How to make a reusable intro and outro for a video series
Upload your logo to Vizard Agent and say what the series is. Vizard Agent probes the logo file to see whether it is genuinely transparent, cleans it up, chooses a typeface and a background it has reviewed, and delivers intro and outro cards you can put in front of every episode you record.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what the series is and how it should feel. Vizard Agent handles the typography, the background and the music, so a sentence about register does more than a list of design specifications would. You can still name a colour or a font. Write the name exactly as it should read, because a title card is where a capitalisation mistake is unmissable.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It doesn't trust the logo file. A logo saved as a PNG is not necessarily transparent, and a mark with a hidden white box behind it looks fine on a white page and terrible on a dark title card. So Vizard Agent probes the image, examines the alpha channel in code and rebuilds the mark before putting it on a card. In the session behind this article it:
- Searched the licensable music library for tracks matching the energy the user named, downloaded several and analysed one to confirm it worked as walkout music.
- Probed the logo files for dimensions, pixel format and transparency, then examined the alpha and colour channels in code.
- Listed the installed fonts to pick a premium typeface for the name.
- Downloaded dark, dynamic stock backgrounds and tiled frames from each one to look at before choosing.
- Converted the logo to a crisp white mark, composed the title-card stills and inspected them for alignment and contrast.
- Delivered the full assembled episode, 102.07 seconds at 1920x1080, with the intro on the front and the outro on the back.
When does this not work well?
A series template outlives the taste that produced it. Fashionable motion dates fastest, and changing the intro later splits your back catalogue, since everything already published keeps the old card. Long intros get skipped: five seconds is generous. A low-resolution logo can't be rescued, so send vector or the largest raster file you have.
Common questions
How long should the intro be? Around five seconds. Anything longer and regular viewers start skipping it every episode.
What if my logo is not transparent? Vizard Agent checks the alpha channel and rebuilds the mark cleanly, so a flat file is not a problem.
Can I get the cards as separate files? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for them separately if you assemble each episode in your own editor.