Pro 5: custom YouTube intros made from your channel
Pro 5 is the part of CtaYou that makes your intro for you. You paste your channel, and CY Ai, the director inside it, reads what makes the channel yours and returns up to three short intros in real 3D. It is almost ready — we are calibrating it on real channels every day — and this is what it will do.
Paste your channel, choose one to three intros
Pro 5 starts from one thing: your YouTube channel. Paste your @handle or the channel's address, choose sound or silence, leave the length on Auto or set it yourself, and pick how many intros you want — one, two or three. Three to eight seconds is recommended: long enough to be remembered, short enough that viewers stay for the video.
From there CY Ai works the way a designer does before a brief. It reads the channel's name, logo, banner and colours, its thumbnails, stills from inside its newest videos and the shows it already runs, and writes three ideas that differ in what happens, not only in their colours. About 30 minutes later your intros are ready, built at the same time — and if you chose fewer than three, the others can be added later.
Why an intro made from your channel
A template intro is somebody else's idea with your name typed into it, and your viewers have seen it before. The intros that work in professional channel branding are short, come after the hook rather than before it, and show something only that channel could own.
So Pro 5 looks for what you do on camera in every video and lets it end in your mark. For a tech reviewer that can be the product turntable, with the logo itself turning to face the lens; for an engineer, a chain reaction that switches the logo on; for a photographer, a lens aperture opening on the portrait. The logo is built from its real shape, in real 3D under studio light, and your own pictures appear where they belong — never as a cut-out pasted on a card.
Checked before you see it
Nothing reaches you unchecked. Each intro is drawn as a storyboard first and looked at frame by frame, by CY Ai and by automatic checks: the name readable at the hero frame, text clear of the edges, photographs blended into the film rather than stuck on, rendered material rather than flat vector, studio light, no other brand's mark, and nothing that dates it — an intro plays before every video, so it must never say the week it was made.
What fails is named and fixed one element at a time, in up to eight rounds. A revision that rewrites the whole film instead of mending it is thrown away, and an idea that stalls is rebuilt from the start once. Only the best version that passes every check is delivered.
Every format, ready to drop in
Each intro comes in 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts, TikTok and Reels and 4:5 for the feed, with and without sound, plus a transparent version for editors in ProRes 4444 and WebM. The name, the accent colour and the length can be changed afterwards without starting over.
The start box shows the price before anything runs: one intro is $35, two are $65 and three are $95, paid once in CtaYou credits with no subscription, from the same balance you use everywhere in CtaYou. Start with one, and the others can be added later for the difference.
Almost ready: calibrating CY Ai
Pro 5 already runs end to end in the cloud, rendering on dedicated graphics cards, and we are now calibrating it. Every day real channels go through it and its films are set beside intros directed by hand for the same channels. Every gap we find becomes a rule CY Ai reads before its next film, and every craft fault becomes a check that stops it.
It opens to everyone when it makes intros we would publish ourselves, channel after channel. We are close, and the day it opens is announced here. Until then, Autopilot makes three intros from your logo today.
Questions
- How long should a YouTube intro be?
- Three to eight seconds. Viewers decide in the opening whether to keep watching, so a branded intro works best as a short sting placed after the hook rather than a long sequence before it.
- Does Pro 5 use templates?
- No. Every intro is directed from the channel itself — its logo, colours, pictures and what it does on camera — so two channels never get the same film.
- When will Pro 5 be available?
- It is being calibrated now and opens when its intros meet the standard we would publish ourselves. The day it opens is announced in CtaYou's news.
- Which formats do Pro 5 intros come in?
- 16:9, 9:16 and 4:5, each with and without sound, plus a transparent version in ProRes 4444 and WebM for editors.