Is a 30 second intro too long?

[mattv2099]

That would be a good video for you shooting long intros I got me a Ruger SR9c 9mm it is perfect little gun for me

Nice! That sr9 kicks a**. I've got a sr22!

 

[Wreckless Eating]

We only use a long intro for our main show. The trick is to draw the audience in within the first 5 seconds of your video, so if you have to use a 30 second intro, start with a clip of the best footage you have, then cut to your intro right before the money shot. Then you can get away with a longer intro because you'll already have them hooked. Remember the clip has to be short-figure on 5 to 10 seconds.

 

[Brodie]

It really depends on if the intro is interesting or not, if it is good enough to keep your viewers hooked in to watching it's fine, but usually a 30 second intro is normally too long, it's up to you, only way to really find out is to test in in a video for yourself

 

[Derek M]

well, how about 15 seconds. Heres what the 15 second one sounds like:
https://soundcloud.com/derek-medina-4/intro

 

[MarkRodriguez2012]

Took me a while to get used to Linkara's long-a** intro song... but it grew on me and I'm used to it by now. I guess it just depends on how cool or catchy the intro is.

 

[Derek M]

The other thing, my intro is going to look a little bit like this but it will be faster and will also have videos so people can see an example of what I have on that channel.
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/energetic_titles/

 

[Lawlz]

I never do intro's XD And yes 30 secs is too long Maybe u can better make a outro to get straight to the point at the beginning of ur vid

 

[vgjfelix]

30 seconds is far too long. An intro should be no more than 1-3% of the whole content.

My intros are part of the video itself and the opening splash screen is 4-5 seconds.

 

[TheSuperFunArt]

in my opinion, 30 seconds is long. viewers, like me, like to get straight to the point, sometimes when an intro is too long, i skip it. and example would be the shaytards intro, it takes ages to get to the vlogs, so i just skip it. in my opinion, an intro should be fast and adds an image/ representation of what you do it a very fast manner. the maximum time that i would take to watch an intro would be 15 seconds therefore try to make intros that last from 3 to 15 secs, in my opinion.
it is important to have the intro short so that it does not bore the viewer, sometimes i move to another video if the intro takes long and never get to the real part. moreover, if everyone was skipping the intro the viewing time / percentage of the video in the stats may be very low and it is something that we do not want because it shows that people are not really intrested in the video. hope this had helped

 

[Th3StuffShow]

it's a bit to long.. 15 is a good number.