25 Top Business Opener Templates to Make Great Intro Videos in After Effects

It can be hard to make a good first impression and keep your audience engaged.

Luckily, you don’t have to create and animate every aspect of a video yourself. The professionally designed After Effect templates in this article are thoughtfully made, easy to modify, and can help you achieve an appealing outcome in a fraction of the time and budget. Simply download the files, add your specifics, and export a professional finished video.

Intro Templates for Business From Envato Elements (Unlimited Downloads)

If you frequently find yourself making videos, then Envato Elements is an amazing value: For a single flat rate, you can download all of the After Effect templates you need to produce a new video—quickly—including artwork, photos, video, and thousands of royalty-free audio tracks and sound effects to complete your video.

Each of the templates below will grab and hold your audience’s attention. Let’s check them out:

1. Kinematic Intro

Kinematic is an After Effects intro template that’s full of energy. It’s an animated opener filled with dynamic effects and modern titles. Use it to kick off your next corporate presentation.

2. Energy Opener

Start your videos with a burst of energy with this opener. With more than 50 text and media placeholders, quickly create an engaging opener with this intro template.

3. Clean Opener

A template like this is ideal as a pre-roll for a speaking engagement. Combine and mix your photos and graphics with text in a template like this to set the tone for a strong speech.

4. Modern Opener with Titles

This easy-to-use After Effects template is perfect for focusing on stock photography. Add your images on the easy-to-customize placeholders and watch then animate to life in less time than ever before.

5. Clean Fast Opener

A clean and fast opener like this aptly-named template cuts straight to the chase. It’s a breeze to customize this with your brand’s color palette and branding specifics so that it fits with every other part of your corporate video.

6. Creative Business Opener

This template includes video scenes that are perfect for a business video. Use a team showcase, for example, to show the key members of your team. It’s an upbeat slideshow that’s flexible for many purposes.

7. Company Event Opener

Companies host many events, like town halls, all-hands meetings, and monthly updates. Use a high-energy video like this to introduce the key speaker. You can use it to show key details before starting.

8. Cyber Security Opener

Looking for something a little more techy? Try out the Cyber Security opener template. Its visuals are engaging and will draw in your audience. Its sci-fi vibe is great for a startup or online-based service company.

9. Fashion Modern Title

Keep it simple and modern with this fashion intro video template. This trendy opener can help get your brand out there, and it comes with more than 20 text and media placeholders. Try it out!

10. Logo Reveals – Corporate Circle

Logo reveals are some of the best corporate video introduction templates. Corporate Circle is one you can use to start your next YouTube video. You can customize this template to highlight your organization’s photos and principles before revealing your logo.

Top Intro Templates for Business from Envato Market (Pay Per Item)

If video is an infrequent thing, you might be better served buying templates one-by-one. Here’s our selection of business-ready intro templates for After Effects from Envato Market.

1. Splash Intro

Splash Intro gives you 25 seconds of a colorful and lively opener. There are multiple transitions, and bold typography and animations take center stage here. Along with 16 text placeholders, you can add your logo with the placeholder to show your brand.

2. 3D Geometric Intro

Here’s another dynamic After Effects intro template for your business. Geometric shapes are all over this download, in the second and third dimensions. The cyber-style typography ties this whole look together.

3. Corporate Intro

Keep your opener simple with Corporate Intro. It’s available in stunning 4K resolution. It has a lot of flair, and you can also make the changes you need without spending hours of your time.

4. Corporate Opener

With no plugins required, this After Effects video intro is the minimal option you’ve been looking for. Its color scheme is simple and can be modified. This is an ideal template you can use to start promos, conferences, and more.

5. Bluebird Typography Opener

Typography openers like Bluebird have a way of catching the eye. This After Effects template gives you full color control, which lets you tweak the download to fit your branding. It also renders fast, so you can wrap up your edit quickly.

6. Film Intro

You can produce a silver screen quality introduction thanks to this easy-to-use After Effects intro. The bold serif fonts and zoom animations will feel right at home for your next film festival entry.

7. Powerful Intro

This explosive intro has pre-built animations that burst onto the canvas. Just add your text, logo, and customize the background to build a Hollywood-quality animation featuring your details.

8. Logo Intro

Lead strong with your branding by using this Logo Intro project. Just drag and drop your logo file into this project to kick off the video project by showcasing your logo with animations built into the After Effects project.

9. Opener Parallax Glitch

The quality of this project makes it an equally good fit as an intro for your video, or as a standalone project of its own. With glitchy text and parallax cuts between scenes to show off your video footage, make sure to play the preview below. Then, imagine it with your assets!

10. Fast Intro

The Fast Intro project is a great way to make a speedy introduction. Sync it up with music to set the stage for a high-energy video with quick cuts.

11. Elegant Intro Opener

I love the flexibility of the Elegant Intro Opener. It’s simple and clean enough that you could easily use it for a corporate pre-roll, but the textures and animations could just as easily find their way into a fashion slideshow, for example.

12. Shape Logo Reveal

Here’s another great selection for leading with your logo. You don’t have to be an animator to bring your logo onto the canvas with style, and this project helps you do just that in minutes.

13. Fast Opener

Cut straight to the chase thanks to the Fast Opener project. All you have to do is drop in your images and customize the text to create a slideshow that will garner attention. Ideal for YouTubers.

14. Element 3D Space Logo

Far from the ordinary, the 3D Space Logo project will help blast your branding into orbit. This pack isn’t ideal for every situation, but it’s a stunning animation for an opener that aims to feature something futuristic. 

15. Elegant Slide Show

Rounding out the selection, this slideshow opener is can help bring your still images to life. A multi-purpose template with elegant design, minimal titles, parallax effect, and modern geometric transitions. Create elegant slideshows with your photos or video clips. The possibilities of this template are unlimited.

More Great Resources From Envato

Learn How to Make a Business Video With Tuts+

Business videos are in a genre of their own. Let’s face it, the workplace is a totally different environment and the style you choose needs to match.

At Tuts+, we’ve put together a collection of resources that help you understand business videos. Make sure to check out our tutorials below:

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Envato Market’s selection of After Effects projects is nearly at 50,000 unique pieces. There are so many great projects that we regularly feature the best of the best in the category in roundups like these. 

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Get Free Stock Video From Mixkit

You can also find a huge selection of royalty-free videos on Mixkit, a new site dedicated to providing high-quality footage that you can use whenever you want, wherever you want, completely free of charge. Head over there now and find all the copyright-free videos and stock footage that you can handle. And you can now pick up free After Effects opener templates as well!

Make Animated Videos Online Quickly With Placeit

And lastly, if After Effects is too much program for your project, check out Placeit, an Envato service that includes a very handy online video-maker.

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