Don’t you worry.

You can create almost everything you need for a YouTube channel using Canva, and this article will show you exactly what this incredible online design tool has to offer YouTubers.

Let’s go.

Jump to a specific section:

• YouTube logo/icon
• YouTube channel banner
• YouTube thumbnail
• Video intro
• YouTube end screen
• Lower thirds & overlays
• Watermark
• Final videos
• What else can you use Canva for?

Why brand your YouTube channel?

We’re not go into huge detail on this, but these are the main reasons why you should be creating a brand for your channel:

• It makes the focus and purpose of your channel clear to you viewers, so they can easily understand the value you’re offering, and hopefully get them to watch and subscribe
• The consistency of your visuals helps people remember you, recognize your content immediately, and locks you into their memory
• Being unique, especially in a saturated topic is key – so having a unique color palette, fonts, text styles, or visuals in your graphic elements is key to standing out and attracting viewers
• Extend your brand cross platform – keeping your visuals cohesive across all the platforms you’re active on (e.g. social profiles) enhances that familiarity too

The content, consistency, formula, rituals, etc. within your actual videos is obviously a huge part of creating your brand too, but when it comes to the visual aspects of creating your brand, Canva can certainly do the job.

Here are a couple of examples of awesome YouTube channels with great (and consistent) branding hat you should check out:

Primal Video:

Living Big In A Tiny House:

Overview

To take you through everything you can do with Canva for your YouTube channel we’re going to create all the essential graphics for our fictional new channel “DH Studios”.

This fictional YouTube channel has no custom graphics so we’re going to create the lot including:

• YouTube logo/Icon
• Channel banner
• Video thumbnail
• Video intro
• End screen/card
• Transitions
• Lower thirds
• Watermark
• Full YouTube video (a rough example)
• YouTube short
• Social media content

We’ll create a whole, albeit rough and short, video with Canva and add it to the channel, along with our accompanying YouTube short, and these will include many of the graphics we’ve created.

The style we’re going for with DH Studios graphics is clean, fresh, bright, and engaging.

If you want to see some of the YouTube graphics we designed with Canva in action you can see them on the DH Studios channel.

Note: If you’re new to Canva, check out these two articles to help you get started with it:

• How to use Canva: Beginners Tutorial
• 25+ Canva Tips and Tricks

Let’s dive right into it and see what we can create with Canva.

YouTube logo/profile photo

Creating a YouTube logo (or profile photo) is super simple with Canva as it is one of the best and easiest online logo makers in our opinion.

All you have to do is go to your Canva account, click on ‘logo’ and this will take you to the editor with a 500 x 500 px canvas. Or go to ‘Create a design’ > ‘Custom size’ and put in square dimensions (e.g. 1000x1000px or more).

When you get to the editor search ‘logo’ to see all the logo templates.

You’ll see lots of predesigned templates on the left hand side that you can browse through. There are 1000’s of templates so if you want to use a template as your starting point you should have plenty of options:

When choosing a template, think about the style you’re going for with your brand and who you’re trying to attract.

It’s important that your logo reflects your brand’s personality, the content you plan to cover on your channel, and also one that will look good wherever it is displayed.

You can also choose to create a design from scratch, which is what we did. We though a simple and clean lettermark style logo would work well.

Note: If you want to download your logo with a transparent background you’ll need a Canva Pro account. There is a 30-day free trial available too.

Here’s what we came up with in the end:

If you plan to use your face in your videos, and would like to use a photo of yourself as the main profile image, that’s easily done in Canva too.

We create a quick face profile photo example in Canva to show that would look too:

So here are the two option for our profile photo:

YouTube channel banner

Next up, we created the YouTube channel banner (also called channel art).

To create this we open a new blank canvas with the ‘YouTube banner’ dimensions and then copied the logo design over to that new file.

We’d already found a video template that we wanted to use for other designs, but wanted to use an image from the video for the channel banner, so we downloaded that video as PNG file from Canva and then uploaded it so we could use it in our channel banner design:

We then had to add some text with the channel name, the channel messaging, and few icons and graphics to represent the topics this pretend channel would cover.

We also took a bit of time to find the colors and fonts that we thought would work best. Canva has a huge font library:

We have a Canva Pro account so we can use any font we like from Canva’s library but if you only have a free account you’ll see that some of the fonts have a crown icon next to them.

This means that they’re only available to Pro users. You can also upload your own fonts if you have a Pro account.

Have a good browse and test out some fonts you like to make sure it matches your brand.

Here’s our final YouTube channel banner design:

Your channel banner will also look different on different devices – desktop, mobile, tv, et.c so be sure to test out how it looks on each device before you go live.

So, make sure your YouTube channel banner looks good on all possible device types.

Video thumbnail:

To make our YouTube thumbnail we again open a new blank canvas design but in the YouTube thumbnail dimensions.

We made sure to keep the design consistent with the other brand assets that had already been created. So that meant a similar look and feel, font, and color palette.

To make a good YouTube thumbnail you need to ensure it will stand out and attract clicks, and we think we managed to do whilst staying on brand.

The video we’re making the thumbnail for isn’t actually about anything in particular, it’s simply a rough example to show that you can make videos with Canva very easily and quickly (you can view the video or the channel or further down the page).

So the thumbnail was purely there as an example of a branded thumbnail design.

Here’s our final YouTube thumbnail design:

Video intro

If you want to create a branded YouTube video intro, you can do this very easily with Canva’s Youtube intro maker.

There are countless pre-made templates to choose from, and happily we found one that matched our color palette and the look and feel that we were going for with the DH Studios brand.

We cut the length down to what we wanted for the intro:

We then chose an audio file for the intro:

And then all we had to do next was add our logo to the relevant scene in the video.

Here’s the final video intro:

End screen

The process for creating the end screen was just as simple.

We open a blank canvas with the YouTube end screen dimensions, found an end screen template that we liked, and copied over the fonts and colors from the other designs.

We then added the video element that we’d already used as the background image for our channel banner.

Again, we browsed through the audio files and found a track that we thought suited the channel brand.

Here’s the final animated end screen design:

Lower thirds and overlays

It’s super easy to add lower thirds and overlay graphics to video in Canva.

One of the most common lower thirds used in YouTube video is one that shows the name of the person on screen.

Here’s how you can create one of these with Canva:

1. Go to the elements tab
2. Search for ‘lower third’
3. Find one you like
4. Add it to the relevant page in the video
5. Add animation

You can also use shapes and graphics to create your own lower thirds, and then add them and animate them in the same way.

Here’s our final lower third design:

We also followed the same steps to add a ‘Subscribe’ call to action in one of the other pages of our video in Canva:

And we reused the video template that was featured in our end screen to create our own transition scenes:

Watermark

There’s a few different ways to create your own video watermark, and it’s incredibly easy to do just that in Canva.

We simply used our logo design with a transparent background as the watermark. You add this via YouTube when you are customizing your channel:

Here are our final watermark designs:

Final videos

Here’s the final video that we put together only using Canva. It includes all the elements we already covered previously in this article.

It’s a very basic and rough video but we created it very quickly to show you exactly what you can easily put together in Canva:

Here’s the YouTube shorts version we also made in Canva:

What else can you use Canva for?

As a YouTuber, there are plenty of other ways you can utilize Canva. Here are a few of them:

YouTube stream graphics:

We already created an article showing you how you could create many of your Twitch stream graphics with Canva, and many of the same tips and templates apply to live streaming on YouTube too, so we won’t repeat what we said there.

Go and check out the article for yourself if stream designs are of interest to you.

For this article, we’ll just outline some of the stream graphics you can create with Canva:

• Webcam borders
• Stream screens
• Offline banner
• Subscriber badges
• Subscriber emotes
• Stream alerts (overlay graphics)
• Stream transitions
• Several others

Social media content:

If you plan to create social profiles for your YouTube brand you can create all your social media designs with Canva, including:

• Instagram – profile pics, posts, stories, videos, highlights, and more
• Facebook – profile pics, banners, posts, videos, stories, and more
• TikTok – profile pics, videos, and more
• Several others

Here’s a few examples of social media designs to go with the DH Studios brand:

Merch designs and promotional material:

Create merch designs such as mugs, t-shirts, and other designs that your audience might want to buy to support you.

You can also create mockups with Canva, to help promote your merch designs.

Wrapping things up

We hope this inspired you!

So, there you have it, that’s how you can quickly, easily, and affordably create high-quality YouTube graphics for your channel only using Canva to create them.

Canva is an incredible online design tool that literally anyone can use! Plus if you’re on a tight budget but want to create your own YouTube designs you can take advantage of their 30-day free trial and create all the graphics you need in that time.

Again, if you want to see some of theYouTube graphics we designed with Canva in action you can see them on the DH Studios YouTube channel.

Enjoy creating! Oh, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for creating awesome YouTube designs in Canva, leave a comment below!

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We’ve put together a list of some of the best sites to buy or create your own YouTube overlay templates and packs and we’ve also got some awesome templates at the end of the article too.

Let’s get to it.

Jump to a specific provider or section:

• OWN3D
• Fiverr
• Placeit
• Canva
• Nerd or Die
• Etsy
• Other sources
• YouTube overlay templates

OWN3D

Whatever streaming platform you use you’re bound to find some quality templates and tools on offer from OWN3D that have what you’re looking for, and this includes YouTubers looking for overlays to up the quality of their livestreams.

OWN3D has hundreds of predesigned YouTube overlays and stream packs that users can purchase and use straight away to brand their channel and live streams.

You can even get predesigned YouTube emotes and badges via OWN3D or you can use their emote maker or sub badge maker to create your own.

OWN3D also has their subscription service OWN3D Pro which is a plugin for OBS studio, and is perfect or any YouTuber looking for an all in one stream branding solution. They do have some free packs and YouTube overlays but for the most part you’ll have to pay to access most of what’s on offer.

What else to does OWN3D offer?

• YouTube emotes – see them here
• Emote maker – see it here
• YouTube sub badges – see them here
• Sub badge maker – see it here
• YouTube banners – see them here
• Gaming logo maker – see it here

Fiverr

If you want 100% custom overlays designed for your YouTube livestreams then Fiverr is the place to go. There are countless numbers of designers on the platform ready to create bespoke designs at fantastic prices.

We’ve used designers on Fiverr to create emotes and sub badges, as well as for our logo, so we can attest to the quality of the design work that can be found on the platform.

Whether you’re looking for specific YouTube overlays to be created for your channel or a full stream and branding pack you can find designers that offer what you’re looking for at your chosen price range.

It’s not always possible to find predesigned templates on sites like Etsy and OWN3D that have the exact look and feel to match you’re brand which is when it makes sense it check out the designers offering their services on Fiverr.

What else to does Fiverr offer?

• Logo design – see Fiverr gigs
• Emotes – see Fiverr gigs
• Sub badges – see Fiverr gigs
• YouTube channel banners – see Fiverr gigs
• YouTube thumbnails – see Fiverr gigs
• YouTube end screens – see Fiverr gigs

Placeit

If you’re looking for an online design tool that allows you to quickly and easily create stream overlays, including overlays for your YouTube livestreams, then you should definitely check out what Placeit has to offer.

As one of the top YouTube overlay makers, the tool has thousands of overlay templates that you customize in seconds to make your own.

It’s also a very affordable service with an annual subscription being $89.69 and the monthly being $14.95 both offering unlimited downloads. There’s also some free templates on the platform too.

As a YouTuber, you can not only create overlays with Placeit, they also have a YouTube thumbnail maker, intro maker, endscreen maker, YouTube logo maker, as well as a YouTube channel banner maker – so you can brand your whole YouTube channel with Placeit.

What else to does Placeit offer?

• Lower thirds – see them here
• Stream screens – see them here
• Logo templates – see them here
• Intros – see them here
• End screen – see them here
• Thumbnails – see them here
• Channel banners – see them here
• Emotes – see them here

Canva

Like Placeit, Canva is an online design tool that allows you to customize predesigned YouTube overlay templates from their template library but you can also create designs from scratch on Canva.

We’ve created plenty of stream designs with the tool including creating emotes with Canva and a full range of Twitch designs too.

