Free Intro Maker for YouTube
Create engaging video intros for all of your YouTube content. Fast, free, and online—get started with one click.
YouTube video intros made easy
You have less than 6 seconds to keep a viewer's attention on your videos. If viewers click away, your audience retention scores will drop and the YouTube algorithm won't reward your videos. Fortunately, you can create a compelling and highly-polished YouTube intro with Kapwing's free drag-and-drop video editor.
Kapwing features customizable templates for video intros, a beginner-friendly interface for editing, and other one-click features like automatic subtitles, background noise removal, and video effects—and it's free to get started. Kapwing can create more than video intros, too. It's a fully-featured YouTube editor that allows you to: add text to videos, create transitions, apply fun and interesting filters, and automatically remove silences so every YouTube video you create looks picture-perfect.
How to make video intros on YouTube
- Upload videoOpen Kapwing and upload your video to start using our free YouTube intro maker. Select a file from your device or drag and drop a file directly into the Kapwing YouTube editor.
- Customize your introChoose from dozens of templates or use Kapwing's built-in video effects to create a video intro that's perfect for your YouTube channel. Add text to your videos, apply filters, generate subtitles, and even create custom animations and motion graphics. If you can dream it, Kapwing can make it.
- Export and publishAll finished? Export your video to popular file types like MP4 and then upload and publish to your YouTube channel. Now you're ready for the limelight.
Create video intros that capture attention
Pre-made intro templates for any video
Start with a video intro template that's perfect for YouTube. Browse the Kapwing template library and choose a pre-built template—from there, change the font, colors, styles, and effects. Choose from a selection of stock footage and images to create intros from scratch or to enhance one of your own ideas.
Effects and filters for memorable intros
Need advanced options? Kapwing also features a wide array of video effects, filters, transitions, and keyframe animations so you can bring your YouTube video intros to life. Add energy and motion to your videos and make the most of the first few seconds. Keep a viewer's attention with title cards and engaging transitions throughout your video.
Compelling intros with consistent branding
Create a memorable visual identity by applying a Brand Kit to your video intros. Brand Kits help ensure all of your design assets—from color palettes to fonts—stay consistent across your YouTube video intros. Every viewer will begin to recognize you and your brand.
Export and download to popular formats
Once you're ready to publish, export and download your YouTube video intro to popular formats like MP4. You can also apply hardcoded subtitles that Kapwing will automatically generate for you so your YouTube videos are both accessible and engaging.
Discover even more features on Kapwing
Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
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Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
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Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I make a YouTube video intro?
1. Open the Kapwing editor. 2. Upload your video or start with stock footage. 3. Apply a video intro template or start editing with text, transitions, and animations. 4. Adjust the colors and fonts in your video intro and add elements like Subscribe and Like buttons. 5. Save your video intro.6. Export and download to popular file types like MP4. Use your intro whenever you create a new YouTube video.
What video intro maker do YouTubers use?
Kapwing, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro are all popular video intro makers used by YouTubers. Each product can make video intros and includes other features for editing all aspects of a YouTube video.
How long should my video intro be?
Video intros on YouTube should be shorter than 5-10 seconds. Shorter is usually better, as the job of a video intro is to capture the attention of people who don't yet know about your channel. But if a video intro is shorter than 5 seconds, it's hard to leave a strong first impression.
How can I personalize my YouTube video intro?
There are a few great ways to customize your intro: Add text with custom fonts, apply dynamic transitions, overlay stock music or a custom voiceover, and create custom animations. All of these intro effects can be applied to an existing template or created from scratch.
What's different about Kapwing?
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
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