which intro?
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StacyPancakes
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I like homemade intros. They may not always be as well made but they make you stand out. I would rather have an original intro than one that looks like what hundreds of other channel have.
ThatGeekyGuy
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It really depends, if your an early beginner at creating intros then maybe a template is good. However if you are decent and above then making own intros makes you stand out more and more appealing.
RobCoxxy
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I for one prefer a homemade intro than some cheap nasty premade intro (see, dubstep, 3D text - switchoff)
Even if your initial ones are a bit pants, you'll improve as your skills develop.
If you want, view StacyPancakes intro above - or have a look at mine, which has changed dramatically over the past couple of years. You'll find a theme and you'll build on it in time.
The important thing about the homemade intro is that it's personal, and it shows you put love (or pancakes. dammit, now I'm hungry) into your channel.
Even if your initial ones are a bit pants, you'll improve as your skills develop.
If you want, view StacyPancakes intro above - or have a look at mine, which has changed dramatically over the past couple of years. You'll find a theme and you'll build on it in time.
The important thing about the homemade intro is that it's personal, and it shows you put love (or pancakes. dammit, now I'm hungry) into your channel.
StacyPancakes
I Love YTtalk
Lol I am ALWAYS hungry for pancakes haha and my intro is like kindergarten fingerpainting and yours is like college trigonometry. Hopefully mine will be awesome like that some day too. Another thing Comaxi if you make your own is to not make it too long. I've seen some videos where I have almost stopped watching because I got tired of watching the like 25 second long intro. Keep it short and sweet.
RobCoxxy
I've Got It
Thing is, yours is super aesthetically pleasing, from the typeface to... those delicious pancakes. Gets the style of your channel and everything across instantly. As far as branding goes, it's spot on. Mine's come about through crazy amounts of hours of faff, trial and error (and several crap variants), but I knew what I had in mind and worked at it til I got there
And as for the length - that's another thing!
My original was fifteen seconds, back when I was a stubborn idiot (and really wanted that 8 bit version of Herbert Chappel's The Gonk as my intro theme), then I shortened to ten, and now I'm about six seconds, with some Royalty Free stuff I splurged a chunk of cash on.
Five seconds is the max I'd ever do from now on - gotta keep audience attention![DOUBLEPOST=1453844747,1453844440][/DOUBLEPOST]
As for this - There's a couple of things I'd do to smooth it up a little, which will make it look that bot more professional
- Use a tripod or rest your camera for a steady shot of that pancake
- You can mute the video audio for a clean clip with no background hum
3. Find a little royalty-free jingle somewhere. Guitar or Ukelele, short, sweet and quirky.
And bam, you have yourself a homemade, A+ intro!
Even MatPat (Game Theory) first intros were by today standarts "meh" and his latest is now superb in my opinion 
Scott Olsen
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This for sure