How to Make YouTube Animated Videos As A Newbie? 6 Tools Help You Do It

By Elva | Mar 14,2019 17:35 pm

With the popularity of YouTube in recent days, I found more and more people ask questions like "what software can I use to make animated videos for YouTube for free", or "what animation software should I use to start an animated YouTube channel", etc. in Quora, and many other forums. But to be honest, it is not easy to find an effective yet reliable answer at seconds because you don't know which kinds of program will be working well. Don't worry, you can get out of this trouble after reading this post.

To make a YouTube animated video, most of the animated video editors are available online. For professional users, Adobe after effects and Muvizu are available to make professional videos without an internet connection. But in most situations, we can't find a tool to satisfy all needs in the market, because every video editing tools have their own target users.

So, in this post, I'd like to introduce the top 6 software to help all of you to make YouTube animated Videos easily. These programs are designed for a novice, beginner, semi-professional and professional respectively. You can compare them and pick up the best animated video editor for YouTube according to your own needs.

Now, let's get started...

Editor's Pick: Filmora Video Editor for Beginners and Semi-professionals
#2. Adobe After Effects - Professional Video Effects Editor
#3. Muvizu
#4. Wideo
#5. Animaker
#6. Moovly

Filmora Video Editor - Advanced Animated Video Maker for Beginner & Semi-professional

Filmora Video Editor for Windows or Filmora Video Editor for Mac is the best video editor to make YouTube animated videos on Windows and Mac computer. This program easily answers the question that how to edit videos and how to apply effects to a video. It provides user-friendly interface and handy functions to meet different user's needs. Now, let's have a brief look on the main functions as follows:

Key Features of Filmora Animated Video Editor:

Comes with basic and advanced editing skills, so that you can not only split, combine, cut, edit a video as you like, but also allows to detach audio, mute audio, make a green screen, split screen or even picture in picture video as you like.
Action cam tool help you to stablize video, fast or slow video speed, etc. without restrictions.
Import videos, audios and images from various sources, and export an edited video to specific formats, devices, or upload to YouTube channel directly.
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Steps on How to Use Filmora Video Editor to Make Animated Videos for YouTube

Step 1. Launch the program on your Windows or Mac computer, then click "New Project" to open the video editing panel. Hit the "Import Media Files Here" button to load all media files you wish to use in the editing process into the program.

load videos for editng

Step 2. Drag and drop the media files into the timeline in the order you like, then you can start to edit and make the animated video as you like:

- Split, cut and delete unwanted part from your video. Check detailed steps >>

- Apply an animated intro or outro for your video by clicking "Title" option. Check detailed steps >>

- Select an ideal transitions, filters or even overlays to enrich your video as you like. Check detailed steps >>

- Pick up a proper background music or sound effects from the "Audio" library, or you can import an audio file as background song.

edit video

Step 3. When all settings have done, you can preview the animated video in the program, and then, hit "Export" button to upload the video to YouTube directly.

upload animated video to youtube

#2: Adobe After Effects

Key Features:

Adobe After effects is one of the most popular animated video maker which is used by most video professionals. It can also be used to make animated videos, but one thing should be kept in mind that you will need a high end PC to perform the video editing and there is no denying in the fact that the quality of resultant video will be excellent. There are plenty of beautiful animations already present in the Abode after effects, so, you don’t have to download an extra pack for them.

Price: $999 or $19.99 per month

Pros:

Professional level editing
Available for both Mac and Windows PC
Offline Software for making animated videos
Simple drag and drop features

Cons:

Costly for a beginner
Requires high level system
Doesn’t provide 3D animations

#3: Muvizu

Key Features:

Muvizu is another animated video creator which will let you create the animated YouTube videos in seconds or mintues. The best part about this software is that you don’t have to be a professional to use it but the output video will still look like created by a animated video professional. Moreover, there is vast variety of characters and scenes available in the software and you can edit every aspect of the video to cater your needs. The resultant video will not only have the perfect scene but movements of the characters can also be controlled using editing options. Last but not the least feature is lip-sync, which will help you incorporate an audio track perfectly on a character.

Price: Free or $29.99 only

Pros:

Easy to use
Vast variety of scenes and characters
Offline video Creation
Doesn’t high end PC aspects
Cheaper as compared to anyother animated video creator

Cons:

Only Available for Windows
Doesn’t offer much customization
Don’t support Online video saving

#4: Wideo

Key Features:

Wideo is an online service which offers plenty of customization options for absolutely free or little price. It is best to make a promotion video for your brand or your presentation at school. The best thing about Wideo is that everything is preset and all you have to do is just select some tools, move them to editing area and boom, your video is ready to go. It also provides with many tools to edit text, add sounds or even the links in the video. In other words, it is the best tool to create YouTube animated Videos.

Price: Free or $9/month, $19/month, $39/month

Pros:

Cheapest online animated video creator
Plenty of options available
Best to create promotional videos
Easy to use for every user

Cons:

As it is only an online tool, Doesn’t work without internet
Not Suitable for Professional Level editing
Most of the things are preset, So, doesn’t provide in-depth video editing

#5: Animaker

Key Features:

With a list of handful of features, Animaker is another great online animated video maker tool to make an animated YouTube video. Unlike other online tools, it also provides tons of different scenes and like many other online tools, it also have some peset settings for different things. For example: If you want to make an animated resume, you can always select a template and change it for yourself. Similarly, there are many other things. On the other hand, there are also seven tools to edit every aspect of the video. The videos are mostly created in the form of slides, so, you can change the settings on slides, add more effects and lastly can also add beautiful transitions between two slides.

Price: Free or $9/month, $19/month, $39/month

Pros:

Provides many preset scenes
Perfect for making school presentation and small videos
Upload videos directly to the YouTube

Cons:

Doesn’t offer professional level video editing
Only available online

#6: Moovly

Key Features:

Last on our list is another online YouTube animated video creating tool which provides a sleek user-interface. Instead of having the editor in the same video, the editor is opened in an utterly new windows. The best part about using Moovly is that it is perfect for your everyday presentations. Although it doesn’t offer many colorful characters but it is easy to use for some basic level users. Apart from the characters, it also has every settings which a basic level animated video creator should have such as adding text, music or adding videos to already going on project.

Price: Free or different prices for different Packages

Pros: