Creator
$19/month
Billed monthly
For solo creators posting every week
500 credits every month
- Up to 250 AI images
- Up to 19 intros
- Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 1,000 credits
YouTube intro maker
Logo, sting, title.
Make the logo, the moving shot and the sound in Sceneform. Add your channel name in Studio and export a 5-second intro. Press play to hear these four.
Make an intro
About $1.20 an intro on the $19 plan
Plans from $19 a month, with commercial use and no watermark. Studio runs in a desktop browser.
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How to make a YouTube intro.Four steps, three layers.
An intro is a clip, a line of text and a sound, stacked in one Studio project. This is the Hot Mess Kitchen intro, taken apart.
- 1
Make the logo
Describe the mark in the image generator and set the background to transparent. Or upload the PNG you already have.
The logo prompt
A flat logo mark for a chaotic, funny home cooking YouTube channel called Hot Mess Kitchen: a cartoon frying pan seen from the side with a big three-tongued flame leaping out of it, drawn in thick black outlines filled with tomato red and mustard yellow. No letters or text. Centered with generous padding, clean edges, transparent background.
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Put it in a shot
Edit the logo into a scene that fits the channel: a neon sign, a mural on a fence, a clay model. The logo goes in as the reference.
The shot prompt, with the logo as reference
Use the logo in the reference image. It is painted large in its red, yellow and black on the white tiled wall behind a gas stove in a small, messy home kitchen at night. In front of the wall a black cast-iron pan sits on a lit blue gas burner with butter sizzling in it, a splash of sauce on the stovetop. Warm light from under the cabinets. Keep the logo's shape and colors exactly. The logo sits in the upper middle of the frame; the lower third is the calm, dark stovetop. No people, no text anywhere. Cinematic photo.
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Make it move
Turn the shot into a 5-second clip with image to video. Pick Seedance 2.5: it starts from your shot and can end on a second one.
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Add your name and a sting
In Studio, put your channel name over the clip with a fade or slide in, and a sting from the Audio panel under it. Export.
Logo reveal.A first frame and a last frame.
In image to video, start from the shot with your logo switched off and end on the same shot with it on. The clip makes the move between them: here, a neon sign flickering to life.
The first frame is the last one, edited
The same photo with the neon sign switched off. The glass tubes are unlit, pale grey and barely visible against the brick, with no magenta or cyan glow on the wall, in the haze or in the wet pavement. The alley is darker, lit only by faint cool light from the left. Keep the wall, the pipe, the sign's shape and position, the rain and the camera exactly the same.
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Intro music.A sting from one sentence.
Describe the sound under Sound effects in Studio's Audio panel and set it to 5 seconds. Each one below is the prompt that made it.
Hot Mess Kitchen
Sting for a cooking channel
5 sA big comic whoosh of a pan flaring into flames, then a quick cartoon trumpet wah-wah and a crackling sizzle tail, funny cooking show logo sting.
Squish
Sting for a stop motion channel
5 sThree squishy clay boings rising in pitch, then a bright toy xylophone run and one soft squelch at the end, playful logo sting.
Night Shift Arcade
Sting for a retro gaming channel
5 sRetro 8-bit arpeggio rising fast into a deep analog synth hit with a long reverb tail, video game logo sting.
Zoomies
Sting for a dogs channel
5 sOne happy dog bark, paws scrambling fast on grass, a whistle zip, then a punchy drum hit, energetic logo sting.
A tune instead of a hit
The Music tab makes themes from 15 seconds. Drop one under the clip in Studio, trim it to the intro and fade it out.
15 s
Upbeat acoustic theme for a home cooking channel intro: ukulele, hand claps and marimba, 110 BPM, bright and friendly, ending on a clear final chord.
Where the intro goes.After the hook, not before it.
YouTube's help says viewers decide in the first seconds whether to stay, and that the opening should deliver what the title and thumbnail promised. So open on that, a line or a shot. Play the intro after it, then get straight to the first step.
"Juno has never seen the sea. Today she does."
Hook
0:00 to 0:08
Intro
0:08 to 0:13
"First, the car ride."
The video
0:13 to 0:20
- Length
- 5 seconds
- Each intro on this page.
- Canvas
- 1920 × 1080
- 16:9, set in Studio's canvas settings. Make the clip at 1080p too, or it is scaled up.
- File
- MP4 or WebM
- Chosen when you export.
- Logo
- PNG, transparent
- Upload yours or make one.
Sources: YouTube Help: engaging hooks, YouTube Help: restrictions on claimed music, YouTube Help: add end screens.
Simple pricing that scales with you.
Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.
Pro
Most popular$49/month
Billed monthly
For creators posting daily across channels
1,300 credits every month
- Up to 650 AI images
- Up to 50 intros
- Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 2,600 credits
Studio
$99/month
Billed monthly
For brands and production teams
2,700 credits every month
- Up to 1,350 AI images
- Up to 103 intros
- Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 5,400 credits
Scale
$199/month
Billed monthly
For agencies running always-on content
5,500 credits every month
- Up to 2,750 AI images
- Up to 211 intros
- Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 11,000 credits
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YouTube intro maker FAQ
Make or upload your logo, edit it into a shot, and turn the shot into a 5-second clip with image to video. Then open Studio, put your channel name over the clip as a text layer, add a sting from the Audio panel, and export at 1920 by 1080.
Plans start at $19 a month, and every plan includes Studio.
An intro like these costs about 31 credits: 3 for the logo, 2 for the shot, 25 for a 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip at 480p and 1 for the sting. The clip sets the sharpness: a 480p clip on a 1920 by 1080 canvas is scaled up when you export at 1080p. A 5-second clip made at 1080p costs 134 instead of 25. The first export of each Studio project is free, and each export after it costs 10. The $19 Creator plan has 500 credits a month. The exact cost shows before you generate.
Yes. Upload it as a PNG. A transparent background keeps the edges clean when you place it in a shot or straight over a clip in Studio.
Yes. Describe the mark in the image generator and set the background to transparent. Pick a channel at the top of the page and step 1 shows the prompt for its logo.
Short. YouTube's help says viewers decide in the first seconds whether to stay, and to keep your intro concise and get straight to the value your title and thumbnail promised. Every intro on this page runs 5 seconds. Seedance 2.5 makes clips from 4 seconds, and Studio trims anything longer.
Yes. Every paid plan includes commercial use of the sound you make in Sceneform. A popular song can get your video a Content ID claim, which can mute or block it.
No. Every paid plan exports without a watermark.
Yes. Describe the look in the prompt for the shot: neon, chrome, pixel art or a 3D render. Night Shift Arcade above is a neon sign in the rain.
Yes. Make a closing shot, add a line such as your next upload day, and put it at the end of your video. After you upload, add end screen elements in YouTube Studio under Editor, then End screen. YouTube's help says they go in the last 5 to 20 seconds, on videos at least 25 seconds long.
Your channel has a name.Give it an intro.
Make an intro
Plans from $19 a month. Commercial use included.