you can you know
add in like a sound when you add in a sound too it kind of gets the viewer's attention right and
when it makes a little sound it gets the viewer's retention so don't forget like if you're doing any
type of image or anything like that put like some type of little swish or a little sound and most
of these video editing softwares come with it for free okay and they're free for commercial use so
make sure that you you got use little sounds as you're doing you know your images and stuff on
the screen and that's how you would do that right which is really awesome in that return you'll get
you create more brand awareness you'll get more followers on social media too as well that's it
by following these simple steps you can create social media overlays for your YouTube videos
using canva remember social media overlays are a great way to increase the engagement with your
audience promote your content and create stronger brand identity so what are you waiting for start
creating your social media overlays today and take your YouTube videos to that next level