Create an Animated YouTube End Screen using Canva

1. YouTube End Screen Class Intro: Welcome to my new class on how to create an animated YouTube end screen using Canva. In this class, we'll be taking a step-by-step approach and creating an engaging and visually appealing end screen for your YouTube videos. And N screen is the last thing that your viewers will see before the video ends. And it is important to make it interesting and effective. We're going to start by taking a look at some other YouTube end screens for ideas and inspiration. This will give you a sense of what is possible and help you to think about what you want to create. Next, we will dive into creating our own animated onscreen using Canva, a very user-friendly graphic design tool. You will learn how to use Canvas animation features to create movement and engagements and customize the color scheme and layout for your YouTube end screen. We will then move on to exporting the end screen that we have created and adding it to our video. This step is important as it shows how to take the N screen that was created and apply it to our own video. So we'll download the end screen as an MP4 from Canva. Then we will open our video editing software, add the screen to the end of our video, and then finally export our video and upload it YouTube. Finally, once we have uploaded our final video to YouTube, I will show you how to set up your end screen within the YouTube video editor. This step is important as it shows you how to add the right elements to your end screen within the YouTube video editor. This way, when viewers watch it, it will appear correctly on the video. Once you've finished this class, you will have the skills and knowledge to create an engaging and visually appealing and screen for your YouTube videos. So let's get started and creates an end screen that will have a lasting impression on your viewers. 2. YouTube End Screen Inspiration: Hello and welcome back. In this video we're going to have a look at some other YouTube end screens so that we can get some ideas and inspiration for the one that we're going to be creating. Now as you can see here, I've simply typed in Google YouTube end screen. And I have gone to Google Images. And now of course, if they are animated n screens, they won't just be images, there will be video files. However, this gives us a good example of how some other YouTube and screens look. As you can see, we have many different styles and colors. But one of the most important things when it comes to designing your YouTube end screen is first of all, that it fits your theme and it fits in with your channel so that it makes sense with your content. And secondly, you want to choose what you want to actually display in your end screen. So e.g. if I click onto this one here, you can see that this one is simply going to show two videos and a subscribe element to subscribe to your channel. Now, if I compare that to this one over here, we can see that this one has a video elements, a subscribe elements, and then on the right, some social media usernames so that the viewers can find the YouTube or on other platforms as well. So this is another good way of doing it, as well as this one down here, e.g. this one has two videos and then it says like share and subscribe, as well as the social media usernames at the bottom down here. So it all depends on what do you want to display in your end screen. And of course, you want to make sure that it's designed to suit your channel. So if I close this image and scroll back to the top. At the top here, you can see that we have some other keywords that we could add to our search. So e.g. if I click onto cute, just here, you can see that these ends greens or for a very specific type of channel. Now this could be like a daily vlog or something like that. Now if I go back to the main YouTube end screen search and click onto the gaming keyword. Just hear. These screens are more designed to suit a gaming YouTube channel. As you can see, this one at the bottom. This is for a fortnight channel. You want to make sure you know what content you want to display in your end screen. And also that the theme suits your channel. So now that we have some ideas and inspiration, we can go on to the next video where we will start to design our own YouTube end screen. 3. Create an Animated YouTube End Screen in Canva: Hello and welcome back. In this video, we are going to be creating an animated YouTube end screen using Canva. And I'll take you through the process step-by-step. So first of all, you need to open your Canvas account and go to your dashboard so that you can start the process. Now before I do anything, I'm going to show you the channel I'm going to be designing the end screen for. Because we need to know the theme of the end screen so that it fits in with the channel. So this is the channel that I'm going to be designing the end screen for. In this channel. Basically it's a pack opening channel for football cards, of soccer cards, if you call it that, we need to make sure that it's relevant to the channel. So let's now go back to Canva. And what we're going to do is type in this search box here. And we're going to type in YouTube and screen. Then we can simply click onto either of these top two options. The first one says YouTube, ends green, the second says YouTube, video and screen. Both of them will take us to the same page. So I'll just click onto this top one here. This will now take us to the page full of YouTube end screen templates. If you want to start by using a template, this will basically give you a headstart to make it really easy