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hey what's up guys Jase two cents and I'm not very good at motion graphics and stuff so today I'm gonna use the video blocks library here to make kind of a cool intro and show you guys how easy it is to really take these templates and liven up your production value in your content creation so anyway don't go anywhere guys and we'll show you how to make some pretty cool stuff coming up now so I think I'm gonna keep this little series going maybe once a month here where I show you guys some cool content tips and tricks and how to get more out of your videos without having to spend a whole lot of time or even a whole lot of money so today's video is brought to you by video blocks now I've used video blocks ever since I started YouTube just now I'm starting to get to kind of show you guys some more in-depth stuff of how I use it because like I said I'm not a content creator that makes motion graphics and stuff nor do I even have the time to invest on how to learn how to do this stuff from scratch so fortunately the unlimited library and the marketplace is somewhere that people like you and me can go get some pre keyed footage in some templates and learn a lot about how to use After Effects and really spice up our videos not even just After Effects but you can get all sorts of footage you've got lots of background motion backgrounds you've seen those on my graphics card reviews you've got some flyby footage aerial nature I mean anything you can think of just to add some value to your content creation is available here but I said in the last video that I want to show you guys how to do an intro you know so because intros are really what makes videos pop and gets people's attention and really kind of makes you legit when it comes to content creation so I went over here to the effort if that After Effects tab because I'm gonna use After Effects for this went over into the logo reveal intro believe it or not this would be more for like movies and things but I went to the logo reveal and then I thought this one was kind of neat down here on the bottom left where I figure a lot of you watch videos on smartphones so wouldn't be neat to kind of have a smartphone type intro so this was like the the base you know this is this was what this guy did here nothing too special or spectacular about it but it's just a swiping screen I thought well what if we swiped between different scenes of my videos so anyway we went ahead and downloaded that one and you guys did say in your straw poll 47% of you wanted my next video to be how to make an intro using After Effects so that's what we are doing one thing I did to get ready for the project here was I moved in some various clips and things that I wanted to use that I thought would look neat on that little you know iPhone effect so I've got here like a trade show I've got a graphics card you know b-roll I've got me as a talking head to represent the reviews that I do I've also got some transparent words on here like build gaming reviews my logo and the motion background you guys have seen me using my GPU videos and stuff so I've been using that one for quite a while now but anyway let's go ahead and open up the project file it's called phone track 2 and it's what's included with the what the actual template folder structure if you will so the entire everything you need is pretty much in here with the exception of sound because sound is trademarked and copyrighted and you aren't going to be able to necessarily distribute music like that so you have to find music that you can use on your own anyway this was made in Mac etosha it's being converted to a PC version and here we go so anyway this is After Effects here and I chose this project because it's super simple but yet gives you a very cool effect and you don't want to get too involved in After Effects right away or you'll get overwhelmed you'll quit and you won't be happy trust me After Effects is something that can get very overwhelming very quickly now over here on the left hand side and all the project files you'll see a bunch of different folders now the only one we really care about is the edit comps folder because this is where we're gonna make changes that will take effect here in the entire project now as you can see here there's clearly no images or videos or anything inside the phone and that's the whole point of what we're doing here today so image 1 2 3 & 4 this is the order of which they appear when he goes swiping through the screens so image 1 if we just go ahead and click double click on that you'll see we have nothing here because nothing was rendered here yet in the final output because we haven't put it in there yet so if we open up image 1 then we go to our footage folder where we moved in the files and stuff that we want to use let's go ahead and move in say all of these files you can just drag all of these because you know you're gonna use them dragging them over here to the project files and then we can just drop them in there now what we're gonna do is I want to have that Kington graphics card b-roll to be my first clip so let's find it here there it is right here you can see it up here in a little preview window on the left just drag it down here and then I can sigh you know scale at how I want because this video or this intro thing template was made with like a 4 or 4s it doesn't have a widescreen on there that's why it's got this more 4 by 3 format so we can just move that around wherever we want it just so long as we make sure that we don't move it in such a way that we get these black bars because that will look very unnatural so we'll just do that and then I want to go a step further by adding on top of