Hi there. This video is about adding kind of intros to your video. Okay? Uh, just a bit  of maybe some graphics like you  see at the beginning of all my videos. I have that kind of thing with the camera moves. And it doesn't have to be that fancy.

It can be just something real simple,  just a nice colored box  with some text in the middle explaining  what the course is for. I find it's quite useful for people getting started  that they know they're in the right place. I also, I often add,  'cause I teach software, I add the software name as well  as the topic that's getting covered so  that people are very clear what's going on here. So it could just be, pick a nice font in a nice colored box. You can do that using, say you editing with Camtasia. Okay, Camtasia, I know you can add big rectangles  and add, uh, texts through the middle.

Um, pretty much all the editing software will allow you  to do that kind of real basic stuff. Some of them will let you animate it as well. And if you wanna go a bit beyond that,  say something a little bit more like what I've got. Okay. With some cameras movement and stuff. Um, if you're gonna do it yourself like I do, um, that's,  you need some reasonable bit of, uh, knowledge  of something like Premier Pro or Apple Motion  or After Effects.

Okay? Adobe makes that. Um, so if that's not really your thing,  you don't really want to get into learning that too much. You might start with a template. Okay? So there are lots of templates you can buy online  that do all the hard work for you.

You still need, like, you still need a bit of understanding  of how the software works. Say you buy a Premier Pro template for the intro, okay? Um, you buy it, it's gonna cost you like 20 bucks,  but if you have zero knowledge in Premier Pro,  you might have to jump out and do a course on Premier Pro  just to get that understanding basic so that you're not,  you know, buying templates is not gonna completely solve it. You, there's kind of like the last 10% that you need  to be able to fish around  and be able to change the text and export it. Um, I've got courses on all of those. Case of Premier Pro and After Effects.

If you, if you are interested to understand it a bit more,  go check out my courses there. Um, let's also, just so you know,  like I'm gonna show you some templates that're cool,  but say you wanna do it yourself  and you want ideas, what you wanna go  to is something like YouTube and go top 10. Uh, if you put in intro videos,  you're probably not gonna get what you want. Okay. With a text. Use terms like Ient, okay?

So I-D-E-N-T identity, okay? So Ient are as a name. It's not specifically what you want,  but it'll give you good ideas for that. Kind of like initial, um, first screen  and the American calls them stingers. Okay? So just that kind of first little bit  where it introduces the company or the logo.

If you look for like the best ones on YouTube  or best examples, you'll get some cool ideas  how you might bring in your text  or say you are building a brand, okay,  and you've got a logo kind of build going on. That could be cool. Let's jump in now  and I'll show you Invado market for buying kind  of templated ones and yeah, see you in there. Alright, so here's one of my intros. You've seen it at the beginning here,  but you can see by there this video. We're gonna draw this shape here.

All right, so I do it and I start talking as it's coming in. I also make sure that the first thing I talk about is,  we talked about this earlier, but um,  I show the example that we're gonna make. So remember I record it all the way through, come back  to the beginning and actually show what we make  during the whole video to make it super clear. Um, the software that I use, the course that it's in  and exactly what's going on in the course. Creating a log and then, uh, a logo  and then, uh, actually jumping straight in  and saying, this is what we're making. Make it super clear for everyone.

Now, I talked earlier about stock footage, okay? So if you don't wanna actually have to go make it yourself,  you can go to a place like Invado. So Invado do a few things. One of their markets is pretty awesome  'cause you can go into here, go to this one that says video. And then if you are gonna use Premier Pro or After Effects  or Apple Motion, they've got some templates for you. Okay?

There are some ones that are built into  something like Camtasia. Have a look through the, um, options in there. I dunno all the video software. So just have a little look, see if there's the stuff,  stuff that's already built in. But the super fancy, like if you really want  to go down this route, I kind of preloaded a few of them. Let's have a look.

Oh, the text comes up  and this one here, Um,  you can see this, if you bought this one here  for I think it's $20. You get all of these templated ones  and you just decide that, yep,  this is the one you're gonna use. Or this one's the one you're gonna use for every video. Um, you might use a, a mixture of them,  but you just get a bunch of templates. You have to open 'em up and After Effects  or Premier Pro, whichever one you've downloaded them  or chose at the template for. Um, and adjust the text for your specific video.

If you've got 50 videos, you'll copy and paste it 50 times. Okay, so what else we got? Let's have a look at this one. You could obviously go through this. Um, I wouldn't put music at the beginning. I did for the first of mine.

Some cool stuff in this one. Um, but man, so much pushback. People were like, it looks good for maybe your intro,  but don't have, uh, music on all of the videos. Drives people mad. Drives me mad eventually as well. So I stopped about halfway through my video career.

I stopped putting intro music in  and I got a bit of a round of applause from students. 'cause man, that music, every every video  drives people bananas. All right, a couple more before we move on. You can head on to the next video now. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna half dance to the Invado market. Uh, text animations.

You can't see me. All right, this one here. Um, I don't think the music comes, if you buy this one,  you've gotta buy the music separately if you wanted to,  Ooh, look at that, that could be cool. It is my favorite one. That one is 50  different colorful slides. So it's $29.

This one was based out of After Effects. So you might want to  after a fix a little bit more complicated than Premier Pro. So you might wanna find Premier Pro  and look for, I've been looking at,  well this one is in titles. Okay, but have a look through the rest of 'em. So titles have a look through logo stings. Just have a look through the different elements.

See what might work for you. But remember you could be just  generating yourself, um, a huge amount of extra work. I like it. I, you know, it's something that I feel. Does it add value? Mm.

I do it 'cause I want to. And I love that kind of, I enjoy doing  that kind of side of things as well. So, uh, it could, it would work just  as well if there was a bit of text in the middle. Doesn't have to animate in and all sing song. So, uh, be careful. You don't just create a huge amount  of work for your first course.

Um, keep it maybe simple for the first one  and maybe you are, if you end up doing a second  or a third, you might get into a bit more of these  typographic intro techniques, indent type things. Alright, that's it for this video. I will see you in the next one.