and fast for creating your own end screen for your channel. So you can pick through any of these templates on this page. As you can see, there are tons to choose from. This one here is quite a nice, simple design and it's quite a popular one as well. However, I want to start from scratch. So because I want to start from scratch, I'm gonna go back to Canva. And what I'm going to do is click onto the video option just here. And this will create a blank video project, which is 1920 by 1080. And that is perfect for a YouTube video. We're going to click onto this option here. And as you can see, this has created our project. Now straight away on the left, we can see loads of templates. If you want to find more end screen templates, you can simply type in YouTube end screen, like I have done here. And you can get a head start once again by using any of these templates. Or you need to do is simply click onto the one you want to use and add your own content to personalize it for your channel. However, I'm not going to be doing that. I'm going to delete that template out of my project. Now to start with, the first thing that I'm going to do is edit the duration of my YouTube end screen video. And there are two ways that you can do that. You can either drag the page down here. And as you can see, the seconds is now all the way up to 13.2. Or alternatively, you can go to the top of the page and click Edit timing and you can enter your new timing. I want 15 s, so I'll enter 15 and then I'll hit Enter. So now as you can see, this page will ask 15 s in the video. So there we go. The duration is now set to 15 s, which is absolutely perfect for our YouTube end screen. Now what we're going to do is set up the background. Now to do that, you can either go to the background tab down here, and then select an image and set it as the background. So let's say you want to use this image here. This will be quite a cool background for your YouTube end screen. However, I don't want to use a default background image. I have actually uploaded an image that I'm going to use because I want it to be themed to the channel I'm creating the end screen for. So I'm going to click onto this photo down here. And now I'm simply going to drag it so that it's going to be covering the entire screen. I'm just going to enlarge the image. Instead, it's bigger than the entire screen. I think that's a bit too big. And then we're going to center it. There we go, perfect. In fact, I'm going to make it a little bigger and center it again. There we go. So we have a background created. Now I want to customize my background image slightly. So I'm going to select it again, and I'm going to click the Edit Image button. Now what I want to do is add a blur onto this image. So I'm going to click the adjust option here and down where it says Blur. You can have a drag this, or you can simply enter in the number. I'm just going to enter ten. So we have now blurred out background slightly. You can tell what the background is, but it's not too overbearing because we have added a slight blur to it. So there we go. I'm now going to click out of this so that we know so that we don't have the image selected anymore. And now what we need to do is start to add the elements to our YouTube end screen. So what I'm going to do is click on two elements on the left over here. And we're simply going to click onto lines and shapes. And I'm going to add this first square here. Now I'm going to select it and go to color and make it white. Now I'm going to do is make it the same size as the background. As you can see at the bottom right down here. It is now 1920 by 1080. Now by doing this, I've made it so that the shape is the same size as a video format. So now I'm going to do is hold Shift and make it smaller. And as you can see, what this did was locked the format so that the aspect ratio is still the same so that a video will still fit perfectly in this shape. Now if I did that without holding Shift, as you can see, the shape changes completely and we do not want that. So what we're going to do now whenever we need to change the size is hold shift and adjust the size like that. Now I want the width to be 600. There we go. That is perfect. So now I'm going to put this adjust here. Then I'm going to duplicate it. So you can either right-click and click Duplicate, or you can simply click it and click Control D. Then I'm going to move the same shape to below the first one. And then I'll select both and center them in this design. There we go. That is perfect. In fact, I will group these two together so that when they are moved, they are moved together. So what this will do is give us a place for the video and screen elements to be added within YouTube. But that'll be later on. We can leave this half of the screen for now. And now what we're going to do is add a circle. Now I want to make the circle whites as well. I think the default size is actually perfect. So we're going to keep it centered and just move it over to the left. I think just about here is perfect. So this is where these subscribe elements will go within the YouTube end screen. Once again, this will be added within YouTube later on. Now what we can do is add some animated elements to our design. So let's go to elements on the left over here and click back. And what I'm going to do is type in the search box for animated arrow. There we go. So let's click onto graphics just here. And we're going to look for some cool animated arrows to add to our animated YouTube end screen. Realistically, you just need to add whatever you think suits your theme. I think that this one here