If you’re looking to create YouTube overlays with Canva, be it stream alerts, just chatting overlays, lower thirds, or any other overlay, you can do it with ease using Canva and the tools and templates they have on offer.

You can also full brand your YouTube via the online design software including utilizing their YouTube banner maker, end screen maker, thumbnail maker, or one of their many other tools or templates for YouTubers.

What else to does Canva offer?

• Stream screens – see them here
• Logo templates – see them here
• Intros – see them here
• End screens – see them here
• Thumbnails – see them here
• Channel banners – see them here
• Emotes – see them here

Nerd or Die

Similar to OWN3D, Nerd or Die is a great place to find stream designs no matter what streaming platform you use. This includes YouTube overlays which they have plenty of on the site.

Most of the designs and stream packs are really well designed too, and they cover many niches and styles so you’re bound to find plenty that have the look and feel that you’re going for.

There are also plenty of free templates and tools for streamers on NoD including a free twitch panel maker, scene maker, and overlay maker. So if you also do livestreams on Twitch you can utilize these tools to brand your Twitch channel as well.

What else to does NoD offer?

• Full stream packs – see them here
• Emotes & badges – see them here
• Sound effects – see them here
• Stream alerts – see them here

Etsy

If you’re searching for unique YouTube overlay designs and stream packs then you should check out what’s on offer on Etsy.

There’s plenty of interesting and talented designers that sell stream designs on Etsy, and much of it is available at very affordable prices.

So whether you’re looking for a specific YouTube overlay element or a full set of designs you’ll be spoilt for choice on Etsy.

There’s also stream transitions, lower thirds, animated emotes, sub badge designs, and much more stream branding designs available on the marketplace.

What else to does Etsy offer?

• Lower thirds – see them here
• Emotes – see them here
• Sub badges – see them here
• Stream transitions – see them here

Other sources

Here are some other good sites to find quality YouTuber overlay designs and packs:

• Envato Elements – premium subscription service with plenty of stream templates
• VBI – premium stream templates (incl. plenty of YouTube overlays)
• WDFlat – mostly free stream templates
• Kudos.tv – free and premium stream templates
• Creative Market – marketplace with plenty of stream templates
• Behance – plenty of free stream templates (incl. YouTube overlay templates)
• StreamElements – full stream and overlay packs
• Streamlabs – full stream and overlay packs

YouTube overlay templates

To help you get started we thought we’d put together a list of some quality YouTube overlay templates from some of the sites we’ve mentioned above:

YouTube Overlay (OWN3D)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on OWN3D now.

YouTube Overlay (Envato Elements)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlay templates on Envato Elements now.

YouTube Overlay (Etsy)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on Etsy now.

YouTube Overlay (Canva)

Get this PREMIUM YouTube overlay template on Canva now. Easily customize in your browser.

YouTube Overlay (Placeit)

Get this PREMIUM YouTube overlay on Placeit now. Easily customize in your browser.

YouTube Overlay (Canva)

Get this FREE YouTube overlay template on Canva now. Easily customize in your browser.

YouTube Overlay (Envato Elements)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlay templates on Envato Elements now.

YouTube Overlay (OWN3D)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on OWN3D now.

YouTube Overlay (Etsy)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on Etsy now.

YouTube Overlay (Placeit)

Get this PREMIUM YouTube overlay template on Placeit now. Easily customize in your browser.

YouTube Overlay (Canva)

Get this PREMIUM YouTube overlay template on Canva now. Easily customize in your browser.

YouTube Overlay (Envato Elements)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlay templates on Envato Elements now.

YouTube Overlay (OWN3D)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on OWN3D now.

YouTube Overlay (Etsy)

Get these PREMIUM YouTube overlays as part of a full stream pack on Etsy now.

YouTube Overlay (Placeit)

Get this PREMIUM YouTube overlay template on Placeit now. Easily customize in your browser.

Wrapping things up…

There you have it, some of the best sites (and templates) to purchase, create, or commission YouTube overlay designs to make your livestreams look awesome.

Enjoy levelling up your stream!  If you have comments, questions, or any suggestions of other awesome YouTube overlay sources leave a comment below. 

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While it’s true that some of the more complex editors have a steeper learning curve, there are several great in-browser video editing options that will have you posting videos to YouTube or your social platform of choice in no time at all!

We scoured the internet and tested all the editors we could find, pulling together a list of the very best for you to explore. Don’t mention it!

These in-browser editor options are all very user-friendly and many have deeper functions you can explore as you grow more confident to create even more high-level videos for your audience to enjoy.

Jump to a specific product below

On to the list…

Timeline Style Editors

#1 WeVideo

Set up in the style of a professional video editor, WeVideo gives you amazing control over all aspects of your edit. WeVideo represents the best of the in-browser programs compared to professional editing programs like Adobe Premiere Pro

One of the most impressive things about this editor is that they are able to make it so intuitive and easy to understand but still give you such specific control.

Some of the features available are simply mind-blowing, so if you’re looking to add some real polish to your projects, WeVideo could be the editor for you!

Ease of use:

Though it’s not as simple as a drag and drop system like other video creators on this list, WeVideo is still very easy to navigate. The interface consists of three key sections, a media browser at the top next to the video preview window and a timeline running across the bottom of the screen.

To get started, you’re able to upload your own media, video clips, audio and images or browse the good selection of stock media available in the paid plans.

There’s also a great recording function that will let you record via your webcam directly into the editor, or record your screen and the actions you perform there.

All your assets appear in the media browser and whether recorded or imported are easy to manage by creating folders. Once you’ve got all your media sorted, you simply drag clips down onto the timeline where you can then easily trim clip lengths, change audio levels and apply effects.

It’s possible to add multiple videos and audio layers all of which can be renamed, so you can easily manage the different types of footage on each layer in the timeline.

This also means the audio can be stacked so music tracks can accompany sound effects or voiceover with the audio levels of each track easily visually managed on each clip.

Support for WeVideo comes in the form of a great video academy that will take you from beginner to advanced levels and a well-organized series of step-by-step articles that address various issues that might arise with supporting pictures.

If these two resources don’t answer your questions you can also contact the team through their inquiry form.

• Amazing video Academy
• Simple step by step articles
• Email enquiry form
• Great YouTube channel with lots of other resources

Features:

But a step beyond that, the color keying function is an amazing addition to an online video creator. If you have access to a blue or green screen, you can remove the background with just the click of a mouse.

This is an extremely useful feature for creators wanting to have their image feature over screen recordings or game clips without a background distracting from the action.

It’s even possible to speed ramp your footage, a technique favored by many top YouTubers that speeds up and slows down video for dramatic effect. A feature they manage to make very easy with the simple use of sliders.

Other great features include but are not limited to…

• Multiple video formats
• Direct export to social media
• GIF creator
• Voiceover
• Motion tiles and templates
• Set brand elements
• Create your own templates

Publishing:

Once you have your video looking the way you want it to, the next step is to navigate to the top right of the screen where you click finish. A simple export screen loads which give you the option to download the video in HD or 4k depending on your subscription.

There’s also the option to download the audio-only or create a GIF. And the ability to publish directly to a number of linked social accounts including YouTube and Vimeo, with an added extra that you can preset the default thumbnail from three available options.

After clicking export, the render and download process begins, with a handy timer that lets you know how long the process will take. One final click to download or share to other connected social platforms like Facebook and Twitter and the video is ready to go.

Pricing:

• Free – Free access to try the tool out, can only export a low res watermarked video
• $4.99/mo USD – Power package lets you export at 720p with no watermark and gives you access to templates and greenscreen function
• $7.99/mo USD – Unlimited package gives you full HD exporting, unlimited storage and extra features.
• $17.99/mo USD – Professional package lets you export in 4k, gives you unlimited stock footage access and lets you create a brand kit among other features.

All prices are monthly based on an annual subscription. Month-to-month prices are also available.

Room for improvement

We are extremely impressed with WeVideo and in terms of the functionality and can find very little room for improvement. However, the background and overlays templates could be better and more abundant.

The stock library, though it seems quite extensive relies on you searching for footage, with no way to browse categories for inspiration, so a better-organized library would be of benefit. That being said, this editor is really best suited for creators who are bringing their own footage to edit.

Also, If you have a subscription to Envato elements, for example, you’ll have all the stock footage, music, sound effects, and templates you could need. The strength of WeVideo is in the editor itself.

Overall:

WeVideo delivers a top-quality video editor that does all the technical things right. Almost everything you would expect from professional editing software is there but with the impressive feat of it being completely in-browser, no software to install and update!

Footage upload is fast and final film download is equally speedy. Unless you need 4k exports, the $7.99 unlimited price point delivers everything you should need at a cost much less than some other far inferior editing platforms.

In short, we can’t recommend it highly enough!

#2 Kapwing

Kapwing is unique in this list as you can get access to a very good online editor completely free! There are paid plans that are worth considering for various reasons we’ll get into but it’s possible to create and upload great videos for free without a watermark. Not a bad start!

One thing to understand about Kawping is that there’s no big stock video library of hundreds of video templates to choose from to get you started, it’s basically just the editor. But don’t let that put you off! Kapwing is actually one of the best editors on this list.

By focussing on creating a great editor, without all the extra integration, they’ve managed to create a tool that runs super-fast and is very easy to use and navigate.

Ease of use:

The layout of Kapwing is excellent. The timeline stretches the bottom of the screen and is clear and easy to read, even when full of different assets.

The media menu on the left houses all your uploaded clips, music, and sound effects, but also has a handy scene tab for sectioning out longer videos and a layers tab that shows the stacking order of the assets in that scene.

This can be slightly confusing at first as the hierarchy of assets in the timeline doesn’t translate to the stacking order they will show in the playback window, that order is displayed in the layers panel.

The playback window takes a good bit of space in the middle with a context properties tab on the right that changes options depending on what asset you have selected in the timeline.

As we said before, the editor is very simple to navigate and use. In the timeline, clips are shown with their audio attached. When adjusting the audio volume this reflects in real-time on the size of the audio track, handy for quickly visually checking the levels.

The effects and transitions are simple but easy to access from the properties panel on the right of the screen. For clips, simple color adjustments and a small array of filters are available to punch up the look of your clips.

The included elements are a small number of shapes, an image search function, and the ability to record a screencast, your own webcam, and record audio at once.

The support available on Kapwing isn’t extensive. There is a fairly well-stocked help center that may answer your questions. If not, the resources library and Kapwing YouTube channel have plenty of articles and tutorials to help you get started.  

Features:

One of the biggest virtues of Kapwing is its no-frills workspace and lack of potentially unnecessary addons. However, that’s not to say that they don’t have some useful and interesting extras at your disposal.

Where the free version only lets you export videos up to 7 minutes long, the pro lets you export videos up to an hour. There are faster exporting times and an ability to upload custom fonts and larger video files too.

The subtitle editor is one of the best we’ve seen. A really intuitive slider-controlled layout lets you place subtitles easily over the video exactly where you need them.

You’re also able to export the subtitle file as a .srt so you could load them directly into YouTube if you don’t want subtitles ‘baked in’ to your video.

A good remove background tool lets you use green and bluescreen video in your projects and a very clever meme generator is perfect for punching up your social media presence.

Kapwing’s other great features include…

• Video converter
• Collage Maker
• GIF Maker
• MP3 Editor
• Stop Motion Maker
• Translate video tool

Publishing:

Once you’ve completed your edit you simply hit export and are taken to the render window. Your video should render very quickly before giving you the option to download or share the project to one of Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram

Pricing:

• Free – A great free offering, not to be overlooked!
• $17/mo USD (year contract) – The Pro package lets you export up to hour long videos in full HD
• $20/mo USD – The pro package on a month to month subscription

Room for improvement:

While it’s a great platform, a couple of little issues jumped out. A folder structure for your media would be helpful. Currently, everything is just lumped in together which can make your media browser very cluttered in larger projects.

The layer stacking order not being reflected in the timeline is a little confusing and we’re not exactly sure why one doesn’t inform the other. Assets can also only be moved up and down in the stacking order using the layer buttons in the context properties tab which seems counterintuitive.

