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Enhanced workflows: XRef material manager

Enhanced workflows: XRef material manager

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Enhanced workflows: XRef material manager

- [EJ] Welcome to another Motion Graphics Weekly, where you up your mograph knowledge one week at a time. I'm EJ Hassenfratz, let's get our learn on. In last week's video, I introduced you to XRefs, the external project file reference object, and how you can integrate it into your workflow. Well, in this video, I'm gonna build on how to use XRefs in a way that can vastly improve how you work on projects and use materials across multiple projects by building a master material project file that can be referenced across multiple project files. Now, there are two certainties in life, death and client revisions, and this quick tip is going to be handy for at least that second thing, so when working on projects, typically, you'll have a color palette or color scheme and these tend to change as you develop the final look and you know having to update colors across multiple project files is quite a tedious process, so you're gonna see that I have this very simple project file, with a red blue…

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