- The video is about creating a TV-style intro and the creator challenges viewers to come up with their own intros.
- The creator recommends using the music called Noir by Jameson Nathan Jones, provided by Sonata Media, a new royalty-free music licensing company.
- Sonata Media offers a hand-picked selection of high-quality music in various genres and moods for an affordable price.
- The creator also recommends using free stock footage from pexels.com.
- The video provides tips on setting up the timeline and media pool in DaVinci Resolve.
- The creator advises placing the music on a separate audio track to avoid overwriting it with video audio.
- Basic cuts and cross dissolve transitions are used to align the footage with the music.
- The creator demonstrates how to overlay a clock footage and create a gradient fade effect.
- Titles can be added using the text feature in DaVinci Resolve, with options to adjust font, size, and style.

- The video discusses how to make text bold in a rich text area by selecting the desired text and changing the font face to bold
- The video also shows how to fade out text by dragging the icon at the end of the text to the left
- The process of replicating the text and making changes is demonstrated by holding Alt on the keyboard, clicking and dragging the text, and trimming it
- The video then demonstrates adding a fade in effect to the text by changing the position, making certain parts bold and others light
- Lastly, the video shows how to add a dust overlay by importing the overlay as an MP4 video file, adjusting the composite mode, and reducing the opacity as desired

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00:00 Example
00:36 Intro
02:19 Sonata Media
03:46 Setting up BINS
04:22 Setting up Timeline
06:41 Adding Video & Transition
07:05 Video Overlays/Gradient
09:54 Adding Titles
10:32 BOLD Text
11:55 Dirt Overlay
12:54 Outro

I hope you found this useful :) Thanks for watching.

Mr Alex Tech

What up folks, Alex here, Mr Alex Tech and in this video I'm going to show you the quick tips and tricks that I used to create that cool 30 second TV style intro.

And I've got a bit of a challenge for you all.

I want to see what sort of TV style intro you guys can come up with.

Now music is absolutely essential for this.

Any good TV show needs an absolutely killer soundtrack.

Now the music I used was called Noir and it's by Jameson Nathan Jones and it was provided by Sonata Media who just so happened to be this week's sponsor.

They're the new kid on the block when it comes to royalty-free music licensing for your videos.

And I'm not just talking about YouTube videos, but also any commercial projects as well.

Their goal isn't to bring you the biggest selection of music, but instead to deliver a finely tuned, hand-picked selection of just top quality music.

So we've got the cool, tense, cinematic music like this.

Laid back, fun music for your vlogs like this.

Or even some silly Christmas music like this.

And last but not least, they're affordable, coming in at under $10 per month.

That's less than 8 quid for us Brits, and that's for an unlimited personal plan.

And best of all, they're offering a 30-day free trial so you can go ahead sign up for 30 days give it a complete trial try out all the music see what you think before committing to doing anything.

Also all of the footage I used in this video was stock footage there's loads of good quality free stock footage out there.

The 1 I recommend, just head to pexels.com, there's a whole range of stuff on there you can download and start using for free.

I also use a gritty overlay towards the end, that is also free and there's a link down in the description to that as well.

Right with all that out of the way let's get started.

So first things first we're going to shoot on over to sonata.media and once you're here you can start browsing the music straight away without logging in by simply clicking on tracks at the top or if you want to start your 30-day free trial just click on the start 30-day free trial in the middle of the screen, and you can sign up and get going from there.

So now if we just hit tracks at the top, it'll take you to the main page within Sonata Media, and we've got a bunch of tracks shown to us straight away.

We can listen to them at any point by just hitting play and they'll start playing or we've got a bunch of filters on the left hand side.

Now what I like to do, choose either a genre, a mood or a theme and it starts to just narrow it down and to help you find the track that you're looking for.

So genres, you've got everything from acoustic, cinematic to soul and R&B.

I wanted something really cinematic for mine so I'm just going to click on cinematic and then we're also going to choose a mood.

Do we want something aggressive, epic or hopeful?

I wanted something tense, I went for that zombie sort of feel so I'm going to click on tent and that's just going to narrow it down to this specific selection.

As I say we can just give them a click to have a listen and once we're happy we can just come on over to the right hand side click on the little license subscription and then we can download the track in either an MP3 or a WAV file and job done.

Now if you're really stuck for ideas, you don't know what to go for, just browse the catalogue, find the track that you really like and then work backwards from there.

Once you've got the music, generally the ideas will start flooding in and everything will fall into place.