Overall:

We are blown away by the quality of the platform at such a reasonable price. And the usability of the free version shouldn’t be overlooked. You can create great videos just by testing the product out for free. So stop reading and get editing!

#3 Moovly

Coming in at number 3 on the timeline editor list we have Moovly. With a dashboard similar to WeVideo, Moovly gives you amazing control over all aspects of your edit.

The editor allows you far greater control than the simpler drag and drop options, but still remains easy to navigate and create.

For anyone worried about approaching a more sophisticated editor, Moovly makes the jump comfortable with a great overview video and a 46-point walkthrough that takes you through all the various options available in a quick and easy-to-follow way.

Ease of use:

Despite having many more options available to you, Moovly manages to keep its interface easy to navigate.

When you have clicked to create a project, the editor opens in a new stand-alone browser window which helps to focus on the edit without other tabs distracting you.

The timeline where you edit your clips stretches the width of the window at the bottom. Above that from left to right run the media browser, the playback window (which Moovly refers to as the stage), and then a properties window that updates customizable options based on your selection in the timeline.

You can begin by uploading video, audio, or images to your personal library. Moovly comes with free access to Storyblocks with over a million assets for you to use in your projects.

There’s also an integrated iStock button that gives you access to use their video and image library on a pay-per-clip basis.

There’s an interesting text-to-speech function with multiple different voices available if you’d like to include a voiceover but don’t want to record it yourself. As well as screen, webcam and microphone recording options. These clips are then saved in your personal library, ready for you to add to your project.

The timeline is where your project comes together and Moovly doesn’t disappoint with the number and variety of editing options it provides.

A click of the add animation button below the timeline reveals a host of transitions and effects you can apply to your layers. A handy split button also lets you cut the selected clip at the playhead, a quick and useful tool to speed up your edits.

Support using Moovly isn’t quite as extensive as some other platforms. They have the initial overview and walkthrough, but the next stop is a more generic search term-based help center.

Their YouTube channel has some useful resources, however, the only solution to an insurmountable problem is to raise a ticket with their help team and wait for a reply.

Features:

Moovly has a big list of customizable features for you to add some flair and your own style to your videos. A variety of animation options used creatively can elevate your videos to a professional level.

The library functions in Moovly are particularly impressive. Not only is there a big selection of graphic and stock media options, but the expanded library view also allows you to focus on navigating through the various options available and helpfully preview the clip or graphic you are viewing before inserting it into your timeline with one click.

A useful stage properties tab at the top of the Properties panel lets you set up your document for whatever purpose you need at the beginning of your project.

However unfortunately if you decide to change video formats mid edit, maybe intending a video for Instagram rather than YouTube, your video assets aren’t auto-resize for you, so a little tinkering will be needed.

Moovly’s great features include…

• A well-stocked content library
• Handy expanded library feature
• Integrated screen, webcam and voice recorder
• Clever text to speech option
• Nice collection of ready to use templates
• Big list of social and other integration options

Publishing:

Once you’ve completed your edit you simply save your project and close the editor window down. Back in the main Moovly site, your project will be saved in the ‘My Projects’ folder of your account.

From here you can preview an HD render of your video, reopen the editor to make any amendments, and download or publish your project to any of the integrated platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Instagram.

Pricing:

• Free – Publish watermarked videos to social up to 30 seconds long.
• $24.92/mo USD – The Pro package lets you download or publish 25 HD videos per month.
• $49.92/mo USD – The Max subscription doubles the videos you can publish to 50 per month and activates many extra features like the text-to-speech and screen recording functions.

Room for improvement:

Whilst it’s a great addition to get users started, it would be helpful if the walkthrough would allow you to jump to the next point without having to perform the action it describes.

As it stands, if you need a quick reminder you need to cycle through the whole thing again or consult the help center.

Some actions take a while to implement and the interface can be a little buggy. Footage upload and placement on the timeline can also take quite a long time depending on the length and file size of the clip.

Overall:

Moovly is a great option for creators looking to start using an editor that gives them more complete control over their edits.

With the Storyblocks and iStock integration, it’s a particularly good option for creators who rely more heavily on using stock video and assets.

In the free trial version, creators have access to all the Pro and Max features to test out, so why not dive in and see what the platform can do for you.

#4 Veed

Like Kapwing, Veed is a stripped-back timeline editor without any of the template and stock frills that other editors on this list have. But again it’s the quality of the editor that has won it a spot.

The project window is extremely stripped back. The all-white interface has only a handful of menu options to deal with and the settings menu is always self-explanatory.

For this reason, Veed feels like the perfect bridge for creators looking to move from storyboard editors to timeline editors. The process looks and feels similar but ultimately delivers you the far greater control that all timeline editing offers.

Ease of use:

Once you open a new project, you’re prompted to upload some footage. A simple drag and drop and our footage uploaded extremely quickly. Very impressive!

With footage loaded into the timeline, which stretches the width of the browser window, we can begin to explore the stripped-back interface.

Seven different menu options are available down the left-hand side of the window, each of which has a small, easy-to-navigate settings menu that opens when you click it. A playback monitor and that’s it!

But that’s really all we need to start creating great videos. Once we click on the clip in our timeline we’re given all the options we would need. Some limited transform options, a way to set the volume, change the clip speed, or replace the clip with another from the library.

Some simple color correction options are also available alongside a small number of effect overlays. But those are all the tools you have to work on your clips.

There are limited elements features which include simple shapes that you either click and drag onto the monitor or simply click and let the editor place on the timeline at your playhead.

Support for Veed comes in the form of a very well-stocked YouTube channel with loads of different tips and tutorials on the various ways you can use the platform. If you don’t find an answer there we’d be surprised. Their blog is also well stocked with tips and tutorials. A chat function is available for those on the paid plans who need a bit of help.

Features:

Veed’s biggest selling point is its stripped-back, straightforward workspace. We think this makes it the perfect platform for users moving from storyboard editors into the more complex world of timeline editors.

The simplicity of navigating the interface and quickly finding what you need is also particularly helpful as you can spend your energies concentrating on the edit rather than remembering where everything is.

The Chroma Key function (greenscreen remover) is impressive and also available for use in the free version which seems very generous!

It also has an excellent inbuilt auto subtitle feature which can save hours of work scrolling through and adding them manually.

Other features include…

• 4k exporting
• 100gb storage
• Subtitle translation
• Brand kit
• Custom fonts
• Custom watermarks

Publishing:

Once you’ve finished your edit, a quick click of the export button takes you to a rendered screen that prepares your video extremely quickly. You can then share the render using a link they provide with other people to comment and review.

Or simply download your HD or even 4K footage (depending on your plan) and upload to any social media channels you wish.

Pricing:

• Free – Export a watermarked video up to 10 minutes in length.
• £10/mo GBP – The Basic package lets you export up to 25 minute long videos in full HD
• £18/mo GBP – The Pro package will let you export up to 2 hour long videos in 4k!

These prices are monthly based on a year subscription. Month to month options are also available.

Room for improvement:

Though the editor is very impressive, one key thing that jumped out to us was the lack of any transitions or even fade in or out options for video or audio. Just a couple of simple additions would vastly improve an already impressive platform.

Also, there’s no storage area for your clips. Once uploaded they only exist on the timeline. While this definitely saves on space, it means you have less freedom to cut and change without having a solid idea of how you want your video structured in advance.

Overall:

A really great editor and the perfect halfway house for creators moving from storyboard editors to timeline editors. While it’s maybe not best suited to more experienced creators, it would definitely prove a good learning ground.

#5 Clipchamp

Clipchamp has maybe the most stylish interface of all the editors on this list. Sleek and well laid out the editor really has the feel of a professional product. But it’s not all style and no substance.

The editor is packed with a host of templates, tools, stock, and graphics to punch up your edits, and the effects and filters available when editing your clips is impressive.

It might prove to be a little overwhelming for beginners, but if you’re willing to spend a little time exploring how to use it, you’re bound to be impressed with the results.

Ease of use:

With all the options available with Clipchamp, it could have been easy for the interface to become cluttered. But the menu system is well structured, laid out the full height of the browser on the left are all the relevant sections.

The timeline looks great, all different types of assets are color-coded so you can easily identify them, and options like the split clip and undo are easily accessible at the top.

The playback window takes up the top half of the screen above the timeline with clip transform properties appearing above that when an item on the timeline is selected.

The upload function is the first stop on the top left and lets you import media from multiple different sources. It also handily gives you the option to record your webcam or screen from this pop-out menu. This gathers all your footage importing functions in one easy-to-access place.

Templates are available in their own menu and as well as offering a lot of useful options, they are all tagged under a range of categories to help you pin down what you need. It’s also possible to keyword search the library.

The music, SFX, and stock video libraries are all split into categories too which helps when you’re searching for some inspiration. A well-stocked graphics section and click to apply filters and transitions round out the user focussed experience.

Support for Clipchamp comes in the form of a chat option, in which you can chat to one of their help team or search their articles for an answer to a question. There’s also an excellent YouTube channel that is completely packed with useful tips, tricks, and inspiration.

Features:

Clipchamp has a number of great features that we haven’t found anywhere else. In the import section, for example, you’re given the option to import directly from google drive and pictures, zoom, dropbox, and one drive. There’s also a really great feature that means you can import files from a phone using a browser link and custom pin.

We love a well-categorized stock library and Clipchamp’s doesn’t disappoint. They also have a great ‘free forever’ category in each of the stock video, music, and template libraries. Very helpful for creators trying the software out on the free plan.

Another awesome addition is access to the GIPHY gif library via the graphics menu. This function would be really useful for creators wanting to use popular gifs and memes in their videos.

Clipchamp’s great features include…

• Webcam recording
• Screen recording
• Premium templates
• Custom branding
• Video compression
• Video converter
• Cloud media backup
• Downloadable desktop version

Publishing:

When you’re ready, the export button is found at the top right of the screen and will take you to a new page where your clip will render.

From there you can download your video directly to your computer, save it to a number of online file management systems including google drive and OneDrive. Or you can publish straight to a linked YouTube or Pinterest account.

Pricing:

• Free – Basic plan is free to use but limits you to 480p exports
• $6/mo – Creator plan, lots of available tools, 720p exports
• $27/mo – Business Platinum, access all tools and stock, full HD exports

All prices are monthly costs on a year subscription. Rolling month-to-month plans are also available.

Room for improvement:

We have very little negative to say about Clipchamp, all round it’s a great platform. However, if pressed, compared to others in this list, we felt the timeline is a little floaty, there doesn’t seem to be a snapping option we could find, which means it can sometimes be tricky to place and maneuver your clips.

The ‘my media’ folder could also use a better file management system. They split it into video audio and image sections, but it would be really helpful if you could create subfolders as the menu can quickly become overwhelming the more clips you add.

Another small gripe is that the render process can take quite a while when exporting. Not a killer but something to watch out for if you’re on a tight deadline!

Overall

Clipchamp is a great timeline editing option for creators of all stripes. The variety of stock, template, graphic, and gif options available means the platform could cater to just about anyone.

The $6 per month Creator plan is an absolute steal, though we wish there was a cheaper option that allowed full HD exports. Still, a great entry and definitely worth checking out!

Storyboard Style Editors

#1 InVideo

In their own words, InVideo helps you – transform your content into great videos – and it really does!

In a well-rounded, easy-to-navigate interface that lets you create great videos in a simple scene-by-scene window, or if you’re feeling more adventurous it even lets you dig down a little deeper.

InVideo is a very robust system that gives you some great options to get creative whilst still managing to be easy enough to quickly log on and use, no training necessary. 

Ease of use:

As with many editors in the storyboard style editor list, the user interface is simply laid out and very easy to navigate.

The timeline at the bottom shows each of your clips or ‘scenes’ as they are called here, with the playback window above and an editing categories menu to the left.

This menu holds all the options you’ll need, from uploading your own video and audio assets to accessing InVideo’s vast array of stock video and images, music, and text options. As well as a multitude of templates to use as a starting point for your edit.

As you load elements into the scenes, various options to edit the scene contents appear on the right-hand menu, these include things like volume, clip trimming, blurring etc. All very easy to navigate and adjust.

