Hey guys, I made that video intro that you just watched in Blender for free,
and in this video tutorial I'm going to show you how to do the same for your own
needs. I'm not going to go into the intricacies of how Blender works because
it is a powerhouse, but I am going to show you how to do things like edit the
text and change the colors. All you're going to need for this tutorial is to
download Blender, so go over to blender.org if you haven't already download
the program and then let's get started! Right, so let's go ahead and do this
start to finish together. We're in this together people! So if you've just
downloaded Blender this is what it should look like and don't worry about
any of these tools. The point of this tutorial is not to show you how to make
something from scratch but rather how to edit a template. So what I want you to do
is open a browser and go ahead and type in Top Free Intro. Now this is just a
site that I like for Blender intro templates because I think they have
a lot to choose from and I do like that it gives you the option to preview a
template before you download it. I'm going to pretend like this one is the one
that I want to use for my own video intro. Again you can press this button
to preview the template before you actually download it. If it all looks
good to you go ahead and click download, you'll be brought to a second tab, you're
going to want to scroll down towards the bottom and look for this little download
option again. Your zip file will download and you're done with the website, so go
ahead and close tab out, and you can open your file to unzip, and ensure that
you have a "dot blend" file to select because dot blend is particular to
Blender. Now something I will say that is very atypical are - instructions! Usually
templates do not come with instructions, so I'm going to move this to the side
and pretend like they don't exist because typically you will open a
template and it will look like this and you will have no idea what to do from
here. So let's get cracking! The first thing that we should probably do is get
rid of this "your name." While you're in object mode, whether you're using a
trackpad like I am or a mouse, go ahead and click on the
text and you'll see when it's selected there's a slight orange hue. I know it's
a little hard to tell because the background of this particular template
is orange but once you have your text selected, you're going to toggle over to
edit mode. Edit mode is how we actually edit the text, so once you're in edit
mode you should see this cursor at the end of your text. You're going to go
ahead and click delete. Simply delete to get rid of that text and then you're
going to type in your name, whether it's the channel name or the blog name. I'm
going to go ahead and type in Remote Work Guides, and if you're like me and your
name is longer than the template allows for, don't worry! It's a very easy fix.
From here, you're going to click command a, and that's going to highlight all of
your text for you. Now look on the right hand side on this panel you'll see an F.
That is F for font and we're going to scroll down until we see size. Now from
here there are two ways to go about this - you can manually enter your own font
size or you can use the left and the right arrows to toggle the size itself.
So I think this looks pretty good so far. I think the size is better but I don't
like that it's not centered between these two lines any longer. No problem -
we're going to scroll down and we're going to look for offset. Now Blender is great
because it allows you to move things along X Y & Z access. For the purpose of
these two-dimensional templates, if you want to move something to the left and
the right, it's your X access, and if you want to move something up and down, it's
your Y access. So I think that looks pretty centered. I'm much happier with it
already.
And there are a couple other things you can do. If you want to space out your
letters go ahead and look under spacing and there are lots of different
things you can do, but I think - to keep it simple - these are the easiest.
You know what? It's still not centered. All right so it's still not as centered as I
want it to be. I went the wrong way. At this point this is where you
type in your own numbers and get a feel for where it should be and just work on
it until you you're happy with the end result. So - oops - sorry about that
everyone! Now you know what Christmas music is out. So there are a couple other
things we can do from here. Let's say you don't like the font template - sorry -
let's say you don't like this particular font and you want to change it or maybe
you want to use a font that you use across your website. Once again hit
command a to highlight your text and we're going to scroll back up until we see
this option here - regular - under font. Now this is the font that comes standard
with this particular template. If you want to get rid of it click this X. That
effectively clears out everything that's come kind of prefab in this template and
you're going to open up this file looking letter thing, and there are a number of
ways to go about doing this. One - you can navigate your way to your own library
and look for fonts. Here, you can choose the font that you normally would
but let's say there's a new font you want to use - no problem. I'll show you how
to do this really easily. Let's go ahead and go over to Dafonts. I think this is
a good website because most of the fonts are free and it's very simple to
download something. So let's say Honeyguide - that looks pretty fun - I'm
going to go ahead and download that. Now something I like to do is help make
navigating it within Blender very easy so once you open up this new text file I
want you to click it and I want you to drag it onto your desktop, and let's
close that we don't need it anymore, and I'll show you why. Because when you go
back into Blender and you want to open that new font, you're going to go to this
open file and you're going to go to desktop and here. It's very very simple.
