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what's up everyone Jase $0.02 here and it's time to bring you another one of those bonus videos where I show you how I do things behind the scenes and I decided this would be a perfect opportunity for me to kill two birds with one stone I can make you a video about how I do stuff but at the same time I can update the incredibly out-of-date intro for Tech Talk especially since we brought Tech Talk back about a month ago some be returning at the beginning of the year we're on holiday break right now but here is what the new intro looks like and today I'm gonna show you how I made it it's just good enough to be better than the old one but just bad enough to still be you know Jerry and I now today's video is sponsored by story blocks the service I've been using as long as I've been doing YouTube so that's over five years now but it's exciting to see that the service is definitely expanded it's got a marketplace where we actually weren't the template we're using here today actually got from the marketplace so I actually paid for that but I digress it's the service I've been using for quite a while here because I am no good I mean no good at creating motion graphics are using After Effects or any of that so I need people who are good at that to help me with that that's exactly what story blocks does we've got a few different services here that we're using in today's video specifically the videos which is video blocks where we got our template that were going to be using as well as audio from audio blocks because we needed to add some music and stuff in there so if you're wanting to spice up your content you need royalty-free video and motion graphics and templates then definitely make sure you guys look at the description below there's a link there where you can sign up where you're getting seven days for free and if you're a content creator already and you know how to do all this stuff you have a marketplace where you can actually upload your projects to share with the world and you get to keep a hundred percent of the proceeds from the marketplace in fact that's what I did today I actually used a marketplace template so it's a great service definitely worth checking out so I did here is I went over to the after-effects here and I looked at the intro tabs because there's it's all categorized so I used intro to try and find something that was going to fit the sort of the flare and feel of Tech Talk but without being too professional because I've got a lot of different stuff here the cool part is if you hover over something it gives you a preview so you can kind of get an idea of what you're looking at what I'm gonna click on it or click off the page and create you no longer browsing times so in the intro you guys just saw me make was kind of a mash-up of a few different things here some sound effects some music and of course a template from video blog so let's get started now this particular project was called crazy titles and I thought that fit our vibe very well cuz Jerry and I are very weird crazy people if you will we definitely blend together well because we have very different personalities and I thought that this template with all of the sort of like wiggling titles and things kind of smacking around was perfect for the feel that I was looking for but as you can see right here when you look at the project obviously that's not the one we made right s zone works I believe was a creator of this and as I said it was a marketplace template so he made some money on this so good for you and the nice thing about most of these creators is they have some sort of a help and info file like for instance here there's two fonts that are used in this video they put a link to those fonts right there so if you don't want to have a font error you definitely I do that they give contact information and some information on here and even a help video in this particular guy you made it help video sometimes it's a Word document so if you have any questions on how to use the template usually they can answer it for you now for this one here what I had to do was they they basically made an idiot-proof which is perfect for a guy like me you can see over here we have no need to open having some basic knowledge of After Effects those are all assets and footage are this is where it's gonna be pulling information that is gonna be playing like all of this right here is basically broken down into the assets folder but if you look here at the Edit or one edit text here this is our sequence right here that allows us to be able to actually edit our text our composition excuse me it's the sequins and premiere to composition in AE I don't want to make any BAE power users med we double click that then here is all of our text now obviously you guys saw on the this is alt text right here but on that one that I made actually use Jerry's logo so I'll show you how I actually incorporated that but the pretty sweet thing is here they've actually labeled as you can see here text one two three so you can see this is text for this is text five and six so they've definitely made it easy for you but if you also want to know which one is which you can move your timeline cursor right here and you can see if we just hit the low to I we can also see which one it is it's like okay and if you want to go a step further you could even title this one you can actually change the text of it right here like rename let's call this one here oh I don't know let's call it get ready cuz that's what we were gonna use in that particular title sequence if you remember so now if we just double click on here it highlights the text automatically so we can just start typing let's call this one gets ready and I didn't want that to be blue so we can highlight it this is again just like you would do in Word or Photoshop or whatever change our color right here by using the eyedropper that opened up another screen of course and this is make it kind of a red color cuz the red has sort of been my colour scheme for quite a while on this channel let's go ahead and change the second one here let's rename that too laughs and then we can change it here as well double click - laughs the nice thing about this particular font is it is all uppercase so you don't worry about like you know punctuation and stuff but let's change that color as well double click and let's make this from like kind of a bluish color we want happy colors and then this one here we're gonna rename to till it's Hertz oh that hurts as my typing skills that's okay double click and till it hurts and I think I even left this one this color and the one that you guys saw so now as you can see we've now got this effect now I trimmed this part out on the original as you guys saw cuz I didn't see the I didn't see the need for that cuz he was just advertising his name right there but we can actually trim this down now I'm not gonna move the whole sequence over cuz when I do it doesn't actually move the keyframes with it for the motion so that's where my inability of knowing how to use ie very well is a problem but this is fine because we can trim this in Premiere or something else if we want later on so we've got that section done right there now this is where I decided to add the Thursdays right because we want to advertise when the show is on all right and I'm gonna change that color now to like kind of a light kind of light blue there we go Thursdays and we can rename it here just so we know what's what and then over here just keep dragging along the timeline this is where we want to advertise what time it is a 5:00 p.m. Pacific there we go and all the motion that you guys see the motion blur and the like rotation and all that stuff this is all pre-programmed in the template so the nice thing is