So here we are within DaVinci Resolve, we're on the edit tab and my first quick tip is just to show you quickly how I set up my timeline and my media pool.

So first things first, I'm going to click on media pool, top left hand corner to open my media pool here and then I like to add a couple of bins just so that I can stay organized.

So underneath master on the left here, just right click anywhere in the empty space, click on new bin and then you can just create folders for all of your media so that you can stay organized.

First one's called music and then the second is simply footage and then I can import all of my media into the corresponding folders so I know where everything is.

So I've imported everything I need the first thing I want to add to my timeline is my music because I'm gonna edit to the music it makes sense just to start off with the music first.

So I'm going to grab my music track, just drag it down here, add it to my timeline.

Now by default I've added it to audio track number 1 but I don't actually want to keep it on audio track 1 and I'll show you why.

If I was to add some video which had some audio attached, as soon as I was to add it to video track number 1, it overwrite my music because it's on audio track number 1 with the audio attached.

And that can cause you some big issues further down the line.

So instead, what I like to do, grab your music, just drag it down either to audio track 2, or you can go a bit further and put it onto audio 3.

Now, if I was to add some video with audio attached, my music would be well clear out the way and I won't accidentally overwrite anything.

Now on the subjects of audio, If you do import some video which has audio attached and you want to get rid of it really quickly, click on an empty space so that nothing is selected.

Then holding the Alt key on your keyboard, click on the audio so it's highlighted in red like so.

And then just hit your backspace if you're on Windows or delete key if you're on Mac, just to get rid of that audio file without getting rid of the video file.

Now my next thing, come down to your audio track with the music on, click on the name itself, that will highlight and then you can just change the name of the track once again I'm going to go with music and again it just helps you to stay a little bit organized and then also what I like to do here is to just turn off this auto track selector with the auto track selector enabled if you were to just do a random cut here it'll make a cut through this video, but it will also make the same cuts through your music track.

And then if I was to delete this with the ripple delete key, it would cut up my music, moving everything along and making everything go out of sync.

So if I just undo that, if we untick or disable the auto track selector, if I was to make any cuts in my timeline like so, it won't make the same cut onto the music file unless I specifically select it and try to make the cut on the file.

And then it's at this point you can just trim or make any changes to your music as you need to.

So I've just got a 30 second section which is what I'm going to be editing to and then we can start to add our video.

So as you can see I've added all of my stock footage and I've just done some basic cuts so that it lines up with my music.

Now I am generally sticking to basic cuts but I also like to use cross dissolve transitions.

So I'm going to open up the effects library, go down to video transitions, grab a cross dissolve and we can just drag that onto the edit point to add a simple cross dissolve transition like so.

Now throughout my intro I want to have that running theme of the time or clock so I'm just going to add some additional footage on top.

So I'm just going to shoot into my media pool and I'm going to grab this footage of this clock here and I'm going to put it onto my video track number 2 above all of my other footage and then to make it like an overlay so that you can see both pieces of footage it's really simple give it a click so it's highlighted in red open up the inspector in the top right hand corner unless it's already open and then you need to do is come down to where it says composite and then you've got composite mode, give that a click, there's loads of options in here, feel free to play around, experiment with them to see which different looks they give you but I'm just going to come down to overlay, give that a click and it's going to overlay the footage over the top but you can see both like so.

We can then just come down to the opacity, lower the opacity just to get it looking exactly as I want it.

You can then make any changes, you can zoom in, relocate it to get it exactly in the right place.

So now we've got the 2 pieces of footage playing together like so.

If you want to take that a step further and to do a gradient fade between the 2 pieces of footage, that's really easy as well.

Give it a click, make sure that your playhead is over it like so, and then we're going to jump into the colour tab.

Make sure that you've got your nodes over the right hand side just by clicking on nodes up here.

And then just make sure using this little timeline down here that you're on the right piece of footage.

So I've got this 1 here, this little clock piece of footage selected and then within the nodes right click in any empty space and add an alpha output and that'll put this little blue circle over on the right hand side.

Then we need to do is grab this little blue square drag it to the little blue circle like so.

That'll mean that anything that we mask will be transparent so you can see the footage underneath.

Then in this little window under here we want to select the power window and then we just need to come down here and grab this 1 which is the gradient tool and then on the screen you've got this sort of t-shape and then you can just move this wherever you want it point the arrow and you can see you can change the gradient of your footage so if we want a really obvious gradient or we can have a bit of a line we can move it as we need it.

So I'm going to have the left hand side showing more of the clock and the right hand side just to be our footage underneath something like that.

