In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I've recreated an intro sequence similar to the vibe and
style of some of my favorite YouTubers, like the one you're seeing here from Nathaniel Drew.
All the elements that you see and hear in this video are from Envato elements, and I'll walk through
how I put this together.
From the stock footage to the light leak overlays, the transitions, the motion graphics, all in Premiere
Pro.
So let's head into Premiere Pro to see how I did this.
And yes, I did get a haircut since that last tutorial you watched here, I'm on Envato Elements and
I just want to show you briefly a couple of the examples of stock footage that I downloaded.
I simply searched for Los Angeles, found a couple shots of downtown Los Angeles.
I studied abroad in Bonn, Germany.
So I wanted to do this transition from Los Angeles to Bonn, Germany, as if it was a sort of reflective
video about my experience.
There was stock footage, aerial of the city.
There was even some motion graphic elements that were sort of already created, like this map here where
it's a earth zoom that actually zooms in to Bonn.
And we saw one of these examples in the Johnny Harris video of the Earth.
And this isn't the cleanest Earth video, but pretty amazing that you have these elements right here
that you don't have to create yourself.
I also knew I wanted to use a typewriter, sound effect and style of typing on text.
So I found a motion graphic template that makes it super easy to reuse and edit without having to build
it from scratch.
So I ended up with a folder and here you can kind of see the structure that I typically use for my projects
where I have my video footage.
So here's all the video footage.
You can see that I downloaded it in the highest quality possible.
Some is in 4K, some is in 1080p.
I have transitions, so this has a lot of zoom ins, glitch style things that you're going to see in
a second sound effects.
So here all of these download as zip folders and so you have to unzip them.
But I have like a whoosh, which is great for transitions.
I got the typewriter sound effect.
I have overlays, so I have like a 16 millimeter film overlay.
I have light leak overlays.
These you will see when I open them up in the project, I have another old film overlay.
That one's not as good.
I didn't like it when I downloaded it, but these retro film overlays are great and I'll show you how
to apply these.
Here we've got music.
So I searched for some piano, mysterious music, and I got these two songs.
And when you download a track from Envato, usually it comes with several options.
Sometimes it has with different instruments like this one has one with and without the piano.
And then this one has different lengths.
So if you're wanting to use it for a shorter film, longer film, it has options that you can cut it
down to fit your video.
And then lastly, the motion graphics.
So here, this is something I'll be showing you in a different video.
We do have our typewriter motion graphic here, but we've got lower thirds and motion graphics projects
for like Instagram stories that I'll show you in a future video.
So now let's go to our project and you can see the project panel matches.
Our folder structure in our finder with every editing project.
It's about building layers to make it more complicated in the sense that every element you add makes
it more interesting to watch and listen to.
So I started with just this first track of video clips.
So I started with the downtown shot of Los Angeles Zoomed.
I'm going to zoom out to this cloudy shot, which I could have just used one of those.
But then it goes to this cloudy time lapse of bond into the closer up aerial shot.
The first thing I did was I added these transitions.
So this is a and I'm going to walk you through this, but here we have this transition that also.
Comes with a sound effect, which is kind of cool.
So these transition packs sometimes come in with their own Whooshes and transition sounds so you can
see that they're.
And this was sort of a sideways transition.
And then I added my music.
Cool, right?
And then lastly, I added for these this last shot, I added some overlays.
So I added the 16 millimeter overlay and this other retro film overlay which you can see up here in
the source monitor that changes that aspect ratio.
I just thought that was kind of cool.
I also did a little bit of color grading of this shot just to sort of give it a.
More vintage vibe.
And then the last thing I did was I added this typewriter effect with the motion graphic as well as
the sound effect.
And putting it all together makes it just pop.
All right.
And then lastly, the other things I did was I added a light leak overlay transition.
And also one last.
Sound effect for this transition.
That was a separate sound effect, not within the motion graphic pack.
Cool.
So all of this was done in the matter of maybe 20 minutes or so compared to doing this from scratch,
using After Effects.
Obviously going out and getting this footage, it's incredible what you can do.
So now I want to show you how I rebuilt this from scratch, specifically showing you how I use these
transition overlays, the light leak overlays, and also some of eventually I'll get into the motion
graphics as well.
See you in that lesson.