could be quite good. So I'll click on today's and I'll make it smaller. And I'm just going to put one to the left of this rectangle here. And then I'll duplicate it and do the same for the one above. In fact, I'm going to make them even smaller. Then I'm going to duplicate it again. And there we go. I think this looks quite cool. However, I will send to them to this shape. Then I'll duplicate these free. And I'll do the same with this down here. There we go. So we've added some animation to our design now. So now what I'm going to do is add an animated subscribe elements as well. So I'm going to type in animated subscribe. There we go. I think this one here will be perfect. The very first one on the list. However, there are loads of animated subscribed elements that you can add. So add whatever you think suits your design. Now this needs to be made quite a lot smaller. I'm just going to put it below where my YouTube channel icon will be. I think just about here looks good. And I think this is going well so far. So now I'm going to do is add some elements that are going to make the YouTube screen for my channel unique and stand out from other end screens. Now I found recently that there are animated letters and numbers within Canva. So what I'm going to do is because the channel I'm making this for is called A1 F4. I'm going to add those letters in an animated way. So what I'm going to do is type in animated letters. And this a down here is what I was looking for. So I'm going to bring this into the design and of course make it smaller. And I'm going to have A1, F4 at the top up here. Then we need to get the F. So I think if I go to magic recommendations, this will give me more similar animated letters. And here is the F. Then we need to find the one and the four. There's the four and here's the one. We're going to bring the one in and make it the same size as the a. And then we need the F. And finally the fall as well. Then I'm just going to make the one and the a slightly smaller. And then I'm just going to bring them all next to each other. Just like so. And then I think I'm going to make them all a bit smaller. So I'm going to select all of them and make them smaller. And then I'm just going to put them at the top right up here. Now in fact, I'm going to move both of these subscribe and the icon element slightly to the right. Because then I think it makes all of the content more centered and it makes it look better. So we're almost done. What we're going to do now is add some text and I'm going to add it to above both of these shapes. So above this one I'm going to put latest video because this is where I would display my latest video. And above this one, I will put recommended video. I'm going to add some text right now. Then I'll simply write latest video. And I will change the font. I think that the red ochre one font will look good. So I'll use that. And I'm going to bring that up here. And then I'll duplicate this text and bring it down here. And I'm going to write recommended. Recommended. I've spelled that wrong. There we go. Recommended video. For this video here. There we go. I think that is looking really good. Now of course, you can change the sizes and any other details for your own YouTube end screen. However, now I think I'm going to add some more animation. Makes sure that you have unselected everything. So click off of the design. Just simply click on the side over here and click the Animate button at the top left. And by using page animations, you'll be able to animate every element within the page in one-click. So e.g. if I hover over one of these animation options, let's say disco, we can see how that animation will look in our design. Now I think I want to use the photo zoom option. And as you can see, that makes the background photo slowly zoom out during the video. So if I go back to the beginning of the video by using the scroll bar down here and click Play. That is how my YouTube end screen looks. Now, I think this looks pretty good. So if I click out of that again, we can now go back and click Play once again to view the end screen that we have created. Of course, once you've uploaded your video to YouTube, you'll be able to add the end screen elements on top of the circle and these two rectangles. So we'll have the latest video elements on top of this rectangle here, and a suggested video on top of this rectangle here. And then we will have the channel elements on top of this circle here with a Subscribe button. So I think that once it's all uploaded, it will look absolutely fantastic. We have successfully created a YouTube end screen within Canva. You can add some other elements, e.g. you could add your social media usernames or you could make it. So that is just a subscribe element and one video. But I like these subscribe elements and to video option. So that is what I have done. So there we go. That is all for this video. I hope you have enjoyed it and I hope that you've learned something new. I'll see you in the next one. Once again, thanks and goodbye. 