animated title for your videos
do you want shiny new professional
animated title for your videos
these well in this video we're going to
run through exactly how to make animated
titles for your videos step-by-step and
it works no matter what video editing
software you're using hey it's Justin
Brown from primal video we help you
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video you can find linked in the
description box below so let's jump into
it now creating professional titles for
your videos is not as hard as most
people think you just need the right
tools so with the process that we're
gonna step through now you can easily
create animated text and titles for your
videos matching your brand and style in
just a few simple steps to create our
initial titles which you can then reuse
as much as you want we're going to be
using Adobe After Effects now don't
worry whether you're on Mac or PC or if
you don't already have access to After
Effects there is a free trial that you
can download that will give you more
than enough time to create a ton of
titles and I'll put a link to the trial
version down in the description below it
is an affiliate link so we will get a
commission if you choose to continue
your subscription next up we could start
from scratch and build a
professional-looking template but that
would take a ton of time and design
skills that I sure don't have so instead
we're going to go and choose a template
that closely matches the style the
effects and the theme that we really
want to go for and start with that so
videohive is the site that we use for
all our animated templates when we
aren't using something entirely custom
and the cool part is that there's a ton
of options out there so if you're not
exactly sure what you want immediately
then go and check out some of the
previews because you'll quickly find
something to give you awesome ideas or
you might find something that you love
straight away so we're gonna jump over
to videohive now and I'm going to talk
you through the process so here we are
at videohive now there's a heap of other
stuff in here as well as animated titles
things like stock 3d templates that you
can use stock footage general motion
graphic titles not just titles but
overlays graphic elements and
infographics and things are gonna work
in most video editing software but
there's also software dependant
templates in here as well for Apple
motion that are also going to work in
Final Cut and there's now a new area on
here as well for Adobe Premiere which
has things like motion graphic elements
you
for graphics titles as well that you can
use and edit directly in Adobe Premiere
and in after-effects which is what the
focus of today's video is going to be
you can see we've got title templates in
here but also a heap of other things
around graphic elements and those sorts
of things as well so if you haven't
checked it out yet then it's definitely
worth checking out and links to
everything that we're going to cover are
in the description all right so to start
off with let's head up to After Effects
then down to titles and let's have a
look at some of the awesome title packs
that you can get to customize up to use
in your videos so you can see here that
currently there's four thousand nine
hundred and fifty After Effects
templates that are specific to title
templates there's an absolutely heaping
here to choose from so it's just a
matter of then going through and putting
your mouse over these and seeing if
there's anything in here that you like
you can see this one's twenty dollars
this one here's 18 dollars and these are
all things that you can purchase and use
and reuse in your videos now if you're
looking in particular for title kits
then I'd suggest that you look at things
like the title packs as you can see here
there's a heap of different options or
things like this one here which is
modern titles it's got a heap of
different titles that you can use just
drag and drop and customize up and after
effects to save out Henry use in your
videos just as we go through here you
can see the average price 18 19 20 26
1915 20 24 20 28 so none of these are
gonna break the bank this is incredibly
cheap because it's gonna save you so
much time
okay so here's an example one this one's
called minimalist lower third if we
press play on this you can see the type
of titles that you're able to get here
this is one of those packs where there's
a heap of different variations of these
titles you can see some of them playing
out with a thin line some of them with
the background behind them some of them
have no background so there's a few
different variations on the titles in
this title pack okay so we're going to
go ahead and grab this one so once
you've decided but just before you hit
the Buy Now button or the Add to Cart
button just scroll down and double check
that it does say After Effects that the
version you're buying is the After
Effects version alright so once you've
downloaded your template files should be
a zip file you can extract that out and
open it up and in here you normally get
at least two files but it might look a
little bit different because each
template is made by different people but
what you will have is an
after effect project file and you'll
have some sort of instruction or
tutorial video showing you how to use
and edit your specific template ok so
what you want to do is open up the After
Effects project files
that's likely you'll get a message up
on-screen saying that your project must
be converted from whatever version it
was made into whatever version you're
using now just hit OK on that one now if
there's any specific fonts that have
been used that you don't have installed
then it might pipe up asking you to
install some fonts so all you need to do
is tick the box in the top corner sync
from type kit and then click sync fonts
and those fonts are going to be
downloaded and installed on your
computer and you're still allowed here
that we're definitely gonna run through
a fuller After Effects tutorial but I
will show you everything you need to
know to get these titles up so that you
can save them to use them in your videos
now if your window layout here does look
a little bit different to mine just come
up here to window go to workspace and
you can choose different layouts here so
I'm just under standard one here but it
will go reset to standard just so might
close and match what yours looks like so
up here under projects you've got a few
folders here so in our case we want to
look under the new folder and then we're
gonna heap with different compositions
in here now if we open up 3d board you
can see as we come down here to the
timeline scrubber cross we've got this
title animation happening so it's just a
matter of going through here and looking
at all the different ones that came in
the title pack that you purchased and
find the one that you want to use and
then we'll start to edit it up from
there now it's also a good idea to hang
on to this project files because you
might want to come back at a later date
and recreate more titles just out of
this title pack now in the case of this
actual project there is more templates
under this projects folder so we've got
different banners blocks blocks with
lines just the titles vertical parallel
line so you can see there's heaps of
different ones in here and each time we
open one of these up I'm going to go
through the timeline here you can see
that it's actually a different animation
so let's just go this one here block
with the line typography one and we will
actually include a link to this exact
template that we're using here now in
case you wanted to download and use this
one in your videos you can see as we
scrub across we've got the line appears
the block comes out and so does the text
I've got two lines of text in this one
and we can customize it we can turn
things on and off we can change the
fonts change the color
so we have full control over what this
is going to look like so let's go along
to the end here to where the title is