The addition of the timeline view lets you more clearly view all of the elements in each scene, video audio, and graphics, and easily click on each to then edit the various options in the right-hand menu.

Though very easy to find your feet on your own, InVideo also comes equipped with 24hour live chat support, a series of very useful tutorials, and an active Facebook community you can always ask for help and advice.

• Email/helpdesk
• FAQs/Formus
• Phone support
• 24/7 live chat
• In depth tutorial section

Features:

InVideo comes packed with a whole host of useful features. One of our favorites was the remove image background feature, a great addition for stills that can isolate a subject so you can change the background behind them!

Though not flashy, a well-designed folders menu lets you create folders to group all your assets, very useful as you create more projects and want to reuse different elements multiple times.

Simply store them in a well-named folder and you’ll be able to quickly find them without having to scroll through all your past uploads.

A really great addition for YouTube content creators is the many end screen templates InVideo has available.

With some really eye-catching designs and animations, you can brand these with your own channel colors and add them to the end of a project to encourage viewers to subscribe and keep watching your channel.

Other features include…

• Live audio capture
• Collaboration tools
• Content library
• Well designed intro and outro templates
• Great stock library
• Social media integration
• Video stabilisation
• Great text options

Publishing:

After you have finished your video, you hit the download and share button and are taken to a screen where your video is ready to watch as a full HD render.

This process varies depending on the length of your video and the quality of your internet connection but the test projects we made, went very fast.

From this screen, you then have the option to download the video directly to your computer, or if you prefer you can share it directly to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram among others.

So either download or click the right button to share to the platform of your choice. Job done!

Pricing:

• Free – Videos export with a small invideo watermark
• $10/m USD – for a years subscription
• $20/mo USD – for a month to month plan

Room for improvement:

One great feature that InVideo has is a ‘voiceover’ track, separate from the music track for your project. What’s not made clear is this voiceover track can be used for other audio assets you upload like sound effects, not just voiceovers.

It would be good if this option were made not only clearer but also if users could use the inbuilt sound effects library on this track, that would be a game-changer! But unfortunately for now, only uploaded files can be dropped there.

Overall:

InVideo is one of, if not the best storyboard-style video editors out there.

It’s as easy as other programs to learn but offers access to your video on a slightly deeper level that making it that little bit easier to get truly creative with your edits.

When you couple that with the fact that you can get started using it and publishing videos for free from the platform, there’s no reason not to give it a try.

#2 FlexClip

FlexClip’s aim is to create straightforward tools that make professional video production accessible to everyone.

With their video editor, they’ve managed to do just that, creating a simple drag and drop system that lets you build great videos very easily.

They’ve created a user-focused platform where creators can effortlessly produce very high-quality work.

Ease of use:

Similar to InVideo and others on this list, FlexClip is a drag and drop ‘storyboard’ system with an uncluttered, easy-to-navigate user interface.

Clips are arranged side by side along the bottom, with a categories menu on the left and some refinement tools along the top.

The left-hand menu covers everything you should need access to, from templates through to the text, music, and animated elements. An impressive assortment of templates and stock media means you should have no trouble getting started.

Once you’ve either uploaded your own media or selected the stock clips of your choosing, you simply drag the clip to the bottom timeline.

A pop-out lets you trim the clip to the correct length and then once you’re happy, you simply hit trim video and the portion you’ve selected will appear in the timeline.

FlexClip is one of the easiest editors to log on and start using, however, they do have a well-rounded step-by-step ‘getting started’ tutorial document that guides you through the whole process.

You’d also be wise to take a look at their learning center which has a number of video editing resources and articles to help improve your projects.

• Getting started guide
• Learning centre
• Help centre
• Contact form

It’s also worth noting that at the time of writing, FlexClip is in beta on a more expansive timeline editor option. Users will be able to choose between that and the storyboard editor option.

Features:

The video maker platform from FlexClip isn’t overstuffed with unnecessary features. In fact, the simple approach is probably its biggest strength.

It has everything you need and expect, clip trimming, music text, and voiceover recording. The most technical it gets is allowing you to adjust the brightness, contrast, or saturation of each clip.

Its free additional tools also help set it apart from the competition. A good online video compressor lets you shrink a video’s file size without loss of quality. An ideal tool for faster uploads and simpler storage.

You can also convert any video to a number of different formats with just the click of a button.

Other great additions like the screen recorder let you record any active window on your computer through your browser. The free GIF maker and Make a Meme tools are also very useful for social posting.

Other features include…

• Add logo to video
• Add music to video
• Merge videos
• GIF maker
• Meme Maker
• Create a Gif from Photo
• Convert video to gif

Publishing:

When you’re ready, you hit the export button on the top right of the screen and are brought to a page that lets you choose what resolution to export in. (HD resolutions are only available in the paid plans) or gives you the option to export your project as a GIF.

Once you’ve selected your option, after a quick render, a download will start automatically. You are also given the opportunity to share it directly to your social channels through direct links to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram among others.

Pricing:

• Free – Limits on exports and the number of assets you can use but a good way to try out the editor.
• $4.99/mo USD – The Basic plan on a year subscription
• $7.99/mo USD – The Plus plan on a year subscription

Room for improvement:

FlexClip’s strength is that it’s very simple to use and navigate, with a no-frills approach to their video editor.

One of the things that we found a little frustrating was is you make changes to the style of graphics or background, the colors you have selected don’t translate to the next selection. To save some time, this seems like an easy fix!

Overall:

FlexClip is an excellent storyboard editor with a great array of stock options and some interesting extra features. The screen and webcam recorder were particularly useful.

With some good artistic options available, creators will be able to produce videos that entertain and engage their audiences.

#3 Wave.video

Wave.Video is actually a tool that lets you do much more than just edit your video.

By letting you post directly to your social media platforms and even host your videos on the platform itself, ready to embed in a website, for example, Wave.Video can become a hub for your content creation and distribution. 

But lets talk about the video editor itself. Wave.Video has managed to create a very easy-to-navigate interface that’s simple to understand even for absolute beginners.

With template options for every social platform, the beginnings of a professional-looking video are only ever a click away.

Ease of use:

The interface for the program is extremely intuitive and easy to navigate. A simple menu on the left side of the screen lets you jump between broad categories like the size of the video, templates, stock footage, and the actual edit among others.

Any selections you make will translate into the edit tab onto a simple two-track ‘timeline’ layout below the video where you can see all your clips laid out in sequence with any music or voiceover audio you have recorded below.

Simply hit the big blue play button to play from the beginning of your video or the small play button above the current time marker in the timeline to play from that point in time.

A particularly useful feature of Wave.Video is that graphics and templates automatically resize to fit different video styles, so a horizontal video you create for YouTube can quickly be changed to a vertical video for Instagram at the touch of a button.

Though the browser application is simple and intuitive, for anyone struggling with any specific issues, or need a quick introduction to the editor, Wave.Video has a free, short introduction academy as well as 24hour customer support.

• 24/7 customer support: web-widget, email, social media
• Free academy course: https://academy.wave.video/
• Knowledgebase: https://kb.wave.video/
• Video tutorials: https://wave.video/tutorial

Features:

There are a number of extremely useful features that come with Wave.Video but one of our favorites has to be its extensive video and image library, one of the biggest available in online video makers

Professionally shot b-roll can really set a video apart and with a selection as extensive as Wave.Video offers, you’ll be able to find footage that works as part of any project you need it to.

Another great addition to Wave.Video is its branding function. Save a preset of your brand colors, fonts, and logo, and then access and apply your settings to a project quickly and easily.

This means you don’t always need to be searching for the right colors for any graphics you add or scrolling through huge lists of fonts. The right branding is only a click away, saving you time better spent on recording and editing your videos.

Other great features include…

• Auto-captions with customizable styles
• Auto-resizing for 30+ video formats
• Multiple customizable video layouts
• Animated logo creation
• A huge royalty-free audio library
• Inbuilt voice-over tool
• Saving your branded style to ensure consistency
• Inspirational calendar to never run out of content ideas
• Folders to organize your work

Publishing:

Once you’ve created your masterpiece, a quick click to render your project and you are able to share it directly to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram among others.

Or if you prefer, you can download your video directly to your computer to share and upload however you like.

The rendering process is very quick and provides you with a full quality render to watch before you move forward with sharing, so you can see exactly how your video will look and sound.

Then simply click the relevant button to share to the platform of your choice. Easy as that!

Pricing:

• Free – Limited access to clip library and 15second edit limit.
• $20/mo USD for a creator subscription
• $40/mo USD for a business subscription with added features.

Room for improvement:

The area that could use the most improvement in Wave.Video is the audio functions. Only one audio track means there’s no opportunity to add any sound effects or other audio.

Also, the volume levels can be a bit fiddly, with low-volume music tracks sometimes drowning out the full volume audio from your video clips.

Overall?

Wave.Video is an excellent choice for creators who want to quickly turn around high-quality edits on their browser with no need for an additional software program that’s very easy to learn.

The quality of clips it’s possible to create with this program is incredible and the ease of publishing through the site makes it a great one-stop creative shop.

A great place to start for video makers at the beginning of their creator journey.

#4 Wibbitz

Wibbitz is a simple storyboard generator but that might make it the perfect platform for beginners.

Its super pared-back interface and drag-and-drop functions make it incredibly easy to turn out high-quality video clips in no time at all!

Ease of use:

When you log in you’re invited to either create a video from scratch or use one of the many and varied templates available.

Once selected, this brings you to the main editing interface. Four sections are available on a menu down the left side of the browser window: Text, Media, Style, and Music. The first option you are prompted to is to enter text.

Here you can easily enter the words you want to appear on screen but also specify the number of scenes with the simple click of a button. Thumbnails for each of your new scenes appear below the playback window which takes up a big portion of the screen to the right.

When you’ve added in whatever text you want, the next step is to add media to your scenes. Wibbitz has a huge library of stock videos and images that should cover any of your needs. You’re also able to add your own clips by dropping them into the ‘My Media’ section of the media tab.

A small number of tools are available above the playback window to make changes to the clip in each scene. These include a crop and trim function, filters, and audio controls. These too are simple one-click options to achieve the desired result!

Support for Wibbitz is available through a chat popup at the bottom left of the browser. From here you can talk to a member of the team (if you’re on an upper tier plan) or search their vast array of articles or tutorial videos.

Their YouTube channel is also very well stocked, including playlists with all their video tutorials, plus Pro tips and some general interest and inspiring content!

Features:

For such a simple-to-use editor, Wibbitz has some great features to take your videos to the next level.

Their branding option is a great addition that allows you to set your own brand colors and upload both a corner logo and the main logo for your intros and outros.

The trim feature is a huge benefit that some other editors on this list don’t have. You can set the length of time you want your asset to display in the scene at the bottom of the playback window.

By hitting trim, you can then select the exact portion of the clip that you want to be shown, so you’re not stuck with whatever Wibbitz has defaulted for you. You can also select and easily control the clip and music volume with the handy audio slider above.

Another feature we really appreciated was in the media library. When you select a clip, either stock footage or your own uploads, a small preview window pops out so you can watch and listen to the clip before adding it to your project. Very useful!

Other great features include…

• Full HD downloads on all plans
• Photo and video library
• Premium soundtrack library
• Custom templates
• Filter tools
• Animated transitions
• Crop and move tool

Publishing:

At any time during the edit, you are able to preview the final video before finally hitting done and letting the video render. This takes you back to the home screen where you can see a progress thumbnail as the video renders.

Once your video has been rendered, you simply click the download button, from here you can save to the video your computer is ready to upload to the social channel of your choice or share a link for others in your team to preview and feedback on your work.

Pricing:

• $19/mo USD – The starter plan lets you export 5 watermarked videos per month
• $39/mo USD – The creator plan lets you export 10 videos a month and gives you access to their stock video library
• $119/mo USD – The Business plan lets you export 15 videos per month

The prices shown are monthly based on an annual subscription. Month-to-month prices are also available.

Room for improvement:

Wibbitz is an excellent platform for video creators looking to turn out high-quality videos in a short space of time. We really struggled to find areas to improve, but a small thing did stand out.

