How to Create Stunning YouTube Video Intros for Free

Let me show you how to create a professional video intro for your YouTube channel completely for free

and we're going to do it all in less than 10 minutes. Okay, we're going to use Canva.com to do this, and we're going to use the free option

I'll point out some paid upgrades that Canva does have, and you may want to take advantage of those

but for this video, I'm just going to use all the free options. Once you're on Canva, you just want to find a video over here and click on video

and that's going to create a blank canvas for you. So in order to create a YouTube video intro, all you have to do is go to the design tab over here

And under templates, just type in YouTube intro. And since we're already in a video mode, it's going to give us some video templates that we could go ahead and browse

And it's really, really nice. What you could do is just hover over each one and you could see a quick preview

Now, any of them that have a little crown option, those are going to require that paid pro subscription

But it's worth it because you only have to do this one time. a monthly subscription. So if you do find one that you really like and it's the pro, you will have to

upgrade. Right now I'm going to use one of the free ones over here. And to refine your search

they have a couple of different option. One is you could click this right here, this filter tab

And if you have a specific color you like or your channel theme, for example, let's say all my

videos have kind of a blue theme to it, my thumbnails have a blue theme. I could go ahead and click on

blue and it's going to refine the search and you could see all the channel intros now are blue

and kind of purple theme. Another way you could do it is let me go ahead

and remove this one over here. You could also type in more text over here

So YouTube video relating to tech, I could go ahead and see what these tech videos look like

Okay, now this is a lot more of the type of videos that I make, so I may want to pick something

from this list over here. Okay, let's say I like this one right here. All I have to do is click on it

and it's going to go ahead and apply it here to my canvas and I could go ahead and start editing

go ahead and start editing it from here. You could do this from scratch, but I recommend starting with templates

because it makes it a lot easier because someone professionally designed these

and it a lot harder to do this from scratch But you could move all of this around So let me show you some editing options Now if you come down here this is 10 seconds long It far too long for a typical YouTube intro

Now, something to pay attention to, you typically lose a vast majority of people

Sometimes 30, 40% of people leave in the first 30 seconds. So you don't want to give them a reason to leave by having a super long intro

So I'm going to actually cut this down. I recommend somewhere between three to five seconds. In this case, I'm going to just have a four

second intro. If you did want a longer intro for some reason, you could actually press this

at a page and it's going to actually create another scene for you. So you could go from this shot to

another shot or you could always right click over here and duplicate this page too. So now this is

going to be eight seconds. And then these are now independently editable. In this case, I only want the

one page. So let me go ahead and delete that one. So with this page selected on top over here

you could go ahead and make some edits, right? So the first thing I want to do, is I want to type in my channel name front and center

This is good branding right here. And I'll click away. So this is going to be your channel name

You could move this around if you want, but right now it's right in the center. On top right here, this is not a gaming channel

So any gaming elements I could go ahead and delete. I'll bring in some elements

You could bring in other elements. You could search for them. And right here is basically the benefit of your channel or what you offer

So I usually make tech tutorials. I simplify text. So text simplified

That's going to go down here. Okay, let me go ahead and do a quick preview to see what that looks like. Okay, not bad. Now let me go ahead and add some new elements to really make this stand out. So if I go to the elements tab right over here, again, I could search for different types of elements. Again, I'm going to search for tech since this is a tech channel. I'm going to look for graphics over here. It's going to have all kinds of interesting looking graphics. And let's say I really like this one. I'm going to go ahead and grab it and I'm going to drop it over here. And with all these elements, you could fully resize them. So I'm going to go ahead

and resize them and I'm going to make sure this is behind the text. If it's not, you could always

right click on anything and you could go ahead and move it back. So it says bring forward, bring to the

front bring to the back So this is actually in the right spot If it was all the way to the front it going to cover the text here So I do want to go ahead and move it back So step backwards With any elements right now it not moving So I need to click on elements that I adding

And I need to come up here and I need to click on animate over here. And if I hover over anything

you could see the little animation that it adds. Okay, so I could see. Okay, this one's cool

little blur. Okay, so I could go ahead and do that. And then I'm going to go ahead and up here and reduce the opacity

because right now it's a little prominent. I wanted to be more of a background piece. There we go

Now it's a background piece. So you could add any elements like that. Come up to the animate tab once you select it

and make sure you add some kind of an animation here because that will turn it into video

Otherwise, it still works inside of this, but it's not going to have that motion to it

Another thing I recommend is if you choose your background, you could come up here and you could change the color of your background too

So if you wanted to be a different color, you could go ahead and make it a different color

And you could also choose from gradient options too. So this is another way if you really want to design your own background

In this case, I'm just going to go backwards to what I had before. I don't like these plain backgrounds

This was much more interesting. And let me go back to Elements and let me see if I could have a YouTube subscribe icon too

I'll search for that. Let's see what they have over here. See all graphics. Some of these again are going to be paid

Let me see if I find a free one. And it looks like a lot of the good ones are actually with the pro version

I'll just click on this more. right now. I'm going to resize it and I'm just going to kind of put it over here, maybe up here

And this one I'm going to reduce the opacity. So it's kind of like a background option

And let's go ahead and animate this one too to kind of jump in there like that. Okay, pretty cool

Now you could always press this preview option. This is going to show you how long your video is

your intro. This is four second for a YouTube intro and it's pretty good

What it's missing though is music right now. This is not going to have any background music. So you could

to the audio tab down here. There's a whole audio tab. And with the audio tab, what you could do up here is search for

intro right here. And it's going to give you a bunch of options. Some of these are only like six seconds or four seconds

Give it a little quick listen Okay that pretty good I could always filter too So if I just want something that has instrumental or vocals I could narrow it down this way

And this one's free. So I'm just gonna grab it, drop it right here in the music track

And this one is about four seconds here anyway. So this kind of fits my video

So I'll give it a quick preview. You could always search for a logo as sense too

And these are usually short. short of three seconds, but a lot of these, as you can see, are requiring me to pay for the paid

option. So for music, this is another reason why you may want to upgrade to Canva Pro. But I have a link

to the Pro and the free version of Canva in the description below this video. Let's say I like this

one right now. I'm not going to spend too much time finding music, but usually spend five, 10 minutes

try to find a perfect little logo sting here to go with your video. And if you're happy with

what you've designed here, just go up here and press share. And in this case, I'm going to go ahead and

to download this. So if I press the download option, I do want to MP4 video. They do have other

options, but for video, this is exactly the only option that makes sense. The quality is going to

be 1080p. If you wanted to upgrade to a higher quality like 4K, some of these do come in 4k. You do have

to upgrade for that. But right now, everything's been free. So I'm going to go ahead and download this to

my computer. This may take just a minute or so. And they do have another paid upgrade that

sometimes is worth it which is resized with this magic switch option. This is an AI

tool that lets you change this to other platforms intro too. So if you wanted this for your

Instagram or if you make YouTube shorts and you want a same kind of intro, this

resizes a for you over here and if I go to my download folder, here's my nice logo

intro here and this one I just kept to four seconds but I'll probably come over here

under the design tab and look for some other similar designs here. Some of these are really cool

So again, I could just click on it. I'll just try this as a new page, see if I can make some changes

to this one. This one comes with a subscribe button already, which is kind of nice. And if you want to

make really high-end thumbnails, I also have a video showing you exactly how to do that in Canva as well

Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time