You can move it around and if we jump back into the edit tab we've got this faded footage like so.

At any point you can just jump back into the color tab, select that footage, make sure you're on the right node and then you can make any adjustments to fine tune it to get it looking exactly as you want it.

So now we've got our main track with any transitions, we've got our second track with all of our overlays and fades, we can now start to add our titles.

So we're gonna open up the effects library, we're gonna come down to titles, and then we're just gonna grab text and add that onto our video track number 3.

Now once again I don't like to do anything fancy with this whatsoever so I'm just going to trim this down so it's the right length.

We'll zoom into the timeline a little bit.

We'll give the text a click so it's highlighted in red.

In the inspector we're going to go to the title tab and then we can just add our name in here.

So I'm just going to go with Mr Alex Tech and then we can change the size and then just move the location wherever we want it.

Now a real great trick here is if you want some of the text to be bold in the rich text area if you just select the text that you want to be bold so I'm going to go with the Alex Tech make sure it's highlighted and then come down to the font face I'm going to change that to bold and it'll just affect the font which you've got selected within the rich text area and then you're going to select the mister section and we're going to change that to light and now we've got this combination of a light mister with a bold Alex Tech and again it's just a nice subtle detail but it really makes the text just look that little bit nicer.

Back to our timeline I want the text to fade out so what we're going to do grab this little icon at the end of the text drag it to the left as far as you want it And now the text will simply fade out like so.

You can then just replicate this by holding Alt on your keyboard, clicking and dragging the text, moving it over to the next section, trim it, make any changes you need to.

We'll change the name for this 1 to Sonata Media we can then just change the position so I'm going to put this 1 over on the right hand side we'll make the Sonata bold and the media I'm going to change that to be light and there we go.

We've got real nice text fading in and out with bold and Not bold and it looks really good.

And then last but not least we're gonna add a dust overlay So I've already downloaded the overlay and I've just imported it.

They're simple MP4 video files so you just import them as any other video we can just grab them out of the media pool and put them above our footage like so.

So I'm just going to drag this out it's got some audio attached I'm just going to use my alt trick to give that a click and then get rid of the audio and by default it's gonna look like this, it's just gonna be a completely black screen with the dust on screen so you can't see anything underneath.

Now to change that again really simple give it a click, open the inspector, come down to the composite mode once again but this time we're just going to change it from normal to add and that will just reveal everything underneath.

Now that's a bit strong for me so again we're just going to reduce the opacity get it looking exactly as we want it and there we go that's our real simple intro done.

And that's it for this 1 I hope you enjoyed this video and I really look forward to seeing what you guys can come up with make sure to send me a message comment below tag me in your social media posts, whatever, let me know so I can come over and have a look.

If you enjoyed this video, give me a thumbs up, any thoughts or feedback down in the comment section below, and if you're new here, you enjoyed the video, maybe consider hitting that subscribe button for me.

Thanks for watching, folks, take it easy.

♪ Walking down the madness ♪ ♪ Wanna get some dreams ♪ ♪ Wanna see my lover ♪


Speaker 0: What up folks, Alex here, Mr Alex Tech and in this video I'm going to show you the quick tips and tricks that I used to create that cool 30 second TV style intro. And I've got a bit of a challenge for you all. I want to see what sort of TV style intro you guys can come up with. Now music is absolutely essential for this. Any good TV show needs an absolutely killer soundtrack.

Now the music I used was called Noir and it's by Jameson Nathan Jones and it was provided by Sonata Media who just so happened to be this week's sponsor. They're the new kid on the block when it comes to royalty-free music licensing for your videos. And I'm not just talking about YouTube videos, but also any commercial projects as well. Their goal isn't to bring you the biggest selection of music, but instead to deliver a finely tuned, hand-picked selection of just top quality music. So we've got the cool, tense, cinematic music like this.

Laid back, fun music for your vlogs like this. Or even some silly Christmas music like this. And last but not least, they're affordable, coming in at under $10 per month. That's less than 8 quid for us Brits, and that's for an unlimited personal plan. And best of all, they're offering a 30-day free trial so you can go ahead sign up for 30 days give it a complete trial try out all the music see what you think before committing to doing anything.

Also all of the footage I used in this video was stock footage there's loads of good quality free stock footage out there. The 1 I recommend, just head to pexels.com, there's a whole range of stuff on there you can download and start using for free. I also use a gritty overlay towards the end, that is also free and there's a link down in the description to that as well. Right with all that out of the way let's get started. So first things first we're going to shoot on over to sonata.media and once you're here you can start browsing the music straight away without logging in by simply clicking on tracks at the top or if you want to start your 30-day free trial just click on the start 30-day free trial in the middle of the screen, and you can sign up and get going from there.