So there's your new font! Wow, I'm actually glad I accidentally did
this. Let's say like me you have just click something on your trackpad that
you weren't supposed to and oh my god you're completely upside-down you have
no idea what to do. No problem! From this point you're going to go back to
object mode and then you're going to click the number zero on your number pad. Zero
is a great way it's a to get you back to what's called camera view. It means we're
looking through our camera this is just what it looked like when we first opened
our template, so again if you're in this crazy view make sure you're in object
mode, click 0, and you're good as gold again. Now okay so it's very easy to
change the text but let's say you've made a bunch of changes and then you're
like shoot I don't like them. Hit command Z because like other programs, command Z
is the way in which you undo. Unfortunately for me, I undid too much,
but that's essentially how it works. So I'm going to get back to this just
so I can show you...why are you not let me do that,,,alright so we're back to where
we started. So now you know how to change the size, now you know how to change the
placement, now you know how to change the font itself. Lastly, I'm going to show you
how to change the font color. When your font is highlighted again - if for
whatever reason you've deselected it, hit command a. I want you to
come over here to this little globe. Now this little ball is our properties and
this basically shows you what the color is and from here it's very simple. You're
just going to click on the color of the material and you're going to choose
something new. So let's say I want to blue, now my font is blue, and there's
really nothing to it more than that. So if you're happy with the blue font,
I'm happy with how this looks so far, okay great.
But let's say you're not happy with the orange background. Again very simple. When
you're in object mode you want to click - physically click - on the orange itself.
You'll know that you've successfully highlighted the background color when
you see in your properties that the or that the ball is now orange and again to
the same processes as out font, we're just going to go through and kind of finagle
with this until we find a color that we like. So I'm gonna make this really bold
and ugly. Okay so from here I'm pretty happy with this. If for whatever reason
this is what I want my template to look like, when you are ready to save the file
you're going to come up here to the camera and there are a couple things that we
need to do before we can physically save it. First I want you to change the output.
The output is where the file is going to be saved. So you're going to click on this
file right here and if you want to save it to your desktop, go ahead and click
desktop. If you want to do it to your documents, same thing, but once you have
desktop highlighted go ahead and rename it. I'm just going to name it RWG Intro,
and click accept. If you don't click accept, nothing will be saved,
so as long as that's selected you're okay. Then I want you to select RGB and
finally come over here and make sure you're saving it as under movie - avi JPEG.
Now here you have a couple options, you can change the quality. I find that the
lower the quality is the worse it looks but the faster the Blender renders the
video for you. However if you have some time to kill and you're a very patient
go ahead and nudge that up to 100% so that your quality is very high. Again
this will take a little extra time. The higher the quality the longer it takes
to actually render the video but that's okay, and once you're happy with all that
go ahead and just click animation. Now I will say real quick let's say
you've clicked animation and Blender is doing its thing and it's starting to
save the file and all the sudden you realize oh my god I hate this color pink,
this is not what I wanted. Rather than let it
render all the way through, go ahead and click this X. That effectively stops
the render. Now to get back to the view where we were and where we were editing,
come down here you'll see this little picture looking thing. Go ahead and
select that and go to 3d view and we are back to exactly where we were. And from
this point, you can go ahead and make changes. If you've realized you made a
mistake in your font, make sure your font is selected, go back to edit mode, go back
to fonts and make the changes however you need. And once you're done
with that - yeah it looks good - you can change the color again if you want to.
