Highlighting the Wonder layer we select our transition. You can play with the settings of the glow effect in the effects panel to the left to get the look you are after, and that is our initial effect done.Īs it is an intro, you don’t want your titles or brand name to just appear on the screen, and so here we use the effects within After Effects again. Now I go back to the start of the timeline and take ‘glow from the effects and preset tabs and drag it onto the wonder layer, I repeat this with the share layer to give a nice glow to both texts. The reason I went to the trouble of having the text on separate layers is so I could have them appear at different times, I want the eternal part to come in second, so to do this I drag the layer along the timeline so it starts at the 5 second mark. Our final setup for the intro thus looks like this I’m going to change one word to a deep blue color to differentiate it, this is done by selecting the text and using the tools in the text panel to alter the color. At this point you should also make sure your text is a nice color to match either your branding or other factors.

By hitting the selection tool (the arrow at the far left of the top menu) you can drag the text around to place them precisely as you want.

On top of that we added our text layers by using the text button in the top menu with our title, YouTube channel name or similar on it, I used a separate layer for each word so we can manipulate them independently, and so finally we have this.Īs you can see, we have our background, and two text layers, one with the word ‘Wonder’ in it, one with the word ‘Share’ in it. To this we add a solid layer by using Layer>New>Solid, I left mine Black but you can choose a color appropriate to your needs. First off we set up our composition, I’m using 320x240 for convenience of the web output but if you plan on using your intro on your YouTube channel for instance, you want high quality output that matches your video files, for most people these days that would be 1080p.

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