My YouTube Channel Ident: Using Various Adobe Software.
Introduction:
Adobe software such as After Effects and Premiere Pro is the best software for improving video editing and animation skills. Although I faced technical challenges with After Effects, such as masking, keyframes, and video export problems, I managed to complete the logo animation with patience and basic knowledge. Premiere Pro is my top choice because of its ease of creating text animations. I also use Adobe Illustrator to create logo.
I generally use 2 Adobe software, namely After Effects and Premiere Pro. This is because I want to learn more about both of the software. I'm more comfortable using Premiere Pro because it's easier to create various animations on text and others compared with After Effect. When using After Effects to create logo animations, I have many problems such as masking, adjusting keyframes, exporting videos, making rotations, and in fact, almost all layers have their own problems. However, with the patience and expertise of a beginner, I was able to complete the animation for the logo as well. Almost forgot, I also use Adobe Illustrator to create the logo. Since this assignment is only to explain the Ident, I don't need to explain how it is made :). This is my experience with creating channel ident. 💆
The Journey of Building Channel Ident begins. 💨
Before starting to make the ident channel, I drafted an idea and sketched a video as my guidance to avoid some mistakes. For this, I ask myself, identity for what? focus for what? and what elements must be there?. About the problem of interesting or not I set it aside. The important thing is this ident can be explained to the viewers of this channel. So, this is my draft:
5 Main Steps in Making Ident Channel: 💥
1. Create Logo Animation
2. Add Video
As I mentioned before, I use Premiere Pro for this, and the picture above is just the beginning part of combining the videos I have taken from the website (Freepick, Pixabay, and I forget some). The way is easy by just importing (embedded file) to upload any file to After Effects.
The number of short videos initially is 10 not including the logo animation. However, I decided to delete 1 to reach the target of the ident duration of only 30 seconds. For the layers, I don't arrange it in only 1 layer, but I make each video for each layer. This is to make it easier for me to determine only certain parts that need to be included in the ident. For videos, I put together starting from coffee beans, the process of making water and bread, and at the end, I put a video of coffee and bread that is ready for sale.
The challenge in combining videos😤
I prepared this video by exporting it one by one after completing the necessary parts (logo animation, video combination + logo animation, ident including text without audio, and with audio). This is because before I was faced with various problems in Premiere Pro, which is losing files that were already halfway through and not once but almost 5 times. After I export or render the files into an mp4 file, I save it before I combine and add the necessary elements.
3. Add Text Animation
For the text, I did not take ideas or imitate any source. I'm just thinking about marketing and it really helps me to compose sentences well. By referring to various sources and with my own experience using this software, I compiled myself and looked for whatever effect was suitable to be included in the ident. For this, I use 7 different types of effects all of which are in the reference found in the picture below. This is a suitable verse for me to present with sufficient duration.
"BAL_KOPPEE (1), AFFORDABLE KOPPEE DELECTABLE KOPPEE (2), FULL RASA=FULL SENYUM (3), STAY TUNE WITH US!!! (4), PREMIERE EVERY SUNDAY AT 9P.M. (5), & ENJOY (6)"
- 1: Effects: Lens Distortion, position(from bottom to the middle), and opacity(from 100% to 2.7%)
- 2: Opacity or Masking (make a shape as a point to start and end the transition), you must set a keyframe by following the movement of the shape.
- 3: Typing one by one character while inserting a Keyframe for each character from the beginning until the end.
- 4: Zoom out (set keyframe from 2000%++ to the most suitable size to see then set back to the big scale again for the last one)
- 5: Effect (VR Light Leaks), effect (VR Spherical Blur). For this effect, you must put the start and end at the duration text animation.
- 6: & enjoy
4. Insert Music and Sound Effects.
For the music, I downloaded it from the artlist.io website, and for the sound effects (for the logo intro) also inserted the audio element in the video. I only use CapCut to insert audio because it's easier and more interesting than Audacity. I also use Audacity to cut certain unused parts of this music because have a voiceover dan enough duration of 24 or 25 seconds considering the full song duration is 2 minutes.
From This:
5. Combine Video and Audio and Final Review👀
Writing this blog with stories to share,
Creating an ident with patience and flair.
The journey was solid, but thanks to everyone,
The work is complete, enjoy watching what’s done.
Here is my final project. Hope so all of you will enjoy to watch this. ✌
Thank you for your time,
Hope so will see you next time.
Final Edited by: Bal_Shakrry
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