If you change video layout, say from landscape to square, the editor doesn’t readjust video or images to fit the new frame. This means if you want to make a video for Instagram then wish to change it to a vertical format for YouTube, a little work might be required to alter the framing of your scene contents.

Overall:

Wibbitz is a great system, no doubt about it. You can create something high quality, quickly and easily but are also given the freedom to tweak and make more detailed changes scene by scene as you need.

The only thing to be careful of is the amount of content you want to publish. Depending on the plan you choose, you might hit your video limit before the month is over.

#5 Vidnami

Vidnami is a simple scene-by-scene editor that is especially useful to creators coming to edit with little to no footage of their own. All you need is a script and Vidnami will create a high-quality video for you!

It’s also very simple and easy to navigate what is almost a step-by-step process. So it’s perfect for new creators!

Ease of use:

The first step in using Vidnami is to select a video template. They have a huge amount of choices, all divided into categories as well as different video formats, so you can find the right template for you and your platform of choice.

The next step is to upload a script. It’s a simple matter of copy-pasting the text into the script box and then hitting create a scene. What could be easier?!

Vidnami then searches its library of stock video to find clips that best represent the lines in your script. Once it has, normally very quickly, it will separate your script into scenes and combine the text and video for you. All you need to do is scroll through to see the choices.

If you’re not happy with the clips they have auto-selected, there’s also an option to change it based on several related keyword searches on offer or by manually typing in your own keyword phrases. You also have the option to upload your own videos if you wish.

Next, you can add or record a voice track or use their auto voice feature. It’s also possible to have an option with no voice track, that plays music only.

Then finally your video is ready to preview. You can choose or upload your own music as well as add your own watermark in this section.

All that’s left to do is click continue and after a quick render your video is ready to download. The whole process is just a simple series of clicks, afterwards, you have a high-quality video ready to go!

Vidnami is such a simple step-by-step process that it’s very likely you’ll not run into any problems. But if you do, they have a good help section with training videos, general questions, and a link to their active Facebook group.

Features:

The main selling point of Vidnami is that it practically builds the video for you! However, it also comes with a few options for customizing your video along the way.

The script function is a very useful tool if you know what you want to say but aren’t sure how to go about saying it. And from there, it’s auto-generate scenes function is very impressive.

The sheer number of templates is also impressive, as is the variety of different formats of templates available. You’re covered whether no matter what social channel you want to create video for.

The categories are also pointed and a useful way of narrowing down the template that’s best for your project

Other great features include…

• Hundreds of thousands of stock video clips
• Over 100million stock images
• Premium music tracks
• Custom templates
• Custom branding.

Publishing:

At the bottom of the menu list and the final step in the quick creation process is the download button. Once clicked, Vidnami optimizes the audio and the scenes, encodes your video, and saves it to the Vidnami cloud.

All that’s left to do is click download and you’ll have a copy of your video ready to share to the social platform of your choice.

Pricing:

• Free – Try all functions but export with a watermark
• $47 USD – for a month-to-month plan
• $397 USD – for a full year subscription

Room for improvement:

Vidnami is a very good product. That you’re able to create a high-quality video in literally minutes is great. However, there were a couple of small issues we picked up on.

If you set your scene length to 5 seconds and select a clip that’s 10 seconds long, there doesn’t seem to be a way to trim which 5 seconds of the clip will play. For us, that’s a small tweak that would give creators a far greater feeling of control over their edit.

Final rendering and output can take a bit of time. Depending on the length of your project, you might be waiting a while for all the various parts to render. It’s not ridiculously long, but something to keep in mind if you ever need to turn around projects very quickly!

Overall:

Vidnami feels like a tool best suited to creators at the beginning of their journey or those less interested in hands-on video editing who are simply wanting to quickly create content that they can share.

The auto-generated outputs are very impressive though and we’re sure will be exactly what many of you are looking for!

Wrapping things up…

That wraps our rundown of the 10 best online video editors

No matter your video editing skill level, we are positive there will be an editor on this list that’s right for your needs.

Enjoy creating! Oh, and if you have any questions, comments, or have suggestions for other great online video editors, leave a comment below!

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Another good thing about video marketing is that you can craft your own videos, optimize them, and even host them yourself. Thanks to the rapid growth of technology.

In this post, we’ll break down some of the best video marketing tools so that you can run a high-performing video marketing campaign straightaway in a budget-friendly way.

Let’s dive in!

Use the links below to jump to a specific tool:

• Video Content Research Tools
  • Buzzsumo
  • ContentStudio
  • Hootsuite
• Video Editing Tools
  • Fimora
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Pinnacle Studio
  • Powtoon
  • Camtasia
• Video Optimization Tools
  • Canva
  • TubeBuddy
  • vidIQ
• Video Hosting Platforms
  • Vidyard
  • Wistia
  • Wave.Video

Video Content Research Tools

#1 Buzzsumo

BuzzSumo allows you to search for trending content in your industry, along with the type of video to develop. You can search by keyword or topic and then browse through related videos to get an idea of what resonates well on social media based on metrics like views, comments, shares, etc.

You can also use this tool to analyze competitor websites’ best-performing posts/videos. Overall, this tool makes sure that you pick the right content for your video, so it brings you the result you want.

Here’s an article that covers 6 ways you can use Buzzsumo for video content.

Key Features:

• Analyze popular content and video in your niche
• Find viral posts/videos for your niche for references
• Competitor research
• Answer questions your target audiences have through video
• Insights into the formats that work and the ideal length of videos that get the views

Pricing:

• Free: 10 free searches a month
• Pro: $99/month
• Plus: $179/month
• Large: $299/month

#2 ContentStudio

At its very core, ContentStudio is a content creation and social media management tool that helps you create content.

If it’s not creating topic ideas or headlines or researching your competitors for video marketing, then it might be curating from vetted sources and channels to ensure that only the best content gets into your pipeline for distribution in-house.

ContentStudio also includes advanced social media publishing. At the same time, it’s a complete and manageable workflow to track every piece of video content you publish and where each one went out into the world.

Key Features:

• Discover, plan, compose your video content
• Topic generator – automatically generate video titles based on keywords
• Topic editor – build custom titles, descriptions, and tags for your videos
• Social media monitoring

Pricing:

• Pro: $49/month (1 user)
• Small: $99/month (5 users)
• Medium: $199/month (10 users)
• Large: $299/month (20 users)

#3 HootSuite

Not only is HootSuite a great tool to use when you’re starting a business and trying to build a social presence but it makes it much easier for you to plan new content for your videos with ease so that you won’t run out of topics to share through video marketing.

When you create videos– specifically for social media, this tool allows you to discover what topics are most relevant to your audience and industry. With this tool alone, you can monitor over 35 social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, and many more.

Key Features:

• Content curation – you can curate content from anywhere for your social media channels
• A cloud-based library that allows you to share video content with your team in real-time
• Team collaboration – includes content calendar so that everyone on the team knows what’s going on with whole video content creation at a certain time

Pricing:

• Free (1 user)
• Professional: $29/month
• Team: $129/month
• Business: $99/month

Video Editing Tools

#4 Filmora

Filmora is a robust online editor that lets you upload and edit your videos without having to download any software. 

For those just getting started with video editing, this tool is a great option to start with. It has an intuitive interface that’s easy to use, whatever your level of experience. It has all the basic editing features you need in a simple video editor, such as rotate, trim, crop, split, etc.

Key Features:

• Over 800+ video effects
• 4K support
• Built-in titles
• Audio equalizer
• Layer multiple video clips
• Video stabilization

Pricing:

• Free (with watermarks)
• Individual Plan: $7.99/month 
• Business Plan: $155.88/month

#5 Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is probably the most popular video editor on the market. It’s not only used by professionals but also beginners as it has an intuitive interface that anyone can understand and use quickly.

Even though the interface is easy-to-navigate even for beginners, this tool is more suitable for pros as it offers more advanced features for editing more professional-looking marketing videos.

Key Features:

• More than 50 transitions
• Create titles with built-in motion graphics templates
• High-quality video editing support– up to 8K
• Faster video encoding (H.264)
• Export to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook

Pricing:

• Monthly plan: $20.99/month
• Annual plan, paid monthly: $20.99/month
• Annual plan, prepaid: $239.88/year

#6 Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio will help you get your video marketing campaign off to a flying start with more than 500 customizable effects and transitions.

This is an easy-to-use tool that even novices can learn quickly, but it doesn’t offer more advanced features for professionals who want to edit their videos in a professional way. So, when you’re new to video editing and want to perform simple editing for social videos, this tool can come in handy.

Key Features:

• 500+ special effects and transitions
• Easy-to-use interface for novice users
•  Multi-camera capture and editing
• Color controls
• Stop motion animation

Pricing:

• Entry-level: $59.95
• Plus: $99.95
• Ultimate : $129.95

#7 Powtoon

If you need a powerful tool to create animated marketing videos, Powtoon is definitely one of the best choices. With this tool, you can create great videos with animated characters by simply dragging and dropping different images on a timeline.

This DIY animation tool helps you to fully customize marketing videos even when you don’t have basic design skills.

Key Features:

• Over 100 ready-to-use templates for all types of marketing content
• A vast library of animated characters, props, GIF, and image file implementation
• Over 30 ready-to-use background music tracks for all types of marketing videos 
• No design skills are required to use it, short learning curve, and intuitive interface

Pricing:

• Pro: $19/month
• Pro+: $59/month
• Agency: $99/month

#8 Camtasia

Camtasia allows you to create screencast videos from your computer to showcase tutorials, demos, and even promotional videos.

It will record your screen along with the movement of your mouse and keystrokes. This tool is accessible for both desktop and mobile devices.

Key Features:

• Record a screen video from PC or Mac with an overlay of webcam video footage or still images. 
• Record external audio sources such as microphone sound, camera zoom sounds, mouse clicks, and typing effects.
• Edit recordings, add effects, notes, annotations– such as arrows, captions, and highlights.

Pricing:

• Starts at $249.00 per feature as a one-time payment.

Video Optimization Tools

#9 Canva

You need engaging, high-quality thumbnails for your videos to help you attract more eyeballs. The Canva video editor can help you with that.

This graphic tool offers a wide range of layouts and features to create beautiful, custom-designed thumbnail videos.

There are quite a few similar sites like Canva but none quite as good at the moment.

Key Features:

• Drag & drop images from your computer or the web for easy editing. 
• A vast library of customizable templates
• Add text with more than one million fonts (you can also add your own text) and access to stock photos online.

Pricing:

• Free plan
• Pro plan: $12.99/month

#10 TubeBuddy

When you rely on YouTube as a channel for your video marketing campaign, you’ll need to use TubeBuddy to make sure that the videos you upload look their best.

This tool allows you to optimize YouTube channels and videos by helping you with video SEO, generating thumbnails, adding end-screens, video syndication, and more.

Key Features:

• Auto translator
• Best practice audit
• Keyword explorer
• SEO studio

Pricing:

• Pro: $7.20/month
• Star: $15.20/month
• Legend: $39.20/month

#11 vidIQ

vidIQ is another YouTube video optimization tool that helps you boost your channel and video content by providing actionable insights into competitors’ views, top keywords, tags, and other search metrics directly from your browser.

You can also find out who’s watching your videos so that you can understand more in-depth about your audiences and create more relevant video content in the future.

Key Features:

• Audience retention reports 
• Video SEO reports 
• Competitor tracking
• Competitive video rankings reports
• Trends alert

Pricing:

• Basic: Free
• Pro: $7.50/month
• Boost: $39/month
• Boost+: $415/month

Video Hosting Platforms

#12 Vidyard

Vidyard provides you with a platform to host, analyze, and share your marketing videos. It also enables you to seamlessly embed video into an email for a more personal approach by using Vidyard’s marketing automation tools.

Key Features:

• Video SEO and marketing reports 
• Lead generation and email capture tools to help you turn videos into leads or sales
• Customizable player skins to match your brand colors, fonts, and logo
• Integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud for easy lead-generation directly from your video
• Customizable analytics and metrics to help you grow a responsive audience, find out which videos are working best for you, and discover what’s resonating with your viewers to drive conversions.