here you know some words to represent you know what we are trying to showcase here with our channel so I'll put builds up here on top and then we'll put it down here in the corner or something and we'll say that you know hey Jays two cents does builds but you guys never saw that coming did you so that's it we dragged that in there it's in composition 1 now the final HD is going to pull in those files automatically and as you can see there it is so he brings up the screen and it's already in there he swipes to the next scene and it's black because we haven't put anything in there yet so we'll go image 2 over here on the left and the Edit comps double click on it it brings up the composition now we can do the next file we want to use so let's do like my trade show video has that this one right here we'll drag that down there there's me as a talking head at a trade show this was at e3 this year there's a little disappointing cool game titles and stuff but just the way the convention is laid out I wasn't too happy with it anyway we'll go ahead and call that one gaming makes sense because it is a gaming convention you know that says the Electronic Entertainment Expo it was like all games should we call the electronic gaming expo and we'll put that there now if we go over here to Final HD again down here in our composition navigator there it is see it automatically brought it in and now the next thing we'll do is we'll go to composition 3 and we'll put in there me as the talking head my 9 50 review there it is we'll scale it down just a little bit we'll move and we'll go like that we'll move that over that way my little bobble head kind of shows and then we will put in there the word reviews obviously I'm doing a review right there scale that up a little bit drag that down into the corner me a little bit bigger just like that and then guess what just like you saw before or is it gin here something there it is then the last one is he leaves it up on the screen longer because that's intended to be like a logo reveal so what we'll do here is we will go ahead and open up image four which is composition four we will drag down in there my moving background and then we will also pull down in there my logo which is in here somewhere it says logo imagine that only Jacob lose something called logo it's clearly labeled and we'll do that and go back over here and there there it is now the cool thing about these templates is this seems incredibly easy right like oh that wasn't a lot of work J what's the whole point of this video well the point of this video is to show you that by using you know services like video blocks and I've been throwing that out there quite a bit but it's something I truly been using ever since I started YouTube because I'm not good at this stuff I'm not a graphics designer I'm not a motion graphics artist I don't know how to do this stuff I don't have the time to invest on how to how to pre key the phone how to do motion tracking so that everything moods moves flawlessly with the phone it's just not I don't have the time for that so I use services like this to be able to customize it to make it my own but let someone else do all the legwork on how to do all this movement pre keying and stuff but anyway the next thing to do is go up to composition here add to Adobe Media encoder I use the media encoder not the built-in after-effects surrender err because the media encoder is much more powerful and then we can select our settings and stuff there and let it output I'm going to HD 1080p at 29.97 fps you can tell it where to save and then once it's done you will have a project that is all done and looks something like this so there you go guys just a quick video on how you guys can spice up your content creation and make things look a whole lot better without having to invest a lot of time and only a little bit of money and really gives you some production value to your content so make sure you guys go down to the description check out video blocks there there's a link you guys can go anything in there unlimited library can be used and downloaded all you want there's even a free trial down there so you guys can go and try it out and download some stuff and see how you like it and the cool thing about video blocks is even if you guys are content creators already and you know all this stuff and maybe you're even a professional graphics artist you can put your own stuff up into the market place and video blocks gives you a hundred percent of the proceeds they don't even take a cut of what you guys put up there they give you a nice store basically to put yourself up there showcase it make a little bit of money for your effort and I think that that's really an important thing as Baby J's Yellin in the background there I think she wants to get in the video anyway it's really important to be able to strengthen the community and give you guys you know all the proceeds for your efforts and that's exactly what videoblocks is doing so make sure you go into the description check it out sign up for a free trial if you're a content creator and you want to spice up your content and as always guys thanks for watching these videos are fun to make I couldn't do these videos without your guys's support or the support of people like videoblocks because they've helped me get my content looking a lot better ever since the start anyway time to get out of here guys hope you guys have a safe Halloween because tomorrow is Halloween if you're watching this in the future well then Halloween is over unless we're almost to next Halloween and then you know next Halloween is almost here then at that point have a safe next Halloween alright imma get out of here guys as always thanks for watching