if a template that just aligns with your needs or your taste then it definitely takes a lot of the work out of it and then right here of course because we are never really right we're never really on time so that's why we play usually right usually it's not kid ourselves here like we have some sort of an actual schedule that we're good at keeping so let's just do it like that they're usually this is where we're gonna advertise who we are right so as you can see it's they're advertising in the template here it's a full HD resonate ET 1080p and 720p names right here so what I did was I just found text 9 doesn't actually have anything on it right see it's got this line that shows through right here I'm not sure what that is but I just leave it so if I go ahead and take this one here we can make it J's to cents and then we can kind of put our color in here I'm going to make this black even though I don't know what I should make it red that's what we'll do make that red we'll make this black that's fine it's not exactly like my logo is but it's good enough it's fine maybe a little bit more of a grayish there we go now this is the part where Jerry was difficult because he doesn't use just a plain font like I do for his channel he actually has an image that he uses so I went on the good old googles and I downloaded his image so what I want to do now is I just want to go ahead and draw drag and drop his logo down the timeline so there it is right there as you can see it's just overlaying on top of everything it's not what we want so I'm gonna bring this down to sort of the right about there because that's sort of where the sequence that we want him in there is and I'm going to line it with these right here so now as you can see we've got this whole thing that's just like oh he just pops up right there and he's kind of in the way now we don't want this text right here this 1080 and 720 so that is actually text 7 so if we click the little eyeball we could see that disappears so I'm gonna remove that layer and I'm gonna go ahead and push V for my grabber tool and I'm gonna kind of resize Jerry's logo here just like that just underneath mine and we're gonna do now is we are gonna go ahead because text 7 right here already has all of the motion applied to it this is pretty simple we can just go ahead and parent Jerry's logo here to text 7 so what that means is anything that text 7 was doing all the motion and stuff is gonna be applied to Jerry's logo so now watch this see how it slides in now it's got all the motion applied to it and check that but as you can see part of the problem here though is it doesn't go all the way off-screen now I could sit there and find the motion path and modify it and all that stuff but I don't want to do that and something else that's missing too you'll notice see how my logo has this motion blur it's a very natural but Jerry's doesn't that's just this little button right here guy click this little motion blur button now check it out now Jerry's logo when it moves check it all that blur look at all that blur the nice thing about blur is it allows us to mask things like what I'm about to do right here where we can slide I should just do this you can slide Jerry's logo over like this and then as soon as it goes up right there we can actually just trim that and the motion blur will take care of the rest where it looks like it kept going off-screen because your eyes just make it think it did and that's what you get so as you can see now now it just looks like it just right off-screen but it really didn't it really stopped right there so yeah that's a little trick that I used right there motion blur hides a lot of imperfections - why do you think Hollywood loves motion blur so much so the other thing right here too is now we gonna change this easy to use to the actual Tech Talk or this guy right here the actual Tech Talk because that's what you know we are we're talking a Tech Talk here so we to highlight this we're gonna change this to white if we highlight the whole word we can go over here to the right where the character adjustments are and we can actually add a little stroke to it I make it just not quite totally black there you go now you can read the word Tech much much better I'm gonna make the talk less maroon and more red not purple I want red there we go and then the other the other little joke here is tech not included right because another thing is everyone says Ju don't talk about enough tech on Tech Talk well I mean the whole show is brought to you via technologies and so I don't know I guess that works too just know what the V ah I'm bad alright so there's that and then this is what we get right there a Tech Talk Tech not included and then of course we need to change their crazy titles calm little plug to the creator of this template and we can go ahead and make it maybe Debbie Tibbet at youtube.com slash J's to sense and then we need to obviously change the color on that right make it red once again boom and then a little glass shatter effect they already had now obviously there's no music on the background of this what we're gonna do now is we're gonna come back over here to the left we're gonna go here to our assets our final sets an assets folder final this is all of those these different things stacked right here in the final composition don't take the music that I found over on audio blocks drop it in over here and the nice thing is it was actually the perfect length so as you saw if we look at the timeline here you can see the length is perfect so if we just go ahead and play that so it couldn't have been any more perfect because the audio clip that I chose was actually about 23 seconds long as you can see right here we've got a 24 second timeline with a little bit of buffer in the beginning for us to use transitions and and all of that without actually cutting off any of the actual intro so it worked out perfect and then export it's pretty simple a scope to file go up to export X Add to Adobe Media encoder queue and then it will pop up into encoder and you can just render it like you normally would so you just go file and choose your preset I'm using 1080p HD for YouTube choose your save location hit the green button and it renders and then that is what you get so guys it's just that simple my nice thing about these templates that allowed me as someone who has not used After Effects and years probably about two years since I've used After Effects to get in here and simply just make something that worked and was perfect for my needs quick and easy we're not about to I mean this video is about what 20 minutes long and you saw away from nothing to a working intro in about 20 minutes having no like power user knowledge and AE what service either make services like video blocks and and story blocks perfect because you've got the marketplace which means guys like you watching this who know what you're doing can help guys like me who don't and actually make money on that so that's a huge benefit make sure you guys if you are content creators check out the marketplace and get a hundred percent of the profit on your work so anyway it's time to go check out the link down below for your seven days for free and having access to the entire marketplace here on story blocks for whether it be audio clip art vector art videos motion backgrounds you name it they've got it they sponsored this video and I am hugely grateful for that because now I've got this particular video or this intro ready to go for Tech Talk which is way overdue anyway guys thanks for watching if you've got any suggestions on anymore there's creator corners and things you want to know about how I create these videos for you guys let me know and I will do my best to accommodate thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one