Pricing:

• Individual free plan
• Individual pro plan: $15/month
• Team plan: $300/month
• Business plan: $1250/month

#13 Wistia

If you run a video marketing campaign to generate more qualified leads, Wistia is a top contender. It has a clean and modern interface with a wide range of analytics so that you can see exactly how your visitors are interacting with the video.

Key Features:

• Turnstiles feature allows you to gate video content
• Heat map to track where each video’s viewers drop off
• Video player customization
• A/B testing
• Audience growth with Reach and Retarget tools

Pricing:

• Free plan
• Pro plan: $99 per month

#14 Wave.Video

Wave.Video offers you a cloud-based video hosting solution that makes it much easier for you to publish, embed, and share your marketing videos on several digital platforms (i.e., websites, blogs, social media profiles, and emails) as soon as it is published.

Key Features:

• Ad-free video hosting platform
• Customize your video player to fit your brand’s look and personality
• Add subtitles, slideshows, or callouts directly
• Auto-resizing for 30+ video formats to suit different platforms

Pricing:

• Creator: $25/month
• Business: $50/month

FAQs

What are video marketing tools?

A video marketing tool is software that allows you to create, share and manage videos. Remember that video marketing tools aren’t limited to video editors. It also includes planning tools, hosting sites, and more. 

After all, video marketing campaigns aren’t all about video production– but it’s also about making sure that the video you produce is working and bringing the maximum results.

What are the benefits of using video marketing tools?

Utilizing video marketing tools can save you a lot of time and energy– and some bucks too. You don’t have to hire professionals to help you with the research, production, and analytics. Therefore, those tools help you be more proactive and efficient in your overall marketing campaigns.

How to pick the right video marketing tools?

It all depends on your business’ needs, budgets, and preferences. The best way to find the right one for your business is to try a free version or trial first to see the pros and cons yourself.

What makes a great marketing video?

When it comes to marketing videos, less is more. So, make sure you create them concisely with a decent amount of editing and robust distribution. 

Remember that it’s not about the number of videos you have but rather how well they perform. If your video is getting a high amount of views, comments, and likes, then it’s doing its job.

Most popular types of videos to create with video marketing tools?

You can use video marketing tools to create straightforward marketing videos, such as explainer videos, product demo videos, customer testimonials, and how-tos. 

Those types of marketing videos are straightforward and perform much better than plain text or static images since they are doing a good job in illustrating complicated points in a way other content can’t do.

Wrapping things up…

There you have it! You now have some names of video marketing tools that you can consider using to launch high-performing video marketing campaigns. It’s time for you to start creating some well-tailored marketing videos and engage more audiences.

If you have any questions, comments, or have suggestions for other video marketing tools or resources, feel free to leave a comment below!

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If you’re looking to create a high-quality channel banner, the easiest and quickest way to do that is to use an online design tool such as Snappa (or one of the many Snappa alternatives).

If you haven’t come across the tool before, it’s online graphic design software that allows you to create a whole range of designs either by utilizing one of their predesigned templates or by creating a design from a blank canvas.

Snappa has a good range of templates for YouTubers, including thumbnails, end screens (they’re featured in our list of the best end screen makers), and of course, channel art.

How to create a YouTube banner using Snappa’s channel art maker

To create your channel banner on Snappa, you have two options:

• Option 1: Select a readymade template to modify
• Option 2: Create your own design from scratch

Snappa currently has around 120 YouTube banner templates which is a decent number but not quite as many as some of the other YouTube channel art makers such as Canva and Placeit that have a bigger library to choose from.

If you go with option 1 you simply need to login to your Snappa account, navigate to the YouTube channel art templates, and then select one that you like:

If you decide to start a design from a blank canvas (option 2) you simply need to click on the ‘Create From Scratch’ option, and this will open the editor with a completely blank canvas:

Whether you’ve selected a template or clicked on ‘create from scratch’ you’ll be taken to the editor, and one of the first things to notice is that Snappa has a handy sizing guide built into their tool to make sure your designs will be the right dimensions for YouTube and look good on all devices:

You can see in the image above that Snappa shows you what parts of the design will show on TVs only, the ‘Desktop safe’ areas, and the middle part of the design which will be shown on all devices including mobile displays.

It’s a super helpful feature to make sure your designs will look good on YouTube no matter what the platform but you can also check out Google’s size guide for more sizing details.

When it comes to creating or customizing your design, the options on Snappa are fairly straightforward.

The first thing you’ll want to do is to add or update the background. The options here are to add a photo (either by uploading your own or choosing from their library), pattern, or making the background a solid color:

We recommend using a photo or a pattern to make your background a bit more interesting than simply having a solid color.

Once you’ve chosen the background, you can navigate to the ‘Effects’ tab to customize it further with a color overlay, and with the other effect option available until you are happy with how that part looks:

The next step would be to add some text. You can do that by navigating to the text tab and selecting the ‘Add a heading option which will add a header text field to the canvas:

You can select the text field to modify it, and you’ll see all the additional text customization options on the left side of the editor. We’d also recommend leaving the ‘Safe zone’ on so you can see how all the elements of your design line up:

You’ll also likely want to add a bit of text that describes to your audience what your channel is all about, and you can move these text elements around the canvas until you’re happy with their positions, sizes, etc.

You can also add or upload graphics to your design. These could be emojis, icons, logos, etc., Snappa has a good-sized library of design elements that you can utilize:

At this point, your design should be coming together nicely, but if you look at the design in full you might think that it looks a bit bare, particularly on larger device screens:

To make this look a bit better you can break up the design slightly by adding shapes, and this can really help it look good no matter what device or platform a visitor is using.

Simply navigate to the ‘shapes’ tab, add some shapes you think could work well, and modify them to complete your design.

We use a square shape to split the design in half, which we feel makes it look a bit better across all devices:

Once you’ve got your YouTube channel art looking good, you can hit the download button on the top right side of the screen:

The free Snappa plan gives you 3 downloads per month so you can download your YouTube channel banner design for free. We would recommend downloading it as a PNG so it looks as crisp and clear as possible on your channel.

And that’s it, you’ve created your YouTube channel art on Snappa, and downloaded it. The next step is to upload it to your YouTube channel. Here’s a guide that walks you through that process.

Snappa Pricing

If you want to create your design for free you can do so on Snappa, but if you think you’ll be creating many more designs then it could be worth getting a premium Snappa account.

You can pay monthly or annually for a subscription, here are the price breakdowns for each option:

Monthly Pricing:

• Free Plan
• Pro Plan: $15 /month
• Team Plan: $30 /month

Yearly Pricing:

• Free Plan
• Pro Plan: $120 /year
• Team Plan: $240 /year

Alternative tools

If you’re looking for a different online design tool to create your YouTube channel art, we recommend checking out our YouTube channel banner makers article.

As mentioned previously, we think the range of template and design element options on Canva and Placeit makes them great options when creating design assets for your YouTube channel.

Wrapping things up

So, there you have it, that’s how you can easily and quickly create a fantastic-looking YouTube channel banner using Snappa.

Snappa is a great tool and makes the whole process of creating YouTube channel art a breeze, plus you can do it all completely for free.

Enjoy creating! Oh, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for creating awesome YouTube thumbnails, leave a comment below!

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An end screen, also known as an end card or outro, can be used in various ways. For example, to get viewers to watch more of your videos, to subscribe to your channel, and also to click through to your website.

We’ll cover all the classic end screen goals in this article, as well as how to make sure they are high-quality, and the tools you can use to create them.

Jump to a specific section:

• What is an end screen?
• Why are they important?
• Essentials
• Tools
• How to make one
• Testing and analyzing
• FAQs

#1 What is a YouTube end screen?

A YouTube end screen is essentially an overlay that sits on top of your video as it comes to its conclusion.

Typically, end screens will appear over the last few seconds of the video (usually between 10 – 20 seconds) and will have a clear call to action (or several).

Here’s an example of one in action:

You can see that in Nick Nimmin’s outro for this video he recommends that viewers click on the thumbnail for the ‘YouTubers Tools’ video – which is very relevant to the content of the video the viewer just watched.

It’s a great way to get viewers to continue watching more of his videos, which will improve his session time. This is an important ranking factor on YouTube.

#2 Why are end screens important?

You could simply end your videos by saying thank you and goodbye, however, if you do that you’re missing a big opportunity to engage that viewer further.

If someone has stuck around until the end of your video they were obviously engaged and enjoyed your video content. So why not take advantage of that fact.

Outros are critical mainly because they give you an opportunity to give your viewers a call to action (CTA).

In other words, you can direct engaged viewers towards doing something that you want them to do.

People do respond to reminders and instructions, a great example of this is from a case study by Real Men Real Style who saw a 70% drop in engagement on videos with no CTA. End screens are a non-intrusive way to ‘tell’ viewers what to do.

What CTA you use depends on your video content and your goals. Here are the most widely used CTAs in YouTube video end screens:

Related videos

As you saw in the Nick Nimmin example, you can direct viewers to more of your YouTube videos in your outro.

This can be an individual video or a related playlist.

This increases viewer session time on YouTube which will help your videos rank better on YouTube.

Here’s another example from HeyDomink (notice he’s pointing to the related video to reinforce the CTA):

It can also help viewers get to know you more, enjoy more of your content, and ultimately this can play a huge part in encouraging them to subscribe to your channel and to become regular viewers.

Increase subscribers

If someone has watched all of your video, they’re clearly enjoying your content so it’s the perfect opportunity to encourage them to subscribe to your channel so they don’t miss out on your content in the future.

Ask the viewer to subscribe in your outro and then add the subscribe CTA in your end screen to make it easy for them to do it.

Here’s an example of how that looks:

Drive traffic to a website

Another commonly used CTA in end screens is the external link CTA.

If you’re on the YouTube partner program you can link out to external websites (as long as they don’t breach YouTube’s guidelines.

So, if you have a Merch store, a website, or a landing page that you want to drive visitors to, your end screen could be the perfect spot for this.

Here’s a good example from Primal Video. You can see they have a CTA that goes to a webpage where you can download their free YouTube ranking guide.

Not a bad lead generation tactic:

#3 End Screen Essentials

We’ll cover the steps to create your end screen below, but first here are the essential components on a YouTube end screen:

It needs to be relevant

Whatever you decide to focus on with your end screen CTA, it needs to be related to the video content.

This doesn’t really apply to a ‘subscribe CTA’ as this can be used on all of your videos but if you’re encouraging viewers to click on other videos or playlists, or click through to a landing page then it has to make sense contextually.

If not, you’re unlikely to get a good amount of viewers to do whatever it is you want them to do.

A simple example is from Josh Ryan’s end screen below where he links to very related videos to the topic of the original video:

It’s not too long or short

End screens can’t go longer than 20 seconds but you need to make a judgment call on what the right amount of time between 5 – 20 seconds is for your end screen.

For longer videos, you can easily have a 20-second outro but if your video is short an outro/end screen of that length might be a bit odd.

In YouTube Analytics, you can see data on the top videos by end screen, top-performing end screen element types, and also end screen element CTR.

This data can inform on what end screens are working and help you understand what length (as well as other features) work best for you.

You can also only put your end screen at the very end of the video.

It’s the right size and format

Your YouTube outro, like your video, should have a 1920px x 1080px resolution (16:9), and the end screen elements should be as follows:

• Channel / Subscribe CTA – 294px x 294px
• Other channel CTA – 294px x 294px
• Website link CTA – 294px x 294px
• Video or playlist CTA – 615px x 345px

It has the right background audio

If most viewers have the option to sit through or not sit through 20 seconds of silence, odds are they’ll choose the latter.

You could optimize the end screen elements and visual design, but if you don’t account for the listening experience, you probably won’t see the engagement rates, click-through rates, and subscriber growth that you want.

A simple solution to this problem is to use background music from the YouTube Audio Library or a royalty-free music company.

It doesn’t look overcrowded

You can have up to four elements in your end screen at once, but sometimes too many choices can lead viewers to feel overwhelmed.

Pick the elements that make the most sense for a given video, and don’t overdo it.

Very rarely does it make sense to include all four possible elements in an end screen but it’s important to test and see what works best for you.