So now if we just hit tracks at the top, it'll take you to the main page within Sonata Media, and we've got a bunch of tracks shown to us straight away. We can listen to them at any point by just hitting play and they'll start playing or we've got a bunch of filters on the left hand side. Now what I like to do, choose either a genre, a mood or a theme and it starts to just narrow it down and to help you find the track that you're looking for. So genres, you've got everything from acoustic, cinematic to soul and R&B. I wanted something really cinematic for mine so I'm just going to click on cinematic and then we're also going to choose a mood.

Do we want something aggressive, epic or hopeful? I wanted something tense, I went for that zombie sort of feel so I'm going to click on tent and that's just going to narrow it down to this specific selection. As I say we can just give them a click to have a listen and once we're happy we can just come on over to the right hand side click on the little license subscription and then we can download the track in either an MP3 or a WAV file and job done. Now if you're really stuck for ideas, you don't know what to go for, just browse the catalogue, find the track that you really like and then work backwards from there. Once you've got the music, generally the ideas will start flooding in and everything will fall into place.

So here we are within DaVinci Resolve, we're on the edit tab and my first quick tip is just to show you quickly how I set up my timeline and my media pool. So first things first, I'm going to click on media pool, top left hand corner to open my media pool here and then I like to add a couple of bins just so that I can stay organized. So underneath master on the left here, just right click anywhere in the empty space, click on new bin and then you can just create folders for all of your media so that you can stay organized. So I'm just going to create 2. First one's called music and then the second is simply footage and then I can import all of my media into the corresponding folders so I know where everything is.

So I've imported everything I need the first thing I want to add to my timeline is my music because I'm gonna edit to the music it makes sense just to start off with the music first. So I'm going to grab my music track, just drag it down here, add it to my timeline. Now by default I've added it to audio track number 1 but I don't actually want to keep it on audio track 1 and I'll show you why. If I was to add some video which had some audio attached, as soon as I was to add it to video track number 1, it overwrite my music because it's on audio track number 1 with the audio attached. And that can cause you some big issues further down the line.

So instead, what I like to do, grab your music, just drag it down either to audio track 2, or you can go a bit further and put it onto audio 3. So then it's just out of the way. Now, if I was to add some video with audio attached, my music would be well clear out the way and I won't accidentally overwrite anything. Now on the subjects of audio, If you do import some video which has audio attached and you want to get rid of it really quickly, click on an empty space so that nothing is selected. Then holding the Alt key on your keyboard, click on the audio so it's highlighted in red like so.

And then just hit your backspace if you're on Windows or delete key if you're on Mac, just to get rid of that audio file without getting rid of the video file. Now my next thing, come down to your audio track with the music on, click on the name itself, that will highlight and then you can just change the name of the track once again I'm going to go with music and again it just helps you to stay a little bit organized and then also what I like to do here is to just turn off this auto track selector with the auto track selector enabled if you were to just do a random cut here it'll make a cut through this video, but it will also make the same cuts through your music track. And then if I was to delete this with the ripple delete key, it would cut up my music, moving everything along and making everything go out of sync. So if I just undo that, if we untick or disable the auto track selector, if I was to make any cuts in my timeline like so, it won't make the same cut onto the music file unless I specifically select it and try to make the cut on the file.

And then it's at this point you can just trim or make any changes to your music as you need to. So I've just got a 30 second section which is what I'm going to be editing to and then we can start to add our video. And here we are. So as you can see I've added all of my stock footage and I've just done some basic cuts so that it lines up with my music. Now I am generally sticking to basic cuts but I also like to use cross dissolve transitions.

So I'm going to open up the effects library, go down to video transitions, grab a cross dissolve and we can just drag that onto the edit point to add a simple cross dissolve transition like so. Now throughout my intro I want to have that running theme of the time or clock so I'm just going to add some additional footage on top. So I'm just going to shoot into my media pool and I'm going to grab this footage of this clock here and I'm going to put it onto my video track number 2 above all of my other footage and then to make it like an overlay so that you can see both pieces of footage it's really simple give it a click so it's highlighted in red open up the inspector in the top right hand corner unless it's already open and then you need to do is come down to where it says composite and then you've got composite mode, give that a click, there's loads of options in here, feel free to play around, experiment with them to see which different looks they give you but I'm just going to come down to overlay, give that a click and it's going to overlay the footage over the top but you can see both like so.