4. Export your Animated End Screen as MP4 File: Welcome back. In this video, I'm going to show you how to export your YouTube end screen from Canva so that you have it as a video file and add it to your YouTube video within your editing software. So in order to do that, first of all, you want to name your project. So I'm just going to call it YouTube screen. And now we are ready to export our end screen. So what we're going to do is click the Share button and we're going to go down and click on the download button down here. Then you want to make sure that MP4 video is selected and everything else is up to you. But of course, you want to export it to the highest quality possible. Now, if you only have the free plan on Canva, that means you'll be exporting it to ten ATP HD, which is perfect. So then once you are ready, click the Download button. Now Canva will get the video ready for you to download it to your computer. And once it's ready, it will open the File Explorer so you can choose where you want to save the file to. And there we go. So as you can see, it has opened the file explorer. So I'm simply going to save the file to my desktop. But first of all, you want to make sure to choose the file name. Now, I'm going to leave it as default YouTube end screen. And then once you're happy with everything, click the Save button. Now, you will have your YouTube and screen downloaded to your computer. So first of all, I'm just going to click onto it to have a look at it. So let's just click Play and we can watch it. There we go. As you can see, it is properly animated and the background image is zooming out. And there we go. So that is absolutely perfect. Now, we're going to add this to our video in our video editing software. I have my video editing software open right here. So all I need to do now is drag the YouTube end screen file straight into this software. As you can see, like I'm doing here. I'm gonna drag it straight in. And now I'll put this into full screen. Now in the preview, we can see the screen over here on the right. So what we're going to do is zoom in. And I'm just going to move the end screen above the other content about here. And then what I'm going to do is add an effect. I'm going to go to effects and video transitions and dissolve. And what I'm going to do is add a cross dissolve. I'm going to drag this straight onto the top of the screen file. Now, if we watch the end of the video, will be able to see that it fades out of the video and fades into the end screen. So let's click Play. There we go. That is absolutely perfect. Now I'm going to do is slightly shorter than the end screen. And I'm also going to add a dissolve to the end of it as well. So then when it gets to the end, it will fade out. There we go. That is perfect. So what I'm going to do is save my file. In order to export my video. I'm going to go to File and Export down here, Export Media. Now of course, you might be using a different video editing software to me. So this will be slightly different for you. Now I'm going to do is go and click onto location. And I'm simply going to give the video a name. So for now I'm just going to call it the video with end screen, just so that we know which video it is. And then I'll click Save. And we're ready to do now is export the video. So let's click the Export button at the bottom right, down here. There we go. So the video has now been exported successfully. So that is all for this video. In the next one, I'll show you how to upload your video to YouTube and set up your YouTube end screen within YouTube as well. 5. Setting up your End Screen in YouTube: Hello and welcome back. In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up your end screen within YouTube. So first of all, we're going to upload the video that we have just rendered in the previous video. So I'm going to click create and upload. And then I'm going to simply click Select Files. And I'm going to click onto the video that we exported. So that is this video just here. Now we're going to let the video upload. So I'm going to skip over these details for now. I can sort this out later. So I'll click Next. And here within the video elements step, we have the add an end screen option. So I'm going to click Add. Now I'm going to scroll to where we can see that the end screen has fully appeared. And we're going to click the Add Element button here. So first of all, I'll click onto the subscribe element and I'll make sure that the channel icon goes over the white circle. It's actually quite difficult to center it. I'm going to disable this option here that says show hover card outline. And I'm hoping that that will help me to center it a bit better. Okay, that's not too bad. We can leave it like that for now. And then I'm going to add another element and click onto video. And then we're going to use the most recent Upload option. And of course, this will go under the latest video text. Then we're going to add another video. And for this we will use the best for view our video. And that will go down here. Now we can make these bigger, but we can't make them smaller unfortunately. So this might actually go over the text. So we may need to redesign in screen slightly. Then we want to change how long these appear for. So we only want these to show up, but once the screen shows up. So I'm going to drag them to about here. And then I'm going to move the player. And then I'll click space so that we can play it to see where it all shows up. Okay, so it needs to show up. When it first starts appearing, which is about here. There we go. So if I watch it again and go back, Perfect. So we do have a few things that we're going to have to fix. But for now, let's click Save and go to next and next again. And I'll just click privates and then click Save. Now I'm going to do is open the video that we have uploaded. And there we go. So we have successfully added our N screen to our video. And within the YouTube Studio, we have added the end screen elements to our end screen in the video. So there we go. That is all for this video. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that you learned something new. Once again, thanks for watching and goodbye.