The opening frames of a video are without a doubt the most important. During these minutes—or more often even seconds—viewers form opinions about your video based not just on the content, but the quality and style of the production, too. To help you sort through the noise, we’ve assembled the best free opener templates on Envato Elements and Mixkit that produce professional looking, engaging video from the very start.
5 Top Premium Premiere Pro Opener Video Templates From Envato Elements
It’s always great to get something for free, but not at the cost of denigrating your vision. If you don’t see precisely what you’re looking for, check out our high-quality templates for Adobe Premiere Pro from Envato Elements, where you can download unlimited resources for a subscription.
1. Laizy – Vintage Slideshow
Place your images in this vintage, easy-to-use slideshow designed like an old school Kodak film photographer’s contact sheet, which you can “mark up” using smooth animation. No plugins required.
2. Adrenaline Sport Promotion
An in-your-face, adrenaline-pumping opener that showcases talent in sports, dance, bodybuilding, coaching, or any other physical activity, this opener template can also be used to advertise a sports club, fitness center, gym, or championship.
3. Technology Glitch Slideshow
Create an opener for your high-tech enterprise using this elegant, modern slideshow providing full control of color and duration, with all media files accepted.
4. Stylish Fashion Promo
A clean, minimal design suggestive of a magazine advertisement, this opener template is perfect for showcasing the glamour and style of your fashion brand.
5. The Business Process MOGRT
Particularly effective for corporate presentations that promote products or services, explain business start-up stories and processes, or highlight company achievements, business models, and goals, this opener template keeps your business’s message on point.
10 Free Premiere Pro Opener Video Templates From Mixkit
It’s obviously smart to save money where you can, but a lot of free resources suffer in quality. These free Premiere Pro opener video templates at Mixkit rise above the rest, however, with superior quality and fresh styles:
1. Kinetic Motion Opener
A strong, impactful quick motion template using bold animated text and fast titles to get your point across clearly and powerfully.
2. Lower-third Opener
As the name implies, this simple opener offers text headings positioned in the lower-third of the frame, effectively prioritizing background images, as well as multiple video panels.
3. Stylish Opener
Imbue cheer and excitement into your opening frames with this bright and colorful template’s multiple headlines, overlays, and split transitions.
4. Ink and Water Opener
Using a liquid ink effect, this edgy, cool opener features wet transitions between frames, subtle color overlays, and bold text to kick the drama in high gear.
5. Urban Grunge Opener
Get gritty and downright cool with this template featuring a grime overlay, fast transitions between frames, and a title evocative of the videocassette aesthetic.
6. Creative Modern Opener
A stylish, minimal opener, this opening template features overlays, quick transitions, and a concluding logo frame.
7. Cartoon Ink Opener
Amplify the playful side of your video opening with this animated cartoon ink template with splashing effects.
8. Fragment Blur Opener
Open your video with this elegant, cinematic opener using split screens, slow transitions, and a fragmented blur effect for a softening effect.
9. Animated Text Opener
Let words speak for themselves in this fast, bold, animated text opener set on any combination of video background frames and solid frames.
10. Glitch Opener
The epitome of cool, try this glitch-effect opener template with quick transitions and a logo finish to create a video that screams today.
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