Notes on intros, branding & the craft of the first five seconds.
Tutorials, teardowns and creator stories from the team behind Stargazer, written to help your videos open like they mean it.
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How to Make a Breaking Bad Style Intro for Your YouTube Channel
A Breaking Bad style intro gives your channel an instantly recognisable open. Here is what it looks like, a five-step no-code guide, and how to match the dark element-tile aesthetic to your channel's niche.
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How to Make a Star Wars Opening Crawl in After Effects
After Effects gives you a true movie-grade crawl, and it is the hardest method. A free guide for the full build: starfield, 3D perspective, animation, the opening title, music, and clean H.264 export.
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How to Throw a Breaking Bad Themed Party
I went overboard planning a Breaking Bad party once, in the best way. This is the playbook: decor, a Heisenberg menu, 20 trivia questions, costumes by character, music, and the custom intro that made the night.
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How to Make a Star Wars Opening Crawl in Word
Word can give you the black background, yellow text and slanted perspective, but it cannot animate the scroll. Here is the honest walkthrough and the workaround for turning it into a video.
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How to Make a Star Wars Opening Crawl in Photoshop
Photoshop makes the best looking still crawl, and with the Timeline it can animate too. Simple steps: canvas, yellow text, perspective, a proper starfield, and the animation step most guides skip.
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How to Make a Star Wars Opening Crawl in PowerPoint
You can fake a Star Wars crawl in PowerPoint with a black slide, yellow text and the Fly In animation. Here are the exact settings I use, the Mac menu paths, and where PowerPoint falls short.
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