Animated YouTube Intro | How to Make a YouTube Intro Animation

Need an animated YouTube intro for your YouTube channel? You’ve come to the right place. This post will show you the detailed steps on how to make a YouTube intro animation online for free with an easy-to-use video maker, FlexClip.

Animated YouTube Intro Made with FlexClip

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Part 1. The Tool to Make the YouTube Intro Animation

The tool that we are going to use for making an animated YouTube intro is FlexClip.

Designed as a user-friendly yet powerful video maker/editor, FlexClip proves to be the best tool to make a high-quality, custom animated YouTube intro for free & online, video editing skills not necessary.

Whether you're running a gaming channel, beauty channel, or a travel channel, you can use FlexClip to create a custom animated intro that is the best to fit your YouTube channel.

Below are some highlights of FlexClip to help you know more about it:

• Free and easy to use.
• Watermark free.
• Stunning Animations
• Rich video editing features.
• Cool special effects.
• Loads of ready-made video templates.
• HD resolution support.
• Edit a video in mins.

Part 2. How to Make an Animated YouTube Intro

As you can see, FlexClip is a leading intro video editor packed with rich video editing tools and options, just click the Create a Video button below to start making your own animated YouTube intro using a couple of features provided by FlexClip:

Step 1 Set Your Animated Intro Background

FlexClip offers various background for you to choose from, including the stunning background footage from its background library or the simple color background, so here you can either choose to pick one from the background library or add a simple color background directly.

#1: Pick One from Background Library

If you want to choose one from the Background library, simply go to the sidebar and click on the Background button , then find your desired background for your YouTube intro by to searching with keyword or browsing through the category.

Pick One from Background Library

#2: Add a Simple Color Background

Add a simple color background for your YouTube intro is pretty easy to do, just go to the storyboard and click the "+" icon > Color Background. Then you can change the color of the background wit the Background Color icon on the top of the screen.

Add a Simple Color Background

Step 2 Add Animations to Your YouTube Intro

Now, it's the most interesting part - adding animations to your YouTube intro. Just go to the sidebar and switch to Elements option, and then you scroll down, you'll see that FlexClip now has lots of elements that you can use in your YouTube intro animations.

Add Animations to Your YouTube Intro

You can try some art word that saying hi, hello, and welcome; some like & subscribe buttons are also the great choice for your YouTube intro animation. Really, you can get as creative as you want with the extensive elements library.

Pro Tip: If you want to add more than one animated element, remember not to have your mouse select the previous element when you add the next one, otherwise the system will replace the previous element with the new by default.

Step 3 Time Your Animations

Once you added the animations to the intro, remember to check out the Adjust Element feature in the top right of the screen to time the animated elements appear and disappear as the intro video plays.

Time Your Animations

Step 4 Add Overlays to Your Animated Intro

To give your intro a professional look, you can rely on the Overlay feature of FlexClip, here you can add a overlay for text or for decoration, or you can add the intro/outro effect with logo.

Add Overlays to Your Animated Intro

Step 5 Make More Edits

You can have more edits to your animated intro and make it far more appealing. FlexClip provides you with powerful feature to create a stunning YouTube intro video, you can add text animation, set background music, adjust video speed, apply transition effects, etc.

Make More Edits

Congratulations! You made an amazing YouTube intro animation. You can preview it with the Preview button on the top right corner. If you love it, just export the animated intro now; if not, you can also continue editing.

Final Words

That's all for how to make the YouTube intro animation. Hopefully, with the tool and tutorial we shared above, everyone can customize an animated YouTube intro with great ease. Turn to FlexClip and make the best YouTube intro animation to impress the viewers right now.

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