Don't forget, to change the color, we're going to our properties. So if you're
good with all this and you think like yeah this is what I want then it's the
same process. Go back to your camera, make sure that everything is the same - it
should be - and once you're good to go click animation. Now it will take Blender
a long time to render and it especially matters if you're using an older
computer or if you have a longer video or a video that's perhaps not 2d maybe
you opted for a three-dimensional template. That will matter and that will
take a longer time to render. So you'll know when your video is done when this
green line gets to this side of the light gray box. So I'm going to go ahead and
pause the video here and I'll see you in a second when my video is done rendering!
If your Blender is done rendering and if you've saved it on your desktop,
here's your video. Let's go ahead and take a look. So we have our new yellow
color - excellent - we have our blue font. Alright pretty good, so congratulations
you've just edited your very own template! Now something that I do want to
cover real quick is let's put some music to this bad boy and then put it all
together. Open up iMovie if you have iMovie.
Let's go ahead and open up a new - hey it's me, doing
many different videos. If you have iMovie and I think iMovie actually is free and
standard so if you have a Mac even better, but go ahead and drag your intro
right into iMovie and as you can see it's gonna play just like a regular file.
Okay so I want to add some music to this. Now there are a number of different ways.
You can do this you can go on at Google and just literally just search for free
or royalty free music or you can use websites like jamendo (jamando)? I'll put
that in the description, I've used that before, that's music that you can buy, you
can purchase a license. It's a really good one, they have thousands of songs
that are awesome. But if you're just looking for a really
quick loop - like this template that we made is seven seconds - and you don't
necessarily want to pay for some music, Orange Free Sounds dot com I think is a
really good site because they have like a pretty substantial list of
royalty-free and totally free music, and logos, and not logos, sound effects for
you to use. It's one of my favorites which is why I'm showing it to you right
now. So let's just see what this looks like. All right, so let's say that that
really speaks to me and I want that to be in my intro video. I'm going to go ahead
and click download and come down here to free download and again you're going to
click this to unzip the file. And once again I'm going to move this mp3 to my
desktop because I just like to make things very easy for myself. I'm going to
close this and since it's on my desktop now I am just gonna drag this under my
new template. And it's very long! I don't need it to be - oh it's very long - if
you're unfamiliar with iMovie go ahead and just follow me along. If you are
familiar awesome. You can simply drag and kind of time the music with that. You can
add a little fade, I'm just going to go ahead and fade this. Something else I
like to do, which I don't know, you don't have to do this, I just like
to add a transition. I think it gives it like a millisecond of nice fade. Anyway
let's see, now I (sigh)...I have my music and I have my template, so
let's see what it looks like altogether! Well I'll be darned, I like it!
So if you are happy with this, you're going to come up here to this arrow up here
and you're going to click save file. I'm going to go ahead and type RWG Intro Final. Click
next. I'm gonna save it to my desktop and once
this is done (you'll know when it's done because this little circle will be - it'll
no longer be transparent - it'll be white). Once that's done saving you can go ahead
and check out your brand-new intro on your desktop. Now I'll just talk through
a little bit while this is saving. The best thing about doing it this way
saving it with music that you like is that once you save this as an mp4 file,
it's yours forever! You can pop that file into future iMovies or whatever video
editing software you are using and that's it! You will always and forever
have this intro video just the way you intend it to look. So let's go ahead and
take a look. Here it is! Here's the file, here's your final template. Alright so if
you enjoyed watching this video and thank you so much for sticking with me -
go ahead and leave me a comment below! Again I'm Erin with Remote Work
Guides. I hope you found value in this video and again Blender is really cool!
In fact I made this diamond using Blender because I just wanted to try to make a diamond one day! So I do recommend now that you have Blender that you check it out!
Thanks again for watching, leave me a comment if you have any questions,
comments, or concerns, and until next time, don't forget to subscribe!
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