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Create motion graphic templates - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Create motion graphic templates

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- [Man] For this tutorial, I am in the creating motion graphics sequence, and, I'm in the graphics workspace. The essential graphics panel offers you a wide range of prebuilt motion graphics templates, these are often referred to as MOGRTs, which I think is a weird name for a technology. It's easy to add one to your project, just drag the item you want into your current sequence, and, modify settings as you wish, here, I'm selecting this item, selecting a graphic takes you directly into the edit section of the essential graphics panel, and I can go in and modify many of these items. Having said that, quite a lot of items are not editable, and that's because most motion graphics templates that you'll work with in Premiere Pro are actually created in Adobe After Effects, and the options you have for modification are locked down at the point of creating the template, it's actually a creative choice made by the motion graphics designer. But, what if you want to create a motion graphics template in Premiere Pro? I'm going to select this item and delete it, and let's take a look at one we have here on the timeline. This is a very basic animated graphic, let me show you what we've got. Very simple, just using position settings and key frames. If you think it's likely you're going to want to use an animation like this again in the future, select the item, go to the graphics menu, and choose Export As Motion Graphics Template. Give the new motion graphics template a name, let's call this Nature_dots, and choose where it's going to go. You're actually going to generate a file, now, and you can move between different editing systems. By default, the file will go in the local templates folder that's created automatically by Premiere Pro. And that'll appear in the central graphics panel. You can also choose Local Drive, and just browse to any folder you want. Or, for that matter, you can put it in a library, for now, I'm going to choose the local templates folder, I'll include a video thumbnail, and we have all of these available warnings, warn me if the template uses fonts that are not available on Adobe Fonts. Those can be installed automatically when you use this template. Also, warn me if effects are used that are not included as standard with Premiere Pro, that's referring to the party effects that you might have installed on this system, but not another if you move the template to another computer. And, there's an option to have a warning if the template is not compatible with Adobe Premiere Rush, I'm not going to enable any of those, but I'm going to add some keywords, I'll add dots, and box, because there's a box around the text, now I'll click OK. And if I go to the browse section in the central graphics panel, I already have the local templates folder checked, and if I scroll down, there's our nature.motion graphics template. You can hover scrub with the thumbnails in the central graphics panel, just as you can with footage in the project panel. So, we get a nice preview of that animation, and if I want to add it to a sequence, I can drag it straight in. Just remove that for a second, go back to that browse section, you can use any tags that you associate with a new motion graphics template by typing them in the search box. So, if I search for box, which I added to the motion graphics template we just created, up it comes. Notice that word does not appear in the name of the motion graphics template file, it's just a tag I associated with it. And that's quite useful if you create a lot of your own motion graphics templates, particularly if they're themed. The benefit of adding a motion graphics template file to a library is that the contents of that library will be available anywhere that you log in, with your Adobe ID. So, if I go back to my motion graphics template, I can go to the Graphics menu, and choose Export As Motion Graphics Template, and choose a particular library, or, if I cancel here, right in the central graphics panel, I can right-click on the template, choose Copy to Library, pick the library I want to use, and it's copied over. If I now deselect my local templates folder, switch on browsing in my libraries instead, and choose the library I created, there it is.

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