You can see below that YouTuber James Charles has a lot going on in their end screens with a video CTA, website link, and subscribe CTA – as well as social media icons.

If you’re just starting out we’d recommend having two CTAs in your end screens but as time goes on you should continue to test and optimize.

It is on brand

Keep the color palette and styling consistent across all elements of your videos. From the thumbnails, intro, content, and outro.

With this consistency over time, you can build an effective and memorable brand, and your end screen plays a part in that.

You can see that Primal Video’s intro has their brand colors, font, and typical layout:

And their outro and end screen have the same consistent look and feel:

It’s been researched

If you’re just starting out then you’re unlikely to know what the best approach is for your end screens and video outros.

A good tactic here is to research your competition and see what they’re doing with their end screens.

This is a good place to start, and over time you can develop your own style and work out what’s best for your videos and channel.

#4 Tools to create YouTube end screens

There are plenty of tools you can use (here are some of the best) to create your end screens.

Here are some other useful tools you can use:

Fastreel Video Editor

Fastreel Video Editor is an online video maker that makes it incredibly easy to make videos, all within your browser.

They have a good range of templates you can utilize, including outros, so all you have to do is upload your files, add your text, and choose the music (if needed).

If you want to make more detailed changes to the videos Fastreel allows for this too. You can easily cut, crop, rotate, compress, and much more.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced video editor, Fastreel’s straightforward and user-friendly interface and broad functionality will make it easy for you to create videos and outros.

InVideo

InVideo is another browser-based tool that allows you to create videos from scratch, as well as create specific video elements including end screens.

They have a solid range of end screens and ‘thanks for watching’ outro templates that you can use to quickly and easily create your own end screen.

All templates on the platform are fully customizable, so you can change all the various details to get a look that will match your brand.

Whether you’re a beginner or intermediate video creator InVideo is certainly worth checking out.

Free Options

If you’re on a tight budget, there are some incredible free options when it comes to creating end screens.

Here are some of the best free tools:

• Canva
• Placeit
• Panzoid

#5 How to easily make a YouTube end screen

If you’re looking for the quickest and easiest way to create a YouTube end screen, we recommend using Placeit.

All you have to do is choose an end screen template from their library, they have over 240, customize it your brand, and download it.

The whole process takes a few minutes – you quickly change the elements of your end screens including placements, colors, fonts, etc.

The guys from Primal Video have created a great video walking you through the process, as well as showing you how to add it to your video on YouTube:

#6 Testing & Tracking

As mentioned, you’ll want to keep track of how your end screens (and the elements) are performing.

You can see all this data in the ‘end screen elements’ report in YouTube analytics.

This video by Rafa Carpio gives you a quick look at this part of YouTube analytics:

#7 FAQs

1. What length should a youtube outro be? – no more than 20 seconds, 10 at a minimum
2. How to make a youtube outro with links? – watch this video
3. How to put an outro on youtube? – same as above – watch this video
4. Where to find free outro templates? – go to our YouTube end screens article.
5. Where to find youtube outro songs? – check out Epidemic Sound
6. How to make a youtube outro in Photoshop? – here’s a good tutorial
7. Should you always use an outro? – it depends on the goal of the video, if you want viewers to stick around and watch more if your videos it’s highly recommended!

Wrapping things up

So, there you have it, that’s how you create good YouTube end screens.

Stick to the basics, understand what the goal of your outro/end screen is, test, refine, and keep improving and over time you will learn how to utilize your end screens in the best way possible for your channel and videos.

Enjoy creating! Oh, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for creating awesome YouTube end screens, leave a comment below!

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YouTube thumbnails are the equivalent of book covers. Someone’s decision whether to click on your video and view it often comes down to how effective your thumbnail is.

Eye-catching and intriguing thumbnails will draw in viewers, while dull, blurry, or simply boring-looking thumbnails will have them overlooking your videos.

So, what’s the answer? How do you create impactful thumbnails?

We’ll answer all that and more in this article.

Jump to a specific section:

• Why are thumbnails so important?
• The basics
• Thumbnail elements
• Tactics
• Competitive research
• Testing & tracking
• Online tools

Why are thumbnails so important?

Put simply, you’re competing for eyeballs on YouTube at all times, and not only with videos on the same topic but with essentially every other video on YouTube.

As an example, you can see the suggested videos in the sidebar in the image below. There’s a range of topics covered, and they’re all competing for the clicks.

It’s vital to create eye-catching thumbnails because in reality you’re not just competing with similar videos, you’re competing with any video on the platform.

Your thumbnails appear in many different places:

• YouTube search results
• YouTube homepage
• Your own channel page (including playlists)
• suggested videos (sidebar)
• Search engine results pages
• Video embeds
• Curated playlists on YouTube

So with all that potential real estate for your thumbnails, it’s key to get them right (along with your video title) to drive clicks.

Lastly, click-through rate (CTR) is also a significant ranking factor on YouTube.

The Basics

We’ll cover all the steps and tactics to create high-performing thumbnails below but first, it’s important to cover the very basics for your thumbnails:

• Get the sizing right: 1280×720 pixels is ideal (with a minimum width of 640 pixels)
• Aspect ratio: Use a 16:9 aspect ratio
• Use the right formats: JPG, PNG, or GIF file type
• File size: Make sure it’s under 2MB
• Default thumbnails: Don’t just use the default thumbnail YouTube gives your video when you upload one, add a custom thumbnail every time
• Test first: Before you ever go live with your video, test it out to see how it looks on YouTube (particularly when it’s sized down). A good place to check how things look is on a mobile device.
• YouTube policies: Make sure your thumbnail content meets YouTube’s guidelines and policies
• Be efficient – Take photos as you are shooting your videos or use frames from your videos. This saves you so much time as you can use the same setup you have whilst filming and (if your face/body are in the thumbnail) how you look will match the video.
• Foreground stands out – make the forground easily stand out from the background

Thumbnail Elements

There is a lot more to do with your thumbnails than simply creating an image that looks cool and uploading it. You need to do the research and come up with a strategy.

It doesn’t matter how good your video content is if nobody is encouraged to click on your videos. So put effort into your thumbnails (and video titles).

Here are the different elements of effective thumbnails:

Color

The color palette of your thumbnails is very important. Obviously, you want to use a color scheme that stands out, fits your brand, and also helps differentiate you from the competition.

When it comes to how many main colors you should have in your thumbnails, a good rule of thumb is between 2 and 5. Any more than that and things can start to look a bit messy.

Color contrast is also crucial, particularly for the elements that you want to stand out in your thumbnail.

You can see in the image below that the thumbnail and the text in the ‘How to potty train your puppy’ video really stands out because of the color contrast:

Canva has a handy color palette generator that can help with finding colors that work well together. Check it out!

We recommend utilizing vibrant colors to make your thumbnails as eye-catching as possible.

Graphics

Adding quality graphics to your thumbnail can help people understand what your video is about.

For example, the thumbnail below includes an image of a phone with a graph going up and to the right, a green upwards pointing arrow, and the Instagram icon so it’s easy to glance at this thumbnail and get a clear understanding of what the video is going to cover:

Like color, graphics also help make your videos stand out.

For example, the tick boxes, dollar sign, and YouTube play a big part in helping this thumbnail catch the eye:

It’s definitely possible to overuse graphics so try and keep a nice balance between a clean-looking and digestible thumbnail, and the number of graphics you use.

Also, don’t mislead potential viewers with the graphics you use (e.g. lots of dollar signs implying that the viewer will learn how to make tons of money).

Make them eye-catching but set realistic expectations with your thumbnails so when viewers watch your video you can deliver on what your thumbnail promises (or hints at).

Text & Fonts

When it comes to the text in your thumbnails it’s very important that you choose the right fonts.

Fonts that are big and bold work best because they are more easily read. Oftentimes having the text in all caps helps with readability too.

Remember, thumbnails are often quite small (especially on mobile devices) so make your text large so that it is very easy to read.

You can see in the image above that YouTuber heyDominik uses large text in very clear and attractive fonts in his thumbnails (as well as a great choice of colors for contrast).

What he also does really well is to often include a keyword(s) in his thumbnails e.g. “SEO”, “Reels Hack”, “New hashtag” so if someone searches for that topic and see his thumbnail they’ll see that there’s a good chance it will answer their query well.

You can also use text in thumbnails to create emotions or anticipation with potential viewers e.g. tension, mystery, intrigue, etc.:

You can see good examples in the image above. For example, with Nick Nimmin’s video thumbnail you might be thinking “Why wouldn’t it be my fault?” or with the second video, you might be intrigued to find out what you should stop doing as a small YouTuber.

Test to see what works best with your niche and audience but creating these emotions in viewers can help your videos get more clicks.

Structure and layout

In general, you should keep your thumbnails simple and clean. If there are too many elements then people won’t know where to look.

Even super minimalist thumbnails can work.

For example, Matt D’Avella uses no text in his thumbnails but gets plenty of views, partly because he creates emotional responses with the imagery in his thumbnails.

However, it’s worth keeping in mind that he had already built an audience up when he went to this strategy but nevertheless it might be something you could test on your channel.

Whatever approach you take with your thumbnails, make sure they are clean, readable, and easily digestible, and you’ll be off to a good start.

Going back to heyDominik, his thumbnails are great examples of how to structure them for a clean and digestible (and eye-catching) look:

Overall Message

The final element of your YouTube thumbnails is the overall message. Essentially you want your thumbnail to encapsulate the story of your video.

Obviously, if there’s a mismatch between your thumbnail and your video content people will not stick around very long (and they definitely won’t subscribe either).

So catch their attention, entice them, get them to click on your video but make sure you meet their expectations with your video content too.

Here’s a couple of good examples:

These thumbnails do a great job of getting the idea across, they could easily be described in one sentence. So aim for a similar setup with your thumbnails make sure they tell a story that you can outline with one sentence and you should be on to a winner.

Thumbnail Tactics

Here are some things you can try out with your thumbnails.

Depending on your brand, niche, competition, and other factors they won’t all be feasible or relevant to your channel.

But some of these might be worth testing out to see if you can make your thumbnails stand out even more.

Faces

You don’t have to show your face in your videos or your thumbnails but if you can it really can help improve your thumbnail performance.

People connect with other people (there’s a part of the brain that is hardwired for facial recognition).

So if you’re comfortable doing it, we recommend getting on camera in your videos and using your beautiful face in your thumbnails too.

This can help you connect with your target audience but it also means competitors can’t copy you exactly (unless they have a clone of you).

Typically most YouTubers use classic facial expressions e.g. happy, sad, surprised, fear, anger, disgusted, etc. and these expressions will naturally match the theme or the feeling in the video content itself.

The facial expressions that YouTubers use in their thumbnails are often a bit over-the-top and depending on the style of your channel (or if it’s a business YouTube account) you might not want to represent yourself this way.

However, if you think it could work for your channel and content it’s definitely worth testing out.

Once viewers have seen your videos a few times (and hopefully enjoyed them), seeing your face again will likely improve your click-through rate.

Remember, if you are going to use faces in your thumbnails, go with close-ups.

Pointing

This tactic is pretty simple (and often used by top YouTubers).

You simply point (with a finger or an arrow) to an important element in your thumbnail image. Usually, this is the YouTuber pointing to something that they’re going to cover a lot in the video.

It’s a commonly used tactic because it grabs people’s attention.

Split images

A great way to clearly represent your video content with your thumbnails is to use split images.

This works best when your video topic is a:

• Before and after
• Versus
• Has 2 subjects (e.g. interview)

For example, the thumbnails below clearly show what the video is all about and what the viewer will learn by watching them:

Dividing your thumbnails into two different sections can naturally give it a look of progression which can be a clear and powerful way to tell the story of the video.

If this is the type of video you’re producing then these thumbnails explain everything very quickly to the viewer and get them to click on your video.

Consistency

A good tactic to establish your brand and recognition for your videos is to have consistency in your video thumbnails.

This can be in the colors, the structure, or even something as simple as always having your logo on a specific spot in your thumbnails.

Some big brands like Vice consistently use their logo in their video thumbnails. Obviously, they’ve built up significant brand recognition over the years so when people see their logo they instantly know who created the content.

