How to Create Eye-Catching Graphics for Your Podcast (that Move!)
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You know those awesome moving graphics that people share for their podcast?
Well, I finally figured out how to do it and I'm sharing it with you! (Good news - it's super easy & free 😄🙌)
This will definitely make your podcast episodes stand out 👌
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How to Create A Moving Graphic for your Podcast - Easily Create an Audiogram or Waveform
Recently I did some podcast interviews and when they were ready, I shared some graphics on Instagram like this and like this. When I did that, I got a ton of messages from you asking how you can create an audiogram for your podcast, so that is what I’m going to show you in today’s video.
Good news – it’s very easy to create an audiogram, and completely free. You may have noticed that the title of this video is How to Create A Moving Graphic for your Podcast – that is because I had no idea what these things were actually called. Turns out they are called audiograms or waveforms - but moving graphic works too!
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Let’s get into how you can create a professional, moving graphic for your podcast, and drive more listeners your way.
Sign Up for Headliner Account
The tool that we’re going to use to create an audiogram is called Headliner. You can find it at headliner.app. You’re just going to click Get Started Now, and then you need to sign up for an account and answer a few quick questions. After you’ve done that, this is what it looks like. As you can see, here is the pricing breakdown. On the Free plan, I love that you can get 10 videos per month, without a watermark. You can also get unlimited watermark videos, but generally I find it really annoying to have a watermark, so you could upgrade to the Pro plan if you need more, which is just $12.95 per month.
Audiogram Wizard
This is what it looks like. They do have a bunch of templates that you can start off with, but I am just going to show you creating one from scratch. You’re going to click on Audiogram Wizard. The first thing that you need to do is upload your audio file. I’m going to grab this amazing test audio podcast that Nathan and I recorded. Then, if you want to transcribe it, you absolutely can, so turn that on, choose your language, and hit Next.
From here, you can select the clip that you want to use. If you just drag this bar here at the end or beginning, you can select the clip that you want to use for your graphic. Once you’ve done that, hit Next. You can choose your Aspect Ratio. I’m going to go with Square for Instagram. Here is where you start to customize the look.
Wave Options
First, you can change the Wave Style. I’m currently on Wave, but as you can see there are a bunch that you can choose from – for example, there’s the Curve, there’s the Pixelated – I’m just going to go with Wave.
Then you can customize the Color. You can either select from the colors at the bottom there, select from the color wheel, or you can input your hex codes. I’m going to grab one of my brand colors, and then I’m just going to paste in that hex code here.
Next, you can select the Wave Position – you can select from Top, Middle, Padded Bottom, or Bottom.
What I also love about this tool is you can add Progress Animation. I’m going to click on that, then I’m going to turn on the Display, and change the Color to Yellow. This is going to create that tab that lets you know how much longer you have in the video, which I really like.
Create Your Podcast Graphic Using Canva
Next, we need to create your podcast graphic. You might have this already. If you don’t, you can go ahead and use my favorite tool ever, which is called Canva. This is totally free and is going to allow you to create a really professional-looking graphic for your podcast.
I’m going to go into Canva, and I’m just going to select Instagram Post. Then I’m going to go ahead and customize this graphic. Canva gives you some templates you can start off with, so I’m just going to choose this one to start with, and then I’m going to customize it with my own content.
I’m going to grab a photo and I’m going to drag that into the background, move things around a bit, change up the colors and the title. I have a few videos on Canva that I will link to in the description below that show you how to use this tool. This is my final design - it was very easy to make. Then I’m going to hit Download and I’m going to download this as a PNG.
Add Image to Headliner
Then I’m going to go back into Headliner, click Add Image, and grab that graphic that I just created. I’m going to hit Crop and that is going to fill the square. So, it’s starting to look really good already. You can make any customizations that you want. I’m actually going to change this to white and then hit Create Project. It’s going to take a few minutes to create your project, and then this is what it looks like. Here is where you can make any last-minute edits. For example, if you want, you can actually display the transcript at the bottom. You’ll see that you have a lot of different options for how the text is going to look, and if you want it animated as well. Then over here on the left, you can edit any of the text issues. It’s likely that they’ll get it wrong on default, so just go through and make sure that all of the words are correct. This is what it looks like with the transcript on. If you want, you can go ahead and turn that Off.
Once you are happy with that, you are going to hit Export, and then Export My Video. This is going to generate your video file. Then it looks like this, and you’re just going to hit Download, and open that up.
So, here is the final graphic that we created. I love how simple and easy this was. If you loved it too, let me know in the comments below. You can go ahead, create an audiogram, then customize it, make it look however you want, and get more listeners to your podcast.
That’s it for this video. I hope that you found it super-helpful on how to create an audiogram. If you did, let me know by giving it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below, and don’t forget to hit Subscribe. Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you soon with another video.
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