Add a Clean Intro & Outro to Your Videos Using Descript + Adobe Rush | Humanitarians AI
This tutorial walks through adding a custom title card intro in Descript and a Humanitarians AI logo outro in Adobe Rush, finishing with a smooth dissolve transition.
A video can have great content and still look unfinished without a clean intro and outro. This tutorial walks through exactly how to add both to an existing project video, using two different tools for two different jobs: Descript for the opening title card, and Adobe Rush for the closing branded logo.
Building the intro title card in Descript
The process starts with a video that was already edited in Adobe Rush, then uploaded into Descript for the intro work. After opening Descript and uploading the video, clicking "edit the video" kicks off an automatic detection process that reads the lyrics or dialogue of the clip, which takes a couple of minutes to complete. From there, the Elements panel is where the actual title card gets built. Clicking on "title" adds a text box directly onto the video preview, where you can type whatever intro text fits the project, in this walkthrough, a simple label like "Animal Kingdom."
From that starting point, the title becomes fully customizable: font weight set to bold, size adjusted up to 150 or 200 to keep it readable, and a specific typeface, EB Garmon, chosen to match the project's style. Positioning matters here too, centering the text so it reads cleanly against the video behind it. Once the title looks right, expanding the timeline shows the title spanning the entire video by default, so the next step is trimming it down to just the first five to ten seconds, enough time for the intro to register without overstaying its welcome.
Adding the branded outro in Adobe Rush
The outro works differently because it needs to live at the very end of the video and uses a static logo image rather than animated text. Before this step, the Humanitarians AI logo needs to be exported from its Figma board as a high-resolution PNG file. With that image ready, the same video project, now including the finished intro, is opened back up in Adobe Rush. Moving the timeline to the end of the video, clicking the plus icon and selecting media pulls up the downloaded logo file, which then gets added directly to the end of the timeline.
From there, the logo gets resized and repositioned so that it reads full-screen and center-aligned, giving the outro a clean, professional look rather than a small watermark tucked in a corner. A dissolve transition is added on top of that, set to run for around seven seconds, so the logo fades in smoothly rather than appearing abruptly. That combination, a full-screen centered logo with a gentle dissolve, is described as the standard approach used for Humanitarians AI project videos going forward.
Why both tools matter together
The choice to split this work across Descript and Adobe Rush is practical rather than arbitrary. Descript's automatic transcription and element-based editing make it fast to build and style text overlays like a title card, while Adobe Rush handles image-based elements and transitions more directly. Combining the two lets a creator use each tool for what it does best rather than forcing one platform to do both jobs.
Key takeaways
- Descript is used to build the intro title card, with the Elements panel providing text, font, size, and position controls.
- The intro title is trimmed down to roughly five to ten seconds so it does not run over the whole video.
- The outro uses a high-resolution PNG of the Humanitarians AI logo, exported from Figma and added in Adobe Rush.
- The logo outro is resized to fill the screen and centered, then finished with a roughly seven-second dissolve transition.
- Splitting the work between Descript and Adobe Rush lets each tool handle the part of the edit it is best suited for.
Try it yourself
Anyone producing project videos for a team or organization can follow this same two-step workflow to get a consistent, branded look without needing advanced editing skills. This tutorial is aimed at team members and creators building polished content for Humanitarians AI projects, but the same Descript-plus-Adobe-Rush approach works for any small team standardizing their video output.
Full transcript(auto-generated, with timestamps)
[0:05]Hi everyone. In this tutorial, I will show you how to add both an intro and an outro to your videos. Uh so here I'm using an existing video that was already created an Adobe Rush. And for the introduction part, we'll be using a descript of the video. And for the outro part, we will add the humanitarians AI logo at the end of the video. So yeah, let's begin with the intro part. Um, first of all, open the descript uh which you can see currently on my screen and upload the video you created. Click on edit the video and then upload the video. I already created a tutorial
[0:52]Video on Adobe Rush. So I'm using the existing one here. Once you click on open, it takes a couple of uh minutes to automatically detect um the lyrics of the video. And on the right side you can see different options like properties, elements and captions. When you click on elements, you can see a title. When you click on that, uh there is a text box appears on the video preview. Click inside this and type your intro title. For example, animal kingdom. And now you can customize the title, adjust the font or color and size and position to match your current project style. So I'm using bold
[2:03]And then the size 200 or 150 to make it visible. And then I'm going with style EB garmon. You can even use animations or effects. Click on enter and then position it accordingly so that it's visible and center aligned and clear. And once it's done, if you expand your timeline, you could see the Animal Kingdom title being added to your entire video. You can reduce it just for introduction, maybe five to 10 seconds. And then now you can play the video and you could see the intro part added to your video. Let's play from beginning.
[3:19]You could see there is a title animal kingdom. Right? So now let's move on to adding the outro part. As the outro part needs to be at the end of the video, let's move our timeline to the end of the video. And we have already have the humanitarians AI logo uh available on our Figma board. Uh you can export the logo from uh Figma board to your computer, preferably a high resolution PNG file. Next, open the Adobe Rush and load the same video project which I have added the intro part for the video which you can see on my screen. [snorts] And then for adding the outro part, click on
[4:05]The plus icon and then your media and filter it to downloads where you have downloaded the image from the Figma board. Then click on that. Click on add. You could see a logo added to end of your video. Right now you can resize it or position it accordingly. We basically use a end to end logo. So make sure it is end to end on the screen and at the center line. [snorts] This gives it your clean full screen outer look. And then once it's positioned correctly, you can add a simple transition. We choose dissolve here for the outer part when we create our videos. You can
[5:09]Adjust the duration of that dissolve part to be happen accordingly. I'm making it out around 7 seconds and start playing from here. Your outro with the humanitarians logo is complete and your video now has like a professional beginning and ending. Thank you for watching.
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