Make an Intro Video With AI
A 5-second animated intro — your name, your colors, motion that matches your channel's energy — for pocket change.
An intro video is the 3-7 second animated sting that opens a channel's uploads — name, logo, tagline, a motion signature viewers learn to recognize. Template marketplaces sell these by the thousand, which is exactly the problem: your intro looks like someone else's. ViralMint's Motion Graphics mode composes an intro from a plain-language brief — channel name, tagline, accent color, energy level — as an original animated composition, editable in the embedded studio and rendered locally for cents. Because compose costs $0.05 and rendering is free, iterating five versions to find the one that feels right costs a quarter. Keep it under 5 seconds: modern audiences skip long intros, and the format's job is recognition, not spectacle.
How to make a intro video with AI
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Brief the AI
Channel name, tagline, accent color, energy ('clean and minimal' vs 'fast and loud'). The AI composes the animation — type, timing, motion — as an editable project.
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Tune it in the studio
Adjust pacing, swap the emphasis word, try your brand's second color. Compositions are code, so every tweak previews instantly without re-render fees.
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Render at every size
Export 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts/Reels openers, 1:1 for square posts — the same composition re-renders per aspect locally, free.
Example prompts to start from
From ViralMint's free prompt libraries — click any card for the full prompt and recommended settings.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a channel intro be?
3-5 seconds. Analytics consistently show retention dips during intros; the shorter the sting, the smaller the dip. Many channels now use a 2-second logo hit — recognizable, skimmable, gone.
Why not buy a template for $15?
Templates are sold to thousands of channels, and viewers pattern-match them to 'generic content' before you've said a word. An AI-composed intro is generated for your brief — the motion is yours.
Can it match my existing brand kit?
Yes — specify your exact hex colors and font preference in the brief, and save the result. The same brand kit drives your watermark and caption styles across every other ViralMint export.
Make your first intro video today
ViralMint is a free, open-source desktop app. No subscription — top up credits and pay cents per generation.