fully animated on and let's come down to
our layers here to start making some
adjustments now if you do see that
there's not too many layers here there's
a good chance that some of these might
have been hidden so you might need to
come up and press the little it's called
the show button here which will unhide
any hidden layers you can see now to
press that we're gonna heat more layers
in here so come across to the point
where the animation is finished
come up the top here and grab the type
tool and then we can select our text and
then we can just type in what we'd like
it to say
let's just go now
if we select that text and we come over
here and choose the font let's change it
to our primal video font Ozwald bold and
we can do exactly the same for the
second line of text where it says civil
designer we can double click on that
there and type in primal video
I
probably ought to change the font to be
the same so come back up here Oswald
bold obviously you'll be changing it to
your own fonts and branding probably
make it a little bit bigger here and
we'd probably make that primal video
blue so click on the color here to
change and we'll enter in how primal
video color blue here and go okay
another thing that would probably change
here is this pink line it's not really
one of our colors so in this case it's
down under controls under effects line
color and you can see there we've got
color for the lines if you press on that
then we can again paste in our blue or
you can pick your color from in here but
we'll paste in our blue and go okay and
now when we scrub through this you can
see the blue line comes on the title
slides out with
video so it's all in our font and in our
branding so in here you can pretty much
do anything you'd like you can make the
fonts bigger make them smaller you can
reposition them on there you can change
the text you can even change the color
of the background there was another
thing that was down here which is down
here under block color so we can change
that there from black we could go to red
if red
was your theme so well cancel out that
one that's how easy it is to change and
customize up these templates so now that
you've got your title customized up
exactly how you'd like it then we're
you can use it in your video editing
application now once we've covered off
the export settings I'm also going to
run through the top titles I suggest you
make and save out so that you're set to
go so that you don't need to create new
ones every time you're creating new
videos so now for exporting or for
saving at your videos to use in your
video editing application
I'm gonna make
sure that you're in the title that you
want to export so that's open and then
come up the top to composition and down
to add to render queue you can see
that's loaded up the render queue down
the bottom here and we've got our
composition loaded in there nearly the
only thing that you need to change here
is from output module from lossless to
be lossless with alpha so alpha as in
regards to the transparency we've got
transparency in the title so that our
actual video footage is going to show
through underneath it so you need to
make sure that that setting is selected
then you can click over here where it
says not yet specified and choose where
you want to save your file in this case
let's put off the desktop and because
when windows it's defaulting to an avi
file if you're a Mac it will default to
being a QuickTime in my V file either
one is going to work fine just hit save
and come over here and hit render and
you can see it plays out or renders out
your title animation and once that's
done your file is saved so we can jump
over to your video editing application
in our case we're going to open up a W
premium okay so here in W premier which
want to import our title now so there it
is it open so then whenever we want to
use this title in any of our videos all
we need to do is import it drag and drop
it down into our timeline wherever we
want it to appear now if we play through
this you can see it animates on now we
also have the ability to pick it up to
move it around and reposition it any way
that you like so it's just a separate
video asset we can scale it up and we
can scale it down you can use it however
you like in your view
from here on in so if we play that
through again you can see it animates on
and there's our title then now one
actually little trick that you can do is
if your title and it mates in but it
doesn't matter animate back off you can
actually duplicate the title so let's
copy it command C ctrl C and then you
want to paste it right next to it and
then you want to reverse the second one
so right click on it and choose speed
duration and then tick the box to
reverse speed yet okay and then when you
play through it now you'll see it'll
animate on and then it'll play that clip
backwards so that it animates back off
so that's how easy it is to create these
assets of titles that you can just
import and drop into multiple video
editing projects and drag and reposition
and customize them up further inside of
your editing application without the
need to create them every time now
there's one more thing that I do want to
show you back on video hive so I bring
that back up now make it bigger so those
were editable After Effects titles now
as we did touch on Elliott you can also
get them for Adobe Premiere Pro so
titles here and also Apple motion titles
so if you are using Final Cut for your
video editing then you can come in here
and grab a title pack double work inside
of Final Cut and these titles will be
editable and customizable inside of
Final Cut meaning you don't even need
After Effects to be able to customize
these up you can do everything directly
from your timeline and exactly the same
with the premiere pro titles as well you
can get title packs in here that will
let you customize everything up directly
on your timeline now these are only
going to work if you're on Premiere Pro
or if you're on Final Cut but for
everybody else on any editing
application or for the largest range of
templates then you'll want the after
effects ones and customize them up as
we've shown you in this video and by
doing it this way in After Effects
you're saving the amount is actual video
files then you can easily import them
into your smart phone so we're going to
be editing your videos down on your
smart phone you can export them import
them onto their and edit them into your
videos on your smart phones as well so
now that you've got your template sorted
and you know how to create different
versions of those titles for use in your
video
over and over again some of the ones I
would recommend creating will be ones
that say things like subscribe links are
in the description below I'd also
suggest creating a title for numbered
lists so you get animate in all the
numbers and maybe the placeholders for
the text that's going to follow it
another really obvious one is a title
card for your name or for your channel
name for the start of your videos and
also you could look at doing something
for your logo as well if you've got one
so the idea here once again is that
you're creating titles that you're going
to use in almost every video and you're
saving these out so you don't need to
recreate them every time so that your
lower third or your title card or your
call-to-action to get someone to
subscribe to your channel these are now
just things that you can drag and drop
onto your timeline really no matter what
video editing software you're using so
all that is going to speed up your video
editing process dramatically because you
won't have to recreate these things and
also wait for them to render out every
time so now that you've got your
professional-looking titles sorted the
next step is to get set up with some
awesome music to take your content even
further so check the link on screen now
for a video showcasing royalty free
music sites that we use and what we'd
recommend for you and I'll see you soon
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