We can then just come down to the opacity, lower the opacity just to get it looking exactly as I want it. You can then make any changes, you can zoom in, relocate it to get it exactly in the right place. So now we've got the 2 pieces of footage playing together like so. If you want to take that a step further and to do a gradient fade between the 2 pieces of footage, that's really easy as well. Give it a click, make sure that your playhead is over it like so, and then we're going to jump into the colour tab.

Make sure that you've got your nodes over the right hand side just by clicking on nodes up here. And then just make sure using this little timeline down here that you're on the right piece of footage. So I've got this 1 here, this little clock piece of footage selected and then within the nodes right click in any empty space and add an alpha output and that'll put this little blue circle over on the right hand side. Then we need to do is grab this little blue square drag it to the little blue circle like so. That'll mean that anything that we mask will be transparent so you can see the footage underneath.

Then in this little window under here we want to select the power window and then we just need to come down here and grab this 1 which is the gradient tool and then on the screen you've got this sort of t-shape and then you can just move this wherever you want it point the arrow and you can see you can change the gradient of your footage so if we want a really obvious gradient or we can have a bit of a line we can move it as we need it. So I'm going to have the left hand side showing more of the clock and the right hand side just to be our footage underneath something like that. You can move it around and if we jump back into the edit tab we've got this faded footage like so. At any point you can just jump back into the color tab, select that footage, make sure you're on the right node and then you can make any adjustments to fine tune it to get it looking exactly as you want it. So now we've got our main track with any transitions, we've got our second track with all of our overlays and fades, we can now start to add our titles.

So we're gonna open up the effects library, we're gonna come down to titles, and then we're just gonna grab text and add that onto our video track number 3. Now once again I don't like to do anything fancy with this whatsoever so I'm just going to trim this down so it's the right length. We'll zoom into the timeline a little bit. We'll give the text a click so it's highlighted in red. In the inspector we're going to go to the title tab and then we can just add our name in here.

So I'm just going to go with Mr Alex Tech and then we can change the size and then just move the location wherever we want it. Make sure to select a nice font like so. Now a real great trick here is if you want some of the text to be bold in the rich text area if you just select the text that you want to be bold so I'm going to go with the Alex Tech make sure it's highlighted and then come down to the font face I'm going to change that to bold and it'll just affect the font which you've got selected within the rich text area and then you're going to select the mister section and we're going to change that to light and now we've got this combination of a light mister with a bold Alex Tech and again it's just a nice subtle detail but it really makes the text just look that little bit nicer. Back to our timeline I want the text to fade out so what we're going to do grab this little icon at the end of the text drag it to the left as far as you want it And now the text will simply fade out like so.

You can then just replicate this by holding Alt on your keyboard, clicking and dragging the text, moving it over to the next section, trim it, make any changes you need to. I'm gonna add a fade in as well. Give it a click. We'll change the name for this 1 to Sonata Media we can then just change the position so I'm going to put this 1 over on the right hand side we'll make the Sonata bold and the media I'm going to change that to be light and there we go. We've got real nice text fading in and out with bold and Not bold and it looks really good.

And then last but not least we're gonna add a dust overlay So I've already downloaded the overlay and I've just imported it. They're simple MP4 video files so you just import them as any other video we can just grab them out of the media pool and put them above our footage like so. So I'm just going to drag this out it's got some audio attached I'm just going to use my alt trick to give that a click and then get rid of the audio and by default it's gonna look like this, it's just gonna be a completely black screen with the dust on screen so you can't see anything underneath. Now to change that again really simple give it a click, open the inspector, come down to the composite mode once again but this time we're just going to change it from normal to add and that will just reveal everything underneath. Now that's a bit strong for me so again we're just going to reduce the opacity get it looking exactly as we want it and there we go that's our real simple intro done.

And that's it for this 1 I hope you enjoyed this video and I really look forward to seeing what you guys can come up with make sure to send me a message comment below tag me in your social media posts, whatever, let me know so I can come over and have a look. If you enjoyed this video, give me a thumbs up, any thoughts or feedback down in the comment section below, and if you're new here, you enjoyed the video, maybe consider hitting that subscribe button for me. Thanks for watching, folks, take it easy. I'll catch you next time. See ya.

♪ Walking down the madness ♪ ♪ Wanna get some dreams ♪ ♪ Wanna see my lover ♪

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Tips for creating a TV Style Intro/Title Sequence in Davinci Resolve with SONATA Media