But this is something you can do with your videos too, consistently use your logo (or even your brand colors) and overtime as your brand recognition builds this could become a significant driver of clicks to your videos.

Keep in mind that the downside of always using a logo in your thumbnails is that it takes up valuable space. So you’ll need to decide whether it makes sense for your channel or not.

Research the competition

Now that you know some awesome YouTube thumbnail tactics, it’s time to research the competition (assuming you have a topic chosen).

Look at channels that are targeting the same audience as you.

What kind of thumbnails do they use, what are the typical features of their thumbnails?

Take notes, and then think of ways you can improve on them, and also differentiate yourself.

Let’s go through an example, with three channels in the dog training niche:

Notes:

• Dog is the primary focus in every thumbnail (no surprise)
• Dog doing relevant action in some thumbnails (e.g. being on the leash or chewing)
• Person’s face often in thumbnail, showing relevant emotion
• Bright colors and pretty clear text
• Use of arrows to focus on main subject
• Typically between 3 and 5 words used in thumbnail
• All thumbnails contain text
• Text typically to the right or left side of thumbnail

Notes:

• Dog is the primary focus in every thumbnail
• Dog doing relevant action in some thumbnails
• Person’s face only in a couple of thumbnails
• Bright colors and clear text
• Typically between 3 and 4 words used in thumbnail
• All thumbnails contain text
• Tex on left, right, and middle of thumbnail

Notes:

• Dog is the primary focus in every thumbnail
• Dog doing relevant action in some thumbnails
• Person’s face only in some thumbnails with relevant emotion or pose
• Very clear text
• Typically between 3 and 5 words used in thumbnail
• All thumbnails contain text
• Text typically to the left or right of thumbnail
• Branding used in every thumbnail
• Consistent color palette

So based on those 3 channels, here’s where you could start with your thumbnails:

• Use an image of a dog in all thumbnails
• Have the dog doing a relevant action or sitting in a relevant pose
• Use between 3 – 4 words
• Use bright colors
• Make the text and font very clear
• Use text on the left or right side
• Show a human face (with emotion) where relevant

The next step is to test and see what works.

Testing & Tracking

If you’re going to test out different variations of your thumbnails the best approach is to do an AB split test.

This is simply testing the performance of a new version of a thumbnail versus the original version to see which one gets the best click-through rate.

You can take two approaches to this.

Either test out a completely different version of the thumbnail (which will make it difficult to understand what made the biggest difference if the performance improves or declines).

Or simply change one element of the thumbnail (e.g. the text) to see how that impacts the performance. This approach will give you clearer insights into what makes the difference.

The easiest way to AB test your thumbnails at the moment is to use a tool like TubeBuddy.

Doing AB tests this way allows you to create a consistent feedback loop.

This simply means you can consistently get new learnings on what works best in your thumbnails, keep conducting tests over time, and you’ll see constant improvements and feedback.

Apply those learnings to your next video thumbnail, test, learn, and so on.

If you’re getting upwards of 400 clicks per video, this is a good enough starting point for an AB test.

Anything less than this, and you’ll likely have to wait until you get a bit more video views before you start testing.

If you don’t want to invest in a premium TubeBuddy account (to get the AB test functionality) you can simply track the CTR performance in YouTube Creator Studio.

The “impressions click-through rate” in the dashboard tells you the CTR performance.

If one of your videos has a low CTR compared to your typical performance it could be a good opportunity to test out a different version of the thumbnail to see if you can improve things.

AB tests you could do

If you’re not sure what elements of your thumbnails you could test, here are some ideas for you:

• Main thumbnail element – Every thumbnail should have a main element, and you can test the positioning of it. Typically left, right, or centred. You can also test different ways of highlightign it such as circles, arrows, pointing to it, etc.
• Color scheme – brighter vs duller colors, different color palettes, etc.
• Fonts – test out different fonts that might be more distinct and readable
• Background – images, solid color, gradients, blurred, etc.
• Text amount – test out how much text you’re using in the thumbnails – more vs less, less vs more, some vs none, etc.
• Text content – blunt text vs teasing text e.g. what your video is about vs leaving a bit of mystery to what your video is about. A great thing to test is also by asking a question in the thumbnail (implies you know something the viewer doesn’t).
• Facial expressions – very expressive vs not so expressive, etc.
• Number of main elements – test out having between 1 to 3 main elements in your thubmnail

Tools to create YouTube thumbnails

There are plenty of tools you can use (here are some of the best) but you can’t go wrong with Canva, Placeit, or Snappa.

If you know how to use Photoshop or any other graphic design software, that’s great! But online tools can be just as useful, albeit they don’t give you as much freedom.

They do offer templates though, so they can make it incredibly quick and easy! And if you save templates on those platforms of your designs, you can reuse them, again and again, to ensure you have the same filters, colors, fonts, layouts, etc.

Wrapping things up

So, there you have it, that’s how you create good YouTube thumbnails.

Stick to the basics, understand who you are targeting, test, refine, and keep improving the quality of the thumbnails and over time you will see success.

Enjoy creating! Oh, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for creating awesome YouTube thumbnails, leave a comment below!

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It doesn’t matter how good your content is… if the thumbnail is unappealing then potential viewers aren’t going to find out!

Think of your thumbnail like a movie poster, trying to tempt a potential audience to click. Give yourself the best start at success by using one of the amazing PSD templates below.

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Section 1: Gaming

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The watermark is best used as either an additional call to action for viewers to subscribe or as another way to reinforce your channel brand. A well branded channel not only makes your content seem more professional but will increase brand awareness.

You can jump to a specific part of the article with the links below:

• Overview
• Specifications
• What image should you use?
• Creating Your Watermark
• Adding Video Watermarks in the edit
• FAQ

Overview

Traditionally, a watermark is a logo, text or a pattern that is layered over an image in order to make the original image difficult to be copied or used without permission.

A video watermark follows the same principle. It’s a still image that is placed over the top of a video as it’s playing, generally in the top or bottom right hand corners. The video watermark is most commonly a logo but website URLs and custom text are also used.

Watermarking your video has become more important for two key reasons. The first is to avoid unauthorised copying and distribution of your content. It’s not uncommon for videos from YouTube to be downloaded and shared on other platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram without proper attribution and with the thief oftentimes monetising the stolen content.

Whilst a watermark won’t prevent this, it will identify you as the true owner of the content and hopefully discourage people from attempting to misuse your work to begin with or make it easier for you to have stolen videos taken down.

A more positive reason to watermark your video relates to brand recognition. By adding a logo watermark to your videos, viewers will more strongly associate your content to your overall brand. When this is coupled with strong channel art and consistent thumbnails, your video watermark becomes a small piece of your larger branding strategy.

If you decide not to directly embed a watermark on the video file, YouTube has a branding watermark feature that allows creators to add a small image, most commonly a logo, to all of the videos on their channel. This watermark overlay feature has the added bonus of being an on-video subscribe button which can dramatically increase subscribers to your YouTube channel.

Specifications

YouTube recommends the following specifications for your video watermark 

• Images in a square format with a minimum 150×150 pixels
• Images must be less than 1MB in size
• Images should only use one colored background.

In addition to the upload specifications, YouTube also gives creators the opportunity to set the starting time for their watermark to appear. 

• Have it Appear at 0:00: This means the watermark will be visible the entire length of your video. The obvious advantage of this is that viewers will be able to easily subscribe to your channel at any time whilst watching your content. Arguably though, a downside of this is that the watermark could be a distraction during the opening 15 seconds of your video. A key time in which viewers decide to continue watching or leave your content.

• Start After Your Intro: You can set a custom time for your watermark to appear. This means you can, if you choose, leave the crucial opening section of your video without the potential distraction that the watermark can bring. Two drawbacks to this are that when you set a time for the watermark to appear, it is channel wide and not specific to each video, so the watermark might pop up at an inopportune time on some videos. Also, the watermark simply pops onto the screen which can itself be slightly distracting.

Ultimately, it’s your choice when to have your channels watermark visible on your videos, however here at design hub, we recommend having your watermark visible for the duration of your video. Why miss any opportunity to gain some new subscribers or compound your brand image?

What Image should you use?

There are two different types of image that YouTubers tend to use as their video thumbnail. Their brand/channel logo or a subscribe button. But which is the better option?

The best way to make this decision is to decide what your main goal is from your video watermark. If your number one goal is to increase your subscriber count, then it might be a better option to go with a watermark that recalls a youtube subscribe button.

This makes it easy for viewers to know the purpose of the button and evidence shows that it also makes it more likely that they will subscribe via this route than if you opted for a logo watermark. YouTube tool and channel VidIQ reported a 500% increase in conversions through the watermark button when they changed the image from a logo to a subscribe watermark.

However, if you are less concerned about subscribers and more interested in developing a complete brand image, you may want to opt for the logo watermark opportunity. Another possible solution is to create your own custom subscribe button that exploits your own brand colours.

Creating your watermark

There are several options for creating your video watermark, whether you want to upload it directly to YouTube or if you’d rather ‘bake’ it in to an existing video. Here are our recommendations for each.

Creating a watermark for upload to YouTube

Whether you’re simply exporting your logo with an alpha channel or if you’re creating a brand aligned subscribe button, Canva is the ideal platform to create your design in. It’s logo maker blank canvas is already square and you can upload your image or add text and make use of their library of shapes and colored backgrounds. You’re then able to export your design at the 150x150px size that YouTube asks for.

If you’d like to add your logo as a watermark embedded in the video itself you have a couple options there too. You can firstly add the watermark during the editing process and then export your final video with the watermark embedded.

Or if you have exiting clips that you would like to add the watermark to, or if your editing software doesn’t have the functions you need, you can always use invideo. Their free watermark tool lets you simply upload your clip an your watermarked image and the tool lets you download the video with the watermark attached.

How and where to upload

If you decide to take advantage of YouTube’s inbuilt video watermark feature, it’s only a couple of clicks away and you’ll have a watermark on all the videos on your channel.

Firstly log in to your YouTueb account and click the icon on the top right of the page with your channel logo visible. From there, navigate to YouTube Studio on the dropdown menu.

Next, click on the Customisation button, the second last option in the list of sections within the YouTube studio menu, look for the magic wand icon. At the top of the customisation page you will see three tabs. Click on the tab labelled Branding.

At the bottom of the branding page you will find the video watermark section. Simply click upload, navigate to your logo or subscribe button on your computer and hit open.

If necessary, use the crop tool to remove empty space and make sure your image is centred before clicking done. The options for when you want the watermark to display will now be visible next to the mockup image of the watermark. Select whichever option you want then hit publish at the top right of the screen.

Adding Video Watermarks In The Edit

If you decide to add a watermark that’s embedded in your actual video file, instead of using YouTubes inbuilt watermark overlay feature then it depends on your editing software where and how you add and place the image. However as mentioned above, there’s also invideo’s free watermark tool which will add your custom watermark in 4 simple steps.

1. Upload: Simply upload your video from your computer or mobile device.

2. Add the content you want to watermark: Just add the text, caption, or the logo that you want to use as the watermark. Reshape, resize, or align it to the ideal fit and position.

3. Hit Create: By hitting the Create button, you are ready with your video watermark. The feature from InVideo is amazingly simple and fully free to use.

4. Download and share across all online channels in an instant.

FAQ

How can I tell if people are subscribing using my watermark?

In addition to all it’s other video analytics tools, YouTube has a specific section that allows you to analyze your click-through rate with your watermark. The chart shows how many interactions the feature has had. If you take the time over a number of weeks to test different approaches, you can measure the success of different watermark styles and choose the one that works best for you.

Are watermarks available for any channel?

There are no barriers to adding a watermark to your youtube channel. The only caveat to this are videos marked as ‘Made for Kids’, your watermark won’t be visible on these specific videos.

Can you Add a watermark to YouTube Shorts?

Yes! The watermarks will be added to any YouTube shorts videos added to your channel in addition to your traditional widescreen videos.

Final thoughts

There are a few different things to consider but now you’re in the best place to create and use a watermark that works best for your videos and your channel.

We hope this article helped you out. If you have any questions or comments leave them down below and we’ll get back to you there.

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