Awesome Resource For Intros & Logos

[Ironside]

Anyone looking for a decent starting point for their intro videos and indeed their logos should have a look at the envatomarket and start on a site called Videohive and look at all the Logo Stings.

If you look at my intro (Edmund Ironside on YouTube) that intro cost me $13 to produce and took about 20 minutes.

 

[Rusty]

not bad I have had luck with Fiver as well.

 

[SwissMotard]

Fiverr (2 r's) is excellent.

 

[Rusty]

Fiverr (2 r's) is excellent.

Doh

 

[RealRider]

Fiverr is good, there are some cool vloggers that may do some for ya too

 

[biker1968]

Yup... you can definitely tell the difference.... I did my own....
Panned across a T-Shirt image and sang my own intro song....
Looks quite shit and amateurish compared to some....I you want to have a laugh check it on you tube by searching for "Mistar Biker"....

 

[endurovlog]

for the vlog, rightly or wrongly i steered away from having much of an intro at all nowadays... i try to jump to moving bike footage immediately and just have a brief title and the logo watermarked.

i've always figured that you need to grab someone's attention within a few seconds or you'll lose them, but i guess a vlog is more likely to have a following and maybe its a good idea to establish your "brand" at the beginning of each with a cool intro. food for thought.

 

[AndyManCam]

for the vlog, rightly or wrongly i steered away from having much of an intro at all nowadays... i try to jump to moving bike footage immediately and just have a brief title and the logo watermarked.

i've always figured that you need to grab someone's attention within a few seconds or you'll lose them, but i guess a vlog is more likely to have a following and maybe its a good idea to establish your "brand" at the beginning of each with a cool intro. food for thought.

I do the same. Try and start with footage as much as possible. Then quick logo and title with a snip of music i made and back to the footage!

We're making videos for goldfish here folks!

 

[endurovlog]

I do the same. Try and start with footage as much as possible. Then quick logo and title with a snip of music i made and back to the footage!
We're making videos for goldfish here folks!

lol! after posting this vid i've had a few guys say they actually click off any vid where the intro goes longer than five seconds... it's got me rethinking the 10 second intro i have for the dirt riding training series i do. it could easily just be three seconds, all that's really needed is time to read the title then get into riding footage.

 

[AndyManCam]

lol! after posting this vid i've had a few guys say they actually click off any vid where the intro goes longer than five seconds... it's got me rethinking the 10 second intro i have for the dirt riding training series i do. it could easily just be three seconds, all that's really needed is time to read the title then get into riding footage.

Its so true! I know it for sure because i hear myself shouting "Get on with it!" If the intro is more than 2 breaths long!

It takes about 3 seconds from a relaxed position to mouse button! That's how long you've got before you're 'Simon Cowelled'!!

 

[ride512]

I just made my own in After Effects. It's nothing exciting, but I like it for now and I get to learn After Effects.
I also cut my intro down to 3 seconds as people seem to hate long intros.

 

[MrMundane]

I agree on the short intro thing. Some people do 15+ second intros and it's quite annoying. I made my own, it's just a few seconds and quite poor I think, but it works.

 

[irishasia]

I dont have the skills to make a quality one myself!

 

[MrMundane]

Some of the ones on fiverr are quite nice I may actually get someone to do one for me.

 

[endurovlog]

i've started to just have a small logo in the corner and have riding footage immediately as well as talking... although mixing up the latter as sometimes i'll have 10 seconds of footage before i start yabbering away. and then have the title appear a bit later. it seems to be working okay, i figure at least it gives viewers a chance to see if it's what they want to watch almost straight away instead of going through an intro, so it's probably getting off the topic of this thread.

it does have me thinking about the benefits and potential drawbacks of an intro.

it would be interesting to do something a bit like the simpsons with an intro possibly... e.g. bart writes something different on the blackboard in each episode, lisa plays a different sax tune, the couch gag. i wonder if an intro could still hold the interest of subscribers if there were a few new jokes or features in each one? i started something like that my dodgy legal disclaimers at the start of each vid that quite a few seem to like.

 

[MrMundane]

it would be interesting to do something a bit like the simpsons with an intro possibly... e.g. bart writes something different on the blackboard in each episode, lisa plays a different sax tune, the couch gag.

Actually not a bad idea, a few gaming youtubers I watch have a few different intros and change it up every few videos. It's kinda nice.

Maybe not a different intro for every video, but maybe have a few you can alternate between. Maybe a special one for various holidays, christmas, halloween, etc.

 

[cb500f]

I rather like creating Intro's .. the only thing I need to improve is what songs to put into the actual video after I create it ..... I'd be willing to help anyone out if you needed a helping hand!

 

[Taz792]

Actually not a bad idea, a few gaming youtubers I watch have a few different intros and change it up every few videos. It's kinda nice.

Maybe not a different intro for every video, but maybe have a few you can alternate between. Maybe a special one for various holidays, christmas, halloween, etc.

Yeah I watch a few gamers and thought that's a good idea.

What I've done recently is to have a short clip from later in the video and then do a short fade to (title with music) then to the rest of the video.

I feel that makes it different and interesting for each video. At least I like it anyway